Every family has dark page(s) in its history. In Family of spies, the author accidentally stumbled on her grandparents being devoted Nazis and spy on US Pacific Navy fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor for Japanese Empire before World War II. Well told story of 30+ years of uncovering family's painful history and the impact of dark history on her father, her aunt, her uncles and their respective families.
A memoir by an ABC. The author is born in San Francisco and grew up in Utah, his parents emigrated to USA from Taiwan as graduate students. One of his uncles on his mother side is Richard Chang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Rujing), a successful microchip entrepreneur who invested in mainland China's emerging chip manufacturing. And his maternal grandmother is a Ginling Woman College graduate in Republic China. One of his granduncle is Fang Zhen Zhi ( https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%96%B9%E6%AD%A3%E7%9F%A5/7818279), a scientist who played important role in mainland China's atomic bomb research.
His view of mainland China in early 21st century and his view on Taiwan in the same period provided a unique vantage point from a ABC perspective. His root tracking brought him to Jindezhen, Shanghai, Taipei, Jinan, Jiujiang, Lushan Nanjing, Beijing and Hong Kong, and along the journey we got a chance to see these places in the eyes of American born Chinese.
Only finished first chapter about 1521 Cortes conquest of Mexico City, then named Tenochtitlan from Mexica with aid from local tribes
An interesting book about history of rope with a lot of anecdotes, worth a weekend afternoon to flop through for some leisure fun.
The book is the best I have read in deciphering splinting of the globalization after Donald Trump's 2nd term. It analyzed why, how and what will come after the ending of hyper globalization and gave logic prediction what lies ahead in 20240 for the world
The country cannot have all three of the policies
"究竟什么是富养，每个人的理解却不同。 我觉得，让孩子拥有宽松的家庭环境，自由的成长空间，和善良正直，通情达理，情绪稳定的父母，才是最实实在在的富养。"
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