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...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...The “Holocaust” wasn’t even a word used about the slaughter....
...On this criterion alone, almost any Tuscan hill town, perhaps Venice, perhaps Paris, would come out on top, yet none of these are there....
...Inside Central Asia By Dilip Hiro Overlook Duckworth, £25 For those who still get their “-stans” mixed up, Hiro’s book provides a detailed and nuanced overview of the region of central Asia....
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