ISHAM COOK CHINA
Question everything 切問而近思 – Confucius
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Isham Cook
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Updating the great Chinese socialist realist novel
Satirical review of the latest addition to Chinese socialist realist fiction.
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Living the Taiping
Historical novel set during Taiping Rebellion cultivates a richly textured English, while another captures Sir Robert Hart’s love for a Chinese woman.
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The literature of paralysis: The China PC scene and the expat mag crowd
What happens to writing when it’s fed through the political correctness machine.
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Macau and the writer: A photo essay
Photo essay of old Macau with nudes and choice literary quotations.
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The question of breeding (why foreign men get the “ugly” Chinese girls)
Tongue-in-cheek explanation (with more than a grain of truth) of why it’s so hard to land a Chinese beauty.
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At the Teahouse Café: Essays from the Middle Kingdom
What decades of living in China have taught this American expat.
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The many faces of Chinese “face”
Chinese “face” and Chinese “apathy” reconsidered in dynamic relationship.
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Honesty, diligence, obedience: Why I support China’s Great Firewall
An openminded appreciation of the Great Firewall of China.
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The curious benefits of neurosis
Crucially, she has the “touch.” Love in her hands.
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My lovely little oriental doll: On yellow fever
On the triteness of the “yellow fever” and “Asian fetish” clichés.
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Massaging the masseuse in Beijing and Bangkok
“Money is just money. But sexual companionship is priceless.”
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The Exact Unknown and Other Tales of Modern China
This pioneering collection of delightfully disturbing tales by one unruly foreigner dredges up comedy blacker than a black hole.
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