The Meng Wenzhou Signification

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It seems strange to see a sea of people crowding in an airport, waving the national flag, and waiting for just another not-so-special civilian coming back to China after prolong legal trouble overseas. It did not even happen for Sergent Bergdahl; the Talian captured U.S. soldier released after five years; whether he worth it or not, that’s another story.

To understand the Chinese reaction to the release of Meng, you have to go back 200 years and learn what the Chinese have gone through during this period of time.

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Percepolis by Marjane Satrapi

A comic book might not deserve a review. It is usually lacking literary value and is just written for teenager. But this one is different. It was written, yes, I prefer to describe it as written instead of drawn, because it is a literary piece of art instead of a comic book. An Iranian writer wrote the book, and the story follows the life of a 10-year-old girl in Iran in 1980 all through her life until she becomes a grown woman. Now, we should pretty much guess how the plot goes.

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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov was the luckiest man in all of Russia according to the omniscient narrator in A Gentleman in Moscow. Considering the whole Czars Romanov family was locked up and later murdered by the Bolshevik, Count Rostov was really having the best time living in the most elegant hotel in Europe during the worst time in Russia for being an aristocrat, even against his will.

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