This book is a lot of fun. Singapore is out of anything remotely approaching alphabetical order on the list of nations in my pandemic armchair travel project. But I was in need of something fun to read, and this fit the bill and then some. This is the third book in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich… [Read More]
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Foreign Language Final Exam
(Note: as I struggle with learning a foreign language, I wrote this little piece. It’s supposed to be humorous – or is it?) This semester we have learned how to ask for directions to the library, analyzed passages by the greatest of the foreign language’s authors,and parsed details about the proper uses of the subjunctive… [Read More]
Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Epic History of a People
The Republic of the Congo may not be the source of many stories. The Democratic Republic of the Congo more than makes up for that. Once known as Zaire, with the word “democratic” used ironically at best, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has an ugly history. Congo: The epic history of a people, by… [Read More]
Wild Swans and nations in transition
This is an amazing book. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China is about one family’s experience in China before and during the Communist era. The author’s parents were high up in the Communist Party at the time of the Communist Revolution, and then they suffered mightily during the Cultural Revolution. The author, Jung Chang, has… [Read More]
McKinsey has an interesting report on China
If you’re interested. It’s a report on the next stages for the country’s growth.
