Madame K Kelly 📚 From 🇧🇪 with 📖💜 and her inner Miss Marple 👵had their heads hurt 🤕but in a good way 😂😂 with #TheExaminer by Janice Hallett from Viper Books #bookreviews frombelgiumwithbooklove.com/six-students-o…

Evan Nicole Bell 🎶'Voodoo Woman'

"Although the 'strategic space' terminology was not officially endorsed until 2013, detailed discussions of '#strategicfrontiers' began to emerge in #Chinesemilitary circles in the late 1980s" | Nadège Rolland bit.ly/3zt9Q8g

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A ‘patriotic education’: Hong Kong schools begin rollout of Xi Jinping Thought: The new school year began this week in Hong Kong with a significant new addition to the curriculum for some students: the teachings of Xi Jinping Thought. theguardian.com/world/article/…

‘It is as though he goes into overdrive to undo 1857.’ Read S. I. Rubinstein on William Dalrymple’s colonial complex: 👇 buff.ly/3ZqZ9hl

#BookReview LOVE, NATURE, MAGIC by MARIA RODALE #nonfiction #gardening #nature Chelsea Green Publishing bookkaz4.wordpress.com/2024/09/17/boo…

My book, THE ADOPTION PLAN: China and the Remaking of Global Humanitarianism, is out early 2025 with Columbia Univ Press And it's now available for preorder: bit.ly/4e3jkX6 I'll post more about the book - the stories it tells and the arguments it makes - in the coming months!

🎨This landscape masterpiece was created by the renowned Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) artist Fan Kuan (950-1032). The three-part silk scroll vividly captures the grandeur of the Qinling and Longshan mountains in Northwest China after a snowfall❄️, with towering peaks,

Article in the Telegraph this morning about London cigar lounges (this link avoids the paywall) archive.is/frQAa

Very cool! 'The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.' Churchill (maybe)

Before the cyber-fraud industry became the subject of diplomatic briefings and think tank reports, it was beat journalists who first captured the early threads. They did so despite immense pressure on their security and resources, writes Danielle K-O. globalchinapulse.net/scam-stories-h…

If this was me with my phone I would still be trying to figure stuff out after two hours....

Just seen some sad news. Yesterday, Nelson DeMille Nelson DeMille passed away from cancer #RIP Fantastic commercial thriller writer! Always did his research, and always wrote in longhand with a pencil....

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Ready for a deeply unsettling reading experience? Then check out The Chamber by Will Dean (Atria Books)! And read my hot-take book review at @shelfawareness: tinyurl.com/24j55w59 #books #BookReview #bookreviewer #thriller #creepy #fiction #horror #pageturner #saturationdiving

Greater Flameback (大金背啄木鸟,Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus), in Yunnan province. It always has an unmarked golden-yellow to dark brown back and wings. ❤Beijing朋友 #birds #BirdsSeenIn2024 #Nature #Peace #China #wildlife #photography

Dear Twitter (it will never be X), I, Lesley, do solemnly swear that if you vote for me in the An Post Irish Book Awards, and I get through, I will post a video of me drinking a cup of black tea 🤢 You can scan the QR code in the photos or vote at anpost.com/Irish-Bookshop…

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I've written up the proposed changes to the Supervision Law. The Supervision Law is one of the most important legal reforms in China in a decade, codifying the Party discipline system and expanding it to create an extrajudicial penal system. chinalawtranslate.com/keeping-an-eye…