Calum MacLeod

History made! ⚽🇺🇿 As the White Wolves play in their first-ever #WorldCup, are you ready to explore their stunning homeland? 🐺 Discover #Uzbekistan with the most detailed guidebook to the country ever written. Published today! 👇 (1/3) #Samarkand #SilkRoad #TravelGuide

Thanks to the @ForeignAffairs editing staff for their great work on this piece, a review of Xu Guoqi’s extremely insightful book on Chinese identity. (Gift link) foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/red…

Whether you’re off to Samarkand, or armchair travelling during the #WorldCup, this is your ultimate companion to #Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 (3/3) Uzbekistan: The Golden Road to Samarkand (Odyssey Travel Guide): Amazon.co.uk: MacLeod, Calum, Mayhew, Bradley: 9781919539300: Books

History made! ⚽🇺🇿 As the White Wolves play in their first-ever #WorldCup, are you ready to explore their stunning homeland? 🐺 Discover #Uzbekistan with the most detailed guidebook to the country ever written. Published today! 👇 (1/3) #Samarkand #SilkRoad #TravelGuide

The fabulous 'Red Sands' is a Christmas cracker, full of inspiring, insightful reportage & recipes from across Central Asia. @edentravels

This came out five weeks ago today. Enormous thanks to everyone here who has commented on it, reviewed it, bought it and photographed it. It’s perhaps not been the best year to release a book but I am so, so glad and grateful that it is out and in the world.

Driving through the badlands of far Western Tibet, en route from Ngari to Tholing, through the eroded sea bed of the ancient Tethys Sea. #tibet #ngari #sutlej instagr.am/p/CFjs3u-pWe4/

the Forbidden City to a famine-ravaged commune, from rock star Cui Jian to a rubbish man, eye-witnesses recall the triumphs and tragedies that still inform how the Communist Party runs China. See amazon.com/China-Remember…

Put China into better context: ‘China Remembers’, an oral history of the PRC’s extraordinary first 50 years, is republished as an e-book (by Zhang Lijia and me), revealing the human heart of modern China’s many revolutions. From a fruit peddler to the first yuan billionaire, from

Which country improved the most in 2019? @TheEconomist ranks Uzbekistan as the winner! Systemic forced labour abolished. Jaslyk closed. Borders open. Corruption down. Emerging political debate. No other country travelled as far in 2019. Congratulations 🇺🇿 economist.com/leaders/2019/1…

"For authoritarian regimes like China’s, history is power, because their political systems are legitimized through myths."

"I particularly recall an elderly professor in a grey Parisian beret who courteously shook my hand before walking out into a hail of bullets" --- @JKynge recalls China's 1989 crackdown and its legacy ft.com/content/3867e3… via @financialtimes

Calum MacLeod, who lived in China for decades, describes how the Communist Party has continued its crackdown on dissent #Echobox=1558856687" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.co.uk/article/tianan…

My list of 20 Silk Road adventures looking great on the cover of Wanderlust magazine. Nice job @wanderlustmag! #silkroad

This is a fantastic guide. And soon visa free for Brits. What are you waiting for? A backpacker’s guide to Uzbekistan: a one-month itinerary theguardian.com/travel/2019/ja…

The meaning of sacrifice: will anyone remember Liu Xiaobo's decision to stay and fight? My piece in @nybooks ow.ly/XEQq30dE07S

The great @perrylink, translator of Charter 08 and much more, in @nybooks on the meaning of #LiuXiaobo's death. nybooks.com/daily/2017/07/…

Everything you always wanted to know about Pyongyang's traffic ladies: u.afp.com/4nQJ by me for @AFP