I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of read more

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

The long historian of my country's woes.

The long historian of my country's woes.

Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: read more

Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as read more

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.

History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.