Monthly Archives: March 2013

The Story of Qui Ju

The Story of Qiu Ju Film Review Most cinema goers who patronise the neighbourhood cinema hall are usually treated to blockbusters with plenty of sex and violence with strong nationalistic overtones where our good guys overcome foreign bad guys. So … Continue reading

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John Carlos Story

John Carlos Story, by John Carlos and Dave Zirin Published by Haymarket Books, Chicago,  Illinois. 2012. Book Review The only reason I bought this book about a now forgotten episode in the American Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s was … Continue reading

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The Man who Changed China

  The Man Who Changed China, by Robert Lawrence Kuhn Crown Publishers, New York, 2004 Book review and commentary This is not just the biography of an important modern Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin, who became the General Secretary of the … Continue reading

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