Month: January 2017

About Issa, Japanese Haiku Poet

About Issa, Japanese Haiku Poet “He was born in the little village of Kashiwabara in the mountains of Japan’s Shinano Province on the fifth day of Fifth Month, 1763: June 15 on the Western calendar. He died in the same village on the 19th of Eleventh Month in the old Japanese calendar year that corresponds…

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Behind the ‘Modern’ China

Behind the ‘Modern’ China Robert Kagan | March 23, 2008 | The Washington Post Summary:  China can go for great stretches these days looking like the model of a postmodern, 21st-century power. But occasionally the mask slips, and the other side of China is revealed. The question for observers of Chinese foreign policy is whether…

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