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Châu Á Tóm tắt sách

The Vendor of Sweets

của R.K. Narayan • 1993

His son returns from America with a book-making machine, shattering a sweet vendor's Gandhian peace.

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🫖 Quiet Domesticity 👴 Generational Divide ⚔️ Tradition Vs Modernity 🌍 Cultural Displacement 🏘️ Small-Town India

The Vendor of Sweets

His son returns from America with a book-making machine, shattering a sweet vendor's Gandhian peace.

của R.K. Narayan 1993 144 trang

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🫖 Quiet Domesticity 👴 Generational Divide ⚔️ Tradition Vs Modernity 🌍 Cultural Displacement 🏘️ Small-Town India

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

của Yuen Yuen Ang • 2016

China grew rich using the very governance flaws that experts said would doom it.

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🏗️ Development Economics 📈 Political Economy 🔄 Institutional Change 🧭 Adaptive Governance 🧪 Local Experimentation

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

China grew rich using the very governance flaws that experts said would doom it.

của Yuen Yuen Ang 2016 503 trang

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🏗️ Development Economics 📈 Political Economy 🔄 Institutional Change 🧭 Adaptive Governance 🧪 Local Experimentation

The Last Kings of Shanghai

của Jonathan Kaufman • 2020

Opium, war, and revolution: how two Jewish families built modern China, then lost it.

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🌆 Colonial Shanghai 📈 Chinese Economic History 💊 Opium Trade ✡️ Jewish Diaspora 🏛️ Business Dynasties

The Last Kings of Shanghai

Opium, war, and revolution: how two Jewish families built modern China, then lost it.

của Jonathan Kaufman 2020 384 trang

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🌆 Colonial Shanghai 📈 Chinese Economic History 💊 Opium Trade ✡️ Jewish Diaspora 🏛️ Business Dynasties

I Want To Die but I Want To Eat Tteokpokki 2

của Baek Se-hee • 2020

A Korean twentysomething returns to therapy, still certain she looks wrong, still pushing love away.

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🇰🇷 Korean Memoir 🛋️ Therapy Transcripts 🧠 Cognitive Distortions 💗 Self-Acceptance 😰 Social Anxiety

I Want To Die but I Want To Eat Tteokpokki 2

A Korean twentysomething returns to therapy, still certain she looks wrong, still pushing love away.

của Baek Se-hee 2020 232 trang

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🇰🇷 Korean Memoir 🛋️ Therapy Transcripts 🧠 Cognitive Distortions 💗 Self-Acceptance 😰 Social Anxiety

The Little Book of Skin Care

của Charlotte Cho • 2015

Why Korean women wash twice, layer hydration, and never skip the step Westerners ignore.

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🧴 Korean Beauty 🧼 Skincare Routines ☀️ Sun Protection 💧 Skin Hydration 🧽 Exfoliation

The Little Book of Skin Care

Why Korean women wash twice, layer hydration, and never skip the step Westerners ignore.

của Charlotte Cho 2015 224 trang

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🧴 Korean Beauty 🧼 Skincare Routines ☀️ Sun Protection 💧 Skin Hydration 🧽 Exfoliation

Understanding Iran

của William R. Polk • 2009

Start with Cyrus, not Khomeini. Iran's long civilizational memory drives everything the news misses.

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🏺 Iranian History 👑 Persian Empires ☪️ Shia Islam 🌍 Foreign Intervention ✊ Islamic Revolution

Understanding Iran

Start with Cyrus, not Khomeini. Iran's long civilizational memory drives everything the news misses.

của William R. Polk 2009 272 trang

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🏺 Iranian History 👑 Persian Empires ☪️ Shia Islam 🌍 Foreign Intervention ✊ Islamic Revolution

Asia's Cauldron

của Robert D. Kaplan • 2014

One sea, half the world's trade, six rival claims: the old Pacific order is over.

