Reading Philip Snow’s new book, a history of Sino-Russian relations.
Snow’s not the most prolific author, but highly recommend his other books ( 🧵 below).
*He’s the only child of C.P. Snow, must be getting up in years. Anyway a very learned man, IIRC has Russian and Mandarin.
Snow’s not the most prolific author, but highly recommend his other books ( 🧵 below).
*He’s the only child of C.P. Snow, must be getting up in years. Anyway a very learned man, IIRC has Russian and Mandarin.
‘Star Raft’ is dated (30 years or so ago) but has a lot of good details, even the Cold War period pieces are interesting.
I can’t praise his HK World War II book enough. An old-fashioned account of HK: the colonial world of the interwar period; the apocalyptic weeks of December
I can’t praise his HK World War II book enough. An old-fashioned account of HK: the colonial world of the interwar period; the apocalyptic weeks of December
1941; the dramas of Japanese occupation, what it meant for the former British overlords, the Chinese, the various non-white imperial service-nomad peoples of HK, even sidebars on Portuguese Macau’s very interesting World War II; and finally, the British scramble back into HK in
those fascinating weeks of August-September 1945, when half of Asia was up for grabs in one way or another. A great book. If you liked Bayly & Harper’s ‘Forgotten Armies’ and ‘Forgotten Wars’ you’ll love Snow on World War II HK.
On Snow’s new book, Chris Miller covered this ground about a year and half ago, but at less length. Very good; have done threads on Miller before—‘The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy’ is brilliant, vital to understand a lot of the last 30 years.
Finally this, scholarly book on Gorbachev’s ‘Pivot to Asia,’ which went about as well as everything Gorbachev touched.
Not the place to start, but if this is your sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you’ll like...
Not the place to start, but if this is your sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you’ll like...
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