Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Having won a major victory in California, Kennedy addressed his supporters in the hotel ballroom shortly past midnight. As he walked passed a kitchen passageway as a shortcut to reach a press conference room, he was shot and sent to hospital. He died nearly...

Reflections of a Female Bibliophile

15 July, 2011

‘To be or not to be, that is the question.’ A single spotlight, and a pitch-dark stage -- a lost wanderer, merely a foolish player. But where is the dawn of my everlasting darkness? 

I seek no revenge, readers*. Nay, neither sympathies.

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By April Xiaoyi Xu © 2014

High above us rests the night sky - tranquil, subtle, and inscrutable. Powerfully, the scene arouses wonder and awe, which invoke a sense of morality and religion in me. Coincidental? Destined? Whether the high power resides there, I do not know. Neither does this bottle of wine, which sits in front of me. A sense of surrealism encompassed us.

At the age of ninety, ...

Often metaphorized as a dragon, China has providing me with food and shelter for the past 17 years. The fact that the country is a rising dragon that has woken up from a humiliated slumber might be perceived as relevant, sin...