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🔭 Geopolitics ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry ⚓ Maritime Strategy 🗺️ Territorial Disputes ⛽ Energy Security

Asia's Cauldron

One sea, half the world's trade, six rival claims: the old Pacific order is over.

của Robert D. Kaplan 2014 256 trang

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🔭 Geopolitics ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry ⚓ Maritime Strategy 🗺️ Territorial Disputes ⛽ Energy Security

Witness to Surrender

của Siddique Salik • 1977

East Pakistan's end: an insider's log of mutiny, guerrilla war, and the birth of Bangladesh.

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🪖 Military Memoir 🌏 South Asian History ⚔️ Civil War 🌿 Guerrilla Warfare 🎯 Counterinsurgency

Witness to Surrender

East Pakistan's end: an insider's log of mutiny, guerrilla war, and the birth of Bangladesh.

của Siddique Salik 1977 245 trang

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🪖 Military Memoir 🌏 South Asian History ⚔️ Civil War 🌿 Guerrilla Warfare 🎯 Counterinsurgency

1971

của Anam Zakaria • 2019

The 1971 war created Bangladesh and left three conflicting histories that still shape South Asia.

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🎙️ Oral History 🌏 South Asian History 🕯️ War And Memory 💭 Contested Memory ✂️ Partition Studies

1971

The 1971 war created Bangladesh and left three conflicting histories that still shape South Asia.

của Anam Zakaria 2019 402 trang

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🎙️ Oral History 🌏 South Asian History 🕯️ War And Memory 💭 Contested Memory ✂️ Partition Studies

World on the Brink

của Dmitri Alperovitch • 2024

The playbook to deter China: focus on Taiwan, control chips, and lock in every alliance.

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🇨🇳 Us-China Relations ♟️ Great Power Competition 💵 Economic Statecraft 🛡️ Deterrence Theory 🏝️ Taiwan Strait

World on the Brink

The playbook to deter China: focus on Taiwan, control chips, and lock in every alliance.

của Dmitri Alperovitch 2024 400 trang

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🇨🇳 Us-China Relations ♟️ Great Power Competition 💵 Economic Statecraft 🛡️ Deterrence Theory 🏝️ Taiwan Strait

Iran Between Two Revolutions

của Ervand Abrahamian • 1982

Iran's two revolutions share the same roots: communal rivalries, foreign pressure, class conflict.

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🇮🇷 Modern Iran 🕌 Islamic Revolution 📜 Constitutionalism ✊ Anti-Imperialism 📊 Class Analysis

Iran Between Two Revolutions

Iran's two revolutions share the same roots: communal rivalries, foreign pressure, class conflict.

của Ervand Abrahamian 1982 561 trang

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🇮🇷 Modern Iran 🕌 Islamic Revolution 📜 Constitutionalism ✊ Anti-Imperialism 📊 Class Analysis

The Blood Telegram

của Gary J. Bass • 2013

Nixon needed Pakistan for a secret China opening. When genocide began, he looked away.

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🌐 Us Foreign Policy 🌏 South Asian History ❄️ Cold War History ⚖️ Genocide Studies ♟️ Realpolitik

The Blood Telegram

Nixon needed Pakistan for a secret China opening. When genocide began, he looked away.

của Gary J. Bass 2013 528 trang

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🌐 Us Foreign Policy 🌏 South Asian History ❄️ Cold War History ⚖️ Genocide Studies ♟️ Realpolitik

Nothing to Envy

của Barbara Demick • 2009

Smuggled DVDs, a hidden famine, and six North Koreans who discovered their entire country was a lie.

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🎭 North Korean Society 🚫 Totalitarian Regimes 🏃 Defector Testimonies 📢 State Propaganda 🎙️ Immersion Journalism

Nothing to Envy

Smuggled DVDs, a hidden famine, and six North Koreans who discovered their entire country was a lie.

của Barbara Demick 2009 338 trang

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🎭 North Korean Society 🚫 Totalitarian Regimes 🏃 Defector Testimonies 📢 State Propaganda 🎙️ Immersion Journalism

Bihar Diaries

của Amit Lodha • 2018

An IIT failure turned cop pursues Bihar's most feared gangster, armed with only a Nokia phone.

