Journeys | Jody Ferguson Blog

I wrote recently in my novel Above the Water, "the most dangerous times during a war are at the end. That is when the discipline that has been strictly maintained starts to crumble." The Dutch writer Ian Buruma, who has written several eloquent histories about East Asia, takes a look at the latter half of 1945, when after six years of world war the peoples of the combatant nations began moving around again. In “Year Zero,” which Buruma uses to describe the restart of the worl

Fitzroy Maclean was an adventurer, a gentleman, a scholar, a diplomat, a warrior, and a hero.

In her book The Opium Wars British academic Julia Lovell describes both the historical and the contemporary Chinese distrust of the West...