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A Cowherd in Paradise: From China to Canada
Par May Q. Wong. 2012
In 2006, the Prime Minister apologized to the Chinese people for the legislated discrimination created by Canada’s head tax laws…
in the first half of the twentieth century, acknowledging the far-reaching and long-term consequences it has had on their families. A Cowherd in Paradise is the story of one such family. The book chronicles the remarkable lives of Wong Guey Dang (1902–1983) and Jiang Tew Thloo (1911–2002). Ah Dang was born into an impoverished family and sold as a child. In 1921, his adoptive father paid a five-hundred-dollar head tax to send Ah Dang to Canada. Eight years later, driven to create a family of his own, Ah Dang returned to China, where he chose Ah Thloo as his bride from a matchmaker’s photo. As a child, Ah Thloo worked as a cowherd and from the age of six was responsible for her family’s fortune—their water buffalo. Ah Thloo not only became a wife and mother, but also grew to be a courageous defender against invaders and a champion of the weak. Married for over half a century, the couple was forced to live apart for twenty-five years because of Canada’s exclusionary immigration laws. In Canada, Ah Dang became a successful Montreal restaurateur; while in China, Ah Thloo struggled to survive through natural disasters, wars, and revolutions. A Cowherd in Paradise is the moving tale of one couple’s search for love, family, and forgiveness.Ghost flames: life & death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953
Par Charles J Hanley. 2020
The war that broke out in Korea on a Sunday morning seventy years ago has come to be recognized as…
a critical turning point in modern history and the root of a nuclear crisis that grips the world to this day. In this vivid, emotionally compelling, and highly original account, Charles J. Hanley tells the story of the Korean War through the eyes of twenty individuals who lived through itAll We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others
Par Carol Off. 2017
Winner of the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingFinalist for…
the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction An incredible work of non-fiction that reads like a thriller, All We Leave Behind is the true story of a family fleeing the death sentence of a ruthless warlord, written by the journalist who broke all her own rules to get them to safety.In 2002, Carol Off and a CBC TV crew encountered an Afghan man with a story to tell. Asad Aryubwal became a key figure in their documentary on the terrible power of thuggish warlords who were working arm in arm with Americans and NATO troops. When Asad publicly exposed the deeds of one of the warlords, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, it set off a chain of events from which there was no turning back. Asad, his wife, Mobina, and their five children had to flee their home. The family faced an uncertain future. But their dilemma compelled a journalist to cross the lines of disinterested reporting and become deeply involved. Together, they navigated the Byzantine international bureaucracy and the decidedly unwelcoming policies of Stephen Harper's government until the family finally found a new home. Carol Off's powerful account traces not only one family's journey and fraught attempts to immigrate to a safe place, it also illustrates what happens when a journalist becomes irrevocably caught up in the lives of the people in her story and finds herself unable to leave them behind.North Korea Journal
Par Michael Palin. 2019
In this beautifully illustrated journal based on a TV documentary, writer, comedian and world traveller Michael Palin journeys to North…
Korea, offering a glimpse of life inside the world's most secretive country, uncovering surprises and making friends along the way.In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin ventured into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, camera crew in tow, to gain a glimpse of life in the most notoriously secretive and cut-off nation on earth. His resulting two-part documentary for Channel 5 fascinated millions and won universal plaudits.Now he shares the journal he meticulously kept during his trip, in which he describes his experiences in a country wholly unlike any other he has ever visited: a country where you will find the Tallest Unoccupied Building in the World; where the residents of Pyongyang awake every morning to the strains of 'Where Are You, Dear General?', broadcast from speakers across the city; and where there are fifteen approved styles of haircut. He chronicles a journey of stark contrasts that takes in a gleamingly modern capital complete with triumphal statues and arches one day, and a countryside that has barely changed in decades on another. He travels to the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone, to a centuries-old Confucian academy, and to the heart of North Korea's exquisitely beautiful mountains and lakes. He recounts conversations with official guides, teachers, propaganda artists, farmers and soldiers in which mutual incomprehension and shared humanity are constantly intermingled. And he muses on what makes people tick under a regime that to outsiders seems so utterly alien and so grimly authoritarian. Written with Palin's trademark warmth and wit, and illustrated with beautiful colour photographs throughout, Palin's journal offers a rare insight into the North Korea behind the headlines.This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves
