ISHAM COOK CHINA
Question everything 切問而近思 – Confucius
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Datura and the psychedelic Tao
Taoist sexual technology supercharged by the world’s most powerful entheogen.
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Isham Cook’s China book picks by Book Shepherd
15 China books recommended by Isham Cook plus a few of his own.
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The Mustachioed Woman of Shanghai. A novel
Exotic woman unleashes the emotions in those she comes into contact with.
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Sexual surveillance in the Covid-19 era
Sex in the time of coronavirus in China and the U.S.
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Confucius and Opium: China Book Reviews
Book review essays tell China’s history over the past two centuries.
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Writing China in English: Recent novels
Difficult novels — and that’s a good thing — by Chinese and foreign expat authors.
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The adorable expatriate eccentric
The term “expatriate” is a misnomer and misrepresents the life lived abroad.
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Midnight in Peking and true crime fiction
A few maps put Paul French’s “true crime” story in perspective.
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Chungking: China’s heart of darkness
A brief history of travel in China and the challenges of inhospitality.
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Out of the squalor and into the light: When the Shanghai wall came down
Glimmers of Shanghai’s modernity in a 19th-century courtesan novel.
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Confucius and opium
An investigation of intoxicants in the time of Confucius.
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The expat and the prostitute: Four classic novels, 1956–62
Reviews of McKenna’s The Sand Pebbles, Mason’s The World of Suzie Wong, Arsan’s Emmanuelle, and Reynolds’ A Woman from Bangkok.
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