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    <description>Mike Cormack is a writer, editor and reviewer mostly focusing on China, where he lived from 2007-2014. He was the editor of Agenda Beijing.</description>
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      <description>Dying for an iPhone
by Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai
Haymarket Books and Pluto Press
4/5 stars
China is home to some of the world’s most devoted Apple fans. When company co-founder Steve Jobs died in 2011, flowers were piled up outside the Apple store in Beijing. A few weeks later, however, touts egged the same store when it implemented a system aimed at stopping people buying up Apple devices and reselling them at exorbitant prices.
The company’s iPhones are built in mainland China by...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Dying for an iPhone: investigating Apple, Foxconn and the brutal exploitation of Chinese workers</title>
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by Mai Jia
Head of Zeus
2.5/5 stars
Mai Jia’s books, now being translated and published in English, make great play of his huge sales in China. With global sales of 10 million, he is “the bestselling author you’ve never heard of”, according to the market­ing hype.
His first novel, Decoded (2002), earned positive reviews from English-language media when it was translated in 2014 and has now been published in 33 languages. A large part of Mai Jia’s appeal, no doubt, derives from his...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2020 06:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>The Message, Mai Jia’s flawed wartime novel, can be read as disguised criticism of Chinese Communist rule</title>
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      <description>Drunk in China: Baijiu and the World’s Oldest Drinking Culture
by Derek Sandhaus
University of Nebraska Press
4/5 stars
B aijiu is one of the biggest challenges Chinese culture offers to foreigners, who often describe it as “gut-rot”, “engine-cleaner” or in even less positive terms. Yet the distilled grain alcohol belongs to a drinking culture that goes back thousands of years.
The boom times that followed the opening of China’s economy produced some of the world’s largest liquor companies. The...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2019 01:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Drunk in China goes on a baijiu bender and asks is ganbei culture dying out?</title>
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      <description>China’s Commercial Sexscapes, by Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang, University of Toronto Press, 3.5 stars
Prostitution may officially be outlawed in mainland China, but that hasn’t exactly wiped out the country’s sex industry.
Foreign businessmen visiting major cities have long told of racy cards being thrust under their hotel room doors and of receiving unsolicited phone calls from sex workers. Many streets in urban areas are lined with pink-lit “hair salons”, which are open at suspiciously late hours and...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2019 10:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Inside China’s sex trade: seduction, sympathy, survival, and pride in ‘emotional labour’ – prostitutes and their clients tell all to a Hong Kong academic</title>
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      <description>Long Peace Street
by Jonathan Chatwin
Manchester University Press
3.5/5 stars
Biographer Ted Morgan once described poet Allen Ginsberg’s lengthy lines in Howl (1956) as Whitmanesque “laundry lines”, on which to hang everything in human life, including sex, madness and death. Likewise, Jonathan Chatwin uses a 30km walk along Changan Jie (Long Peace Street), a road running east to west through Beijing, on which to hang musings about the city, its history, people, politics, culture, protest...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2019 05:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Long Peace Street: Jonathan Chatwin walks 30km through Beijing and its past</title>
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      <description>The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin, pub. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 3.5/5 stars
The Unpassing comes unusually garlanded for a debut novel, with back-cover blurbs offering high praise from four authors. And first impressions are favourable, with author Chia-Chia Lin skil­fully creating an intense, image-rich world.
Events unfold in a hardscrabble village near Anchorage, in the American state of Alaska, in the 1980s, and the wilder­­ness features prominently, setting a psycho-geographical tone. The...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2019 13:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Debut novel of extraordinary promise, tale of Chinese in Alaska seen through a child’s eyes has echoes of Virginia Woolf</title>
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      <description>Last Boat Out of Shanghaiby Helen Zia
Ballantine Books
Historical fiction is a hybrid art form requiring a skilful fusion of narrative and research. When done well – as, for example, in James Clavell’s superb Noble House (1981) or ﻿War and Peace and A Tale of Two Cities – the results can be thrilling and informative. But when done badly, with the author failing to combine background and story, the result can be an unfulfilling mixture of half-digested factoids and characters that don’t offer...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>﻿Tale of four real-life escapees from 1949 Shanghai fails to captivate</title>
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      <description>In his new memoir, Never Grow Up, kung fu film legend Jackie Chan writes about many low points of his life, such as drinking, visiting prostitutes and overspending. However, he glosses over several controversial areas of his life which are already matters of public record.