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🚔 Police Memoirs 🔍 True Crime Procedural 🇮🇳 Indian Policing 🕶️ Criminal Underworld 🏛️ Crime And Politics

Bihar Diaries

An IIT failure turned cop pursues Bihar's most feared gangster, armed with only a Nokia phone.

của Amit Lodha 2018 304 trang

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🚔 Police Memoirs 🔍 True Crime Procedural 🇮🇳 Indian Policing 🕶️ Criminal Underworld 🏛️ Crime And Politics

Gandhi

của Louis Fischer • 1950

Thrown off a train in South Africa, a shy lawyer discovered a weapon empires cannot fight.

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🪷 Indian Independence ✊ Nonviolent Resistance 🌍 Anticolonial Movements 🕉️ Hindu Ethics 🔗 Caste And Class

Gandhi

Thrown off a train in South Africa, a shy lawyer discovered a weapon empires cannot fight.

của Louis Fischer 1950 222 trang

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🪷 Indian Independence ✊ Nonviolent Resistance 🌍 Anticolonial Movements 🕉️ Hindu Ethics 🔗 Caste And Class

Mao's America

của Xi Van Fleet • 2023

Mao's Red Guards burned the books of her childhood. Now she watches America strike the match.

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🏮 Maoist China 🕯️ Survivor Testimony ⚖️ Totalitarian Parallels 🎭 Identity Politics Critique 🌏 Cultural Comparison

Mao's America

Mao's Red Guards burned the books of her childhood. Now she watches America strike the match.

của Xi Van Fleet 2023 279 trang

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🏮 Maoist China 🕯️ Survivor Testimony ⚖️ Totalitarian Parallels 🎭 Identity Politics Critique 🌏 Cultural Comparison

Elephant Run

của Roland Smith • 2007

Occupied Burma: a boy escapes through hidden corridors and braves the jungle to rescue his father.

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🐅 Jungle Adventure 🌊 Pacific Theater 🐘 Working Elephants 🚪 Hidden Passageways 🏃 Escaping Captivity

Elephant Run

Occupied Burma: a boy escapes through hidden corridors and braves the jungle to rescue his father.

của Roland Smith 2007 318 trang

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🐅 Jungle Adventure 🌊 Pacific Theater 🐘 Working Elephants 🚪 Hidden Passageways 🏃 Escaping Captivity

Confucianism

của Daniel K. Gardner • 2014

No god, no police: how one moral philosophy held Chinese society together for two thousand years.

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🏮 Chinese Philosophy 📜 Confucianism 🎯 Virtue Ethics 🌱 Self Cultivation ☯️ Eastern Philosophy

Confucianism

No god, no police: how one moral philosophy held Chinese society together for two thousand years.

của Daniel K. Gardner 2014 136 trang

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🏮 Chinese Philosophy 📜 Confucianism 🎯 Virtue Ethics 🌱 Self Cultivation ☯️ Eastern Philosophy

A History of the Crusades, Vol. III

của Steven Runciman • 1951

Jerusalem fell. Three kings marched east. The Crusades never recovered; the end took a century.

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🏰 Crusader States ⚔️ Medieval Warfare ✝️ Religious Wars 🏯 Siege Warfare 🌍 Middle Eastern History

A History of the Crusades, Vol. III

Jerusalem fell. Three kings marched east. The Crusades never recovered; the end took a century.

của Steven Runciman 1951 542 trang

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🏰 Crusader States ⚔️ Medieval Warfare ✝️ Religious Wars 🏯 Siege Warfare 🌍 Middle Eastern History

A Doctor in the House

của Mahathir Mohamad • 2011

A country doctor, expelled by his party, returned to lead Malaysia and told the IMF no.

