Sinica Podcast
12.16.11

Learning Chinese

Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn & more
from Sinica Podcast

Shortly after his arrival in China, the late great 19th-century Sinologist Robert Hart would write his frustrations in his private diary, confiding that the convoluted phonemes of the Chinese language struck him like nothing so much as “the...

The NYRB China Archive
02.18.88

China on My Mind

Jonathan D. Spence
from New York Review of Books

Almost forty years have passed since John King Fairbank’s first book, The United States and China, was published in 1948. A careful blending of Chinese institutional history with diplomatic history, the book proved immediately popular...