Category Archives: Books

China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know—The Second Edition

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

Back in the fall of 2011, Jeff Wasserstrom (with whom I’ve co-written several articles, and who’s also my dissertation advisor) asked me if I’d like to be a contributing author on the second edition of a book he’d published in … Continue reading →

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January Recap

Posted on February 2, 2013 by

At the end of every year, journalist and photographer Howard French posts a list at his website of all the books he read during the preceding twelve months. I decided I wanted to start doing that in 2013, but the … Continue reading →

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The House of Bo Will Rise Again (Maybe)

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

Yesterday marked exactly ten months since Bo Xilai’s spectacular fall from grace on the Ides of March last year. His eventual fate is still unclear, though last week the Xinhua News Agency issued a terse announcement that Bo, the former … Continue reading →

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On Rereading Gatsby

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

For well over a decade, I’ve been listing F. Scott Fitzgerald as one of my favorite authors. I went through an intense Fitzgerald phase in high school, enthralled by his descriptions of flappers and bootleggers whooping it up during the … Continue reading →

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