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James Delgado s new book, Silent Killers, celebrates the history of the submarine

James Delgado s new book, Silent Killers, celebrates the history of the submarine
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Jade Beauty: 15 Must-See Artifacts in Pictures

From its role as a symbol of good luck, prosperity, and wisdom to its practical uses as currency and tools, jade's allure continues to captivate people around the world.

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Xanadu in New York

1.The Mongols inhabited a vast, featureless grass plain where the soil was too thin for crops. They raised horses, cattle, yaks, sheep, and goats, and subsisted almost entirely on meat and milk and milk products. The women milked the cows and the men milked the mares. They had no fixed houses and lived in yurts made of greased felt that they hauled on ox-drawn carts. Inside

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Still Mysterious

Within mainland China today the ratio of Westerners to Chinese is probably no greater than it was in Marco Polo’s time seven hundred years ago. Sino-foreign contact is so minimal that it almost meets the old Taoist stay-at-home ideal, “to live hearing the dogs bark in the next village but never go there.” Peking and Washington indeed monitor each other’s barking, but they meet

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A Magician of Chinese Poetry

Some people, and I am one, feel that Tang (618–907 CE) poetry is the finest literary art they have ever read. But does one need to learn Chinese in order to have such a view, or can classical Chinese poetry be adequately translated?In 1987 Eliot Weinberger, who has written brilliant essays on topics as various as the mystical I Ching (Book of Change), Buddha as “impostor,”

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