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Mao’s ‘alleged’ Guilt in the Land of Famines – Part 8/8
More than one book has examined this topic from a scholarly perspective (instead of inflammatory unsubstantiated and inflated claims), but Mao’s Western critics have mostly ignored this work. In China:...
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Discussion with Troy Parfitt, the author of “Why China Will Never Rule the...
Note from Blog’s host: In this discussion, Parfitt has agreed to ask me five questions and I will ask him five. After each answer, a response and then a final word will be allowed. Since each question,...
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On the trail of Dr Li Zhisui’s illusive Memories – Part 4/5
Troy Parfitt says, “To say Dr. Li Zhishui was bright, not to mention perceptive and articulate, would be an understatement. I would say he was exceptionally intelligent, and probably a gifted...
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On the trail of Dr Li Zhisui’s illusive Memories – Part 5/5
As you have discovered, while many in the West praised Dr. Li’s memoir of Mao as an accurate portrait of a manipulative egomaniac with little tolerance of dissent and a penchant for young women, the...
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The China-India Comparison with Lots of Facts – Part 1/5
This post was originally a result of a comment on the China Law Blog, which chastised me because, “He wanted me to provide a super-quick summary of The Economist cover story comparing India with China,...
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The China-India Comparison with Lots of Facts – Part 2/5
It is a fact that China has done more to reduce severe poverty than any nation on the earth and 90% of global poverty reduction starting in the 1980s took place in China. In addition, the Chinese...
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The China-India Comparison with Lots of Facts – Part 4/5
POVERTY & THE MAOIST REVOLT – Foreign Policy magazine reports that rural poverty in India is turning a Communist Revolt in to a raging resource war. “For India this is no longer rural unrest, but a...
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Americans doing Business in China – Part 10/16
Note from Blog host — another example of East meets West through business and trade: The Wall Street Journal reported, “Beijing Brews Up Its Own Craft Beers… With the recent opening of Slow Boat...
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A Coup in China? A Jasmine Spring?
Do a Google search on “News of a coup in China” and you may end up with as many hits as I had, which was more than 110,000,000 when I was researching the topic of this post. Amazing! I suspect this...
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Mao and Snow
During one of our trips to Shanghai, China, my wife and I went to see a film called Mao Zedong and Edgar Snow. Edgar Snow (1905 – 1972) was an American journalist known for his books and articles on...
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Family Roots run Deep in Israel and China
In 1967, I was stationed at Camp Pendleton, California. Between June 5 – 10, six months after I returned from Vietnam, Israel fought the Six-Day War defeating several Islamic nations that had twice the...
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