china – Meditations

November 27, 2021

Review: From Yao to Mao, Kenneth J. Hammond

Rating: 4 out of 5 Mr Hammond’s course on Chinese history from its earliest stages up to the 1980’s is a strong book. For…

June 15, 2021

Rating: 4 out of 5 Mr Newark’s short but detailed summary of ‘The Mongols’ is interesting primarily because of it’s focus on Asia. Unlike…

March 8, 2021

Rating: 4 out of 5 It’s difficult to really rate something as complex as ‘The Way’. It’s clear—having pondered what I read—that most of…

February 24, 2021

Rating: 4 out of 5 I found this a tremendous experience. Mr Wood’s summary of the millennia of Chinese history touched on both the…

April 29, 2020

If you’ve got only two pennies left, buy a loaf of broad for one and a lily for the other. Chinese proverb Thunderclap from…

February 9, 2020

Rating: 5 out of 5 In short, I think this ticks all the boxes. Quite possibly the closest thing from an European source I…

December 30, 2019

Rating: 4 out of 5 I am not sure I read this as I should have. Mine was a glancing look that often strayed,…

December 14, 2018

Rating: 5 out of 5 I really enjoyed this, mostly due to Mr Weatherford’s perspective in putting himself in the shoes of the people…

September 14, 2018

Rating: 4 out of 5 I really enjoyed this one — there was a lot of in depth knowledge, and the steppes have not…

August 31, 2018

I recently read Tim Marshall’s ‘Prisoners of Geography’, and this short post here is meant to be a brief look at some points within…