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...writing memoirs, journalists either have it or they don't. Too much recycled reportage, and the account turns leaden, leaving readers craving the terse economy of the writer's original articles; too much indulgence in personal reminiscence, and the result can be cloying and sentimental. But in Chasing the Dragon: A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution, Roy Rowan gets the ingredients just right, providing an account that has both factual heft and robust flavor...
...returns to the villages he went to as a young man, searching for traces of the world he had so vividly documented. Nearly six decades after his arrival, Rowan writes, "The sights, sounds and smells of China will continue to be a part of my being." With Chasing the Dragon, he has ensured that those memories will have a long and lasting legacy...
...SLUMP By Akira Toriyama Adored and massively popular manga from Akira Toriyama, the creator of DRAGON BALL, Dr. Slump is a madcap, episodic series about a blustering inventor who creates the "perfect" android girl, only to discover that he may have created a monster instead...
...deputies fled into jungle exile, where the so-called Brother No. 1 died in 1998. A much less exalted band of 12, including three Khmer Rouge soldiers and their wives, decided to wait out the invasion in a remote part of Cambodia's northeast known as the Dragon's Tail. They stayed there for 26 years. Last month, they came out of hiding to a world they didn't know existed: a country at peace...
...striking example of male representation is the statue outside of Boylston; the 20-ton sculpture was given as gift from Chinese alumni in 1936 for the tercentenary celebration. The notoriously phallic 13.5-ft. tablet is carved with snakes, dragons, flowers, mythological figures, while the rounded base represents a half-dragon, half-turtle beast...