NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #57 of #GMGReads. Every night through this weird time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
I can't believe we're into the ninth week of #GMGReads! Tonight, I moderated a fun (virtual) @PoliticsProse conversation with @IgnatiusPost about his new book, THE PALADIN, which got me thinking about books on China, so here are some suggestions, available at @politicsprose...
PS: This is a category where my recommendations aren't comprehensive by any means; what would you add? What are the best books you've read on China? I've never read Jung Chang's two masterpieces, WILD SWAN or MAO, for instance: politics-prose.com/book/978074324…
1) One of my quarantine reads has been Daniel Kurtz-Phelan's (@dankurtzphelan) THE CHINA MISSION, about George Marshall's attempt to negotiate a peace in China post-World War II, which was fascinating—a chapter of history I knew literally nothing about: politics-prose.com/book/978039335…
2) Liz Economy's (@LizEconomy) THE THIRD REVOLUTION is a sharp, insightful recent history about Xi Jinping and his consolidation of power (which has only gotten worse since she wrote): politics-prose.com/book/978019005…
3) There are few writers I'm so consistently envious of as Evan Osnos (@eosnos), and if you want to read Exhibit A of "Reasons I Hate Evan," read his richly reported AGE OF AMBITION, surely one of the (if not the) best modern western book on China: politics-prose.com/book/978037453…
4) @IgnatiusPost's last novel, THE QUANTUM SPY, is probably the most accurate depiction of Chinese intelligence that exists, nonfiction or fiction: politics-prose.com/book/978039335…
5) Kai Fu Lee's (@kaifulee) recent AI SUPERPOWER clearly and thoughtfully lays out the next battleground between the west and China, for supremacy in artificial intelligence: politics-prose.com/book/978132854…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. What are your favorite books on China? What else should I read? Share! #avidreadersunite
