The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure
By Anton Graham One of the China trade's bestknown players, Jardines chief China rep Adam Williams, has just published his first novel, The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure. It is an…
By Anton Graham One of the China trade's bestknown players, Jardines chief China rep Adam Williams, has just published his first novel, The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure. It is an…
By Anton Graham Foreign correspondents in China spend years digging into the detail of the country and the information they uncover and the conclusions they reach are communicated to the…
By Anton Graham The holy grail of China reportage books is The One which sums up the moment, and which everyone buys. Fox Butterfield did it in the 1980s with…
By Anton Graham Ross Terrill is an Old China Hand who has been reading the tea leaves of Chinese politics for decades, since the days when clues to what the…
By Anton Graham A book was published in 2001 called "the Coming Collapse of China", written by an American lawyer named Gordon G. Chang. It's still on sale at airports…
By Anton Graham Edwin Dingle was a journalist living in Singapore in the early years of the 20th century when he decided to walk across China. He turned the trip…
By Anton Graham Probably the best overview of the China boom of the past quarter century is ironically provided by a book which sets out to prove that the boom…
By Anton Graham Mr. China is such a good book. It is a must-read. It is real and true and don't leave home, heading for China, without it. Tim Clissold…
By Anton Graham A Dictionary of Maqiao is a strange name for a novel. But this book, written by Chinese novelist Han Shaogong and translated into English by Julia Lovell,…
By Anton Graham The myth of old Shanghai is constantly referenced in the Shanghai of today for commercial purposes, but amidst the art deco fonts and the faded fake posters,…