Jeff Wasserstrom Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jeff Wasserstrom

Passed a Blackwell’s on the way to Edinburgh station & struck by the big attention that ⁦@peterfrankopan⁩’s big book gets there but also good to see both ⁦@taniabranigan⁩’s excellent Red Memory & less expectedly a book by Xin Wen I’ve heard good things about displayed https://t.co/tBrkALtjIg

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Coming sept 2023: Sparks - Ian Johnson, book on China due out later this year to watch for, I’ve read part of it in draft form & this new one by ⁦@iandenisjohnson⁩, like his brilliant last one, is poignant & powerful & beautifully crafted https://t.co/Kpqcwps1OH

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Tales from the Borderlands | https://t.co/0rpVQ8zWhm , looking forward to reading what one of my favorite historians, @katebrownMIT, thinks of a new book by another of my favorite historians, @bartov_omer .

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@amyhawk_ @FY4Chan @charlesmok Yes, thanks for sharing, seems like we have to update our 2019 piece saying that in the bundle of “classic” dystopian works by Orwell, Zamyatin & Huxley, the CCP censors only seemed bothered by the comments on China in Huxley’s Brave New World Revisited https://t.co/9PA1Um3fkI

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@dfedman Not a state of the field essay but an essay worth checking out, @yangyang_cheng on @EastAsiaSciTech in @LAReviewofBooks (also about Ruth Rogaski’s Knowing Manchuria) https://t.co/213YwD2zYl

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@amyhawk_ @FY4Chan @charlesmok Yes, thanks for sharing, seems like we have to update our 2019 piece saying that in the bundle of “classic” dystopian works by Orwell, Zamyatin & Huxley, the CCP censors only seemed bothered by the comments on China in Huxley’s Brave New World Revisited https://t.co/9PA1Um3fkI

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Is Hungary’s Present the United States’ Future?: On Zsuzsanna Szelényi’s “Tainted Democracy” https://t.co/GPzguKX10U via @lareviewofbooks /good piece by Jeffrey C. Isaac

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The High-Risk Feat of Bringing ‘American Born Chinese’ to TV/great NYT profile of ⁦@geneluenyang⁩ by Jamie Fisher (a writer I’ve been impressed by since I read her superb ⁦@LRB⁩ review of ⁦@tsmullaney⁩’s The Chinese Typewriter years ago) https://t.co/g4B5yHn9dv

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A new edition of Journey to the West is out; expertly translated & trimmed by @JuliaLovell16; blurbed by @neilhimself; w/a @geneluenyang Foreword; see this sparkling, smart (& FUN) review by Minjie Chen in @LAReviewofBooks to see what the fuss is about https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-chinese-classic-journeys-to-the-west-julia-lovells-translation-of-monkey-king/

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Crack-Up Capitalism, 2023 book by ⁦⁦@zeithistoriker⁩ I look forward to checking out (partly but not only because Hong Kong in the 1970s is among the settings the description says it discusses), cc ⁦@hofunghung⁩ ⁦@MacabeKeliher⁩ https://t.co/NGWZ3UHAHk