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The Congress should listen to Sardar Patel, who was aware of the ugly face of capitalism, but he also understood very well that wealth had to be created first before it could be distributed

Dr Jung Chang has been made a Commander of the British Empire

Ink and Imagination: Unleash Both in the Best Chinese Books, a Collection That Spans Genres and Eras, Crafting a Tapestry Where Each Thread Tells a Unique Tale.

Traditionally, the greatest dependence of corporations on the state has been in the area of security, Above all, global corporations need stability – what

In Kashgar’s largest bazaar a few years ago, I spotted a pencil holder sporting an iconic Cultural Revolution image: Mao Zedong and Marshal Lin Biao smiling together. But Mao’s personally chosen heir apparent had been a nonperson since 1971, when he allegedly godfathered an abortive plot to kill the Chairman and then died a traitor in a plane crash, fleeing to the Soviet

Italian Autonomist Ferruccio Gambino's analysis of the development of Malcolm X's thought, from prison and the factory through to the Nation of Islam, and its deviation from the traditional state-allocated path of ethnic leadership.

In the mid-1950s, when I was a graduate student of Chinese history, the Manchu Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) was invariably condemned as a reactionary hate figure; Mao Zedong was admired. In the textbooks of that time, leading American scholars characterized Cixi as cruel, imperious, and opposed to the Westernizing reforms championed by progressive officials, all of whom

Middle-class Americans store much of their wealth in their homes. If house prices are cut in half, so is much of their wealth. And, houses are typically a leveraged asset, a liability as well as an asset.

The family of a Pembrokeshire police officer who tragically died in the line of duty have joined Dyfed-Powys Police officers at an annual service of…

Yang Kaihui—who was killed 85 years ago this month—was the first of Mao Zedong’s three freely chosen wives. (Mao was forced by his parents to wed an older neighbor when he was just 14 but did not consider this a true marriage.) Yang’s dramatic, and tragic, life story is widely known in China. It has been turned into dance dramas, like the China National Opera & Dance Drama