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Category Archives: Book Reviews
Tienchi Martin-Liao: Brave Man, Gao Zhisheng, Stands Up Against Chinese State Power
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Nathan Albright: China’s Quest For Great Power: Ships, Oil, and Foreign Policy
By Bernard D. Cole, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD (2016)
China’s Quest for Great Power, the latest from Bernard D. Cole, is a combination of a high degree of knowledge about Chinese military and political strategy with some implicit recommendations for how the United States can deal with China’s ambitions. As Dr. Cole is a well-regarded scholar in Chinese naval affairs this volume could only come from someone with a high degree of familiarity with the published statements and papers of the PRC, as well as a high degree of insight and understanding into Chinese history and China’s contemporary situation with regards to internal and external factors. As a somewhat heavy policy brief, the book manages to be deeply insightful without being heavy-handed in its advice and recommendations. Rather than pursuing the goal of dealing successfully with regards to China in a ham-handed fashion, the author decided to lay China’s cards on the table as skillfully as possible and include some reasonable guesses where evidence is lacking. This allows the reader to come to their own conclusions about what can and should be done about China’s behavior. Continue reading
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Western economists and China’s rise
Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China. By Julian Gewirtz. Harvard University Press; 389 pages; $39.95. To be published in Britain on January 31st. Continue reading
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SIMON WINCHESTER: Gathering Storm: A History of the Complicated U.S.-China Relationship Since 1776
Former President Ulysses S. Grant meets with China’s Viceroy Li Hongzhang, 1879. Credit Library of Congress
THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY AND THE MIDDLE KINGDOM
America and China, 1776 to the Present
By John Pomfret
Illustrated. 693 pp. Henry Holt & Company. $40. Continue reading
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Kerry Brown: Centrifugal Empire: Central Local Relations in China by Jae Ho Chung
The dynamics between the central administration in imperial Chinese dynasties and local levels of administration since the first unification under the short lived Qin in 220 BCE and the ways in which the shadow of these persist to this day is an enormous subject. It is curious, as Jae Ho Chung points out in the preamble to this short but intense and highly rewarding monograph, why so little attention has been paid to this subject. Continue reading
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Kristina Moriconi: The Problem with Me: And Other Essays about Making Trouble in China Today
This provocative collection from “China’s Troublemaker” falls short on wit and excels at arrogance.
In the translators’ introduction to Han Han’s collection of essays, The Problem with Me, we come to know this young, influential writer is speaking for “a new generation of troublemakers and dissidents, young people [in China] unhappy with the status quo.” And “central to enjoying Han Han’s writing is his sense of humor.” Continue reading
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Te-Ping Chen: Writing China: Madeleine Thien, ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing’
Madeleine Thien Photo: Babak Salari
In Ms. Thien’s novel, multiple generations are linked by an at-times taboo love for Western music
Even during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, China maintained a symphony orchestra at the behest of Mao’s wife. It’s one of the surprising artifacts of history unearthed in Madeleine Thien’s latest novel, “Do Not Say We Have Nothing,” a rich, sprawling tale centered on tragedies that unfold at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music amid the brutal struggles of that era. Continue reading
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Matthew Tiffany: Ha Jin’s latest spy novel explores U.S.-China intrigue and misses the boat
Author Ha Jin’s latest novel, “The Boat Rocker,” follows an expatriate journalist who becomes embroiled in intrigue as he investigates a most unusual novel. Steven Senne The Associated Press. Continue reading
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