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Diana R. Chambers
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China: In Search of the Past: Part 7: Shanghai, More of the Four Olds and the Very Very New
The Bund is Shanghai's famed waterfront, once part of the city's International Settlement--territory the Western powers took from China after the mid-19C Opium Wars, waged by Britain in the name of free trade. In its heyday, the city was known as the Paris of the East, and, especially after the Russian Revolution, it was a refuge for many. Shanghai remains a shipping port and vibrant, sometime Read more of this blog post »
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My new novel, The Secret War of Julia Child, is set during this little known period of Julia's life, showing her bold, ambitious, adventurous side, he
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You might be interested in my new novel, THE SECRET WAR OF JULIA CHILD, set during this period on the Asian front.
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My new novel, THE SECRET WAR OF JULIA CHILD, is set during this period with serious focus of the little known yet critical Asian theater of WW2.
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“What would remain of her era in a thousand years? Van Gogh, Tchaikovsky? Democracy, she hoped.”
― The Secret War of Julia Child
― The Secret War of Julia Child
“Until the fascist monsters are in the ground, we have to live with our allies.”
― The Secret War of Julia Child
― The Secret War of Julia Child
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Jul 19, 2012 08:47AM
Hey there, Diana...
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