The Steep Trail of Reform
Never Turn Back by Julian Gewirtz, published 2022, is a history of China in the 1980s. Julian using Chinese sources shows a China that was…
Never Turn Back by Julian Gewirtz, published 2022, is a history of China in the 1980s. Julian using Chinese sources shows a China that was…
View More The Steep Trail of ReformThe cover for the catalog of the famous exhibition of treasures from the Palace Museum of Beijing in the Royal Academy of Arts, London, held…
View More China The Three Emperors – Part 1I have many books on Mahatma Gandhi in my library. More than Mao Tse Tung, Zhao En Lai, or Deng Xiao Ping, the giants of…
View More GandhiResearchers into China’s imperial history can tap into a rich vein of historical data for two reasons. Firstly, Imperial China has a huge population of…
View More Nine Centuries of Suzhou’s EvolutionRevelation by John is written by either the apostle John that Jesus loves [John 19:26] or another John. The church fathers can’t agree. Experts even…
View More Understanding RevelationMore: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy by Philip Coggan is a tour de force. Published in 2020 this excellent book surveys how the…
View More The Economic Rollercoaster – Part 1Elon Musk is the most recently published biography of the richest man in the world. Published in 2023 it is by Walter Isaacson, a writer…
View More Elon Musk – Part 1This is the first of two volumes of the diary kept by Manu Gandhi, Gandhi’s grandniece, who went to stay with Gandhi in 1943 at…
View More Life with Gandhi through the Eyes of a 15-Year-OldOne of the gems in this book is Rudd’s careful analysis of why Xi Jin Ping has deliberately departed from Deng Xiao Ping’s famous 24-character…
View More On Xi Jin Ping – Part 6Xi Jin Ping became the paramount leader of China in 2012. What is remarkable is that when he took office, he already had a vision…
View More On Xi Jin Ping – Part 5