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    Written by Canadian journalist, Jan Wong, Red China Blues is a memoir of her time studying Chinese as a college student in Beijing in 1972. China is still in the throes of the Cultural Revolution. People are still wearing those lovely blue Mao suits, waving their little red book around, and throwing out quotes of Mao Ze Dong.
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    1. Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age By: Stephen R. Platt, 2018 MY RATING: 5 out of 5 "The basic fact was that the opium poppy grew very well in British India, which otherwise was a spectacularly unprofitable colonial venture (and which, without the rich profits from the Canton tea trade to offset its losses and debts, would likely have bankrupted the ...
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    Jan 4, 2024Written by Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride takes the reader back to 1893 to the city of Malacca. The book is part adventure and part supernatural.Some will enjoy the story of ghosts and the afterlife; others won't.. As for me, I surprisingly liked the book a lot even though I don't usually like unrealistic stories about ghosts and spirits,. The main character is Pan Li Lan, the younger ...
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    The year is 1962. Eleven-year-old Triton accidentally burns down a building at school and is sent to work as a servant in the home of Mr. Salgado. At first, he works under the petty and bitter Joseph. But eventually, he rises to become the head chef and lone servant of Mr. Salgado. His whole life is geared toward serving Mr. Salgado—to cook ...
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    Jan 2, 2024Think No 1 Ladies Home Detective Agency novels but set in Singapore, and you've got the Aunty Lee mysteries.. There are three books in this series: Aunty Lee's Delights, Aunty Lee's Deadly Special, and Aunty Lee's Chilled Revenge. All three star Aunty Lee, a middle-aged Peranakan chef who runs a small Peranakan café-shop in Singapore. She's also a nosy busybody who tends to get ...
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    I think the BEST way to get to the Oaxaca Airport is by using the DiDi App. DiDi is a company based in China that works like Uber but uses taxis instead of private cars. For starters, Uber is banned in Oaxaca because taxi drivers claim that Uber is unfair competition. Taxi drivers need to be registered while Uber drivers do not.
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    The fourth reason to add Nara to your Japan itinerary is that Nara has some of the best Buddhist works of art in Japan. The Nara period occurred during the height of Chinese civilization. Japan wanted to emulate China. Emperors sent emissaries to China to learn government, art, and Buddhism from them, and the Chinese sent teachers and monks to ...
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    The book is two stories told in alternating chapters. The first, The Hard-Boiled Wonderland, is a sort of sci-fi novel about a Computec (we never learn his name), who works for the System, a quasi-governmental organization that stores people's data. The Computec's job is to shuffle the data so that it can't be stolen by a mafia-like ...
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    Juan Gabriel Vásquez, the second-most translated writer in Colombia, is known for his books that delve into the country's history. One of his most interesting works that I recommend reading before his others is The Sound of Things Falling. The book is divided into two parts, with the first set in 1960s Bogota and the second in 1990s Bogota ...
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    Works perfectly for traveling to Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Central and South America; When I was traveling through Japan and Southeast Asia, I saw so many other travelers with this backpack; Buy Fairview for Women. Buy Farpoint for Men. Kelty Redwing 50 Women's.
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