Blog Tag - Page Turners

Dutch Journalist Fokke Obbema Discusses His New Book and Chinese Relations with the West
Author and journalist Fokke Obbema, who works on the foreign desk at Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, discusses his new book China and the West, in...
Page Turners: Former Beijing Expats Look Back in 'Beijing A to Z'
“For three years in China we had the same ayi, a woman who came twice a week to clean our apartment, with a vengeance, for four hours a pop. You...
Dong Bei Opus: Michael Meyer Discusses His Northeastern Chinese Travelogue: In Manchuria
From its raw, relentless winds to its barren, icy planes, the tiny northeastern Chinese village known as Wasteland seems more than suited to its name...
Page Turners: Paul French's State of Paranoia, and Betrayal in Paris
How do you follow up a Beijing-based, New York Times bestselling true crime book? A sequel? Another mystery? If you’re Paul French, neither. Instead...
Page Turners: Susan Blumberg-Kason’s Tale of Trying – and Failing  – To Be a Good Spouse
Intercultural relationships can be a wonderful or contentious part of living overseas, and sometimes both. Often it works out, but occasionally it...
Page Turners: Dan Washburn's The Forbidden Game, Golf and the Chinese Dream
Perhaps no activity has encapsulated China’s rags-to-riches rise over the past three decades better than golf. Like many foreign ideas, goods, and...
Sheng Keyi's Fields of White
“One February morning, I woke up to something alarming that had happened overnight – the whites of my eyes had grown larger than my irises, tiny...
Page Turners: Scott Kronick Looks on the Bright Side
Seems like people in the public relations industry in Beijing need other outlets to express themselves. Will Moss and David Wolf were both popular...
Page Turners: The Siege of Tsingtao
Jonathan Fenby is no one-trick pony. Formerly the editor of the South China Morning Post and senior correspondent for The Economist in Europe, he...
Steven Davies' The Voyage of the Keying Offers A Flashpoint in Chinese Maritime History
It’s hard to imagine a time when buying a boat would have been illegal, but in 1846, that was the case. China, believing that the ships it built...
Page Turners: Revisiting Lao She
Today Lao She is remembered for mostly three things: first, his novel Rickshaw Boy, bringing to life the urban chaos of Beijing’s street life;...
Apology Rejected: Apologies to My Censor is Pages of Missed Opportunity
Mitch Moxley, as he likes to remind his reader, is something of a celebrity in Beijing’s expat circles. An aspiring journalist who found himself...