Book Review: The Incarnations by Susan Barker
How many lifetimes does it take for two souls to truly bond? Susan Barker’s remarkable book The Incarnations is a time-bending fantasy with an unknown (and possible unreliable) narrator sweeping us...
View ArticleFrom the Ruins of Empire…arise the nation-state
Empires want to be respected. Nation-states need to be loved. It's a simple formula, and one that I share with author and historian of empire Pankaj Mishra.
View Article“Out of Autocracy, Off the Shelves”
New post by me on the LA Review of Books excellent China blog on the historian Qin Hui and his (now banned in the PRC) book Out of Autocracy 走出帝制. Out of Autocracy, Off the Shelves In recent years,...
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Book Review: The Mercenary Mandarin
David Leffman. The Mercenary Mandarin: How a British adventurer became a general in Qing-dynasty China. (Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2016) If you could choose an Old China Hand life to live (or even...
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Book Review: Fred Barton and the Warlords’ Horses of China
Larry Weirather. Fred Barton and the Warlords’ Horses of China: How an American Cowboy Brought the Old West to the Far East. (McFarland, 2015) The early decades of twentieth-century China provide an...
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