#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

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#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!

#histbookchat A great reappraisal of the film Is Paris Burning? by Mister Banerjee @shoumojitb.bsky.social Screenplay by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola among others.... 1/2 www.theperfectvoice.in/post/a-city-...

#histbookchat #sinology This is a great deal!! Paid a small fortune for mine but was worth it. Great book and a fascinating insight to a man I knew very little about. My only caveat is that, for the general reader, a little background on China & CCP history might be useful - but get it anyway!😂

#sinology #law Fun read for today, paper from 2024, how do the Chinese people perceive their legal system? I guess same as most countries: different perceptions depending on whether caught up in the legal system or not

#BookSky 📚💜 #amreading #CrimeFiction A Quiet Place by Seicho Matsumoto (1971), trans. Louise Heal Kawai (2016) as supplied by the bronzed goddess herself, Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social

Great review from @yuanyiz.bsky.social of Dan Wang's latest book and the engineers v lawyers debate! Looks like the book to read this year! #histbookchat #sinology

#histbookchat #PhotoFriday #sinology #memoir About to start reading At The Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China by Edward Wong (2024) @ewong.bsky.social from @profilebooks.bsky.social Had this for Xmas and it's already August...😂😬

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🎵I told her that I was a flop with chicks I've been this way since 1956 She looked at my palm and she made a magic sign She said, "What you need is document number nine"🎵 My latest piece in The Perfect Voice, ed. by @shoumojitb.bsky.social #histbookchat www.theperfectvoice.in/post/documen...

Available to stream #VJDay #histbookchat from today is the doc about the sinking of the Lisbon Maru by the USS Grouper - one of the war's great tragedies. The ship was being used to transport POWs to Japan, the survivors being rescued by Chinese 1/2 www.odysseychinesecinema.uk/film/vj-day-...

#histbookchat There's a lot of political focus at the moment on crime in Washington DC. This book tells the story of a cold winter month in the life of the Prince George's County (which borders Washington DC) murder squad back in 2013. Despite Lee Child's approval, this is far from the 1/2

#sinology #histbookchat out 25th September, from Brill - time to cash in your pension plans now

Great piece from Mister Banerjee @shoumojitb.bsky.social on the literary 'fallout' from the dropping of the atomic bombs. Obviously not a comprehensive list and more being written every day. #histbookchat www.theperfectvoice.in/post/brighte...

Only ordered this book from @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social on Thursday and it has arrived already!! Aunty Lesley is one fast lady! 👀🤷‍♂️😲Three Impeachments by R. Kent Guy (2024) @uwapress.bsky.social #China #history #law The #Qing isn't my fav dynasty but corruption cases are ever fascinating!

#histbookchat #sinology Thinking about Brian's @halma.bsky.social choice last week of a revolutionary warship, here's maybe a better contender - only a short career, but did a bit of damage during the First Opium War - Nemesis by Adrian G. Marshall (2016) #PhotoFriday

#histbookchat Released 14th August, 600 pages, looks great - Richard B. Frank seems to like it, which should be good enough for all of us, Cambridge Uni Press

#sinology #law #crime some light afternoon reading on 'The Gang' in Mainland China, paper from 2018

#histbookchat #sinology #law #PhotoFriday It's a bit beaten up but I managed to find this going very cheap in a charity shop in Bigfoot 🦍 country in Oregon 🤷‍♂️😂Usually retails for about £100!! The Authoritarian Commons by Shitong Qiao (2025) It was open access, not sure if it still is....

Out today from Jennifer Yip: Grains of Conflict @universitypress.cambridge.org How the Chinese Nationalist armies fed their soldiers during WW2 #histbookchat #sinology

Evenin' all 🤖🚓

#histbookchat #sinology #PhotoFriday Haven't got around to reading this yet even though it's been on the shelf for some time but hopefully sometime this year!! Looks very good, though" The Conscience of the Party: Hu Yaobang, China's Communist Reformer by Robert L. Suettinger (2024)

#histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜Just arrived!! I already have three versions (I think) of James Clavell's Shogun, but I couldn't resist the new edition from @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social #fiction #japan #shogun It is quite stunning! 1/2

My latest piece in The Perfect Voice, Mumbai, this time on the history of fingerprinting, edited by the forensically very careful, Mister Banerjee @shoumojitb.bsky.social #histbookchat www.theperfectvoice.in/post/how-a-m...

20% off the Qianfu Lun...

#histbookchat #law #sinology New arrival!! Law and the Party in China: Ideology & Organisation ed. by Rogier Creemers & Susan Trevaskes (2020) from as supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social who has all the right books, but not necessarily in the right places 1/2

#kdrama Okay, now on to Shadow Detective 2 - still can't trust anyone 😲

watching Shadow Detective #kdrama Great stuff but making my head spin LOL! 😵‍💫

#20BooksofSummer25 – Book 9/20 – #BookReview – The Vintage Shop of Second Chances by Libby Page #TheVintageShop #BookSky #FeelGoodRead #FavouriteAuthor #SecretLibraryBookBlog Synopsis: "Among the cobbled streets of the Somerset town of Frome, Lou is embarking on the start of something new. After…

The future of life on earth will be changed forever, but not everyone will survive to see it: welcome to my review of #TheTranscendentTide by ‪@dougjohnstone.bsky.social‬! Out next month from ‪@orendabooks.bsky.social‬!

#histbookchat #sinology Picked this book up going cheap. Don't know the book or the author but I really liked the cover!😂 @milhistreader.bsky.social Looks good, though. Contemporary China: 1949 to the Present by Gilles Guiheux (2023) from @politybooks.bsky.social

latest read! #amreading #BookSky 📚💜 #histbookchat #sinology Hope to review in a couple of weeks!

Latest #kdrama Chief Detective 1958 - great fun!

#histbookchat great review from @susanbk.bsky.social of Together in Manzanar by Tracy Slater