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Tiger Trap: America’s Secret Spy War with China by David Wise

On June 25, 2011, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

Wise (Spy) leads readers into the “the wilderness of mirrors that is counterintelligence” for this history of Chinese espionage against the U.S. He reveals how Chinese intelligence has used ethnic Chinese in the U.S. to penetrate American counterintelligence and steal American nuclear weapons data.

Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth by Hilary Spurling

On June 24, 2011, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

Pearl S. Buck’s 1931 blockbuster The Good Earth earned her a Pulitzer Prize and, eventually, the first Nobel Prize for Literature ever awarded to an American woman. These days, however, it’s her life story rather than her novels (which are now barely read in the West or in China) that fascinate readers. In making the case for reappraising Buck’s fiction and her life, award-winning biographer Hilary Spurling transforms Buck from a dreary “lady author” into a female warrior.

Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl

On June 16, 2011, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

Historically, eras in which there have been an excess of men have produced periods of violent conflict and instability. Mara Hvistendahl has written a stunning, impeccably-researched book that does not flinch from examining not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies of sex selection but Western complicity with them.

A New Marketing Strategy: Chinese Seduction

On May 31, 2011, in Marketing, by Editor

If you are in the business of… well, it doesn’t matter what business you run… you will eventually receive e-mails from Chinese companies offering their service. My business has absolutely no connection to, for instance, plastic molding, but it appears that our business e-mail is being distributed successfully.

Dreams of Joy: A Novel by Lisa See

On May 15, 2011, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

In her beloved New York Times bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and, most recently, Shanghai Girls, Lisa See has brilliantly illuminated the potent bonds of mother love, romantic love, and love of country. Now, in her most powerful novel yet, she returns to these timeless themes, continuing the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy.

On China – A Historical Report by Henry Kissinger

On May 10, 2011, in Book Reviews, by Editor

In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as his conversations with Chinese leaders over the past forty years, Kissinger examines how China has approached diplomacy, strategy, and negotiation throughout its history, and reflects on the consequences for the global balance of power in the 21st century.

When We Were Orphans: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

On May 6, 2011, in Book Reviews, by Editor

In When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro uses the conventions of crime fiction to create a moving portrait of a troubled mind, and of a man who cannot escape the long shadows cast by childhood trauma. Sherlock Holmes needed only fragments–a muddy shoe, cigarette ash on a sleeve–to make his deductions, but all Christopher has are fading recollections of long-ago events, and for him the truth is much harder to grasp. Ishiguro writes in the first person, but from the beginning there are cracks in Christopher’s carefully restrained prose, suggestions that his version of the world may not be the most reliable. Faced with such a narrator, the reader is forced to become a detective too, chasing crumbs of truth through the labyrinth of Christopher’s memory.

Satori by Don Winslow – An Authorized Prequel To Trevanian’s ‘Shibumi’

On April 28, 2011, in Book Reviews, by Editor

In his 1979 international best-seller, Shibumi, acclaimed author Trevanian introduced readers to handsome mystic and ingenious assassin Nicholai Hel. In this compelling prequel, Winslow, whose popular novels include The Dawn Patrol (2008) and Savages (2010), details Hel’s life leading up to Trevanian’s opus. Satori opens in the fall of 1951, in the throes of the Korean War.

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love by Xinran

On April 4, 2011, in Book Reviews, by Editor

The author of The Good Women of China (2002) now offers a gut-wrenching account of Chinese women forced to give up (or worse) their daughters in the 1980s and 1990s because of China’s one child policy. Implemented to control China’s booming population, the law led to the abandonment and murder of countless female babies, as many families stood to lose land if they didn’t have a son to inherit and manage it. Formerly a popular radio personality in Nanjing, Xinran sought out the sad stories of women whose daughters were taken from them after birth.

Stop Torture In Tibet Campaign by "Free Tibet," London

On April 1, 2011, in Political Comments, Politics, Press Release, by Editor

To shine a spotlight on the widespread use of torture in Tibet British actors lent their voices to Tibetan torture survivors who can not speak out for themselves. Watch Dominic West, Juliet Stevenson and David Threlfall and listen to Alan Rickman.