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P.’s 2024 Year in Books
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P. Scott Corbett
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Hello
There are just three of you connected to this blog as of now. That seems about right to me. I have been resisting blogging because I just don't think I am doing anything interesting or have any profound insights to offer.
But perhaps with a little encouragement, I can be drawn out. Right now I am working on a trilogy of books based on my family's experiences in China. I could share more if anyone Read more of this blog post »
But perhaps with a little encouragement, I can be drawn out. Right now I am working on a trilogy of books based on my family's experiences in China. I could share more if anyone Read more of this blog post »
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Not done with it yet but it is a fascinating example of excellent bottom-up research and writing.
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| Back in the first century BCE, the Roman poet Epicurus proposed his theory of the “swerve” to account for the unpredictable deviations or variations in the movement of atoms and by implication to also explain the presence of chance and spontaneity i ...more | |
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Fangs of Frustration: The story of the bandit White Wolf
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"Fangs of Frustration" is a descent into the churning vortex of a nation's metamorphosis. Bai Lang chases a phantom past, a golden age that may have n
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A Spellbinding Romp Through 18th-Century London: A Review of The Bottle Conjuror John Kachuba and Jack Gagliardo's collaborative effort, The Bottle Conjuror, weaves a captivating tale set against the backdrop of mid-18th century London. It's a vibrant ...more |
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Writing about a country as complicated and important as China is challenging. Writing about one’s family involvement in the history of China is doubly difficult. And yet Scott Corbett has managed to achieve both goals. In his first volume of his gen ...more |
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Final thoughts of Philip Supine on the generational trilogy The third volume, "Pursuing Shadows," presents a view of contemporary China. Mao Zedong died in l976; the Cultural Revolution is now a bitter (but not forgotten) memory and the Chinese people ...more |
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The thoughts of Philip Supina, Independent Scholar Taking up the second volume of his generational trilogy, Fortune’s Retrieval, Corbett concentrates on the period of the Japanese invasion and occupation and the horrendous suffering of the Chinese peo ...more |
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“The Inca ruler required a third, and a third was set aside in a kind of welfare system for those unable to work.”
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“sailors wanted to find a route to the exotic and wealthy Spice Islands in modern-day Indonesia, whose location was kept secret by Muslim rulers.”
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