Cutting grass and wood
September 15, 2016 § Leave a comment
I have a piece on rural life in China in the new Dublin Review.
Royal Literary Fund
September 6, 2016 § Leave a comment
I’m honoured to have been appointed as an RLF Fellow for Newcastle University for this year.
Guardian piece
June 15, 2016 § Leave a comment
My first piece for The Guardian is a book review of Rob Schmitz’s look at life on a street in Shanghai.
Francofonia
March 25, 2016 § Leave a comment
The new Sokurov film about The Louvre is out soon – the trailer raises both the typical fears (that it will be pretentious) and the typical hopes (that it will be sublime).
This Census-Taker
February 9, 2016 § Leave a comment
I review China Mieville’s new novella in the latest Literary Review. My three-word verdict: ‘confused and confusing’.
China Rhyming
January 18, 2016 § Leave a comment
Thanks to Paul French for his piece on China’s Forgotten People on his excellent blog, which has a lot of good material on the erosion of China’s visible history.
Letter to LRB
January 13, 2016 § Leave a comment
I wrote a response to Seymour Hersh’s recent piece on Syria in the London Review of Books.
