This 4-volume set is part of the Cambridge China Library which is a series of new English translations of books by Chinese scholars that have…
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By Lu Xun
Lu Xun is recognised as the preeminent man of letters of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun is not his real name. He first used this…
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Escape from encirclement
The Long March has achieved mythical status in Chinese history. 80,000 men, women and children trekked for one year and 4,000 miles to escape encirclement…
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Beautifully written book – Eating India: Exploring the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices
This is an amazing book which I first read in 2007. The author has written a book on the different types of Indian food that…
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Well written – The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 May 2020 This is a very impressive book. The author has clearly researched thoroughly. He has distilled the…
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Out of Africa
If you like the movie Out of Africa and like to know more of the writer of the book upon which the movie was based,…
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Unplanned purchase
I bought these 2 novels in 1980 from an Indian bookstore in Wisma ENE, Pudu Road. The front tenant was Magnum. I recall I had…
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By VS Naipaul – Trilogy on India
The late Sir VS Naipaul is one of the best English prose writers in history. Here is his famous trilogy on India, his ancestral home.…
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By Tom Bingham
The late Tom Bingham is recognised as the top English judge of his generation. No lawyer worth his salt should have these 2 books of…
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A gem – Within the Walls of Tun Tan Siew Sin’s Ancestral Home
This book is a ” labour of passion” as Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon puts it in his foreword ” The Genesis of This…
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