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on June 4, 2015

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In North Korea: Wonder & Terror

By Ian Buruma on June 4, 2015

The northeast of China used to be called Manchuria. Another name was “the cockpit of Asia.” Many wars were fought there. A French priest who traveled through the region in the 1920s wrote: “Although it is uncertain where God created paradise, we can be sure He chose some other place than this.” The quote is from Michael Meyer’s splendid book In Manchuria.

Beijing Autumn

My Return to China Three Months After Tiananmen

By Ilaria Maria Sala on June 3, 2015

Then even August ended. China was disappearing from the news, as portentous events elsewhere thrust themselves to the forefront.

South Africa had started to come out of the dark age of apartheid. Eastern Europe had begun the march to unshackle itself from the Soviet Union. Moscow looked omnipotent no more.