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🌏 Southeast Asian Politics 🏗️ Nation-Building 📜 Political Memoirs 🏭 Developmental State 💹 Economic Nationalism

A Doctor in the House

A country doctor, expelled by his party, returned to lead Malaysia and told the IMF no.

của Mahathir Mohamad 2011 843 trang

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🌏 Southeast Asian Politics 🏗️ Nation-Building 📜 Political Memoirs 🏭 Developmental State 💹 Economic Nationalism

Tokyo Vice

của Jake Adelstein • 2009

A foreign reporter in Tokyo unearths a yakuza secret that puts everyone he loves in danger.

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🕵️ Investigative Journalism 🐉 Japanese Underworld 🇯🇵 Gaijin In Japan 🔪 Loyalty And Betrayal ⚖️ Systemic Corruption

Tokyo Vice

A foreign reporter in Tokyo unearths a yakuza secret that puts everyone he loves in danger.

của Jake Adelstein 2009 335 trang

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🕵️ Investigative Journalism 🐉 Japanese Underworld 🇯🇵 Gaijin In Japan 🔪 Loyalty And Betrayal ⚖️ Systemic Corruption

JFK's Forgotten Crisis

của Bruce Riedel • 2015

A CIA shadow war in Tibet helped spark the 1962 Sino-Indian War. Asia never recovered.

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🌐 Cold War Geopolitics 🏔️ Sino-Indian Relations 🕵️ Covert Operations 🔍 Intelligence Failures ⚡ Crisis Management

JFK's Forgotten Crisis

A CIA shadow war in Tibet helped spark the 1962 Sino-Indian War. Asia never recovered.

của Bruce Riedel 2015 177 trang

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🌐 Cold War Geopolitics 🏔️ Sino-Indian Relations 🕵️ Covert Operations 🔍 Intelligence Failures ⚡ Crisis Management

Marco Polo

của Laurence Bergreen • 2007

A merchant, a Mongol emperor, and seventeen years that redrew the map of the known world.

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🐪 Silk Road 🐎 Mongol Empire 🏰 Medieval Travel 🚢 Venetian Republic 🌏 Global Trade

Marco Polo

A merchant, a Mongol emperor, and seventeen years that redrew the map of the known world.

của Laurence Bergreen 2007 415 trang

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🐪 Silk Road 🐎 Mongol Empire 🏰 Medieval Travel 🚢 Venetian Republic 🌏 Global Trade

The Good Muslim

của Tahmima Anam • 2011

A doctor returns to 1984 Dhaka to find her brother remade by faith and a mother dying.

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🇧🇩 Bangladesh Liberation War 💔 Sibling Estrangement ☪️ Secular Vs Religious ⚖️ Postwar Justice 🌿 War Trauma

The Good Muslim

A doctor returns to 1984 Dhaka to find her brother remade by faith and a mother dying.

của Tahmima Anam 2011 304 trang

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🇧🇩 Bangladesh Liberation War 💔 Sibling Estrangement ☪️ Secular Vs Religious ⚖️ Postwar Justice 🌿 War Trauma

River Kings

của Cat Jarman • 2021

A bead from India, buried in England, reveals the Silk Road world the Vikings actually built.

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🛡️ Viking History 🌍 Global Middle Ages 🧬 Bioarchaeology 🐪 Silk Roads 🪙 Silver Trade

River Kings

A bead from India, buried in England, reveals the Silk Road world the Vikings actually built.

của Cat Jarman 2021 336 trang

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🛡️ Viking History 🌍 Global Middle Ages 🧬 Bioarchaeology 🐪 Silk Roads 🪙 Silver Trade

Alibaba's World

của Porter Erisman • 2015

How an English teacher and seventeen friends outsmarted eBay in China.

