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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Tag: Chinese History (Books)
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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Sun Yat-sen in Penang
No. 120 Armenian Street is the site of the Sun Yat-sen Museum. This is because the shop here was the Nanyang Headquarters of Sun Yat-sen.…
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Embassies to the Qing court—Part 3
Most people wrongly assume the Macartney Embassy of 1792-94 gave the Western world its first glimpse of the secretive Middle Kingdom. In fact, there were…
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