Ford, G. (2017). “North Korea’s Hidden Revolution” by Jieun Baek, Asian Review of Books, 17 May. North Korea is changing. Pyongyang is a dynamic city…
Ford, G. (2017). “Three Months in Mao’s China” by Erik-Jan Zürcher & Kim van der Zouw, Asian Review of Books, 29 April. Between September and…
Ford, G. (2017). “Lotus” by Zhang Lijia, Asian Review of Books, 21 March. Zhang Lijia has moved from fact to fiction. After her 2008 “Socialism is…
Ford, G. (2017). “Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War” by Susan Southard, Asian Review of Books, 6 January. In 1946, John Hersey published the first account…
Ford, G. (2016). “Korea’s Grievous War” by Su-kyoung Hwang, Asian Review of Books, 26 December. Apart from on the Peninsula itself and in the vernacular,…
Ford, G. (2016). “Japanese Society and the Politics of the North Korean Threat” by Seung Hyok Lee, Asian Review of Books, 4 September. Japanese Society…
Ford, G. (2016). “Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire” by Janam Mukherjee, Asian Review of Books, 10 July. Hungry Bengal is the story…
Ford, G. (2016). We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War by Doug Bradley and Craig Werne, Asian Review of…
Ford, G. (2015). JFK’s Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War by Bruce Riedel, Asian Review of Books, 27 December. Buried beneath the…
Ford, G. (2015). Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China’s Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands by Sulmaan Wasif Khan, Asian Review of Books,…