Year of China
Ha Jin’s recovered memory of Americans in China
Ha Jin’s darkest fear about China is that the control-freak regime he fled 25 years ago has enough cash on hand to buy a lease on life — in Washington and the West, at the expense of its people. The “myth” of an imperial rivalry with the US seems laughable to him…
Leslie Chang: “The Dickens of China today is doing real estate.”
Leslie Chang says the great epic of China's transformation is untold. "The Charles Dickens of China today is doing real estate."
Amitav Ghosh and his addictive empire trilogy
Amitav Ghosh is the epic novelist of empire and addiction. His version of Britain's Opium Wars suggest also the US's Oil Wars.
Peter Hessler’s New China: Is this any way to live?
Peter Hessler's patient grazing in China for the New Yorker magazine makes you wonder if such rapid growth is good for people.
