Isham Cook

Confucius and Opium: China Book Reviews (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Have foreigners shaped China's history to a greater extent than has previously been acknowledged, reaching back possibly millennia? Was Confucius' most famous book, the Analects, inspired by entheogenic medicines imported from abroad, possession of which in the 1930s brought one before the firing squad in the name of Confucius? In these book review essays by Isham Cook, foreign devils, old China Hands, eccentric expatriates, and a few Chinese tell an offbeat history of China's last two centuries, with a backward glance at ancient China as told by Western mummies. "Confucius and Opium contains surprises sure to both delight and annoy any potential reader....Cook's audacity is shaming."-John Grant Ross, author of Formosan Odyssey "The sniffy China-watcher clique back west resent Isham Cook for having the effrontery to pull at the threads of their narratives of what China should be to the world. Confucius and Opium will only deepen that resentment."-Tom Carter, author of An American Bum in China "Cook takes up the side of social life that is usually omitted from the history books, what are now unconventional points of view such as sex life, prostitution and drugs, and shows why they are quite reasonable."-Colin Mackerras, author of Western Perspectives on the People's Republic of China "Isham Cook's erudite, snarky, and very funny meander through books by and about Western expatriates in China serves up culture clashes that rarely see print."-Hill Gates, author of China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism. "Candid, edgy, fearless, and unsparing, Isham Cook writes as though with a sword in this oddly titled compendium of book reviews. Books and China are clearly life passions for him-Cook is embedded in both-making him ideally placed to comment on other writers grappling to understand and provide insight into the country, its culture, and its people."-Graeme Sheppard, author of A Death in Peking "Confucius and Opium serves as a useful resource for those who wish to read more distinctive accounts of a country that these days feels like it's been written about to death."--Quincy Carroll, author of Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside "Confucius and Opium's mildly dark, humorous and rebellious tone (a style I am particularly fond of) really sets Cook apart from the usual onslaught of popular books for the Western market by Chinese authors."--Ivy Ngeow, author of Overboard

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Isham Cook
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781732277434
• Artikelnr.: 75561294

Autorenporträt

A Chicagoan, Isham Cook has lived in Beijing, China, since 1994.