by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Nov 7, 2014 | Monitor
A Review Article By Patricia Lee SharpePrisms turn a beam of colorless light into a full color spectrum. Sunshine in. Red/orange/yellow/green/blue/violet out. A rain- bow! No one who learns to do this in junior high science forgets the magic of it. Well, hardly...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Sep 29, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Not long after arriving in Bangkok in 1973 I heard the story of Jim Thompson’s strange disappearance in Malaysia’s Cameron Highlands Easter Sunday 1967. This was the tragic tale of a prominent American businessman and former OSS officer who had...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 2, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Also see two companion pieces: http://whirledview.typepad.com/whirledview/2014/05/ kanishka-in-kashgar-a-report-from-the-fringes-of-the-chinese-empire.html and...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 2, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe April 30: News flash! Three dead, dozens injured, outside a RR station in Urumqi, capital of China’s “autonomous” Xinjiang region. Ok, who did it? Muslim extremists? Uighur separatists? Muslim extremists who happen to be Uighurs? Uighur...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jan 13, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Hugh White’s 180-page book The China Choice: Why We Should Share Power has an important point to make, but terseness is not always a virtue. Primers can be as off-putting as tomes, and this primer is more like a plumped up outline or a script...