Andrew Batson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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China research director for Gavekal Dragonomics. Aspiring blogger. Former Wall Street Journal. Places I've lived: Louisiana, Beijing, Pacific Northwest.
New World Disorder: The Leninist Extinction
Ken JowittAndrew BatsonMy own mental model for understanding Chinese politics has been strongly shaped by Joseph Fewsmith's *Rethinking Chinese Politics* which came out last year; it led me to Ken Jowitt's *New World Disorder*, an older but very interesting book. 3/ https://t.co/1Jwt3ETmeo
Paperback, 1993
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Rethinking Chinese Politics
Joseph FewsmithAndrew BatsonMy own mental model for understanding Chinese politics has been strongly shaped by Joseph Fewsmith's *Rethinking Chinese Politics* which came out last year; it led me to Ken Jowitt's *New World Disorder*, an older but very interesting book. 3/ https://t.co/1Jwt3ETmeo
Paperback, 2021
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The Reluctant Dragon: Crisis Cycles in Chinese Foreign Economic Policy
Lawrence C. ReardonAndrew BatsonJason Kelly's *Market Maoists* and Lawrence Reardon's *The Reluctant Dragon* both cover Chinese trade policy during the Mao years, a topic that is now highly relevant for understanding the current inward turn 5/ https://t.co/tvbShpsJIC
Paperback, 2014
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The Cold War: A World History
Odd Arne WestadAndrew BatsonI also found Odd Arne Westad's *The Cold War: A Global History* useful context for our present moment, though more for the non-China material 4/ https://t.co/HJj0ngLW7M
Paperback, 2019
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Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent
Jason M. KellyAndrew BatsonJason Kelly's *Market Maoists* and Lawrence Reardon's *The Reluctant Dragon* both cover Chinese trade policy during the Mao years, a topic that is now highly relevant for understanding the current inward turn 5/ https://t.co/tvbShpsJIC
Hardcover, 2021
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Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China After Stalin and Mao
Joseph TorigianAndrew BatsonJoseph Torigian's *Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion*, a historical take on Chinese elite politics, was quite thought provoking 2/ https://t.co/L9vgrxnyNj
Hardcover, 2022
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Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich
Volker UllrichAndrew BatsonFor Victory Day reading, I highly recommend the vivid blow-by-blow, almost hour-by-hour account in Volker Ulrich's *Eight Days In May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich* https://t.co/X0eYRHixd0 https://t.co/0ehKXCsbEl
Paperback, 2023
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