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Tibetan Buddhism Explored: Insights from Five Books

Julia_M August 7, 2024 No Comments Asian & Asian American Biographies Asian Politics Buddhism (Books)Buddhist History (Books)Chinese History (Books)Comparative Religion (Books)History of Tibet Religious Leader Biographies Tibetan Buddhism (Books)Tibetan Buddhism (Kindle Store)Trade

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

Julia_M August 7, 2024 No Comments Asian & Asian American Biographies Asian Politics Cultural Anthropology (Books)Folklore & Mythology Studies Historical China Biographies Jewish Holocaust History Legal History (Books)Star-Gazing (Books)World War II History (Books)

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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Zhou En Lai A Life – Part 4

Julia_M June 10, 2024 No Comments Asian Politics Chinese History (Books)Political Leader Biographies

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 2

Julia_M May 31, 2024 No Comments Asian Politics Chinese History (Books)Human Geography (Books)International Diplomacy (Books)World History (Books)

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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Exploring the Majesty of the Yangtze

Julia_M April 24, 2024 No Comments Asian Politics Chinese History (Books)General Asia Travel Books General China Travel Guides Geophysics (Books)History (Books)Trade Travel Writing Reference Travelogues & Travel Essays

The Yangtze is the third longest river in the world after the Nile and the Amazon. The Yangtze is called in China merely as Cháng…

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Truman and Global Conflicts

Julia_M October 31, 2023 No Comments Asian Politics Chinese History (Books)Communism & Socialism (Books)History & Theory of Politics Israel & Palestine History (Books)Middle Eastern Politics

Vice President Truman played an outsize role in world history due to the untimely demise of FDR towards the end of WWII. Unfortunately, he was…

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Kino’s haul

Julia_M May 24, 2023 No Comments Asian & Asian Americans Biographies Asian Politics Chinese History (Books)Cultural Anthropology (Books)Ethnic Studies (Books)Historical Asian Biographies (Books)

I had a great harvest last Saturday. Not the harvest of souls as in Matthew 13:8. But of 4 excellent books at Kinokuniya. The House…

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1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline

Julia_M October 17, 2022 No Comments Asian Politics Chinese History (Books)Military History (Books)

1587 A Year of No Significance the Ming Dynasty in Decline, is an interesting micro view of Emperor Wan Li and 6 high officers of…

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The Age of Openness

Julia_M September 30, 2022 No Comments Asian History (Books)Asian Politics Chinese History (Books)Historical China Biographies Hong Kong History United States History (Books)Women's Biographies

The Age of Openness – China before Mao explores the Republican era from 1911 to 1949. Frank Dikotter in his long essay of 102 pages…

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The Handover of Hong Kong

Julia_M December 16, 2021 No Comments Asian Politics Chinese History (Books)Historical British Biographies Historical China Biographies Hong Kong History Human Rights Law (Books)International Accounting (Books)Political Leader Biographies U.K. Prime Minister Biographies World History (Books)

Hong Kong was surrendered to the British for perpetuity by the Ching dynasty when Britain won the First Opium war. Kowloon was surrendered for perpetuity…