Klingborg’s Thief of Souls is an impressive detective novel set in modern day China. Besides the setting in a small provincial town the size of a hamlet where ordinarily the most serious crime is the theft of chickens, in Thief of Souls Klingborg develops the…
I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. Jan-Phillip Sendker did not disappoint me. Whispering Shadows is a thriller – murder mystery. A thirty-year old, a Cathay Heavy Metals executive, Michael Owen winds up dead in Shenzhen, China, located across the…
My most recent foray into science began with a series of WWII novels (Los Alamos, The Good German, and All the Light We Cannot See) that I read, and reviewed here. Through this, I forget now why, I was discovered Thomas Levenson’s Newton and the…
I found this book during a Friends of the Library Sale. Until now, I had never heard of Myra Roper, a British born Australian educator, and and an expert in China. More information can be found here. China-The Surprising Country is a memoir of her…
A while back, I posted a review of When America First Met China, a history of Chinese-American-British trade relations up to where steamships enter the picture. In the book, the author, Eric Jay Dolin talks about the various continents that traders visited in search of…
ESS Headquarters, Elko, Nevada, US Renee stepped aside, letting a buxom blonde leave Brandon’s office. A coy slightly mocking face made Brandon smirk in return. “Can’t be that bad, can it?” She sat down on the brown leather sofa that was next to the window…
Well…it seems that the sea lions that at one time were hunted into near extinction for their coats, valuable commodities that 19th century China traded or paid troves of silver may now be a victim of climate warming. My prior blog review of When America First…
Arguments about concentrating power and wealth in the rich, running unions out of existence, the existence of plans to ruin the unions by business, crushing unions advanced in American Labor Unions in their continuing saga against repealing laws requiring non-union employees to pay union dues…
A few blog posts back I reviewed When America First Met China by Eric Jay Dolin. It is the account of how trade relations between China and U.S. began. Sail boats and clipper ships and later steam ships plied the oceans in search of…
A few blog posts back, I reviewed When America First Met China by Eric Jay Dolin. In that review, I mentioned the import of sandalwood, furs, and opium by China in the 18th and 19th centuries and the scarcity issues surrounding the first two. Now…
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