Lisa See, Shanghai Girls, and China’s Wings
Reading Lisa See's account of the bombs that fell between the Cathay and the Palace Hotels where Nanking Road meets the Bund in Shanghai Girls, I was certain sh...
Category: Book Reviews
My thoughts on books
China’s Wings reviewed by Noozhawk
Excellent review of China's Wings by Tom Cahill of Noozhawk, Santa Barbara's online newspaper.
China’s Wings reviewed by the Kansas City Public Library
A very favorable review of China’s Wings appeared in the Kansas City, Kansas Public Library’s blog last week. “fascinating” & “...
China’s Wings in the Huffington Post… again
Journalist Christine Negroni mentions China’s Wings a story about visiting The Great Wall of China… (it was also reproduced in The Huffington Post, ...
Taiping Diptych — two superb books on the most destructive war of the 19th Century
Ever heard more than a tidbit about the Taiping Rebellion, the civil war that convulsed China in the 1850s and 60s? I hadn't either. It's virtually unknown in t...
China’s Wings in the Huffington Post
Happy to see China’s Wings get such positive ink from Christine Negroni in the Huffington Post. (Her mention is about halfway down the page.) Hope she has...
China’s Wings reviewed in World War II magazine
I'm pleased! I've been worried about the reception China's Wings might get from the academic world, and I'm very gratified to get such a glowing review from a p...
Ernest Hemingway and China’s Wings
As noted in yesterday’s “Boxer Uprising” post featuring Mickey Hahn, Hugh Woods, and Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway spent time with CNAC i...
China’s Wings reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, and other reviews…
Quite a thrill to see China’s Wings well reviewed in the Wall Street Journal (“exciting”; “displaying Mr. Crouch’s talents as a re...
A nice random find…
Just stumbled across this short, but very generous review of Enduring Patagonia written seven years ago by Charles King. I’d never seen it before. Gotta l...