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21 October 2021
Lungo il Mekong: Incontri e riscontri in Cambogia e Laos (2021) di Marco Carnovale
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Un viaggio compiuto nel 2022, quando, a seguito di alcune disavventure professionali e sentimentali, decisi di cambiar vita. Un punto e a ca...
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02 April 2021
A conversation about China
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- Hi I am from Indochina. I'd like to think what you think of China. - Hi I'm from Europe, I'd be interested in your views too, ...
29 January 2021
Book review: The Gate, by François Bizot (2004), *****
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Synopsys In 1971, on a routine outing through the Cambodian countryside, the young French scholar Francois Bizot was captured by the Khmer R...
28 December 2020
Recensione libro: Caduti dal Muro (2009) di Paolo Ciampi e Tito Barbini, *****
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Sinossi C'era una volta il Muro e sembrava dovesse esarci per sempre. Poi però il Muro si sbriciolò e con esso crollò un impero che da...
05 October 2019
Partenza in bus per Changsha e arrivo a Chongqing
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Partiamo alle 7 di mattina da casa, una rapida corsa in Didi e siamo alla stazione dei bus. Siamo costretti a prendere il bus per Changsha, ...
01 October 2019
Festa nazionale, 70 anni dalla fondazione della Repubblica Popolare Cinese
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La prima cosa che mi ha colpito della grande parata militare organizzata a Pechino, dicono che sia la più imponente della storia della Cinam...
27 December 2018
Beyond the Wall, my book on a Polish and Soviet adventure available on all Amazon sites.
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My latest book: Beyond the Wall: Adventures of a Volkswagen Beetle Beyond the Iron Curtain has just been published a...
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10 May 2018
Film review: Youth (2017) by Feng Xiaogang, *****
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Synopsis When Xiaoping joins the military, delicate dreams are dashed by the events of a China undergoing revolution. The devastating Sino...
06 December 2017
Book review: Wild Swans (1992), by Jung Chang, *****
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Synopsis Through the lives of three different women - grandmother, mother and daughter - this book tells the story of 20th-century China...
03 December 2014
Book review: River Town (2001), by Peter Hessler, *****
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Synopsis When Peter Hessler went to China as a Peace Corps volunteer in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years...
18 November 2013
Book Review: The Secret Piano (2012), by Zhu Xiao-Mei, ****
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Synopsis Zhu Xiao-Mei was born to middle-class parents in post WW II China, and her musical proficiency became clear at an early age. Tau...
08 June 2012
Book review: The Girl in the Picture, by Denise Chong, ****
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Kim Phuc and others after napalm bombing of Trang Bang. Photo by Nick Ut, AP Kim Phuc Today it is forty years since one of the most...
28 April 2012
Film Review: Lost City (2005), by Andy Garcia, ****
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Synopsis In 1958 Havana, nightclub owner Fico Fellove ( Andy Garcia , who also directed) watches as political upheaval grips Batista-ruled...
14 April 2012
Film review: The Dreamers (2003), by Bernardo Bertolucci, ****
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Synopsis Paris, spring 1968. While most students take the lead in the May 'revolution', a French poet's twin son Theo and d...
27 March 2012
Film Review: Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel (1997) by Christian Frei, ****
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Synopsis Like so many thousands of other Cubans, Miriam Martínez means to emigrate to the United States with her family. The daughter of a...
30 November 2011
Book Review: My China Years, by Helen Foster Snow, **
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Foster Snow is the wife of Edgar Snow, the author of "Red Star Over China - The Rise Of The Red Army". She actually met "Ed...
14 May 2009
Film review: The Children of the Decree, by Florian Iepan and Razvan Georgescu (2004), *****
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Synopsis “Procreation is the social duty of all fertile women,” was the political thinking during the 1960s and 1970s in Romania. In 19...
27 February 2009
Film Review: The Threat (2008), by Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino, *****
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Synopsis “Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution are the greatest threat since the time of the Soviet Union and communism”. Doctrine...
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21 August 2008
Recensione: "L'Ombra di Mao", di Federico Rampini, ****
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Sinossi Mao Tse Tung è un leader che ha lasciato un'impronta indelebile sulla storia del secolo. Sotto Mao e per colpa sua il popolo ci...
14 September 2006
Film Review: The Lives of Others (2006), by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, *****
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Synopsis In the former East Germany, no-one was above suspicion. Like George Orwell's vision of the future come to life, art and ...
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