Providing the best surviving evidence of the everyday thinking of the Sung upper class, Yuan Ts'ai's twelfth-century manual is the advice of a typical educated man on the concerns of managing a family, from rearing children and arranging their marriages, to avoiding social confl…
"In the booming economies of today's Asia only 100 elite individuals and families qualify for Asia's Wealth Club, where the entrance fee is a minimum net worth of $1 billion. Between them, they have a total net worth of around $300 billion and control businesses with annual reve…
"In the booming economies of today's Asia only 100 elite individuals and families qualify for Asia's Wealth Club, where the entrance fee is a minimum net worth of $1 billion. Between them, they have a total net worth of around $300 billion and control businesses with annual reve…
"In the booming economies of today's Asia only 100 elite individuals and families qualify for Asia's Wealth Club, where the entrance fee is a minimum net worth of $1 billion. Between them, they have a total net worth of around $300 billion and control businesses with annual reve…
"In the booming economies of today's Asia only 100 elite individuals and families qualify for Asia's Wealth Club, where the entrance fee is a minimum net worth of $1 billion. Between them, they have a total net worth of around $300 billion and control businesses with annual reve…
Dona Barbara tells the tale of an epic struggle between two cousins for a cast estate and ranch in the Venezuelan llano, or prairie ... Published in 1929 and all but forgotten by Anglophone readers, Dona Barbara is one of the first examples of magical realism, laying the groundw…
Dona Barbara tells the tale of an epic struggle between two cousins for a cast estate and ranch in the Venezuelan llano, or prairie ... Published in 1929 and all but forgotten by Anglophone readers, Dona Barbara is one of the first examples of magical realism, laying the groundw…
Rómulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela's first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela's literary treasures, the novel Doña Barbara. Published in 1929 and all but forgotten by Anglophon…
Rómulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela's first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela's literary treasures, the novel Doña Barbara. Published in 1929 and all but forgotten by Anglophon…