AMA'S 5 STAR REVIEW IN SUNDAY TIMES

"A bridge builder between East and West, following ancient archaeological findings, she often dives into historic settings more than 2,000 years back in time.

In her novel the 52-year-old author makes a bold swerve into less-travelled territory. She chooses for her protagonists Ama, an African priestess, living in China’s Macao in the 17th century; Ruben, a Portuguese Jesuit priest; and Fr Benedict, an Orthodox Christian.

The book explores the rapidly-growing Macao, its changing sights, sounds and smells from different perspectives, from that of a bat to a goddess to a spirit. Its miracle and its enigma are within the worlds of inner alchemy of the Age of Enlightenment.”

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Here is a list of recommended books on eastern and southern Asia. While I have read most of them, in the interests of efficiency I'll just list them without comment.

1. Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300 by Romila Thapar

2. A History of Japan (3 vols.) by George Sansom

3. Empires of Ancient Eurasia: The First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE–250 CE by Craig Benjamin

4. The Mongols by David Morgan

5. The Mughal Empire by John Richards

6. Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1545-1879 by Noel Perrin

7.  The Search For Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence

8.  The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen

9.  White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple

10. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple

11. Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 by David C. Evans and Mark R. Peattie

12  The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War by Jeremy A. Yellen

13.  Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper

14. Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins

15. India after Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guh

16. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel

My latest podcast is up on the New Books Network website! In it, I interview Patrick Fuliang Shan about his new biography of Yuan Shikai, the imperial official who became president of China before embarking on a failed bid to become emperor. Enjoy!

My latest podcast is up on the New Books Network website! In it I interview Phoebe Chow bout her new book about the beginnings of the British withdrawal form their empire in China (which I reviewed here). Enjoy!