Par Madhur Anand. 2020
"Wondrously and elegantly written in language that astonishes and moves the reader…This is an important book: an emotional and intellectual…
tour de force." —Jane Urquhart An experimental memoir about Partition, immigration, and generational storytelling, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart weaves together the poetry of memory with the science of embodied trauma, using the imagined voices of the past and the vital authority of the present. We begin with a man off balance: one in one thousand, the only child in town whose polio leads to partial paralysis. We meet his future wife, chanting Hai Rams for Gandhiji and choosing education over marriage. On one side of the line that divides this book, we follow them as their homeland splits in two and they are drawn together, moving to Canada and raising their children in mining towns and in crowded city apartments. And when we turn the book over, we find the daughter's tale—we see how the rupture of Partition, the asymmetry of a father's leg, the virus of a mother's rage, makes its way to the next generation. Told through the lenses of biology, physics, history and poetry, this is a memoir that defies form and convention to immerse the reader in the feeling of what remains when we've heard as much of the truth as our families will allow, and we're left to search for ourselves among the pieces they've carried with them.Blood and oil: Mohammed bin Salman's ruthless quest for global power
Par Bradley Hope. 2020
Hope and Scheck show how Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise to power coincided with the fraying of the simple bargain…
that had been at the head of U.S.-Saudi relations for more than eighty years: oil in exchange for military protection.Kim Ghattas delivers a gripping account of the largely unexplored story of the rivalry between between Saudi Arabia and Iran,…
born from the sparks of the 1979 Iranian revolution and fueled by American policy. With vivid story-telling, extensive historical research and on-the-ground reporting, Ghattas dispels accepted truths about a region she calls home. She explores how Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, once allies and twin pillars of US strategy in the region, became mortal enemies after 1979. She shows how they used and distorted religion in a competition that went well beyond geopolitics. Feeding intolerance, suppressing cultural expression, and encouraging sectarian violence from Egypt to Pakistan, the war for cultural supremacy led to Iran's fatwa against author Salman Rushdie, the assassination of countless intellectuals, the birth of groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon, the September 11th terrorist attacks, and the rise of ISIS. Ghattas also introduces us to a riveting cast of characters whose lives were upended by the geopolitical drama over four decades: from the Pakistani television anchor who defied her country's dictator, to the Egyptian novelist thrown in jail for indecent writings all the way to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018Mongolian Chronicles: A Story of Eagles, Demons, and Empires
Par Allen Smutylo. 2019
Longlisted, RBC Taylor PrizeIn the shadows of the Altai Mountains live the Kazakh nomads of western Mongolia. These hard-living nomads…
survive on windswept steppes, grazing their herds and keeping an ancient practice alive: hunting not with traps or guns, but on horseback with golden eagles.The Mongolian Chronicles recounts a story of this untamed world, seen through the eyes of artist, writer, and traveller Allen Smutylo. Smutylo lived with seven eagle hunters and their families for several weeks over two years, affording him rare insight into a disappearing culture. His extraordinary narrative is set within the context of Mongolia's turbulent past — the long shadow cast by the empire of Genghis Khan, the deprivations of early twentieth century warlords-cum-mystics — and its protean present, where ancient customs and shamanistic beliefs exist among an increasingly urbanized people.Smutylo's vivid prose and powerful artwork portray a Mongolia of contradictions and extremes. Readers will encounter a country with a vast wilderness that nonetheless has one of the most polluted capitals on earth; a modern economy in which tent-dwelling nomads still rely on their animals for survival; a people unchanged for millennia, yet recognizing that their way of life may disappear with their generation.Argo: comment la CIA et Hollywood ont imaginé la plus audacieuse mission de sauvetage de tous les temps
Par Antonio J Mendez. 2013
" Le 4 novembre 1979, des étudiants iraniens prennent d'assaut l'ambassade américaine à Téhéran et retiennent en otages des dizaines…
