Karl Gerth, “China: Up Close and Personal” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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The Problem Is That It Couldn't Have Come Out of Nothing
Carl Safina is the author of a new book, China: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. He looks at how chinese men were expected to change their appearance for nationalistic reasons. But he says that as china goes, so goes the world - even if it's not in good ways. 'I'm always conscious when i whe finished speaking about these things, that there ws a lot of doom and gloom'
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