Category Archives: History

Mao ‘Little Red Book’ Exhibit Spurs NY Times To Hail China For Better ‘Taste’ Than US In the 1960s

By Tim Graham | November 15, 2014 | 5:16 PM EST

little-red-book[1] (2)The New York Times reported a scandal when a collection of Nazi memorabilia caused a senior Human Rights Watch analyst to be suspended in 2009. Continue reading

‘A Map of Betrayal,’ by Ha Jin

By BEN MACINTYRE  NOV. 7, 2014

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Many years ago, the F.B.I. coined an acronym, MICE, to describe the motivations of the spy. Continue reading

East German officer Harald Jaeger explains why he opened the Berlin Wall

November 8, 2014
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Balloons mark anniversary of Berlin Wall
Thousands of balloons, tracing the path where the former Berlin Wall once stood, are released into the air, in a symbolic gesture marking the collapse of the Cold War barrier, 25 years on.
Berlin balloons soar away in tribute to fall of the wall

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East and West German citizens celebrate as they climb the Berlin wall at the Brandenburg Gate on November 9, 1989. Photo: Reuters
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China 1945:Mao’s Revolution and America’s Fateful Choice

RICHARD BERNSTEIN11.05.14

A riveting account of the watershed moment in America’s dealings with China that forever altered the course of East-West relations.

As 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:Yuan Tengfei: A Free Spirit in Darkness

January 16, 2013

The most famous maverick teacher in China.

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Photo from YouTube user Stephen Thompson.

If you were to attend one of Yuan Tengfei’s Continue reading

Zhang Weiwei:My Personal Memories as Deng Xiaoping’s Interpreter: From Oriana Fallaci to Kim Il-sung to Gorbachev

Posted: 08/25/2014 1:02 pm EDT Updated: 08/25/2014 3:59 pm EDT

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SHANGHAI — August 22 marked the anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s birth 110 years go. Though Continue reading

The Danger of China’s ‘Chosen Trauma’

HARRY W.S. LEE 09.02.14

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A man walks on the Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing. On July 7, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the bridge, also known as Lugou Bridge, at the outskirts of Beijing. Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:Lei Feng’s Specter Still Hovers Over Mainland China

April 10, 2013

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Communist propaganda heroes and their political purpose, then and now. Continue reading