Blog Tag - book review

Here's Your Beijing Spring Reading List
Hopefully, you had a lovely Qingming holiday enjoying time with friends or the blossoming flowers under a beautiful spring sky. There's an old...
Sheng Keyi's Fields of White
“One February morning, I woke up to something alarming that had happened overnight – the whites of my eyes had grown larger than my irises, tiny...
Apology Rejected: Apologies to My Censor is Pages of Missed Opportunity
Mitch Moxley, as he likes to remind his reader, is something of a celebrity in Beijing’s expat circles. An aspiring journalist who found himself...
Book Review: Hanging Devils, He Jiahong
Hong Jun is a private lawyer, educated in Chicago and just returned to Beijing to help build the rule of law in the new China of the 1990s. With...
The Red Chamber Review: All of the Sex, Minus the History
Chances are you’ve heard of Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the four great Chinese classical novels. And chances are you’ve been meaning to read it...
Beijing Confidential: Unsolved Murder Brought To Life
Imagine waking up early one morning and going for a brisk walk in the cold January air. Without warning, you stumble upon a figure lying frozen on...