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Transplant from Beijing to DC, economist, keeping this scrapbook journal for my own musings and those of random passersby

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Book Cover for: The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China, Jonathan Kaufman

The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

Jonathan Kaufman
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@chinarhyming @GBLee Interesting. I have just started reading The Last Kings of Shanghai by Jonathan Kaufman. A friend highly recommended it. She suggested that once I finish the book, we meet up to talk about it at the rooftop bar of the Peninsula Hotel Shanghai. Sounds like a posh date.

Paperback, 2021

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, Ross King

Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

Ross King
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Brunelleschi’s Dome Why hadn’t I heard of Brunelleschi until now? What a Renaissance man: an architect, a sculptor, an engineering genius! -the book by Ross King #pupureads -the dome -herringbone pattern of the bricks -the castello (the crane) & the ox-hoist (demo by a horse) https://t.co/tAw5OqtoCY

Paperback, 2013

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