Frank Dikötter is an iconoclast historian who immerses himself in the primary sources more thoroughly than any other Western scholar of 20th-century China. Renowned in his field as a contrarian, he ...

Copies of "My Book" sold each year by Shinchosha are pictured at the publishing firm in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Jan. 16, 2026. (Mainichi/Richi Tanaka) TOKYO -- A plain white paperback featuring only ...

In the future, the human race has been divided into 14 different color castes that determine every individual's role and placement in the hierarchical structure of society. This underlying idea is at ...

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