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Lying in the shadow of the Forbidden City, the Icehouse, tel: (86-10) 6522 1389, is[an error occurred while processing this directive] today the Chinese capital's best jazz and blues bar. But it gets its name from the fact that it held ice for the imperial family's...
Given the remorselessness of its wrecking crews, Beijing should not, by rights, be blessed with so enduring a structure as the Icehouse. But then the Icehouse is no ordinary structure. With 1.2-m-thick walls and access through a 20-m-long tunnel, it's more of a bunker?shouldering...
Pugnacious anthems and racist diatribes have never been in short supply at Nordic Fest, an annual white-power Woodstock held over the Memorial Day break near the former mining town of Dawson Springs, Ky. And this past weekend was no exception. On the agenda were a Triumph of the Will...
But was it all a myth? Revisionist historians have recently accused the imperial civil servants of sins ranging from selfishness to incompetence in dealing with famines. Now, British historian David Gilmour has risen to the defense of the ICS with his new book, The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the...
The professional life of the imperial bureaucrat could be extraordinarily interesting; his personal life usually was not. Unless they were lucky enough to be posted to a metropolitan center like Calcutta or Bombay, the ICS officers led a lonely existence in remote towns with few other Englishmen around, and yearned...