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🏢 Chinese Tech Companies 🛒 Marketplace Platforms 🚀 Founders And Startups 🌏 Emerging Markets 🥊 Startup Underdogs

Alibaba's World

How an English teacher and seventeen friends outsmarted eBay in China.

của Porter Erisman 2015 242 trang

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🏢 Chinese Tech Companies 🛒 Marketplace Platforms 🚀 Founders And Startups 🌏 Emerging Markets 🥊 Startup Underdogs

Afghanistan

của Mohammad Yousaf • 1992

The war that broke the Soviet Union was run from a covert Pakistani camp, not Langley.

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🇦🇫 Soviet Afghan War ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare 🌍 Cold War Proxy Wars 🕵️ Covert Operations 📡 Military Intelligence

Afghanistan

The war that broke the Soviet Union was run from a covert Pakistani camp, not Langley.

của Mohammad Yousaf 1992 256 trang

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🇦🇫 Soviet Afghan War ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare 🌍 Cold War Proxy Wars 🕵️ Covert Operations 📡 Military Intelligence

The Second Chance Convenience Store

của Ho-yeon Kim • 2021

A Seoul shopkeeper's kindness to a homeless man turns her store into a refuge for lost souls.

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🩹 Healing Fiction 🍃 Slice Of Life 🫂 Found Family 🧠 Amnesia 🙏 Seeking Atonement

The Second Chance Convenience Store

A Seoul shopkeeper's kindness to a homeless man turns her store into a refuge for lost souls.

của Ho-yeon Kim 2021 208 trang

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🩹 Healing Fiction 🍃 Slice Of Life 🫂 Found Family 🧠 Amnesia 🙏 Seeking Atonement

The Secret Piano

của Zhu Xiao-Mei • 2007

Mao's labor camps couldn't silence her Bach. The Paris debut came at 46.

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🎹 Classical Music 🏮 Cultural Revolution 🎵 Music And Survival ✊ Art As Resistance 🌱 Late Career Rebirth

The Secret Piano

Mao's labor camps couldn't silence her Bach. The Paris debut came at 46.

của Zhu Xiao-Mei 2007 311 trang

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🎹 Classical Music 🏮 Cultural Revolution 🎵 Music And Survival ✊ Art As Resistance 🌱 Late Career Rebirth

Sovietistan

của Erika Fatland • 2014

Why a country made gas and electricity free, and what happened when it all ran out.

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🗺️ Post-Soviet States 🏛️ Central Asian History 🚫 Authoritarian Regimes 🎭 Cult Of Personality 🛢️ Resource Curse

Sovietistan

Why a country made gas and electricity free, and what happened when it all ran out.

của Erika Fatland 2014 477 trang

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🗺️ Post-Soviet States 🏛️ Central Asian History 🚫 Authoritarian Regimes 🎭 Cult Of Personality 🛢️ Resource Curse

Sweet Bean Paste

của Durian Sukegawa • 2017

His shop sold forgettable pancakes. Her scarred hands held the secret to something sweeter.

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🍃 Slice Of Life 🫘 Culinary Fiction 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🏠 Found Family 🌸 Contemporary Japan

Sweet Bean Paste

His shop sold forgettable pancakes. Her scarred hands held the secret to something sweeter.

của Durian Sukegawa 2017 224 trang

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🍃 Slice Of Life 🫘 Culinary Fiction 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🏠 Found Family 🌸 Contemporary Japan

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

của David Mitchell • 2010

A Dutch clerk in 1799 Japan loves a scarred midwife, but a mountain cult has claimed her.

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🏯 Edo Period Japan ⚓ Colonial Trading Post 💕 Cross-Cultural Romance ⛩️ Secret Religious Order 👩‍⚕️ Midwife Protagonist

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

A Dutch clerk in 1799 Japan loves a scarred midwife, but a mountain cult has claimed her.

của David Mitchell 2010 479 trang

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🏯 Edo Period Japan ⚓ Colonial Trading Post 💕 Cross-Cultural Romance ⛩️ Secret Religious Order 👩‍⚕️ Midwife Protagonist

Saffron Swords - Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders

của Manoshi Sinha Rawal • 2019

A 40,000-woman brigade and a teen human bomb: the centuries of Indian resistance history erased.

