This is an excellent history of the British in Malaya. The period covered is from 1880 to 1960. It is well-written and full of anecdotes…
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Month: October 2019
Delightful – No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – The Complete Series (2009)
This series has its charm. The characters are well fleshed out and likable. But the plots are rather simplistic and if you are looking for…
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Wonderful – The Code-breaker’s Secret Diaries: Rediscovering Ancient Egypt
The hieroglyphs script was only deciphered in 1822 by Jean Francois Champollion. That is 23 years of hard work after the Rosetta Stone was found…
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Average – Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary
This book published in 2007 is the most recent English language biography on Zhou En Lai after Eldest Son by Han Su Yin published in…
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Excellent – On China
This book is not a narrative history of China. Readers looking for a primer on Chinese history will not find it here. Instead what we…
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Revisits Africa – The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
Any new book by VS Naipaul is an event to look forward to. VS Naipaul’s latest book The Masque of Africa is his observations of…
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Beautiful book – Grand Canal, Great River: The Travel Diary of a Twelfth-century Chinese Poet
This is a very interesting diary of a journey undertaken between July to Dec 1170. The famous poet Lu You was assigned to take up…
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Excellent novel – And the Rain My Drink
This is a classic novel of the Malayan Emergency seen through the eyes of a Chinese girl Suyin who fell in love with a British…
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Excellent drama – Agatha Christie’s Marple – The Collection Series 1 – 4
This set actually contains all episodes from series 1-4 starring Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie as Agatha Christie’s shrewd and inquisitive Miss Jane Marple. The…
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Great book – The Crippled Tree
The Crippled Tree is the first volume of Han Su Yin’s autobiography. Published in 1965, it covers the years 1885 to 1928, beginning with her…
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