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Who prevented the Gang of Four from seizing power? When Mao died in 1976, it would appear to many that his wife Jiang Qing and…
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South of the Yangtze evokes a mythical place in Chinese culture. The Chinese call the area Jiangnan ( literally, south of the Yangtze) river. It…
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The current 14th Dalai Lama reached the age of 90 this 6 July 2025. He is also known as Kundun. In the Tibetan language, “Kundun”…
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A Retrospective Study of The Three Kingdoms, part 11, sent 5-1-2011. LWH, Sat 16 Aug 2025 Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011, 22:04 Subject: Re: San…
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A Retrospective Study: The Three Kingdoms (Part 10) LWH, 14 Aug 2025, 10.30 pm From: minang 64 <minang64@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 22:01:47 Subject:…
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Britain at Bay, by Alan Allport (2020), is a sweeping first volume covering Britain’s early years in World War II (1938–1941). It is a magisterial…
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LWH, 13 Aug 2025. On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, 19:30, Leong Wai Hong, <lwh@skrine.com> wrote: San Guo covers the period 168-280 AD. It has 120…
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