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🪶 Colonial Resistance ⚔️ Women Warriors 🏹 Guerrilla Warfare 📜 Forgotten Histories 🌿 Indigenous Resistance

Saffron Swords - Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders

A 40,000-woman brigade and a teen human bomb: the centuries of Indian resistance history erased.

của Manoshi Sinha Rawal 2019 258 trang

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🪶 Colonial Resistance ⚔️ Women Warriors 🏹 Guerrilla Warfare 📜 Forgotten Histories 🌿 Indigenous Resistance

Mina's Matchbox

của Yōko Ogawa • 2006

A quiet girl, an asthmatic cousin, a pygmy hippo: one fragile year in a Japanese mansion.

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🗾 1970s Japan 🫁 Chronic Illness 🏠 Eccentric Family 🦛 Animal Companion 🗝️ Family Secrets

Mina's Matchbox

A quiet girl, an asthmatic cousin, a pygmy hippo: one fragile year in a Japanese mansion.

của Yōko Ogawa 2006 282 trang

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🗾 1970s Japan 🫁 Chronic Illness 🏠 Eccentric Family 🦛 Animal Companion 🗝️ Family Secrets

Coffee Life in Japan (Volume 36)

của Merry White • 2012

A tea-loving nation now ranks third in global coffee consumption. Its cafés hold the explanation.

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🫘 Coffee Culture 🏠 Third Spaces 🇯🇵 Japanese Culture 🏙️ Urban Anthropology 🍽️ Food Anthropology

Coffee Life in Japan (Volume 36)

A tea-loving nation now ranks third in global coffee consumption. Its cafés hold the explanation.

của Merry White 2012 240 trang

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🫘 Coffee Culture 🏠 Third Spaces 🇯🇵 Japanese Culture 🏙️ Urban Anthropology 🍽️ Food Anthropology

The Gangster We Are All Looking For

của Lê Thi Diem Thúy • 2003

A girl, her father, and four strangers arrive from Vietnam carrying a single ghost between them.

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🧳 Refugee Narrative ✨ Poetic Novel 💔 Father-Daughter Bond 🕯️ Unresolved Grief 👧 Child Narrator

The Gangster We Are All Looking For

A girl, her father, and four strangers arrive from Vietnam carrying a single ghost between them.

của Lê Thi Diem Thúy 2003 160 trang

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🧳 Refugee Narrative ✨ Poetic Novel 💔 Father-Daughter Bond 🕯️ Unresolved Grief 👧 Child Narrator

Vùng Chết

của Frederick Downs Jr. • 1978

A 23-year-old lieutenant lands in Vietnam. A mine takes his arm. The months between.

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🪖 Vietnam War 📖 War Memoirs 🫡 Platoon Leadership 🧠 Psychological Trauma 🥾 Infantry

Vùng Chết

A 23-year-old lieutenant lands in Vietnam. A mine takes his arm. The months between.

của Frederick Downs Jr. 1978 240 trang

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🪖 Vietnam War 📖 War Memoirs 🫡 Platoon Leadership 🧠 Psychological Trauma 🥾 Infantry

The Rape of Nanking

của Iris Chang • 1997

The Japanese army turned Nanking into a mass grave, then the government erased the crime.

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⚔️ Japanese Militarism 🌏 Sino-Japanese War ⚖️ War Crimes 🗣️ Survivor Testimony 🚺 Rape As Weapon Of War

The Rape of Nanking

The Japanese army turned Nanking into a mass grave, then the government erased the crime.

của Iris Chang 1997 290 trang

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⚔️ Japanese Militarism 🌏 Sino-Japanese War ⚖️ War Crimes 🗣️ Survivor Testimony 🚺 Rape As Weapon Of War

The Good Book

của A.C. Grayling • 2011

King Croesus asked a philosopher who was the happiest man alive. The answer destroyed him.

