#histbookchat Latest read! More than 40 years before Miranda v Arizona (1966) there was a triple murder in Washington DC, the investigation of which had a profound effect on American law: The Third Degree by Scott Seligman (2018) #BookSky 📚💜 #truecrime

latest read, this is a nice 1st edition from 1981 #histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜

#histbookchat #sinology New arrival! The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China by Ruixue Jia & Hongbin Li (2025) - supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social who was awarded her English degree after reading only one book (Great Gatsby) just to stop her rabbiting on about it

#histbookchat Great piece in The Perfect Voice from Mister Banerjee @shoumojitb.bsky.social on the Nuremberg trials www.theperfectvoice.in/post/the-nur...

#histbookchat #photofriday took a few days off from my own writing & finished Raiders, Rulers, & Traders by @davidchaffetz.bsky.social I'm not a great believer in books changing people's lives but I'll never look at horses the same way again! Amazing book! There was so much I never realised before..

#histbookchat My latest piece in The Perfect Voice, Mumbai, on China, hostage diplomacy, and the passing of Anthony Grey (1938-2025) - with thanks to Mister Banerjee's editorial red pen! @shoumojitb.bsky.social #sinology #journalism www.theperfectvoice.in/post/anthony...

#histbookchat Some #CrimeFiction from me today: Death in Berlin by M. M. Kaye (1955, this edition 1985) #amreading #BookSky 📚💜

#histbookchat Part 1 of Sino-Japanese War by John Dong out now from Helion - Part 2 due Spring 2026 www.helion.co.uk/military-his...

It's fish tank cleaning day and the fish 🐟🐠🐡🦈wanted some #blues so I chose their namesake - they were so excited! - Paper Doll by Samantha Fish (2025) 🎵🎶🎵 - very cool

Street poster, Beijing - The Core Values of Chinese Socialism. And, in case you were wondering they are the National (Prosperity, Democracy, Civility, Harmony), the Social (Freedom, Equality, Justice, Rule of Law) and the Individual (Patriotism, Dedication, Integrity, Friendship). So now you know….

#histbookpost sadly, no new book offering this week but a long (64pg😬) paper on Xi Jinping's concept of law and the future of law in China: Zeming Liu & Benjamin Liebman: Redefining Law in China #law #China #research #funread Open Access American Journal of Comparative Law 2025

#BookSky 📚💜Starship Troopers is to be filmed again. My thoughts on this and on Robert Heinlein's (most?) controversial novel in The Perfect Voice with editorial thanks to the esteemed Mister Banerjee @shoumojitb.bsky.social #sciencefiction www.theperfectvoice.in/post/the-gal...

Great stuff from Tonio Andrade on China and the origins of gunpowder #sinology #histbookchat

Latest read! #histbookchat The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman (1967, this the 2003 reprint) - the Royal Navy's newest nuclear submarine, HMS Temeraire, is in Asian waters and sailing into danger off the coast of Red China.... #exciting

Latest arrival for Halloween!! The Revolutionists by Jason Burke (2025) @jasonburke2.bsky.social from The Bodley Head as as supplied by the Scream (Drama) Queen of Dromore herself 🧙‍♀️🧹🐈, Aunty Lesley of Bridge Books @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social #histbookchat #BookSky📚💜

#histbookchat podcast for the Japan specialists....

#histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜 #CrimeFiction I recommended this to @yorgosmoraitis.bsky.social for his class some time ago and decided I ought to read it for myself!!😂The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kai (2014) trans. Jeremy Tiang (2016) - six interlocking murder investigations moving backwards 1/2

Everybody wants to rule the world: welcome to my review of #Coldwire by Chloe Gong! #NetGalley

latest read! #BookSky 📚💜 #histbookchat Some more fiction from Douglas Reeman: The Iron Pirate (1986)

It's fish tank cleaning day and the fish 🐟🐠🐡🦈wanted some #spacerock and an album they hadn't heard before, so Into The Woods by Hawkwind (2017) - really, really good!!🎵🎶🎵

#BookSky 📚💜 Latest read! Death in Kashmir by M.M. Kaye (1953, this edition 1984) #CrimeFiction #amreading It's 1947, and there are both spies and murder on the glittering ski slopes of Kashmir...

#histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜 I wrote about the Tea & Horse Agency keeping the Song Dynasty alive (militarily) in my first Magistrate Zhu novel, now for a greater history of the horse: Raiders, Rulers, & Traders (2024) by @davidchaffetz.bsky.social

Very cool! Looking forward to this! 👏 #histbookchat #sinology

#BookSky 📚💜 #CrimeFiction Latest read! Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto (1958) trans. Jesse Kirkwood (2022) as supplied by the Queen of the Dromore Underworld herself, Aunty Lesley of Bridge Books @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social

#sinology #law Talk from Prof Liang Cai on the 15th Oct if you're in HK - doesn't appear to be on Zoom, sadly - and she has her book coming out at the end of the month, £110 also sadly, no sign of a paperback - Convict Politics, #China 221BCE - 23CE #law

#histbookchat #sinology New arrival!! Politicizing Business by Ning Leng from @universitypress.cambridge.org as supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social who, this month, is celebrating 30 years of selling books to the (once) literary impoverished inhabitants of Dromore!!

Great review by @susanbk.bsky.social of the new novel from Kristen Loesch #fiction #China #BookSky 📚💜

It's fish tank cleaning day and the fish wanted some earlyish Pink Floyd, so Obscured by Clouds (1972). This one's a bit of a forgotten album but the fish & I love it & I can always hear echoes (see what I did there) of the famous album to come the very next year(Dark Side of the Moon) 🎵🎶🎵

#histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜 Not reading anything new today but thought I would post one of my favourite historical novels: Lincoln by Gore Vidal (1984) - this is a first edition which contains a few errors. Gore Vidal always told people he wrote slowly & carefully but the opposite was true, 1/2

This week CrimeReads Crime and the City visited Chengdu, the capital of southwest China's Sichuan province….here’s 3 spicy reads to get you started…

#sinology out today from @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

#histbookchat For the #WW2 Japan specialists....

@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.

#kdrama Watching Bon Appetit, Your Majesty at the moment. So much fun! And Yoona 😍of course

#RIP Jerome Cohen - only read his memoir a few months ago #sinology #law www.wsj.com/world/china/...

My tribute to Paul Cohen as historian & mentor to many www.asianstudies.org/in-memoriam-... cc @lmansley.bsky.social

Many thanks for the mention, Paul!! @chinarhyming.bsky.social #BookSky 💜📚 #CrimeFiction #China #Chengdu

#histbookchat #amreading #BookSky 💜📚Latest arrival! The Kappillan of Malta by Nicholas Monsaratt (1973). Many thanks to Aunty Lesley @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social who took time out from coercing vulnerable people into giving her votes to send me a copy! Probably more famous for 1/2

#histbookchat #sinology

#histbookchat #sinology New release from Cambridge Uni Press - A Mongol Family at the Ming Court

Nice find, Rick - I've never heard of this novel!

#histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜 Some #fiction from me today! Sunset by Douglas Reeman (1995) December 1941, Hong Kong, and HMS Serpent, an aging WW1 destroyer, continues with its lonely patrols on the South China Sea....

It's fish tank cleaning day and the fish 🐟🐟🐟wanted some #blues or #bluesrock so Dust Bowl by Joe Bonamassa (2011) 🤘🎶🎵🎶

#histbookchat #sinology Everyone sensible has been brought up on a diet of Hong Kong kung fu movies. But what is the true history of the martial arts in China?? This is the book to read. Peter Lorge begins his story with the Lady Hao, the first Chinese martial artist in known history ca. 1170BCE

Latest read! #amreading #BookSky 📚💜Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto (1961,1989) trans. Beth Cary - as supplied by Aunty Lesley's Breathtaking Museum of Literary Exotica @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social #CrimeFiction

#PhotoFriday #sinology #law #histbookchat Death by a Thousand Cuts by Timothy Brook, Jerome Bourgon, & Gregory Blue (2008) - love this book! A superb examination of lingchi or 'death by slicing' that continues to linger in Western (& Eastern!) imaginations as a symbol of the 1/2

#sinology #law #histbookchat A magistrate after my own heart! As magistrate in Suzhou Prefecture (ca. 1683), Guo Xiu smacks corrupt agent into the canal!😂 From Three Impeachments by R. Kent Guy (2024) - great book, btw

#sinology Out on 9th September!