![]() ![]() The Subplot, her first book, offers a portal into people’s hearts and minds by exploring contemporary Chinese literature.įrom acclaimed dystopian novels by Mo Yan and Yan Lianke to wildly popular web fiction (choosing among 24 million titles available to Chinese readers), Walsh revels in the diversity of reading tastes. Enter Megan Walsh, London-based writer, journalist and adept reader of Chinese-language fiction. Global Columbia Reports, 2022, 136 pages, $16 (Paperback)Īs Chinese netizens recede behind the Great Firewall and Americans come to see China through the prism of rivalry, the Anglophone world increasingly needs ways to pierce the Sinosphere’s veil. The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters Reviewed by John Delury, Professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies and Global Asia Associate Managing Editor. 6 Capitol insurrection, Osnos gets inside the skin of Trump’s America and defines Joe Biden’s challenge in recapturing “the soul of America.” Comfortable interviewing future presidents or mingling with the crowd at the Jan. Interlaced throughout are freshly-minted observations from Washington, where Osnos has been based since returning from China. Osnos charts America’s transformation at the grassroots with shoe-leather reporting in places he knows best - the hedge-fund suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut, where he grew up the small town of Clarksburg, West Virginia, where he got his first job out of college the metropolis of Chicago where he made it on the staff of a national newspaper. ![]() Now the foreign correspondent goes home, documenting the slowburn “institutional disrepair” and smoldering divisions of race and class that made for a bonfire after the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Evan Osnos made his reputation as one of his generation’s leading China Hands, weaving eight years of reporting from Beijing for The New Yorker into the prize-winning book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021, 480 pages, $16.95 (Hardcover)Īs leaders and publics across Asia struggle to come to grips with the changes underfoot in the United States and what it portends for its future role in the “Indo-Pacific,” Wildland is an essential read.Īn artfully constructed and vividly written portrait of a nation wracked by division and seething with discontent, it is a book of unusual provenance. ![]()
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