DENG XIAOPING AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF CHINA. By Ezra Vogel Belknap, Harvard, 876pp. Reviewed: 18 February 2012 From one man’s navigation through six decades of Chinese politics, we can learn much about the choices we humans make about how our…
DENG XIAOPING AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF CHINA. By Ezra Vogel Belknap, Harvard, 876pp. Reviewed: 18 February 2012 From one man’s navigation through six decades of Chinese politics, we can learn much about the choices we humans make about how our…
THE GENERALISSIMO Chiang Kai-Shek and the Battle for Modern China By Jay Taylor, Belknap Harvard University Press, 722pp. Reviewed: 1 August 2009 History is not kind to losers, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek is usually considered one of the great losers…
THE MANY LIVES OF KENNETH MYER By Sue Ebury, Miegunyah Press, 621pp. Reviewed: 12 December 2008 The opening of the National Portrait Gallery with its honour roll of donors reminds us that, even in egalitarian Australia, private philanthropy underwrites many…