San Francisco: Perfect Strangers, 2019. Softcover. What is it like to work as a tour guide in Cairo? How do a cross-cultural couple navigate the ins and outs of marriage (and priesthood) in a remote town in southwestern Japan? What are some of the varied origins of urban flora in... More about Perfect Stranger (Issue Two
Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011. Thomson Reuters (cover photo). Reprint. Paperback. Harvard Contemporary China Series 17. Observers have been predicting the demise of China’s political system since Mao Zedong’s death over thirty years ago. The Chinese Communist state, however, seems to have become increasingly adept at responding to..... More about Mao's Invisible Hand: The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China
Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate The origins of Chinese ideographs were not known until 1899, when a scholar went to an apothecary for some medicine made of “dragon bone.” To his surprise, the bone, which... More about China: Empire of Living Symbols
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