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The subtitle of At the Edge of Empire is a glimmer of its great heart: A Family’s Reckoning with China.The book — which comes out today in the US — follows the author Edward Wong, an ...
The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy from the Mediterranean to China Roger D. Kaplan (Random House, 400 pages, $23.23) In his new book The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy from the ...
It took the Japanese empire some 150 days to wrest control of the island away from the republic; Taiwan ultimately became Japan’s first colony. ... including swathes of mainland China (see map 3).