The ‘perfect police state’
June 23, 2017 § Leave a comment
Two very good pieces from Xinjiang this week – one, a look at the securitisation of Xinjiang by Tom Philips in The Guardian (in which I am quoted), the other a nice piece of reporting from Bortala in Xinjiang by Edward Wong from the New York Times.
The China Journal
June 8, 2017 § Leave a comment
Thanks to Timothy A. Grosse for his generous review of China’s Forgotten People in The China Journal.
The Souls of China
June 5, 2017 § Leave a comment
I wrote a piece on Ian Johnson’s remarkable book about the rebirth of religion in China for Literary Review.
The Phantom of Constancy
June 1, 2017 § Leave a comment
My piece for Open Letters Monthly on the (almost) lost novel of Zdanevich who worked with Picasso, Miro Ernst and Giacometti et al, and in the mid 1970s could still be seen wandering round Paris’s Latin Quarter wearing a sheepskin coat, herding a flock of cats before him.
