Professor of Chinese and World History, University of California, Irvine
Author of five books, including Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo (Penguin 2016), and editor, most recently, of The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China.
What would Mark Twain think of Donald Trump?
Mar 03, 2017 06:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Thanks to the criticisms theyve leveled in articles, interviews, tweets and letters to the editor, we know that many contemporary authors, from Philip Roth to J.K. Rowling, have a dim view of Donald J. Trump. But what...
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