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When China invaded Tibet in 1950, it promised to bring modernity to the isolated feudal kingdom. Instead, it brought a reign of religious and cultural repression that drove the Tibetan government into exile, including its supreme religious and political leader. Discovered as the 14th incarnation of Tibetan Buddhism's high priest at age 2 and enthroned at 4, the Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has never returned. After 45 years of trying to preserve a nation without a land, the Dalai Lama is grappling with the future of Tibet in a startlingly pragmatic way?one that risks...
Adomanis’ final “lesson” is that we need to react early to small threats before they grow into apocalyptic battles for civilization, by which he seems to mean that the feudal states of Europe should have built a proto-alliance (of the willing) to hunt out the Ottomans when they were still just Balkan colonists. That’s ridiculous for two reasons: one, battling people who don’t pose a threat is a great way to over-expend resources. Should Europe also have allied to crush the Magyars...
...Full of guilt over his family's feudal wealth, Caracera decides to give the money away and commences a search for deserving recipients. Eventually, he settles on two very different prot?g?s: a rising young tennis player and a boy prostitute who was the favorite of Caracera's late, outcast gay uncle. As the narrative proceeds, Caracera's good intentions pave a road to precisely the place they inevitably lead in proverb...
...least, never dismiss the lunatics. They're often the voices of reason. The Chinese learned that lesson in 1918 with Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman. This short story, which told of a world filled with bloodthirsty cannibals, was an attack on imperialists and China's own feudal system?both accused of devouring the masses. So astute was the critique that the story's madman became a revolutionary hero of sorts, and Lu Xun came to be heralded as the father of modern Chinese literature. In Ran Chen's novel A Private Life, set in Beijing in the late...
...most mysterious and remote. (Its picturesque landscape of verdant hills and rustic villages inspired the legend of Shangri-La.) Its distance from the political leaders in Beijing has traditionally made it something of an outlaw province, home to dozens of minority groups and, in centuries past, feudal warlords who ruled with nearly absolute control. Today it is the gateway for heroin traffic that drifts into China from Burma, Vietnam and Laos...