Battle at the Red Cliff – A Guide to Three Kingdoms, 2004 Ed, by Li Lien Fung, a Singaporean born in Shanghai. The Romance of…
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Tag: Classic Literature & Fiction
Chinese New Year 2024 – Part 2
As a result of the long history of Civilisation in China, by the time of the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties there is a huge…
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Chinese New Year – Part 1
Chinese New Year holidays is a time where I re-read my favourite books. In school days from Form 1 to 4, I would borrow from…
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Lust,Caution – Part 3
Lust,Caution is a fictional war resistance novella of 37-page. Eileen was aware although her 1940s fiction writings were popular with Chinese readers, she was criticised…
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Lust,Caution – Part 2
Lust,Caution is a fictional war resistance novella of 37-page by the Chinese writer Eileen Chang. Set in WW2 1942 Shanghai it is a tale of…
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Uji – Part 1
The last 10 chapters of The Tale of Genji are after the death of Prince Genji. The story continues with the love lives of his…
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Zen Buddhism
Zen Buddhism is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School. The Chan School started in…
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Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast is a modern classic written by Ernest Hemingway. He started the book in Cuba in the autumn of 1957 and finished it…
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The Odyssey of Homer
Mentor is a word originating from Odyssey by Homer ( part 1 ) All top leaders began as a mentee of a mentor. Therefore, when…
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A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
This is the best-loved of Charles Dicken’s three Christmas Books. My Boxing Day reading. This carol in prose implied the two main protagonists are Jews.…
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