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BOOK REVIEW: Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture
Nov03

BOOK REVIEW: Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture

YANG CHIA-LING and RODERICK WHITFIELD, eds, Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture. London: Saffron Books, 2012. 312pp.  ISBN 978-1-872843-57-7. Review by TIM BARRETT | You may buy this book here Until less than a generation ago the name of Luo Zhenyu was known to virtually everyone working on pre-modern China – certainly those working on early and medieval China. In some respects his...

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Book Review: Pakistan’s imperilled vistas

A poignant image of Skardu on the cover of Pakistan: Glimpses of Vistas, History and Culture invokes a serene and tranquil place that sadly this northern town in Gilgit-Baltistan is no more, as frequent news of mayhem iin and around the area testities, writes SHIRLEY JOSEPH. Competing practitioners of violence, visited upon the area by the cross-border Taliban to the US-led drone operators have ensured this tragic transformation of...

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Angry Words Softly Spoken: Review

ANGRY WORDS SOFTLY SPOKEN: A Comparative Study of English & Arabic Women Writers. Alanoud Alsharekh. Saffron Books London 2006. 236pp, GBP 29.95 | Hardback with dustcover. ISBN-13 9781872843933. Buy | Summary and TOC Reviewed by Shannon Sweeney In Angry Words Softly Spoken, Alanoud Alsharekh carefully examines and compares the British model of female consciousness with the development of Arab female consciousness, specifically in...

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Iran in the Service of World Peace
Mar15

Iran in the Service of World Peace

Few books published in English in Iran under Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi offer a wider window on epochal events of the period than this tome by Zaven N. Davidian, writes SAJID RIZVI. Published in 1971 under the aegis of the University of Isfahan Department of International Relations, Iran in the service of world peace was among a handful of titles rushed out in English that marked what became a highly controversial 2500th anniversary...

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