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The Settlers-‘China’s Second Continent,’ by Howard W. French

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By ALEXIS OKEOWOJULY 10, 2014

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At an oil-drilling site in Sudan in 2008, a Chinese employee teaches Sudanese workers to read Chinese characters for “Hello China, we are friends.” Credit Hu Qingming/Imaginechina, via Corbis Continue reading →

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A PRISONER’S READING LIST

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JULY 8, 2014
POSTED BY ALEX HALBERSTADT

I met Daniel Genis at a bookstore. It was March, and I was there to speak on a panel about Sergei Dovlatov, the comic novelist of late Soviet decay, and Genis came up to Continue reading →

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Are Categories Like Immigrant Fiction and ‘New American’ Fiction Valid or Worthwhile?

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By PANKAJ MISHRA and FRANCINE PROSE  JULY 1, 2014

Each week in Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books. This week, Pankaj Mishra and Francine Prose discuss whether categories like immigrant fiction are useful or meaningful labels.

By Pankaj Mishra

Many of the writers who have revitalized American literature in recent years neither disown nor reclaim the past.

“I am an American, Chicago born,” Augie March declares in Saul Bellow’s 1953 novel, “and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way.” “The Adventures of Augie March” Continue reading →

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The State of the Union’s Books

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By JOHN WILLIAMS JULY 3, 2014

Credit Joon Mo Kang

With patriotism and fireworks in the air this weekend, the Book Review turns its attention to American life and thought, looking at new books by or about Hillary Clinton, Franklin Delano Roose­velt and the Supreme Court, among other subjects.

We’re part of a long tradition: On Dec. 2, 1885, The Times’s notice of the Continue reading →

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The Fateful Deception Behind a Century-Long Grudge Match

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How China’s bitter disappointment at the Paris Peace Conference sparked the outrage that would lead to the country’s long revolution—and the grudges that persist today.

Published on June 22, 2014

Betrayal in Paris: How the Treaty of Versailles Led to China’s Long Revolution

by Paul French

e-Penguin, 2014, 81 pp., $3.38

On November 18th, 1918 Peking was given over to riotous celebration. Continue reading →

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Book Review: “The Chinese Labour Corps”

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4 June 2014

In Western spheres of influence, WWI is also known as The Great War for Civilization, but it’s unlikely that the Chinese men recruited to supplement the French, British and American war efforts would have viewed it as such. Continue reading →

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The Chinese Labour Corps: The Forgotten Chinese Labourers of the First World War by Mark O’Neill

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reviewed by Juan José Morales

15 June 2014 — The 100th anniversary of the First World War has prompted the publication of books that continue to shed light on the conflict, Continue reading →

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Striving for Wealth and Truth in China, in Face of Monolithic Government-‘Age of Ambition’ and ‘Leftover Women’ Gauge Social Upheaval

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MAY 25, 2014

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Evan Osnos writes of the imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo, whose picture is being carried by Chinese protesters. Credit Tyrone Siu/Reuters

Books of The Times
By JUDITH SHAPIRO

Evan Osnos appears to be almost as entrepreneurial, intrepid and Continue reading →

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