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#1 The Great Hall of the People, which is the largest auditorium in the building, was built in 1959 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Chinese Revolution. It is a grand, intimidating structure heavily inspired by Soviet architecture.
#2 Mao was a Stalinist who imposed a harsh communist regime on China in 1949. He was a faithful follower of his master in Moscow, and for good...
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#1 The North Korea of Kim Jong Il's era was very different from the North Korea of the 1953–1994 period. It was a National Stalinist regime, and it survived all outside challenges. It was a time when the Kim family regime grew and matured.
#2 Kim Il Sung, the supreme leader of North Korea, was a native of Pyongyang, which in late August 1945 became the headquarters...
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#1 The name China was adopted by Westerners and given new meanings which were then transmitted back to East Asia. In European minds, China became an ancient, independent, continuous state occupying a defined portion of continental East Asia.
#2 The idea of a pre-eminent China traveled from Europe to East and Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
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#1 Around 780,000 years ago, the Yellow River flowed much closer to the place we call Beijing than it does now. The area was home to two tribes, the Hu and Xi, from whom the Han Chinese claim descent.
#2 The Yellow Emperor, who is said to have invented writing, is the basis of the popular claim that China has 5000 years of recorded history. The earliest hard evidence...
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#1 I came to Fuling on the slow boat downstream from Chongqing. It was a warm, clear night at the end of August in 1996. The city was small, and there was only one other foreigner in town.
#2 The Fuling group, which was the biggest of the Long March groups, had walked more than a thousand miles. They had been sponsored by Magnificent Sound cigarettes, and they had run...
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Book Preview: #1 On Feb. 25, 1986, President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino was sworn in as the 11th President of the Philippines, in defiance of President Ferdinand Marcos, who had held a similar ceremony in Malacañang. She promised to restore unity, genuine reconciliation, and democratic space. Instead, she allowed a repetition of a strongman rule and an era of hatred, vengeance, and...
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#1 My mother told me many stories from my childhood years later, and as I grew older, I realized that she had been the most outgoing and bravest girl in her town. She was always called a pretty girl. She had many friends, but she never wanted to be with boys.
#2 I met a military man, and he and I met every night following my performances for many months. The man told...
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#1 Jong Un, the youngest son of Kim Jong Il, was chosen to be the next supreme leader of North Korea. He was brash, confident, and headstrong, but his youth would be a problem, particularly given the existence of powerful greybeards around Kim Jong Il who might try to influence the young leader.
#2 Kim Jong Un, the son of Kim Jong Il, was proclaimed the new leader of...
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#1 The French had fought a short but bloody war with the Japanese in September 1940, before the Japanese ultimatum. The French ambassador in Washington wired Catroux that his request for 120 modern fighter planes had been turned down by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, because the United States did not believe it could enter into conflict with Japan.
#2 The French...
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#1 The American Pacific Fleet was edgy as rumors circulated that Tokyo was about to surrender. The Japanese empire had been shrinking since 1942, and the elected government was irrelevant.
#2 The two-week Allied conference in Potsdam, Germany, which had begun on July 17, finished on August 2. The conference was primarily focused on the immediate postwar situation in...
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#1 I had previously been asked to enter caves with the aim of bringing both the dead and the living to the surface, so I understood just how unpredictable the work in Thailand could be. I had heard the terrain was challenging, and I was excited.
#2 I had always loved caving and was obsessed with the idea of cave diving. I was able to overcome the obstacles in and out...
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#1 The city of Venice was built by the Romans, who were a determined people who wanted to resist the changes that swept Europe. They wanted to remain loyal to their state and to one another, and they wanted to remain Catholics in communion with the pope in Rome.
#2 The Venetian lagoon off the coast of Italy was a haunt of fishermen and wharf workers in the Roman...
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#1 The first people to live in Korea lived off of salmon, elk, and hake, as well as rice and wheat raised on farms. They were lactose intolerant, so they didn't milk any of the animals they hunted.
#2 The Mumun period in Korea was from 850 to 300 BCE, and it was during this time that the Korean states of China were at war until the Qin Dynasty took over. The Chinese...
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#1 The Korean culture is infused with a competitive environment. Within it exist cultural and behavioral patterns that lead to success for the country in terms of GDP and for individuals in areas such as education.
#2 Korea is a homogeneous country racially, ethnically, and culturally. Unity and harmony are universal values for Koreans. The country's national flag, the...
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#1 I am 16 hours out of sync following last night's flight, and when I draw back our thick gray curtains, I see just a few small white badges of light under a blue-ing sky. I slip on T-shirt and jeans in the dark and shuffle into loafers.
#2 I visit the Deer's Slope neighborhood in Japan. The only house that takes up a full block is the one with the friendly old lady...
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#1 My father, who was a big man, worked at an ice plant. He was drafted into World War II but never served because the doctor from our town wrote the draft board to get him out of going because the town needed ice.
#2 My father, Clifton Rose Jenkins, was a racist. He had a drinking problem, and he liked his alcohol. He was also the owner of the ice plant where...
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#1 The French were also responsible for the second betrayal, when they sent their forces to suppress the Vietnamese, West Indians, and Africans who had once been their colonial subjects. This happened in 1955.
#2 The French government used the same logic as John Locke to claim that only Europeans were competent users of God's nature, and that only they could own it.
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Book Preview: #1 The British empire was centered around the sun, as they bragged, and the sun always shone on some part of their imperium. But a revolt nearly a century after the American Revolution threatened British control of India.
#2 The British were shocked by the betrayal of the Indian soldiers, who had slaughtered British women and children. The Indians were looked upon as...
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#1 The Chinese capital, Beijing, is surrounded by fields and villages that look exactly the same since the Middle Ages. In the Western view of the Chinese past, there is no equivalent of the fall of Rome, the Renaissance, or the Enlightenment.
#2 The Chinese archaeologists dug holes across the fields and checked for signs of buried structures. They began excavating the...
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Book Preview: #1 After Stalin's death in 1953, Mao was able to break free from his influence. He had no problems taking the money from the Russians, and used it to lead a ragged band of guerrilla fighters to ultimate power. However, he always kept his eye on the Russian funding.
#2 When Mao won the war against Chiang Kai-shek, he was given only $300 million in military aid over five...
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