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Oct
28
7:00 PM
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Greetings, Continuing our tour of India, the selection for October - by popular choice - is Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Metha. The meetup will be a 7pm on Oct 28th. Hope to see you there! Joe
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Sep
9
7:00 PM
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15 attended (est.) –
5.002
For our next meeting, the book selection is: A Concise History of Modern India, by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, 2nd edition, Oct. 1996, 372 pages About this Meetup Group Hope to see you there! cheers,
Joe
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Jun
24
7:00 PM
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This meetup we will discuss the first half of: India: The Definitive History by D. R. Sardesai. We will discuss the first half of the book: Chapters 1-10 (The Rise of the Maharathas and Sikhs), up to pg 209 Next meetup, on July 22nd, we will discuss the rest of the book. The location will be the same as usual, my apartment. I got an extension on my lease thru the end of June.
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May
13
7:00 PM
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11 attended (est.) –
4.004
The May meetup of the Asia Book Club will be on Wednesday May 13th at 7pm. The book for this meeting is: The White Tiger: A Novel by Aravind Adiga. It was actually a tie between White Tiger and India after Gandhi but I forgot to check the # of pages of the Gandhi book and when I saw it is 900+ (about 750 pages before the index) I decided to go with White Tiger. I'll include the massive Gandhi book in a future poll (I'm certainly up for it) but with length fully disclosed. The length of time prior to the meeting will be based on the length of the book, so if we do read it, we'll give ourselves as much as 8 weeks. By the way, Dien Bien Phu was an extremely close second so will also be included in future polls. Anyway, White Tiger is only 276 pgs so five weeks will be more than enough time. See you then,
cheers,
Joe Asia Book Club
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Apr
1
7:00 PM
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8 attended (est.) –
4.002
For the inaugural meeting of the Asia Book Club of NYC, the selection is Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang, translated from the Chinese by Karen S. Kingsbury I apologize for the fact that the meeting date is coming up quite soon - in three weeks actually - but I'm leaving on a business trip a few days afterward (to China actually!) and won't be back until the end of the month. I'm assuming the book is a pretty fast - and enjoyable - read. Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction—tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when Chang was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity, with an intense lyricism that echoes the classics of Chinese literature. Love in a Fallen City, the first collection in English of this dazzling body of work, introduces American readers to the stark and glamorous vision of a modern master. - New York Review of Books
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Feb
18
7:00 PM
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21 attended (est.) –
4.503
Our selection for the February meeting is:
Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power by John Steele Gordon
Look forward to seeing you there.
Joe
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Jan
14
7:00 PM
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20 attended (est.) –
4.505
Selection for this month is Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939, by Frederick L. Allen Kevin will be the moderator Happy Holidays everyone and see you in the New Year!
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Dec 08
3
2008
7:00 PM
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19 attended (est.) –
5.002
My apologies for the late notice. The selection for our December meeting is, The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857.
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Oct 08
22
2008
7:00 PM
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20 attended (est.) –
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Selection for October is: Nixon and Mao, The Week That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan The book is available in paperback on Amazon for $11.56. Remember (or be aware of, for any newcomers) to think about what book you would like to recommend to the group for the meeting following this one. At end of this, just as we do at end of every meeting, we will discuss and then vote on which book we'll read for the next meeting. Look forward to seeing you all there! Joe About this Meetup Group
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Sep 08
3
2008
7:00 PM
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19 attended (est.) –
5.004
Our selection for this meeting is Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's by Frederick L. Allen. The book is available in paperback on Amazon for $10.40. Remember (or be aware of, for any newcomers) to think about what book you would like to recommend to the group for the meeting following the Sept. 3rd one. At end of the Sept 3rd meetup, just as we do at end of every meeting, we will discuss and then vote on which book we'll read for the next meeting. Look forward to seeing you all there! Joe
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