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Postcards From Tomorrow Square: Reports From China (2008)

by James M. Fallows(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0307456242 (ISBN13: 9780307456243)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Vintage

review 1: I've been reading a lot of books - non-fiction - aboout China recently because the current China fascinates me. This is one of the better ones that I have read. It is a series of essays that were published in Atlantic magazine as they were written in 2005 - 2008 up to, but not including the Beijing Olympics. It's certainly an outsider's perspective of current Chinese culture, but an informed outsider. Quite good!
review 2: I wasn't too thrilled by James Fallows' book of essays on China. I've read a fair amount on China by Western authors in recent years and this was somewhat disappointing. Despite his entreaties that this piece doesn't encapsulate "all" of China, at the end of each essay, I was left with the feeling that Fallows was trying to tie all of t... morehis stuff into a bigger picture, mostly that China doesn't represent quite the rival many in the US believe it to be. This isn't so much a collection of essays about life in China as a piece about how China (the "entirety") has much further to go before it can effectively challenge the US for global hegemony. Had this been the explicit aim of the book, I think I would be happier. As it stands, however, this is not simply a collection of article/essays depicting life in China as I had hoped it would be and how it was billed. less

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