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...People’s Republic of China and Taiwan during the Cold War. This confrontation almost led the United States to use nuclear force against China on two separate occasions. Szonyi is currently working on a book that compares villagers’ perspectives in Quemoy with villagers in mainland China who live in the area across from the islands. His most recent trip to China yielded interviews with villagers in the mainland who told stories similar to those of the villagers in Quemoy, showing that despite their different ideologies, the villagers were impacted in a similar way, he said...
...Cage dwellings first began to appear in the 1950s, as immigrants from mainland China flooded the region following the Chinese civil war, creating a demand for low-cost bed spaces for low-wage earners. Landlords, looking to extract more money per square foot of living space, packed two to three iron cages that served as bunk beds into apartments. Fifty years later, these slums continue to be one of the negative by-products of Hong Kong's meteoric rise from a humble, fishing village into an international financial powerhouse. Asia's world city is now home to some...
...great significance to Australians as it was the scene of some of the most ferocious fighting of the Second World War between Australian and Japanese forces. Australian troops eventually prevailed, forcing the Japanese to pull back and abandon plans to launch further attacks on allied bases and the Australian mainland. Yesterday tributes poured in from around the nation for those killed in the crash, with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who walked the track in 2006, saying in a statement published in Australian newspapers that Kokoda evokes the memory of the thousands of young Australians who gave their lives...
...that most other countries can't produce themselves. Taiwan is a more component supplier of electronics. But the Taiwan bulls would argue that Taiwan is going to become the newest province of China; there is going to be a huge flow of real estate investment and industrial investment by mainland Chinese into Taiwan. I have trouble believing that...
...that the hustling and bustling, the sites, the souvenirs, are somehow a façade for a sadder and darker place. Perhaps along with gondolas and bridges, the city should be thought of as a place where, as you dine along the Grand Canal between the mainland and Giudecca, you should expect small cities to float by you: cruiseships so enormous that they form a shadow over the island as the passengers onboard wave down to you. Perhaps you should expect that in viewing the sites, you, too, become a part of the display. Over 130 years ago James...