
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

After Kim Il-sung’s statement, the General Association of Korean Residents started a mass repatriation campaign in the guise of humanitarianism. The following year, 1959, the Japanese Red Cross Society and the Korean Red Cross Society secretly negotiated a “Return Agreement” in Calcutta. Four months later, the first shipload of returnees left the J
... See moreMasaji Ishikawa • A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Comment s’étonner que toute une jeune génération jette un regard amer et méprisant sur ses pères, qui s’étaient fait d’abord voler la victoire et ensuite la paix ? Qui avaient tout faux, qui n’avaient rien vu venir et s’étaient toujours trompés dans leurs calculs ? N’était-il pas compréhensible que toute forme de respect disparût dans la jeune géné
... See moreStefan Zweig • Le Monde d'hier: Souvenirs d'un Européen (French Edition)
China followed a fundamentally different path but with no less extraordinary results. It has been some seventy years since China’s Communists gained control, and in that time the country’s annual economic output has grown from under $100 million to more than $13 trillion. Under Mao Zedong, China was an economic basket case, having experienced the w
... See moreRichard Haass • The World

