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…like to say hello to your miraculous, breath-taking development over the years. Known as the financial center of China, called the pearl of the Orient, you are showing your fascination to the whole world everyday. Yes, we have found that you are developing…

…financial burdens. This lead to the rise in the lower classes economically, which led to better furnishings, diet, and extra capital. The extra money then was poured into the adventurous joint-stock companies which financed voyages to Africa, India, and China…

…Most of the powerful Western European Nations became involved in exploration of the Americas. Spain started the trend with the exploration of Columbus. Observers realized that Columbus had not discovered Spice Islands south of China, but a whole new…

…Buddhism Buddhism was developed from the teachings of the ,Buddha, Gautama (or Gotama) who lived as early as the 6th century BC. Spreading from India to Central and Southeast Asia, China, Korea, and Japan, Buddhism has played a central role…

…is covered by the Sahara, a desert as big as the mainland United States. The Arabian Peninsula, between the Persian Gulf and the red sea, is almost entirely dessert. A large part of central Asia, from China to the Caspian Sea, is mostly desert. Deserts cover 1/8…

…to the peninsula between India and China, which includes Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. In a narrower sense it refers only to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam which were united under French rule as the Indochinese Union (more…

…a journey to the ‘West’ but in this novel, the ‘West’ is the United States. They embark on this trip in search of the mysterious “Laughing Sutra” just as the Buddhist monk Tripitaka traveled to India to bring the original sutras back to China. Hsuang-tsang had…

…of altitude in five seconds. Then all of a sudden, it stabilized. The lights shot back on and there I was with my family. The plane had evaded the storm and we were safe at last. We can finally go home. I can finally go back to my home. My two-month visit to China…

…for French colonialism, favored Vietnamese independence. But expanding communist control of Eastern Europe and the triumph of the communists in China’s civil was made France’s war against Ho seem an anticommunist rather than a colonialist effort. When France…

…of China comes to mind, where they live in a semi-Orwellian world. Even though we tend to say “it can’t happen here”, it can. That’s what they would have said in Germany in the twenties or Russia in the Pre-World War One era. It can…