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Trọng Đạt – Số Phận Của Đài Loan

Đài Loan năm 1950. Cuộc nội chiến Trung Hoa giữa Mao Trạch Đông và Tưởng Giới Thạch kéo dài từ 1946 đến cuối năm 1949 rất tàn khốc với hàng trăm sư đoàn. Những tháng cuối của năm 1948, Quốc Dân Đảng yếu thế, Cộng quân chiếm được nhiều thành phố lớn ở Hoa Bắc và tiêu diệt được 144 sư đoàn thiện chiến của Tưởng. Đầu năm 1949 bà...

Michael Finkel – The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit

“Solitude did increase my perception. But here’s the tricky thing—when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. With no audience, no one to perform for, I was just there. There was no need to define myself; I became irrelevant. The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand. I didn’t even have a name. I never felt lonely. To put it romantically: I was...

Richard McGregor-The Unravelling of Sino-Japanese Relations

The story of China and Japan, and the periodic efforts to find a modus vivendi. Ezra Vogel’s China and Japan, it is fair to say, is more than just the definitive book on Asia’s two great powers, the relationship between which he describes as ‘tense, dangerous, deep and complicated’. For Vogel, one of the pre-eminent scholars of east Asia for decades, it is very much the product of a life’s work. Vogel...

Thomas Clements – Art of the Corpse

Detail from Body of a Courtesan in Nine Stages of Decomposition, handscroll, Meiji Japan, c.1870s © The Trustees of the British Museum. Art is often used to express how different cultures perceive the inevitability of death and to try to make sense of what happens after we die. With some exceptions, western paintings tend to reflect on the subject’s life, or romanticise and beautify the moment of death to avoid...