Here are five areas mentioned only in passing that many readers would want to learn more about.
The affair
“In 1999, I made a serious mistake.” Chan writes that after having an affair, he held a family meeting with wife Joan...</description>
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      <description>Never Grow Up 
by Jackie Chan (with Zhu Mo; translated by Jeremy Tiang)
Gallery Books
Jackie Chan is arguably the best-known Chinese person on the planet and the only living movie star to straddle the East-West divide. He has risen from being a stuntman earning HK$5 a day to starring in blockbusters such as Rush Hour (1998), and become the world’s fifth highest-paid male actor on the 2018 Forbes list, taking home US$45.5 million.
The five most shocking revelations in Jackie Chan’s new...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>New Jackie Chan memoir Never Grow Up offers insights into a flawed everyman</title>
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      <description>Martial arts star Jackie Chan made a name for himself with his explosive movies, which combined fast-paced action with a genius for slapstick comedy.
But behind the scenes, it wasn’t all light-hearted fun.
The 64-year-old star of the Rush Hour series is unusually frank about his failings and weaknesses in his new memoir, Never Grow Up, which is published on December 4, 2018.
He admits visiting prostitutes as a young stuntman. He opens up about being an abusive father. And he reveals how he...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2018 10:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Girls, gambling and abuse: 5 quotes from Jackie Chan’s new memoir</title>
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      <description>Jackie Chan is unusually frank about his failings and weaknesses in his new memoir, Never Grow Up, which is being published tomorrow.  

He admits to gambling and visiting prostitutes as a young stuntman. He opens up about his difficulties being a father. And he reveals how he behaved like a tacky new-money star during his first flush of fame.
Here are five of the most shocking revelations in Chan’s memoir, in his own words.
Drinking
“Going out and drinking every night did start to erode my...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2018 05:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Jackie Chan shares his darker side: five of the most shocking revelations from his memoir</title>
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      <description>China Dream
by Ma Jian
Chatto &amp; Windus
If any country were suited to dystopian fiction, it would be China.
Chinese dissident author Ma Jian’s talks at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun arts centre cancelled
Home to several cities that resemble the set of Blade Runner, the country feels like a place where anything could happen. Executives disappear and reappear, rumours swirl about top leaders, and rules and social conventions are handled with anything from arbitrary laxity to authoritarian officiousness.
So...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2018 06:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>China Dream by Ma Jian is a scathing satire of the absurd reality facing a silenced nation</title>
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      <description>Erebus: The Story of a Ship
By Michael Palin
Hutchinson
Broadcaster and actor Michael Palin’s tele­visual adventures have taken him around the world, from pole to pole, through Brazil and “new Europe”, across the Sahara and Himalayas, and along the great railway lines of Britain. He was once president of the Royal Geographical Society and, a member of surreal comedy group Monty Python, Palin has always injected his accounts with gentle irony and wit.
Erebus: The Story of a Ship is, therefore, in...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Michael Palin retraces final journey of ill-fated HMS Erebus in new book, tries to piece together ship’s tragic end</title>
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      <description>Bruce Lee: A Life
by Matthew Polly
Simon &amp; Schuster
Bruce Lee may have died 45 years ago this month, but he remains one of the best-known Chinese celebrities. Lee’s films kick-started the kung fu genre, turning martial arts into a global phenomenon and boosting the Hong Kong movie industry’s reputation internationally.
Lee is one of the top-earning dead celebrities – and on a relatively slim body of work: he featured in just three kung fu films that were released while he was alive (The Big Boss...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Bruce Lee’s death: biography offers a bizarre new theory</title>
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      <description>What We Were Promised
by Lucy Tan
3.5/5 stars
Delayed gratification can provide great pleasure in a novel. Who hasn’t thrilled to Winston Smith finally saying he loved Big Brother in George Orwell’s 1984, or been devastated by the deaths at the end of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice And Men?
But it can also be frustrating, such as when getting to the end of an 800-page Stephen King novel and finding that the horror master has once again been able to contrive a satisfying climax.
Chinese-American Lucy...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2018 05:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Chinese American’s debut novel of Chinese expat life a clever examination of memory and what we make of the cards we’re dealt</title>
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      <description>Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age
by Stephen R. Platt
Knopf
Many important historical events seem inevitable in retrospect. When placed in a narrative, there is the sense of them being moved – or at least precipitated – by greater forces.
