The above author reportedly died on August 22, 2009.
A check of that date in this journal yields . . .
A passage from the “Assumption” link target above, with a title
suggested by the preceding “Making Mathematics” piece —
Making Money: The Communist Connection
“He and his fellow monks were cut off from the rest of the world
during the second Sino-Japanese War, which lasted from 1937 to
1945. When hostilities ended, the monastery relocated to the
provincial capital of Chengdu, where the monks opened the
Institute of Chinese and Western Cultural Studies with a library
that eventually had 10,000 volumes.
Chengdu, the last stronghold of the Nationalist Party, was overrun
by Mao’s army on Christmas Day 1949. The Communists closed the
institute, confiscated the books and forced Winance and the other
monks to attend indoctrination sessions on Marxism.”
Another article by Wieschenberg might, to some, actually be worth $49 —