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📜 Ancient History 🦁 Persian Empire ⚔️ Greek-Persian Wars 📖 Herodotean Histories 🌍 Imperial Expansion

The Good Book

King Croesus asked a philosopher who was the happiest man alive. The answer destroyed him.

của A.C. Grayling 2011 597 trang

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📜 Ancient History 🦁 Persian Empire ⚔️ Greek-Persian Wars 📖 Herodotean Histories 🌍 Imperial Expansion

Driving Honda

của Jeffrey Rothfeder • 2014

Honda's real edge is a culture of paradox: individuals over teams, factory floors over boardrooms.

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🚗 Automotive Industry 🏢 Corporate Culture 🗾 Japanese Management 🏭 Lean Manufacturing 💡 Innovation Culture

Driving Honda

Honda's real edge is a culture of paradox: individuals over teams, factory floors over boardrooms.

của Jeffrey Rothfeder 2014 309 trang

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🚗 Automotive Industry 🏢 Corporate Culture 🗾 Japanese Management 🏭 Lean Manufacturing 💡 Innovation Culture

India

của John Keay • 2000

One volume, five thousand years: the subcontinent from its first cities to its midnight partition.

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🏛️ Civilizational History 📖 Narrative History 🌏 Cultural Crossroads 👑 Empire And Rule 🔄 Dynastic Cycles

India

One volume, five thousand years: the subcontinent from its first cities to its midnight partition.

của John Keay 2000 578 trang

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🏛️ Civilizational History 📖 Narrative History 🌏 Cultural Crossroads 👑 Empire And Rule 🔄 Dynastic Cycles

The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

của Steve Tsang • 2024

Xi Jinping's political system runs on one logic: his survival is China's survival.

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🐉 Chinese Politics 🏴 Communist Party States 🚫 Authoritarian Governance 🌏 Chinese Foreign Policy 🏭 State Capitalism

The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping's political system runs on one logic: his survival is China's survival.

của Steve Tsang 2024 296 trang

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🐉 Chinese Politics 🏴 Communist Party States 🚫 Authoritarian Governance 🌏 Chinese Foreign Policy 🏭 State Capitalism

Wealth and Power

của Orville Schell • 2013

Modern China's one obsession: reclaiming power after humiliation, even when freedom was the cost.

4.23

1.000+

🇨🇳 Modern Chinese History 🏛️ Chinese Political Thought 🏭 Authoritarian Development 🔄 National Rejuvenation 📚 Intellectual History

Wealth and Power

Modern China's one obsession: reclaiming power after humiliation, even when freedom was the cost.

của Orville Schell 2013 478 trang

4.23

1.000+ đánh giá

🇨🇳 Modern Chinese History 🏛️ Chinese Political Thought 🏭 Authoritarian Development 🔄 National Rejuvenation 📚 Intellectual History

Some People Need Killing

của Patricia Evangelista • 2023

The president told police to kill. The crowd cheered. A journalist reports the dead and asks why.

4.20

10.000+

🇵🇭 Philippine History 💊 Drug War ⚰️ Extrajudicial Killings 👮 Police Violence 🛡️ Impunity

Some People Need Killing

The president told police to kill. The crowd cheered. A journalist reports the dead and asks why.

của Patricia Evangelista 2023 428 trang

4.20

10.000+ đánh giá

🇵🇭 Philippine History 💊 Drug War ⚰️ Extrajudicial Killings 👮 Police Violence 🛡️ Impunity

Black Garden

của Thomas de Waal • 2003

One Soviet province started an ethnic war in 1988 by voting to secede. The stalemate remains.