Other episodes are blundered into and the conse­quences take on their own logic. The first opium war (1839-42) between Britain and China, suggests historian Stephen R. Platt, is one such instance.
Young American’s...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2018 23:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>The first opium war: the corruption, mistakes and misfortunes at the root of Sino-British conflict</title>
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      <description>Mao’s Town
by Xie Hong
Whyte Tracks Publishing
There can never be enough novels dealing with the horrors of the Great Chinese Famine and the Cultural Revolution. The subjects have been covered in fine non-fiction books, such as Frank Dikötter’s People’s Trilogy (2010-2016) and Tombstone (2012), by Yang Jisheng. But while these include individual stories, they approach the events from a largely broad angle, and do not maintain specific perspectives on the tragedies.
Fiction allows for individual...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Human cost of Mao’s Great  Famine and Cultural Revolution exposed in powerful novel</title>
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      <description>How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars
by Billy Gallagher
St Martin’s Press
3 stars
Snapchat is the great dividing line in the social media ecosystem: the old, with their fuddy-duddy Facebook, don’t understand it and do not use it; the young, with their selfies and sexting, have taken to it with alacrity, their daily usage figures far exceeding that of any other app.
Book review: Fake news isn’t new, as The Formosa Fraud, fictitious Taiwan tale, reminds us
Yet its entire communication model goes...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Snapchat’s rise from obscure app to Facebook rival charted in How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars</title>
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      <description>Feel Freeby Zadie Smith
Penguin
Zadie Smith is arguably Britain’s hottest literary writer. Her novels, from White Teeth (2000) to Swing Time (2016), have won wide acclaim and she has received nearly every accolade an author can enjoy.
Smith is also an accomplished essayist. A previous collection, Changing My Mind (2009), displayed a talent for non-fiction, and she has followed that up with Feel Free, a selection of her reviews, essays, reflections and more from the years since.
Smith is a sharp...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2018 07:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>From Jay-Z to Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith’s second non-fiction outing is a mixed bag of essays</title>
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      <description>The Only Story
by Julian Barnes
Jonathan Cape
Although he has not won the fame of contemporary Martin Amis, Julian Barnes is in remarkable fettle for a novelist 40 years into his writing career, having won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for The Sense of an Ending, and now publishing his 15th book since the turn of the millennium.
The Only Story is set in “the Village”, the “Metro­land” of the commuter suburbs surrounding London that Barnes has made his own since his 1980 debut, but there’s ­no...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2017 05:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Julian Barnes tackles sex, relation­­ships and ageing in tender age-gap love story</title>
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      <description>The Standing Chandelier
by Lionel Shriver
The Borough Press
Best known for her 2005 bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver also has a reputation as a no-nonsense commentator. Her 2016 speech on cultural appropriation at the Brisbane Writers Festival was a welcome rejoinder to the fatuous notion that certain aspects of culture belong only to some people, and cannot be used or adapted by others. (Any cultural proscription that would have prevented The Beatles, Abba or Led Zeppelin...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Lionel Shriver disappoints with flimsy plot and thinly drawn characters in new novella</title>
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      <description>Finding My Virginity
by Richard Branson
Virgin Books
Some people have the good fortune to be high achievers in multiple fields. As well as being an extraordinary poet, Philip Larkin was a noted university librarian and a fine jazz and book reviewer. Great Britain’s wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill, was a gifted oil painter and productive writer. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is perhaps this century’s most generous philanthropist.
This is understandable: some people are born with...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 05:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Richard Branson’s latest memoir reveals perhaps more than the Virgin emperor intended</title>
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      <description>Six Billion Shoppers
by Porter Erisman
St Martin’s Press
Porter Erisman’s previous book, Alibaba’s World (2015), provides an insider’s perspective on Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba Group and its founder and executive chairman, Jack Ma Yun, and is arguably the most revealing read on the company to date.
One of Alibaba’s earliest overseas recruits, Erisman served as vice-president from 2000 to 2008, with responsibilities for international marketing and corporate affairs. Alibaba’s World is a...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2017 07:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Six Billion Shoppers, former Alibaba vice-president’s broad view of e-commerce</title>
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      <description>Sour Heartby Jenny Zhang
Lenny
Shanghai-born, New York-based writer and poet Jenny Zhang’s short-story collec­tion Sour Heart alternates between sweet and rancid, light and gritty, juvenile petulance and innocent grace – all within each story.
