John Fitzpatrick. About New China, the Koreas, Myanmar, Thailand, and also about Japanese and Chinese writers and poets. The main emphasis is on North Asia and the political tectonics of this very important, powerful, and many-peopled area.
Friday, 30 September 2016
Thursday, 29 September 2016
Samsung has reported that their new phone Samsung 7 Edge is safe and was not totally responsible for the explosion in the truck queue delivering humanitarian supplies in Syria...or, if it was, it was only because someone turned one of them on...and that battery was only ever designed for the Chinese market anyway. As it was, there were too many batteries...It was meant as a humanitarian gift to the Syrian people.
This is a lovely book...Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata...you pick it up and think 'gosh this small book is hardly anything...so few pages...why should I pay $9 for this?' and you read it, and it stays in your thinking for at least 50 years. This is literature, and this is what literature does.
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