Ford, G. (2015). Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing by Scott Laderman, Asian Review of Books, 22 October. This short book is no…
Ford, G. (2015). A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power…
Ford, G. (2015). North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors by Daniel Tudor and James Pearson, Asian Review of Books,…
Ford, G. (2015). Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R Taggart Murphy, Asian Review of Books, 3 June. This is a book that…
Ford, G. (2015). The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination by Robeson Taj Frazier, Asian Review of Books, 5 March….
Ford, G. (2015). Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by Gerard Russell, Asian Review of Books, 10 January….
Ford, G. (2014). In paperback: China Goes Global: The Partial Power by David Shambaugh, Asian Review of Books, 24 December. This American-authored book attempts an…
Ford, G. (2014). Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 by Suzy Kim, Asian Review of Books, 27 July. Suzy Kim uses as the…
Ford, G. (2014). North Korea: State of Paranoia by Paul French, Asian Review of Books, 3 June. Paul French’s North Korea is unusual in that it is both…
Ford, G. (2014). North Korea Undercover by John Sweeney, Asian Review of Books, 7 May. The origins of North Korea Undercover lie in a “clandestine” trip organised…