She also blurs the lines between fiction and autobiography: every story features a young girl who has moved from China (usually Shanghai) to New York with parents who struggle to make ends meet in Brooklyn’s cheapest neighbourhoods and struggle even more...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2017 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Chinese-American author Jenny Zhang’s taboo-busting short stories mix sweet and rancid</title>
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      <description>Rich People Problems
by Kevin Kwan
Doubleday
After the success of Kevin Kwan’s first two novels, Crazy Rich Asians (2013) and China Rich Girlfriend (2015), expectations for the third in the trilogy, Rich People Problems, couldn’t be higher.
Here, money, race, family and social background clash like an Asian version of The Forsyte Saga, but with greater levity and a lot more shopping as Kwan continues his tales of the lives of Asia’s ultra-rich by reuniting us with series favourites. They include...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Kevin Kwan’s Rich People Problems hustles his comic trilogy to a neat conclusion</title>
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      <description>Remains of Life
by Wu He
Columbia University Press
It’s taken 18 years for Wu He’s critically lauded Remains of Life to appear in English translation, and a glance at the text readily explains this delay.
This is an avowedly experi­mental novel that revolves around one dreadful event. On October 27, 1930, at a sports meeting at Musha Elementary School, on an aboriginal reservation in the mountains of Taiwan, a bloody uprising took place against the Japanese. By noon, the headhunting ritual had...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2017 09:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>James Joyce-like novel about Japanese genocide of Taiwan tribes is a tough read,  but worth the effort</title>
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      <description>The Language of Solitude
by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Atria
The Language of Solitude does not start well. Protagonist Paul Leibovitz yearns for his partner, Christine Wu (both return­ing from Sendker’s previous novel, 2015’s Whispering Shadows). He is financially independent, she the manager of a minor travel agency – both live in Hong Kong. In or close to middle age, both enjoy nice things. He aches for her phone calls but hesitates to send text messages, lest he seem needy. Their initial...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Loss and lies in modern China explored in Jan-Philipp Sendker’s rich and resonant novel</title>
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      <description>Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life
by Yiyun Li
Random House
This is a remarkable book, both as memoir and as Yiyun Li’s disavowal of the possibility of writing one. Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life explores the formation of the literary mind behind the novel The Vagrants (2009) and short-story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2005), and is seared with the pain and difficulties of such an under­taking. (If you ever wish to dissuade a child from...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Author Yiyun Li’s Dear Friend a remarkable feat of prose and understanding</title>
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      <description>The Kingdom of Women
by Choo Waihong
I.B. Tauris
“Lost tribes”, cut off from the babbling, interconnected world, continue to ignite the imagi­nation. Like species on isolated islands that take distinct paths of evolution, lost tribes suggest alternative modes of development. Their separation from the corrupting influences of civilisation in an imagined Edenic idyll also offers metaphors for a lost innocence.
The Kingdom of Women, by Choo Waihong, suggests all of this and more. The book tells of...</description>
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      <title>The Kingdom of Women:  China’s ‘lost tribe’ of matriarchs, the Mosuo</title>
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      <description>China’s Asian Dream
by Tom Miller
Zed Books
4 stars
Tom Miller’s previous book, China’s Urban Billion, was a well-received examination of the processes and effects of the unprecedented scale of China’s urbanisation. Now Miller has moved on to an examination of China’s main diplomatic and economic strategy, the “One Belt, One Road” policy that aims to be the legacy of President Xi Jinping’s administration and to inspire China’s great rejuvenation.
As a senior analyst for economic research...</description>
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      <title>Why Xi Jinping’s trade initiative hasn’t bought China affection, as neighbours chafe at being turned into client states</title>
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      <description>Lotus: A Novel
by Lijia Zhang
Henry Holt &amp; Co.
Those of us of a certain vintage, perhaps now greying at the temples, may remember Robin Williams teach­ing English in the film Dead Poets Society. In his first lesson, one of his students reads aloud an “Introduction to Poetry”, where (fictional) critic Dr J Evans Pritchard explains how to assess the value of poetry, by multiplying the technical perfection by the importance of the theme.
This attempt to measure the value of literature came to mind...</description>
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      <title>Money, sex, guanxi: Lijia Zhang’s timely novel about prostitution and the new China doesn’t deliver on all its promises</title>
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