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Prisoners of Geography covers the geopolitical contexts and situations in several vital regions of the world. These include: Russia, China, the United States, Europe, the Arab World, South Asia (mainly focusing on the geopolitical anomalies of India and Pakistan), Africa, Japan and Korea, Latin America, and the Arctic Ocean (mainly to cover the geopolitics of the Arctic resources race).
978-1-78396-602-8. Preceded by. Prisoners of Geography. Website. Elliott & Thompson. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World is a book on geopolitics by the British author and journalist Tim Marshall. It was published by Elliott & Thompson in 2021 and is the sequel to his 2015 book Prisoners of Geography .
George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, whose wartime BBC career influenced his creation of Oceania. What is known of the society, politics and economics of Oceania, and its rivals, comes from the in-universe book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein, a literary device Orwell uses to connect the past and present of 1984. [1]
ISBN. 978-0-394-55548-5. Life and Death in Shanghai ( Chinese: 上海生死劫) is an autobiographical memoir published in November 1987 [1] by Chinese author Yao Nien-Yuan under the pen name Nien Cheng. Written while in exile in the United States, it tells the story of Cheng's arrest during the early days of the Cultural Revolution, her more ...
Number of inmates. Up to 1.8 million (2020 Zenz estimate) [2] 1 million – 3 million over a period of several years (2019 Schriver estimate) [3] [4] Plus ~497,000 minors in special boarding schools (2017 government document estimate) [5] Xinjiang internment camps. Uyghur name.
Marshall's book, Prisoners of Geography, [9] was released in the UK in July 2015 and in the U.S. in October 2015. [10] He continues to broadcast and comment on foreign affairs and is a regular guest on BBC, Sky News and on Monocle 24 Radio's 'Midori House'. [11] [12] Marshall with Robert Elms, BBC London 94.9, August 2014.
Zhelaizhai ( simplified Chinese: 者来寨; traditional Chinese: 者來寨; pinyin: Zhěláizhài) is a village on the edge of the Gobi desert in Gansu province, China. The area was renamed after Liqian, an ancient county, [ 1] and is located in Jiaojiazhuang township, [ 2] Yongchang County. Some of the modern-day residents of Zhelaizhai, now ...
Baigongguan (zh:白公馆) and Zhazidong (zh:渣滓洞) were Chinese concentration camps that opened in 1943 and were used by the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACO) to gather intelligence about the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War. [1] [2] The camps were located in southwest China, in the ...