Celebrating China’s free spirits
The Phoenix Years is required reading to understand how China has stumbled repressively through the past four decades.
The Phoenix Years is required reading to understand how China has stumbled repressively through the past four decades.
Long held up as a beacon of religious tolerance, Islamic Spain in the middle ages was a place of violence and bigotry.
Mao Zedong and the Communist Party’s catastrophic impact on China has been exposed by historian Frank Dikotter.
There is no higher praise for a war historian than calling their work Thucydidean. Pierre Razoux deserves such praise.
Henry Kissinger’s authorised biographer magnificently depicts his evolution as a towering exponent of statecraft.
Henry Kissinger’s authorised biographer, Niall Ferguson, has produced a masterpiece he expects to be savaged.
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