A Compassionate Spy (2022) is a documentary on Soviet spy Theodore Hall (1925-99), and his unrepentant wife. Compassionate isn’t a right word for Hall. Born…
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A Compassionate Spy (2022) is a documentary on Soviet spy Theodore Hall (1925-99), and his unrepentant wife. Compassionate isn’t a right word for Hall. Born…
Our book club discusses two books today: The Rent Collector (2013, by Camron Wright: 13,8k) was September read but got cancelled due to covid. The…
An interview of him by All-In Summit podcast, 2025.10.08 A little odd that Mr. Tsai seems to be taking the China side, saying “you’ve …”…
歐亞裔族群在香港走過的日子, 2024.09, Andrew Tse & Prof. Joseph Ting Topic is “The story about The Eurasians of Old Hong Kong”. The presentation is at New Asia…
Everyone has their childhood heroes, super or ordinary. The Americans are likely with comic book characters, such as FF The Fantastic Four. I’ve (or my…
A new movie, Dead to Rights 南京照相馆, about Rape of Nanjing (1938-9). 老梁 Lao Liang on youtube tells the story how the pix were smuggled…
Saw the same cushion in a Chinese tv series, Ode to Joy 欢乐颂3 (2016), on the bed of 何悯鸿 (played by 张慧雯 1993): guess Ikea…
Is trustpilot.com site real? My review of GetOpenLaw on its site has been consistently removed. In my initial post, I mentioned OpenLaw’s two staff who contacted me…
We went to see the movie The Fantastic Four: First Steps. FF was a superhero comit book published by Marvel Comics, starting in November 1961,…
Recently, there are couple of good movies in China: The Stage (戏台 Xi Tai, 2025) comedy-drama 长安的荔枝 (2025) 长安的荔枝 (2025), 可谓给盛唐之亡出具了一份法医报告. 拍得比杜牧的过华清宫 (yt) 深刻. #电影长安的荔枝…