chongyboy27

In the 1920s, the Soviets provided support to organize urban workers in China’s wealthier coastal cities, but these efforts were violently crushed. Mao Zedong, by contrast, wanted to unite the...

When Europeans began arriving in East Asia in the sixteenth century, China and Japan at first dealt with the situation in similar ways. There was much confusion and resentment over European...

W. P. Kinsella's 1982 novel Shoeless Joe contains many allusions to the work of J. D. Salinger. The most obvious is that Shoeless Joe's main character, Ray Kinsella, kidnaps Salinger, who acts as...

Abraham Lincoln's primary concern was keeping the country together. Former slaves in New Orleans and the 1st South Carolina Volunteers (where Susan King Anthony worked as a nurse) were concerned...

Pearl S. Buck's 1931 novel The Good Earth has a tragic ending. The main character, Wang Lung, is nearing death and sees all he worked for his entire life evaporating before his eyes. His children...