THE SOONG DYNASTY by Sterling Seagrave Harper & Row; 532 pages; $22.50 All unhappy families may be dissimilar, but the Soongs were more dissimilar than others. “Revolutionary,” “Concubine,” ...

"Too much mystery surrounds the Forbidden City for us to write of its inmates with assured authority. Even when the facts are known, there are two or three versions, each giving a different rendering ...

Planning a trip to Beijing several months ago, my sister asked me what she should see. The Forbidden City and Great Wall of China came to mind, of course. But then I remembered my favorite place in ...

In The Yamato Dynasty, Sterling Seagrave, who divulged the secrets of Mao Tse-tung and the ruthlessness of Chiang Kai-shek in the New York Times bestseller The Soong Dynasty, and his wife and longtime ...

The CIA used billions of dollars worth of gold unearthed from hidden Japanese World War II tunnels in the Philippines to run a secret political fund to fight the Soviet Union during the Cold War, ...

The standing Buddha triad from Eastern Wei Dynasty (534-550) is labeled as "important cultural property" in Tokyo National Museum. [File photo] The Tokyo National Museum in Japan is exhibiting some 10 ...

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I would have wanted to move on, but my column last week—Who Remembers the Marcos Years?—has elicited surprising and odd comments. The mention particularly of the books of Sterling Seagrave (The Marcos ...

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THE Marcoses never really left because they kept their local political bases in Ilocos Norte intact. The story of Ferdinand Marcos (FM) can never be completely told without going into some length on ...