Timothy Sifert

Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews “Thank You, Mr Nixon”, stories by Gish Jen @AAKnopf asianreviewofbooks.com/content/thank-…

My take on “Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China’s Capitalist Ascent” by Jason M Kelly asianreviewofbooks.com/content/market… via @BookReviewsAsia

Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews "Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent" by Jason M Kelly @Harvard_Press @HarvardUPLondon asianreviewofbooks.com/content/market…

My take on new translation of classic Hong Kong novel "The Drunkard" by Liu Yichang. This book and Liu’s “Intersection” inspired Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 and In the Mood for Love asianreviewofbooks.com/content/the-dr… via @BookReviewsAsia

Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews "The Drunkard" by Liu Yichang, a classic of Hong Kong literature now in #translation @CUHKPress @ColumbiaUP asianreviewofbooks.com/content/the-dr…

Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews "Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization" by Peter E Hamilton @ColumbiaUP asianreviewofbooks.com/content/made-i…

My take on "Crime, Justice & Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong" by May Holdsworth & Christopher Munn asianreviewofbooks.com/content/crime-… via @BookReviewsAsia

Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews "Seven Years of Darkness", the new pyschological thriller by Jeong You-jeong, in #translation from Korean by Chi-Young Kim (@LittleBrownUK @penguinrandom) asianreviewofbooks.com/content/seven-…

"All history begins in the present." My review of "China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816-1980" by Robert Bickers, asianreviewofbooks.com/content/china-… via @BookReviewsAsia #hongkong

Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816-1980" by Robert Bickers (@BloomsburyBooks @BloomsburyBiz) asianreviewofbooks.com/content/china-…

Here's my review of "The Honjin Murders," by Seishi Yokomizo, a locked-room mystery classic set in 1930s Japan. Serialized in Japan in 1946, the book has just been published in English for the first time asianreviewofbooks.com/content/the-ho… via @BookReviewsAsia

Today in the ARB: @TimothySifert reviews "The Honjin Murders" by Seishi Yokomizo (@PushkinPress): classic Japanese crime fiction from 1946, finally available in English for the first time asianreviewofbooks.com/content/the-ho…

Here’s my review of Frank Dikötter’s latest, the timely "How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century" asianreviewofbooks.com/content/how-to… via @BookReviewsAsia

"'How to Be a Dictator' is serious yet optimistic book, to the extent that a work of history can be optimistic. 'Vigilance,' notes Dikötter, '… is not the same as gloom.'" asianreviewofbooks.com/content/how-to…

Today in the ARB: Tim Sifert reviews "How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century" by Frank Dikötter asianreviewofbooks.com/content/how-to…

Barrick Gold Is Said to Have Studied Offer for Newmont Mining $gold $nem bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #MNA

HNA’s $70,000-an-hour plane among jets that're up for sale: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#China's Anta Sports progresses in talks on possible deal for owner of Louisville Slugger brand: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #MLB

Morgan Stanley Unit Said to Seek Control of VTG Railcar Company bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Alibaba Vice Chairman Joseph Tsai lashes out at U.S. attempts to contain China: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… $baba