Some China Books to Look Forward to in the First Half of 2015

Posted: January 9th, 2015 | No Comments »

A few China books out in the first half of 2015 that grabbed my attention….

Where Chiang Kai-Shek Lost China: The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948 – Harold Tanner – detailing a break through moment in Chinese history…

Flood of Fire – Amitav Ghosh – Book 3 of the Sea of Poppies Trilogy & the opium wars approach….

Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army – Phyllis Birnbaum – a story well known to many China Rhymers I expect, but worth telling again and there just aren’t enough China books that include cross dressing characters (despite my attempts to up the number from zero to one)…

The Porcelain Thief – Huan Hsu – remarkable story of a collection of porcelain saved both from the Japanese invaders and the Communist philistines….

The China Collectors: America’s Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures – Karl Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac – how the great US collections were built…

and finally….but then on second thoughts perhaps not!…

 

 

 

 

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