In a startlingly vivid, strangely objective, personal narrative, Ma Bo, who was denounced as an ‘active counterrevolutionary’ in 1968, opens a window on the Chinese psyche that no work of history can provide, telling a passionate tale of a humanity that survives against all odds–a tale of ideology and disillusionment that will speak to all readers..
Category: Asia
A History of India Volume 1
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
Gate of Heavenly Peace : The Chinese and Their Revolution
The Death of Woman Wang
Speed Tribes
Journalist Greenfeld exposes elements of Japanese culture that most Westerners never knew existed–the gangsters who control Japan’s drug trade, a lucrative porn industry, and more. Greenfeld uncovers a Japan out of kilter with the orderly society of popular conception, and teaches how Japan’s once miraculous economy has given rise to a predatory subculture..
The Soong Dynasty
Descendants of a Chinese runaway who grew to in America under the protection of the Methodist church and who returned to his homeland to make a fortune selling Western Bibles, the Soong family became the principal rulers of China during the first half of the 20th century and won the support of the American government and press for many decades..