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China's Last Empire by Michael Rowe
| STEPHEN MAIRE | 09 February 2010
The burden of history sits heavily and uneasily on the Qing. It is not just that the Qing was the last dynasty or the the Qing marks China's encounter with the West, but more importantly, both the Nationalist and Communist Chinese regimes that emerged from the revolution that overthrew the Qing seek to explain and justify their own existence as a response to Qing failure. CHINA'S LAST EMPIRE is the concluding volume to the Belknap... [ more ]
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Lustrum by Robert Harris
| PETER GORDON | 07 February 2010
I should start this review by coming clean and noting that LUSTRUM, the latest historical novel by ROBERT HARRIS about the Roman orator and senator Cicero, has nothing, except for a few asides about Pompey rampaging around the Levant and the booty returned thence, to do with Asia. But I have liked Harris's last few books, especially Imperium, this volume's predecessor.
LUSTRUM continues Cicero's... [ more ]
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