Andrew Peaple

1 month ago | chinabooksreview.com | Taili Ni |Christopher A. Cottrell |Andrew Peaple |Rachel Cheung

While many books have been written on Kublai Khan, none have framed him in terms of sea power.Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2024) is anthropologist and author Jack Weatherford’s latest historical account of the vast Mongol empire that rampaged across the 13th and 14th centuries, from Baghdad to Beijing, with control of the oceans as its central theme.

2 months ago | thewirechina.com | Andrew Peaple |Ella Apostoaie

Sue-Lin Wong is the South East Asia correspondent for The Economist, having previously reported for the magazine in China. Her first podcast series, The Prince, told the tale of the rise and ascendancy of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. More recently she has turned her attention to the lucrative yet brutal world of online scamming and how it has become a massive global industry. The result, an eight-part series entitled Scam Inc, is now available here.

2 months ago | thewirechina.com | Andrew Peaple |Ella Apostoaie

Patrick Jenevein is a businessman from Texas whose long experience working in the energy sector in China forms the backdrop to his new book, Dancing with the Dragon. In it, he recounts how his company, Tang Energy, started investing in the gas industry in Xinjiang thirty years ago, before moving on to larger projects, particularly in the wind-power industry.

Jan 5, 2025 | thewirechina.com | Andrew Peaple

Barry Naughton, the So Kwan Lok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at UC San Diego, is one of the world’s leading experts on China’s economy and its transformation over the last half century. His textbook The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth, has long been a must-read for students of China; more recently he has coined the term ‘Grand Steerage’ to describe how Xi Jinping’s government is trying to shape the country’s development.

Nov 24, 2024 | thewirechina.com | Andrew Peaple |Ella Apostoaie

Odd Arne Westad is a historian of modern international history who is currently the Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University. His latest book The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform, written with Chen Jian, recounts the dramatic political struggles that took place in China from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, the outcome of which — the book argues — fundamentally shaped the country’s development until the present day.