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Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings by Qin Xue Herzberg and Larry Herzberg [Book Review]

Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings by Qin Xue Herzberg and Larry Herzberg [Book Review]

June 25, 2012 · by Nicholas · in Articles, Asian Review of Books

The short Chinese proverb—a sometimes-poetic, sometimes-pithy observation about life—is a trope of popular culture. More sayings have been attributed to ‘ancient Chinese philosophers’ than could be possible. Of course, this has a grain of truth: Chinese features a wide array…

Through the Eyes of Tiger Cubs: Views of Asia’s Next Generation by Mark L. Clifford & Janet Pau [Book Review]

Through the Eyes of Tiger Cubs: Views of Asia’s Next Generation by Mark L. Clifford & Janet Pau [Book Review]

January 29, 2012 · by Nicholas · in Articles, Asian Review of Books

When trying to discern Asia’s future, perhaps the group whose viewpoints should be most sought after are those of Asia’s young. This is the group, after all, who be living that future. (I admit, in full disclosure, to being one…

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Hagashino [Book Review]

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Hagashino [Book Review]

November 11, 2011 · by Nicholas · in Articles, Asian Review of Books

The joy of reading detective fiction needn’t come from the crime—at least, not directly. The details of any crime, from the methods used by the criminal to his or her motivations, are often interchangeable between different detective stories. What an unsolved crime…

The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra by Roger Hart [Book Review]

The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra by Roger Hart [Book Review]

July 29, 2011 · by Nicholas · in Articles, Asian Review of Books

“Tattered sandles.” This was the judgment of Xu Guangqi, the official collaborating with the Jesuit Matteo Ricci’s effort to bring Euclid’s Elements to China, on the state of contemporary Chinese mathematics. These sentiments were repeated by later academics and historians, who created…

Mission to China by Mary Laven [Book Review]

Mission to China by Mary Laven [Book Review]

June 6, 2011 · by Nicholas · in Articles, Asian Review of Books

Narratives created to explain trends of national power often falter when tested against history. No sooner had the narrative of liberalism finally winning its long struggle against totalitarianism been postulated that the emergence of a successful yet authoritarian China started…

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher [Book Review]

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher [Book Review]

March 13, 2011 · by Nicholas · in Articles, Asian Review of Books

At first, the idea that language affects the way we think seems plausible, if not obvious. Given that we often perceive people of different cultures to be thinking differently, and language is often coterminous with culture, one might be forgiven…

Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert Kaplan [Book Review]

Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert Kaplan [Book Review]

January 28, 2011 · by Nicholas · in Articles, Asian Review of Books

For 800 years, the lines of global commerce did not lie across the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans, but between the various communities bordering the Indian Ocean. Arab sailors created a network of trade routes fanning out from the trading sultanate…

The Mao Case by Qiu Xiaolong [Book Review]

The Mao Case by Qiu Xiaolong [Book Review]

June 22, 2009 · by Nicholas · in Articles, Asian Review of Books

The Mao Case, the latest book in Qiu Xiaolong’s series of crime novels, gives Inspector Chen, the poetry-quoting Shanghai detective, a new case to solve, involving capitalists, traditions and the meddling of the Communist Party. Once again, Qiu uses Chen’s…

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