The era between Imperial China and Socialist China is called the Republican era. From 1900 to 1949 the ordinary Chinese sought to improve their lives,…
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Tag: Buddhist History (Books)
Introduction to Western specialists on China’s history (Part 5)
Susan Naquin is an American professor of history at Princeton University. She specialises in late Imperial China history. Here are 4 of her books. They…
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Cameron Highlands 2022 – The meaning of life -searching for silence (Part 3)
No trip is complete without scones at the venerable Olde Smokehouse Hotel and Restaurant. This 2019 book The Frozen River gives us a glimpse of…
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V.S. Naipaul – The Writer
The late Sir VS Naipaul is one of my favourite writers. I do not read his fiction as the settings, in colonial Caribbean, is not…
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