The Halberd at Red Cliff
The Halberd at Red Cliff by Tian Xiao Fei (2018) is an excellent addition to my library of literature on The Three Kingdoms. Tian is…
Kenya and out of Africa
In 2017 we couldn’t see the pink flamingos nesting at Lake Nakuro, Kenya. This time today, 6 Aug 2024 we saw many at the private…
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Tibetan Buddhism Explored: Insights from Five Books
How was Buddhism spread to Tibet? How did Tibetan Buddhism evolve and assimilate with Tibetan’s native and animistic beliefs? Is Tibetan Buddhism now the purest…
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Sunday Book Haul
Last Sunday I bought 3 excellent books at Kinokuniya KLCC. The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials by Telford Taylor is a memoir by one of…
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Jan Morris
Jan Morris is one of the greatest travel writers of all time. Derek Jones on the literary life of Jan Morris and Paul Clements’s biography…
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Bound with Love
Bound with Love- Letters Home from China 1935-1945 is a gem of a book. The letters here are extracted from about 1000 letters written from…
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The Box with the Sunflower Clasp
Reading this sad memoir of a Jewish family in Vienna and a Jew in Berlin trying to stay alive and flee their homelands reminds me…
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Beyond the Bench: The Life of CJ Yong Pung How
Success in life is all well and good, but what’s the good if you don’t know the importance of [ 人 情】human relationships? – Yong…
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Zhou En Lai A Life – Part 4
The early life of Zhou En Lai shows the importance the Chinese places on education even in the warlord’s era of 1900s. It also shows…
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Zhou En Lai A Life – Part 3
The Xian Incident, (12–25 Dec 1936), is a major turning point in Chinese history. The incident refers to the arrest of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang…
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Zhou En Lai A Life – Part 2
Using Zhou En Lai’s life from 1898 to 1976 as a trajectory I will expound on seminal events in China’s history. The May Fourth Movement…
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