Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews "Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent" by Jason M Kelly @Harvard_Press@HarvardUPLondon https://t.co/zye7Tyhbnv
My take on new translation of classic Hong Kong novel "The Drunkard" by Liu Yichang. This book and Liu’s “Intersection” inspired Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 and In the Mood for Love https://t.co/KsYKGayus4 via @BookReviewsAsia
Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews "Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization" by Peter E Hamilton @ColumbiaUP https://t.co/mzOKczlsn7
My take on "Crime, Justice & Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong" by May Holdsworth & Christopher Munn https://t.co/OxOUugVLNX via @BookReviewsAsia
Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews "Seven Years of Darkness", the new pyschological thriller by Jeong You-jeong, in #translation from Korean by Chi-Young Kim (@LittleBrownUK@penguinrandom) https://t.co/LEFtiU154r
"All history begins in the present." My review of "China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816-1980" by Robert Bickers, https://t.co/TWIKEq3GGZ via @BookReviewsAsia#hongkong
Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816-1980" by Robert Bickers (@BloomsburyBooks@BloomsburyBiz) https://t.co/D56AJZTvvB
Here's my review of "The Honjin Murders," by Seishi Yokomizo, a locked-room mystery classic set in 1930s Japan. Serialized in Japan in 1946, the book has just been published in English for the first time https://t.co/bNQ2ZaLTxr via @BookReviewsAsia
Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews "The Honjin Murders" by Seishi Yokomizo (@PushkinPress): classic Japanese crime fiction from 1946, finally available in English for the first time https://t.co/5jVqgZlpmC
Here’s my review of Frank Dikötter’s latest, the timely "How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century"
https://t.co/SzS89jbfSM via @BookReviewsAsia
"'How to Be a Dictator' is serious yet optimistic book, to the extent that a work of history can be optimistic. 'Vigilance,' notes Dikötter, '… is not the same as gloom.'" https://t.co/s3odZbeQ5e
Today in the ARB: Tim Sifert reviews "How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century" by Frank Dikötter https://t.co/s3odZbeQ5e