The last of my first stack of books for 2012, and one that has been on my list for a …
December 30, 2011 – 6:49 pm
Reading: Joan Slonszewski – Brain Plague
I’ve already finished it. Joan Slonczewski I discovered through Charles Stross, when she guest-blogged there, and her The Highest Frontier was my …
November 27, 2011 – 11:50 am
Reading: Gail Hershatter — The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past
This is the book I was so intimidated by I went off and read Charles Stross and Harry Potter for …
November 7, 2011 – 12:12 pm
Was it something I said? (or, supernaut blocked in China)
I noticed a few weeks ago that traffic from China was low — single digits low instead of being in …
September 26, 2011 – 9:46 am
Reading: Rodric Braithwaite – Afghansty: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89
This year I’ve been attempting to fill in an embarrassing omission in my Central Asian studies. Mainly because my interest …
September 24, 2011 – 11:49 am
Reading: Liao Yiwu – God is Red
It was only in July this year, Liao Yiwu paid himself into the hands of smugglers on the border of …
April 6, 2011 – 4:29 pm
reading: vera schwarcz – the chinese enlightenment: intellectuals and the legacy of the may fourth movement of 1919
vera schwarcz – the chinese enlightenment
December 24, 2010 – 11:33 am
Reading: Frank Dikötter – Mao’s Great Famine
frank dikötter – mao’s great famine
November 27, 2010 – 11:40 am
Reading: Edward Allworth (ed.) – Central Asia – 120 Years of Russian Rule
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October 9, 2010 – 3:31 am
Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波
Congratulations to Liu Xiaobo for being awarded the Nobel Peace prize. I’ve been keeping up with my reading on this …
June 18, 2010 – 4:06 pm
reading: frank dikotter – the age of openness: china before mao
frank dikotter – the age of openness: china before mao
January 10, 2010 – 5:28 am
Reading: Feng Jicai – Voices from the Whirlwind
feng jicai – voices from the whirlwind
January 7, 2010 – 10:30 am
Reading: Iris Chang – The Rape of Nanking
iris chang – the rape of nanking
October 20, 2008 – 3:34 am
lustgarten und der palast der republic
It was an assignment for German class, to wander from the Goethe Institut to Hackescher Markt and then across the …
May 28, 2005 – 8:07 pm
mao the destroyer
There is always something despicable about tourists who collect Mao memorabilia or wear Great Helmsman badges. For me it is …
August 24, 2004 – 11:02 pm
cultural revisionism
In a piece of historical revisionism that marks Revolutionary Worker as the inbred cousin of David Irving, the ‘magazine’ offers …