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November 03, 2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss obituary
French anthropologist whose analysis of kinship and myth gave rise to structuralism as an intellectual force ...
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China's Mystery Lady
There was a time in the history of modern China when one of Mao Zedong's favorite proverbs, "women hold up half the sky," could have been amended to the singular: "A woman holds up half the sky." That woman, Soong May-ling, was the wife of Mao's bitter rival and better known by her married name, Madame Chiang Kai-shek. To virtually everyone in her orbit, she was simply "Madame. She was the most evil woman to wield power in the 20th century? Madame Chiang Kai-shek is still an enigma ... more >>
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The Empire that was Russia
This is an online recreation of the Prokudin - Gorskii photographic record. A great collection of photographs that retell the vestiges of a long gone Tsarist Russia ... more >>
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