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In the summer of 1934, Pearl Buck boarded a ship in Shanghai that was bound for America. She was forty-two years old, and had lived for thirty-four of those years in China, mostly in cities along the Yangzi River. Pearl and her first husband, John Lossing Buck, both taught at Nanking University, and lived in a house on the campus. In a small third-floor room, stealing hours

Japan PM Fumio Kishida sends offering but stays away from Yasukuni, which honours class-A war criminals

“It’s déjà vu all over again,” baseball great Yogi Berra once told us. In the 1930s, U.S. companies were supplying Japan with the steel and petroleum it needed for its fighting against China. That po...

Another Washington State University summer term is in the books. I taught World War II in the Pacific this time, a conflict that always sparks discussion about how people respond

The position of the Hong Kong dollar would be maintained. Even the lease of land would be valid after 1997 for 50 years with some stipulations. By SUBRATA MUKHERJEE The century of humiliation for the Chinese began with the Opium Wars beginning in 1839. Chinese tea became a part of the British drinking habit in […]

Socrates is probably the most famous example of a person making a considered choice to take their own life through poison. In his case, it was either

May 1983: It was exactly seven months after Mrs. Thatcher stumbled and fell on the steps of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing that I arrived in Hong Kong to take up a job. The prime ministerial fall; which preceded a fierce quarrel with Deng Xiaoping about the future of the British colony, was regarded in Hong Kong as a dark omen: a few days later the stock market

Ixta brings southern Mexican and Oaxacan dishes and mezcal and tequila cocktails

Police in China’s eastern city of Nanjing have detained a woman authorities say honoured Japanese war criminals at a Buddhist temple, as news of the tributes sparked public outrage and disciplinary action against officials. Wu Aping, 31, a medical school graduate, confessed to having been deeply troubled by accounts of the brutal Japanese invasion, and came to believe that worshipping...

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