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Seeck, Max
Max Seeck is a Finnish novelist and film producer. He lives in Esbo with his wife and two children. Seeck holds an MBA degree in economics and has studied in Tallinn and Zürich. During his academic years he founded a marketing company with some fellow students. He left his position av CEO in 2020, to become a full-time novelist. As a matter of curiosity, he is also a part-owner of the Helsinki ...
Robert van Gulik with wife Shui Shih-fang 1946
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Gulik, Robert van
Robert Hans van Gulik was born in Zutphen, the Netherlands, and grew up in Batavia (now Jakarta) in the former Dutch East Indies, where his father served as a medical officer in the Dutch Army. Van Gulik’s father collected Chinese porcelain and passed his interest on to his son who taught himself Mandarin. Robert van Gulik was fascinated by Chinese history and culture, and he became an authority o...
