Desmond Shum

An insider's story of wealth, power, corruption and vengeance in today's China

'Urgent and accessible, its moral force is a gut punch' New Yorker'A fierce polemic on an enduring problem' The Economist*A searing study of American

An insider's story of wealth, power, corruption and vengeance in today's China

'Essential and instructive, hopeful and enraging' - Ann Patchett 'Desmond is utterly convincing: we must all become poverty abolitionists' - Emil

A gentle story - with a surprise twist! - about the bond between an imaginative bear and his best friend.

'Improvisations of Empire' examines the varied career of Thomas Pringle, a Scottish poet and journalist. It engages his formative Scottish years, his

This volume is intended to be both a catalogue for the special exhibit that will mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Harvard-Yenching Institute'

Improvisations of Empire offers a historical, biographical and literary study of the life and writings of Thomas Pringle (1789–1834), the son of a Low