de fonctionnaires et diplomates américains. Six d'entre eux parviennent à fuir et trouvent refuge à l'ambassade du Canada. Ils réussissent à contacter leur gouvernement, et la CIA décide de monter une opération d'envergure pour les exfiltrer du pays. À la tête de l'opération, Tony Mendez, un agent chevronné de la CIA, qui imagine de tourner en Iran un film de science-fiction intitulé Argo. Il se rend à Téhéran au prétexte de trouver le décor idéal et visiter les lieux de tournage... En janvier 2000, après de nombreuses péripéties et sueurs froides, il parvient à faire monter les six Américains dans un avion. Direction : les États-Unis, la liberté. Dans ce document qui a servi de base au film de Ben Affleck, Tony Mendez donne tous les détails et dévoile les dessous de l'opération extrêmement complexe et dangereuse qu'il a menée à bien. " -- 4e de couvMembre du commando qui a éliminé Oussama Ben Laden au Pakistan le 2 mai 2011, l'auteur fait le récit d'une…
traque longue de huit ans à travers la corne de l'Afrique, l'Asie centrale et le Moyen-Orient.Chambre avec vue sur la guerre: témoignage
Par Édith Bouvier. 2012
" Je n'ai pas fermé l'oeil de la nuit. Nous avons tellement fumé que la pièce est nimbée d'un voile…
de nicotine. Dehors, la lumière du jour pointe à peine et déjà le bruit sourd et grave des obus s'abattant sur la ville reprend. Un premier impact. Je sens le sol bouger, doucement. Un léger tremblement. Celui-là a dû tomber plus loin. " Février 2012. La journaliste Edith Bouvier lance un appel au secours. Gravement blessée à la jambe dans les bombardements qui ont tué les reporters Marie Colvin et Rémi Ochlik au coeur de la ville assiégée de Homs, en Syrie, la jeune femme a besoin de soins de toute urgence. Avec plusieurs confrères, elle est recueillie par des insurgés syriens au sein d'un dispensaire de fortune du quartier de Baba Amr. Pris au piège, ils tentent le tout pour le tout pour s'échapper en pleine nuit. Ce livre retrace un parcours hors du commun, dix jours entre la vie et la mort. " -- 4e de couvLes impunis: Cambodge, un voyage dans la banalité du mal
Par Olivier Weber. 2013
'' Au Cambodge, tous les Khmers rouges n'ont pas été jugés, loin de là. Pendant plusieurs années Olivier Weber a…
arpenté la région de Pailin, devenue une enclave de non-droit négociée à la fin de la guerre par d'anciens responsables du génocide. Dans l'indifférence générale, ils ont instauré un mini-État mafieux où les bourreaux d'hier se cachent derrière un écran d'or. Bordels, casinos, trafic de rubis, blanchiment d'argent... Les sbires de Pol Pot, qui avaient aboli la monnaie et puni de mort les relations sexuelles hors mariage, font régner une terreur subtile. Loin des procès officiels, ils prospèrent en toute impunité, et le mal, à force d'être accepté, finit par se banaliser. " -- 4e de couvJesus through Middle Eastern eyes: cultural studies in the gospels
Par Kenneth E Bailey. 2020
Kenneth E. Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus's relationship…
to women, and especially Jesus's parables. Through it all, Bailey employs his trademark expertise as a master of Middle Eastern culture to lead listeners into a deeper understanding of the person and significance of Jesus within his own cultural context. With a sure but gentle hand, Bailey lifts away the obscuring layers of modern Western interpretation to reveal Jesus in the light of his actual historical and cultural setting. This entirely new material from the pen of Ken Bailey is a must-have for any student of the New Testament. If you have benefited from Bailey's work over the years, this book will be a welcome and indispensable addition to your library. If you are unfamiliar with Bailey's work, this book will introduce you to a very old yet entirely new way of understanding JesusLa nuit nous a surpris: récit (Récits et témoignages)
Par Kien Nguyen. 2001
Le destin d'un enfant amérasien exposé à la violence de la communauté vietnamienne à cause de ses cheveux blonds et…
ses yeux clairs et qui assiste à l'arrivée des communistes dans Saigon le 30 avril 1975 et au départ de l'armée américaine.The world turned upside down: A history of the chinese cultural revolution
Par Yang Jisheng. 2021
As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the…
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union's "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation's economy. Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Tombstone, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today. The World Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and Mao-style cult of personalityThis Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves
Par Madhur Anand. 2020
“Wondrously and elegantly written in language that astonishes and moves the reader…This is an important book: an emotional and intellectual…
tour de force.” —Jane Urquhart An experimental memoir about Partition, immigration, and generational storytelling, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart weaves together the poetry of memory with the science of embodied trauma, using the imagined voices of the past and the vital authority of the present. We begin with a man off balance: one in one thousand, the only child in town whose polio leads to partial paralysis. We meet his future wife, chanting Hai Rams for Gandhiji and choosing education over marriage. On one side of the line that divides this book, we follow them as their homeland splits in two and they are drawn together, moving to Canada and raising their children in mining towns and in crowded city apartments. And when we turn the book over, we find the daughter's tale—we see how the rupture of Partition, the asymmetry of a father's leg, the virus of a mother's rage, makes its way to the next generation. Told through the lenses of biology, physics, history and poetry, this is a memoir that defies form and convention to immerse the reader in the feeling of what remains when we've heard as much of the truth as our families will allow, and we're left to search for ourselves among the pieces they've carried with them.Where great powers meet: America and china in southeast asia
