For seventy years Mongolia was all but closed to the west - a forbidden country, shrouded in darkness. Jasper Becker had long dreamed of exploring the sweeping land that lay just beyond China’s Great Wall and when communism disintegrated, he finally did. Setting out from Kublai Khan’s ca[...]
Takes the reader inside one of the most secretive countries in the world, exposing the internal chaos, blind faith, rampant corruption, and terrifying cruelty of its rulers. This work details the vain efforts to change North Korea by actors inside and outside the country and the dangers this highly [...]
Exposes the horrible result of Mao's attempted utopian engineering in China between 1958 and 1962, uncovering a bloody trail of terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder[...]
In this deeply informed, clear-eyed portrait of China today, renowned Beijing-based journalist Jasper Becker looks at the world's most populous nation and where it's headed as it transforms itself into a global economic power. Becker is the ideal guide to the profound changes in China that are alrea[...]
Lågmäldhet, eftertanke, exakthet har ända sedan Per Helges debut 1974 varit återkommande ord i beskrivningar av hans poesi. I en lycklig förening av enkelhet och djup har Helge i en rad diktsamlingar pejlat sorgens, vemodets, vredens och den lågmälda livsglädjens landskap ur ett perspektiv d[...]