4.25

500+

⚔️ Caucasus Conflicts 🔥 Post-Soviet Wars 💔 Ethnic Conflict 📜 Competing Histories ❄️ Frozen Conflicts

Black Garden

One Soviet province started an ethnic war in 1988 by voting to secede. The stalemate remains.

của Thomas de Waal 2003 400 trang

4.25

500+ đánh giá

⚔️ Caucasus Conflicts 🔥 Post-Soviet Wars 💔 Ethnic Conflict 📜 Competing Histories ❄️ Frozen Conflicts

How Do You Live?

của Genzaburo Yoshino • 2021

A Tokyo boy's uncle fills a notebook with life lessons; cowardice puts them to the test.

3.98

18.000+

🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🌱 Moral Growth 👦 Boyhood Friendship 💔 Schoolyard Bullying 🏚️ Class And Poverty

How Do You Live?

A Tokyo boy's uncle fills a notebook with life lessons; cowardice puts them to the test.

của Genzaburo Yoshino 2021 288 trang

3.98

18.000+ đánh giá

🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🌱 Moral Growth 👦 Boyhood Friendship 💔 Schoolyard Bullying 🏚️ Class And Poverty

Samurai Wisdom

của Thomas Cleary • 2009

The samurai way balances culture and combat: rules for self-mastery, leadership, and reading people.

4.03

🗡️ Bushido 🎋 Japanese Philosophy ⚔️ Military Strategy 🏯 Warrior Discipline 📜 Confucianism

Samurai Wisdom

The samurai way balances culture and combat: rules for self-mastery, leadership, and reading people.

của Thomas Cleary 2009 256 trang

4.03

97 đánh giá

🗡️ Bushido 🎋 Japanese Philosophy ⚔️ Military Strategy 🏯 Warrior Discipline 📜 Confucianism

The Old Capital

của Yasunari Kawabata • 2006

A Kyoto adopted daughter meets her mountain-dwelling twin, and their reunion redefines belonging.

3.72

8.000+

🏯 Postwar Japan 👯 Separated Twins 🍂 Elegiac Tone ⛩️ Old Kyoto 📖 Quiet Novel

The Old Capital

A Kyoto adopted daughter meets her mountain-dwelling twin, and their reunion redefines belonging.

của Yasunari Kawabata 2006 160 trang

3.72

8.000+ đánh giá

🏯 Postwar Japan 👯 Separated Twins 🍂 Elegiac Tone ⛩️ Old Kyoto 📖 Quiet Novel

Hindu Temples What Happened to Them- Vol. 1 Preliminary Survey

của Sita Ram Goel • 1990

Why were thousands of Hindu temples razed? Not just plunder, but a theological mandate from Islam.

4.57

178

📜 Medieval India 🕌 Indian Muslim Rule 🔨 Religious Iconoclasm 🛕 Temple Desecration ⚔️ Islamic Expansion

Hindu Temples What Happened to Them- Vol. 1 Preliminary Survey

Why were thousands of Hindu temples razed? Not just plunder, but a theological mandate from Islam.

của Sita Ram Goel 1990 296 trang

4.57

178 đánh giá

📜 Medieval India 🕌 Indian Muslim Rule 🔨 Religious Iconoclasm 🛕 Temple Desecration ⚔️ Islamic Expansion

China's Gilded Age

của Yuen Yuen Ang • 2021

Why did China boom for 40 years amid vast corruption? Because not all graft kills growth.

4.17

309

🏛️ Political Economy 🌏 Comparative Politics 💼 Crony Capitalism 📊 Institutional Economics 🗿 Developmental State

China's Gilded Age

Why did China boom for 40 years amid vast corruption? Because not all graft kills growth.

của Yuen Yuen Ang 2021 274 trang

4.17

309 đánh giá

🏛️ Political Economy 🌏 Comparative Politics 💼 Crony Capitalism 📊 Institutional Economics 🗿 Developmental State

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