Red China Blues is Wong's startling and ironic memoir of her rocky six-year romance with Maoism that began to sour as she became aware of the harsh realities of Chinese communism and led to her eventual repatriation to the West. Returning to China in the late eighties as a journalist, she covered both the brutal Tiananmen Square crackdown and the tumultuous era of capitalist reforms under Deng …
Appointed by George W. Bush as the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in 2006, Sheila Bair witnessed the origins of the financial crisis and in 2008 became-along with Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Timothy Geithner-one of the key public servants trying to repair the damage to the global economy. Bull by the Horns is her remarkable and refreshingly honest account of th…
Buku ini berisi rekaman hidup Oei Tjoe Tat. Seorang keturunan Tionghoa yang pernah menjadi Menteri. Kehidupannya tak lepas dari isu-isu tentang sejarah revolusi, jaman parlementer, dan demokrasi terpimpin, sikap presiden soekarno, kepartaian, pimpinan dulu dan perjuangannya. Sejak muda, Oei Tjoe Tat dikenal sebagai politikus. Kepribadian Oei Tjoe Tat mencerminkan kekuatan idealisme dalam mengat…
Autobiografi ini kiranya dapat memantulkan ciri kepribadian Prof Dr. Slamet Iman Santoso, sebagai ilmuwan dan cendekiawan. Lebih dari itu, sebagai guru yang sepanjang umur telah menyedekahkan ilmunya patutlah beliau disegani dan diteladani. Daftar isi: 1. Masa kecil 2. Masa Sekolah Dasar 3. Masa Sekolah Menengah Pertama 4. Masa Sekolah Lanjutan Atas 5. Masa pendidikan di Stovia 6. Beker…
Contents: 1. Athens 1936: The old legation 2. Rome 1936-1938: The aftermath of sanctions 3. Greece 1940-1941: The British military mission 4. Greece 1941: Sentiment versus strategy 5. Syria 1941: Free French versus vichy etc.
Relates Walesa's rise from the Gdansk shipyard to the presidency and chronicles the history of Solidarity.
For as long as he can remember, Arabian American Asim Abraham has been instructed to never express his feelings or ideas to anyone-ever. Raised as an American until age eight, when he relocated with his parents to his home country of Arabia, Asim struggled to learn about a new culture where regulations robbed him of everything, including the ability to speak his mind. For the first time in his …
This book contains: 1. President Ho Chi Minh's letter to the fighters on the Dien Bien Phu battlefront 2. President Ho Chi Minh's congratulary etter 3. The most difficult decision 4. Dien Bien Phu 5. Dien Bien Phu in retrospect after forty years 6. The lessons of the Dien Bien Phu campaign
Memoirs is one of the most important documents to come out of the Soviet Union, not only from a political point of view but because of the remarkable insight it gives into Gromyko's Russia.
East and West focuses on Chris Patten's key disputes with China over questions of democratic election, civil liberties, and Hong Kong's independence; but, more importantly, it examines the larger picture of the Asian value system. Can you have economic change without political change? Can democratic rule guarantee fair play between economic competitors? There can be no doubt that Asia is a p…