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.... $850; 8 Place du Grand-Mézel, 1204 Geneva (+4122-310 2156; tactile.ch) And the best one I’ve received recently is a new strap for my Patek Philippe Calatrava watch....
...Facing the sofa, on the other wall, is a letter box from China, featuring images from communist-era productions and a young Mao Zedong....
...The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–76, by Frank Dikötter, Bloomsbury, RRP£25 / RRP$30 The Samuel Johnson Prize-winning historian concludes the trilogy that began with Mao’s Great Famine....
...His account of the convulsions in the decade up to Mao’s death in 1976 is fluent, compelling and based on a wide range of evidence....
...The economist Philippe Legrain has calculated that by 2010 China exported as much in six hours as it had in the whole of 1978....
...Xing Xing, with Philippe Caubère’s artistic collaboration, fuses beaming warmth and flashes of crumpled sadness with deft and funny character portrayals....
...When Mao Zedong declared on October 1 1949 that henceforth China would adopt the Gregorian calendar, world timer wristwatches at last had a secure future....
...Two members of that side, the captain Philippe Senderos and Tranquillo Barnetta, now help carry Kuhn’s team....
...Never mind history; that was Mao, this is a more recent then....
...Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them By Philippe Legrain Little, Brown £12.99, 374 pages FT bookshop price: £10.39 The provocative and radical case, based on hard economics, for high levels of immigration...
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