Par David Shambaugh. 2021
The United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. While this competition ranges across…
the entire world, it is centered in Asia. In this book, David Shambaugh focuses on the critical sub-region of Southeast Asia. The United States and China constantly vie for position and influence across this enormously significant area-and the outcome of this contest will do much to determine whether Asia leaves the American orbit after seven decades and falls into a new Chinese sphere of influence. Just as importantly, to the extent that there is a global "power transition" occurring from the US to China, the fate of Southeast Asia will be a good indicator. Presently, both powers bring important assets to bear in their competition. The United States continues to possess a depth and breadth of security ties, soft power, and direct investment across the region that empirically outweigh China's. For its part, China has more diplomatic influence, much greater trade, and geographic proximity. In assessing the likelihood of a regional power transition, Shambaugh examines how ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and its member states maneuver and the degree to which they align with one or the other powerBlood washing blood: Afghanistan's hundred-year war
Par Phil Halton. 2021
A clear-eyed view of the conflict in Afghanistan and its century-deep roots. The war in Afghanistan has consumed vast amounts…
of blood and treasure, causing the Western powers to seek an exit without achieving victory. Seemingly never-ending, the conflict has become synonymous with a number of issues-global jihad, rampant tribalism, and the narcotics trade-but even though they are cited as the causes of the conflict, they are in fact symptoms. Rather than beginning after 9/11 or with the Soviet "invasion" in 1979, the current conflict in Afghanistan began with the social reforms imposed by Amanullah Amir in 1919. Western powers have failed to recognize that legitimate grievances are driving the local population to turn to insurgency in Afghanistan. The issues they are willing to fight for have deep roots, forming a hundred-year-long social conflict over questions of secularism, modernity, and centralized power. The first step toward achieving a "solution" to the Afghanistan "problem" is to have a clear-eyed view of what is really driving itTombstone: The great chinese famine, 1958-1962
Par Yang Jisheng. 2021
The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great Famine An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death…
during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster." As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent twenty years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation, including the death of his own father. Finding no natural causes, Yang attributes responsibility for the deaths to China's totalitarian system and the refusal of officials at every level to value human life over ideology and self-interest. Tombstone is a testament to inhumanity and occasional heroism that pits collective memory against the historical amnesia imposed by those in powerWhen We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family's Forgotten History
Par Massoud Hayoun. 2020
The stunning debut of a brilliant nonfiction writer whose vivid account of his grandparents' lives in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and…
Los Angeles reclaims his family’s Jewish Arab identity There was a time when being an "Arab" didn't mean you were necessarily Muslim. It was a time when Oscar Hayoun, a Jewish Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit, long before he and his father arrived at the port of Haifa to join the Zionist state only to find themselves hosed down with DDT and then left unemployed on the margins of society. In that time, Arabness was a mark of cosmopolitanism, of intellectualism. Today, in the age of the Likud and ISIS, Oscar's son, the Jewish Arab journalist Massoud Hayoun whom Oscar raised in Los Angeles, finds his voice by telling his family's story. To reclaim a worldly, nuanced Arab identity is, for Hayoun, part of the larger project to recall a time before ethnic identity was mangled for political ends. It is also a journey deep into a lost age of sophisticated innocence in the Arab world; an age that is now nearly lost. When We Were Arabs showcases the gorgeous prose of the Eppy Award-winning writer Massoud Hayoun, bringing the worlds of his grandparents alive, vividly shattering our contemporary understanding of what makes an Arab, what makes a Jew, and how we draw the lines over which we do battle.