ISHAM COOK CHINA
Question everything 切問而近思 – Confucius
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Isham Cook
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Pop music and the Asian face
Thoughts on aversive racism in the American music industry.
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Insights into China, Part 3: A stay in a hotel
The contradictions of China’s hospitality industry.
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Insights into China, Part 2: A meal in a restaurant
There is no more revealing window into Chinese culture than its restaurants.
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Insights into China, Part 1: A walk down the street
Chinese culture from the perspective of a pedestrian.
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Music and totalitarianism
What happens to music when the state gets its hands on it.
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Datura and the psychedelic Tao
Taoist sexual technology supercharged by the world’s most powerful entheogen.
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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.
