The NYRB China Archive
10.04.12

David Levine’s China

David Levine
from New York Review of Books

David Levine’s depictions of Chinese notables—and everyone else he drew, for that matter—are so sublime that very often after seeing an image, one is left hardly able to remember what the real person actually looked like.

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The NYRB China Archive
10.24.91

John King Fairbank (1907–1991)

Roderick MacFarquhar
from New York Review of Books

John Fairbank, who died on September 14 at the age of eighty-four, read virtually all serious Western works on China. Reviewing them, principally for The New York Review in the last several years, was for him one way of keeping abreast...