Here, by Sam Oglesby, in the Philadelphia Bulletin (newspaper from the city of my birth);
Here, by John Pomfret, in the Washington Post (newspaper from the city where I usually live);
Here, by John Guise, in the China Economic Review (magazine from the country where I'm living now).
So where's the Redlands Daily Facts? Newspaper from the city of my childhood. But I digress.
The nature of the book-writing life is often to grind your teeth about the insights and sublime subtleties of your argument that brutish (or biased!) reviewers have somehow missed. In these cases I feel fortunate in reviewers who saw and explained exactly the points I was trying to make. Also, these writers are Genuine China Hands -- including Pomfret, whose Chinese Lessons is a genuinely important book. Now, back to work.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/04/for-the-record-three-book-reviews/9887/
