Hankou, also spelled Hankow, is one of the three Imperial towns (the other two are Wuchang and Hanyang) that merged to become modern-day Wuhan City,…
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Tag: Chinese History (Books)
Years That Changed China
1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (1982) by Ray Huang is a winner of the American Book Award for History.…
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Red Dawn over China (2026)
This is a recent book by Frank Dikötter, a Dutch historian who became famous for his exhaustive and exhausting The People’s Trilogy. A reviewer has…
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Christianity and China
The 20 essays in “Christianity in China from the 18th Century to the Present,” edited by Daniel H. Bays (1996), were presented in two symposia…
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Early China and Warring States period
There are three excellent books. In chronology of publication, Early China: A Social and Cultural History by Li Feng (2013) covers the period from the…
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Fengshui Power in Qing Governance
Tristan G. Brown is one of the emerging Western historians of late Imperial China. He is an assistant professor of history at MIT. His first…
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The World Beyond Life in Early China
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China by Jessica Rawson, 2023. I read this book in 2023. Rawson, a former professor at Oxford University, in this…
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Religions in China—Part 2
Phenomenal growth in Protestantism, Post-Mao Since 1978, Protestantism has been the fastest-growing religion in China. Before 1949, its growth was not impressive by any standards.…
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Religions in China
The state of religions in China post-Mao is a rather opaque area. Two recent books shed some much-needed light. The Souls of China: The Return…
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The Babas—Part 4
The Baba community is loosely referred to as Peranakan Chinese in Malaysia. The Babas in Malaysia started with immigrant Chinese from China (who, during the…
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