Editor, @FortuneMagazine. Also host of @BookReviewsAsia podcast. Based in Hong Kong.
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🎧️ This week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast features host Nicholas Gordon (@nickrigordon) in conversation with Michael Dillon, author of “Shanghai: The Story of China’s Most Dynamic City” @YalePress
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Next episode of the @BookReviewsAsia/@NewBooksNetwork podcast! Michael Dillon comes on the show to talk about "Shanghai: The Story of China's Most Dynamic City" (@yalepress)
As David Chaffetz writes in @BookReviewsAsia, "we should take [Russia's] steppe heritage seriously. About this, Khodarkovsky is dead right." asianreviewofbooks.com/the-s…
As Michael puts it, "if we really want to understand Russia, we also need to look towards Asia. We need to look East."
None of them had a natural border against the grassland. That meant permanent fortification lines, permanent military spending, and a state strong enough to swallow everyone inside it.
Michael argues that to understand Russia, we should look east—to the steppe. Russia, Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Iran, Mughal India and Qing China all faced the same open frontier, and it shaped all of them.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on the ARB's website here: asianreviewofbooks.com/podca…
This week on the @BookReviewsAsia / @NewBooksNetwork podcast: Michael Khodarkovsky talks about his book "The Steppe and Its Empires: The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterparts," (@yalepress) on what the empires of the steppe: Russia, the Ottomans, Safavid Iran...
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🎧️ Today in the ARB New Books Network Podcast, Nicholas Gordon (nickrigordon) hosts Tom Feiling, author of “Alone in Japan: A Journey to the Future” @AllenLaneBooks @NewBooksNetwork
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Next episode of the @BookReviewsAsia/@NewBooksNetwork podcast!
@mehrangul_ joins the show to talk about ‘The New Geography of Innovation: The Global Contest for Breakthrough Technologies” (@AvidReaderPress)
As Sean Paterson writes in @BookReviewsAsia , this is "China's own 'Classical' age, seen by Chinese audiences the way the Golden Age of Athens is by Greeks." asianreviewofbooks.com/to-ru…
Philosophers emerged from the chaos. Confucius, Mozi, Zhuangzi and others—faced with a breakdown in how governance was supposed to work—all wrestled with the same urgent question: how do you make power legitimate and lasting?
Andrew describes one battle where trench lines stretched for dozens of miles and the armies faced off for months. It sounds like the Battle of the Somme—2,000 years before the First World War.
China’s aristocratic system fell apart over the following centuries. Warfare changed from aristocrats in chariots to tens of thousands of crossbow-wielding farmers. States had to adapt: They needed productive economies, large populations, and good records.
It started in 481BC, when an aristocrat murdered his own duke. The duke’s crime? He’d promoted a commoner—one of Confucius’s students—to prime minister. And yet the assassin got away with it, with governing institutions largely shrugging off the violent incident.
Andrew's argument: the Warring States Period was a revolution to rival the American, French, or Russian ones. It was a reinvention of how China organized power, creating a system that lasted until 1911–and, arguably, still has influence today.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on the ARB’s website here: asianreviewofbooks.com/podca…
This week on the @BookReviewsAsia / @NewBooksNetwork podcast: @AndrewSethMeyer comes on the show to talk about his book “To Rule All Under Heaven,” from @OxUniPress , to talk all about the Warring States period!
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🎧 Drops today: the ARB New Books Network Podcast features Nicholas Gordon (@nickrigordon) in conversation with Andrew Seth Meyer, author of “To Rule All Under Heaven” @OxUniPress @NewBooksNetwork
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A new podcast interview about my book dropped yesterday at @BookReviewsAsia . @nickrigordon had recently interviewed Yuri Pines about his new book, so the interview was distinctive in focusing on the contrast between the Spring and Autumn 春秋 (771-481 BCE) and Warring States 戰國 (481-221 BCE) periods: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
