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Tag Archives: 2017 Discovery of Asia
A New History of India
A New History of India© 2000, sixth edition Stanley Wolpert471 pages India isn’t an easy place to keep running. Stanley Wolpert’s A New History of India gives a chiefly-political, mostly-modern history of one of the world’s most ancient civilizations, a land … Continue reading
The Elephant and the Dragon
The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us© 2007 Robyn Meredith272 pages For most of the 20th century, Europe and the United States enjoyed an outsided influence on global … Continue reading
China: An Introduction
China: An Introduction© 1984 Lucian W. Pye400 pages Lucien Pye was born in China and later returned there to advise the US government. China: An Introduction is written in that spirit, being a review of the making of Communist China and … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017 Discovery of Asia, Asia, China, Confucianism, history, philosophy, religion
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China Road
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power© 2007 Rob Gifford352 pages National Road 312 spans the breadth of China, connecting its sparsely settled and scarcely developed rural interior with the port city of Shanghai, the largest … Continue reading
In Spite of the Gods
In Spite of the Gods: the Rise of Modern India© 2007 Edward Luce400 pages In Spite of the Gods appraises India’s culture as its ancient civilization enters the 21st century as the world’s largest democracy and one of its largest … Continue reading
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World© 2005 Jack Weatherford325 pages For all the differences and tensions between the West, Iran, and China, all can agree on one thing: the Mongols were mean. Genghis Khan roared out of … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017 Discovery of Asia, Central Asia, history, Middle East
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Trade, ancient and modern: from China to the Sharing Economy
Two micro-reviews for you…one on The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia, the other on Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing. The Silk Road consists of several chapters in central-Asian history, with generous photographs … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017 Discovery of Asia, Asia, business, China, digital world, history, trade
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Looking ahead & some also-reads
I intentionally launched this year off with some fun reading, so we’re off to a good start and there’s more on the way. Yesterday Amazon held a flash sale for science books, and I picked up a few relatively recent … Continue reading
In the Land of the Tiger
In the Land of the Tiger: A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent© 1997 Valmik Thapar285 pages Imagine a Planet Earth episode focused entirely on India, and then presented in book form. The result is In the Land of the … Continue reading
2017: The Discovery of Asia
For several years now I have dared myself to take on a formidable challenge: Asia. Prior to the 20th century, it is a historical black hole for me. I have caught glimpses of it from time to time, but have … Continue reading
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