@TimothySifert

Americas credit editor at IFR, a Refinitiv publication.

Joined January 2011
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Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews “Thank You, Mr Nixon”, stories by Gish Jen @AAKnopf asianreviewofbooks.com/conte…
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My take on “Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China’s Capitalist Ascent” by Jason M Kelly asianreviewofbooks.com/conte… via @BookReviewsAsia
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Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews "Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent" by Jason M Kelly @Harvard_Press @HarvardUPLondon asianreviewofbooks.com/conte…
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My take on new translation of classic Hong Kong novel "The Drunkard" by Liu Yichang. This book and Liu’s “Intersection” inspired Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 and In the Mood for Love asianreviewofbooks.com/conte… via @BookReviewsAsia
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Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews "The Drunkard" by Liu Yichang, a classic of Hong Kong literature now in #translation @CUHKPress @ColumbiaUP asianreviewofbooks.com/conte…
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Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews "Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization" by Peter E Hamilton @ColumbiaUP asianreviewofbooks.com/conte…
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My take on "Crime, Justice & Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong" by May Holdsworth & Christopher Munn asianreviewofbooks.com/conte… via @BookReviewsAsia
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Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews "Seven Years of Darkness", the new pyschological thriller by Jeong You-jeong, in #translation from Korean by Chi-Young Kim (@LittleBrownUK @penguinrandom) asianreviewofbooks.com/conte…
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"All history begins in the present." My review of "China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816-1980" by Robert Bickers, asianreviewofbooks.com/conte… via @BookReviewsAsia #hongkong

"China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816-1980" by Robert Bickers

The name Taikoo—or Taigu in Mandarin—means “great and ancient” and was adopted by John Swire & Sons in China in the 19th century when the UK company was relatively new and still minor. Historian...

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Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816-1980" by Robert Bickers (@BloomsburyBooks @BloomsburyBiz) asianreviewofbooks.com/conte…

"China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816-1980" by Robert Bickers

The name Taikoo—or Taigu in Mandarin—means “great and ancient” and was adopted by John Swire & Sons in China in the 19th century when the UK company was relatively new and still minor. Historian...

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Here's my review of "The Honjin Murders," by Seishi Yokomizo, a locked-room mystery classic set in 1930s Japan. Serialized in Japan in 1946, the book has just been published in English for the first time asianreviewofbooks.com/conte… via @BookReviewsAsia
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Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews "The Honjin Murders" by Seishi Yokomizo (@PushkinPress): classic Japanese crime fiction from 1946, finally available in English for the first time asianreviewofbooks.com/conte…
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Here’s my review of Frank Dikötter’s latest, the timely "How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century" asianreviewofbooks.com/conte… via @BookReviewsAsia

"How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century" by Frank Dikötter

Frank Dikötter, author of the acclaimed People’s Trilogy, focuses his latest book on the special role personality cults have played in eight eerily effective 20th-century dictatorships. The wryly...

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"'How to Be a Dictator' is serious yet optimistic book, to the extent that a work of history can be optimistic. 'Vigilance,' notes Dikötter, '… is not the same as gloom.'" asianreviewofbooks.com/conte…
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Today in the ARB: Tim Sifert reviews "How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century" by Frank Dikötter asianreviewofbooks.com/conte…
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Barrick Gold Is Said to Have Studied Offer for Newmont Mining $gold $nem bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #MNA
HNA’s $70,000-an-hour plane among jets that're up for sale: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Cash-Strapped HNA Puts Fleet of Luxury Jets Up for Sale

HNA Group Co. is in talks to sell a fleet of private jets, including a $70,000-an-hour retrofitted Boeing 787 and some planes reserved for its leaders, as the debt-laden Chinese conglomerate contin...

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#China's Anta Sports progresses in talks on possible deal for owner of Louisville Slugger brand: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #MLB

Chinese Suitor Progresses in Amer Sports Deal Talks

Amer Sports Oyj’s Chinese suitor is advancing in negotiations over a potential takeover of the Finnish company, which owns brands including Wilson tennis rackets, people familiar with the matter said.

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Morgan Stanley Unit Said to Seek Control of VTG Railcar Company bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Morgan Stanley Unit Makes Takeover Bid for VTG Railcar Firm

Morgan Stanley’s infrastructure arm offered to buy VTG AG in a deal that values the German wagon-hire and rail-logistics company at 1.53 billion euros ($1.79 billion), sending the shares up the most...

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Alibaba Vice Chairman Joseph Tsai lashes out at U.S. attempts to contain China: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… $baba

Top Alibaba Exec Lashes Out at U.S. Attempts to Contain China

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Vice Chairman Joseph Tsai struck out at some of China’s most vocal critics, saying their understanding of the country was flawed and they just wanted to stall its technol...

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