It took a while to arrive … I’m not even sure now what prompted me to decide I wanted to read this, given it was published in 2009, and I tend to be on a “Want now! Why must I … Continue reading
Unlike Iain Banks, Janet Chen’s Guilty of Indigence — The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953, has more in common with Gail Hershatter’s The Gender of Memory, and shall not be inhaled in a 24 hour period. It’s possible, but I suspect … Continue reading
The last of my current batch of reading … more soon to be procured. It’s a little gluttonous, no? Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes arrived shortly after I finished The Bloody White Baron, and it had been a book I’d heard about … Continue reading
In early 2008, before I moved to Berlin, I had a book-buying spree, and a couple of those books I didn’t finish before it was time to pack them all into boxes and off to storage, where they would remain … Continue reading
Vera Schwarcz — The Chinese Enlightenment
Congratulations to Liu Xiaobo for being awarded the Nobel Peace prize. I’ve been keeping up with my reading on this and him on Twitter @francesdath. Here are some of the pieces from the last day or so. Also #liuxiaobo #Nobel. … Continue reading
feng jicai – voices from the whirlwind
zhao ziyang – prisoner of the state