http://www.outofmaosshadow.com The official Web site for the book, Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:48:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have refrained from blogging during the Olympics, in part because I've been sharing my views in a series of interviews intended to promote Out of Mao's Shadow.  This is basically my last media push; I'll be cutting off the book tour and going to Moscow next week -- earlier ... http://www.outofmaosshadow.com/2008/08/16/one-last-media-push/ Here's the latest review, a kind one from the influential Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times. http://www.outofmaosshadow.com/2008/07/15/the-latest-review/ In my book talks and interviews, I've often used the Communist Party's response to the Sichuan earthquake as an example of why it has been able to stay in power. Now there's a new twist in the story. The government's initial response to the earthquake was to order journalists not ... http://www.outofmaosshadow.com/2008/07/10/the-earthquake-the-webmaster-and-the-state/ I've been trying to spread the word about the book, and thanks to the folks at Simon & Schuster, I have been a guest on ten radio talk shows so far -- in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Albuquerque and, as of today, Dallas. For someone who has been living ... http://www.outofmaosshadow.com/2008/07/10/an-interview-a-review-and-a-request/ The Washington Post published a piece on the front of its Style section today that I adapted from chapters 2 and 3 of Out of Mao's Shadow. It tells the tale of Hu Jie, the air force officer turned documentary filmmaker who devoted five years of his life to recovering ... http://www.outofmaosshadow.com/2008/07/03/a-new-excerpt/ The government has confirmed that as many as 30,000 people rioted in a town in southwestern China this past weekend after the death of a 17-year-old girl, Li Shufen, whose body was found in a local river.  Police ruled the death a suicide by drowning, but residents of Weng'an County ... http://www.outofmaosshadow.com/2008/07/03/30000-riot-against-police-after-girls-death/ Two American congressmen visiting Beijing were blocked from meeting a group of Chinese lawyers over the weekend.  Readers of Out of Mao's Shadow may recognize the names of some of the lawyers -- Li Heping, Teng Biao, Jiang Tianyong, Li Fangping, Li Baiguang -- because they figure prominently in the ... http://www.outofmaosshadow.com/2008/07/02/chinese-lawyers-blocked-from-meeting-us-legislators/ Andrew J. Nathan -- a distinguished political scientist at Columbia University, and one of my favorite China scholars -- has written a very kind review of Out of Mao's Shadow for The Washington Post's Book World section.  You can read it here. It was a pleasant surprise on Sunday to see ... http://www.outofmaosshadow.com/2008/06/30/the-washington-post-book-world/ The book has received a strong first round of reviews, along with mentions in a variety of summer reading lists.  (My wife Sarah was disappointed it did not appear on the summer list in O, the Oprah Magazine. C'mon, Oprah, your readers want to learn about China!) Here are links to ... http://www.outofmaosshadow.com/2008/06/30/the-early-reviews/