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W. Somerset Maugham: On a Chinese Screen

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By Alexander Boyd
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The mid-20th-century English literary critic Cyril Connolly once categorized novelist W. Somerset Maugham as an “Incorruptible Observer.” Maugham was an unimaginative writer, it is true, but his observational powers were formidable, and his ear for dialogue and eye for character made up for any deficit of imagination.
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China’s Disappearing Countryside, with Colin Flahive

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By Alexander Boyd
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This is an episode of the China Books Podcast, from China Books Review. Follow us to listen to the pod on your favorite platform, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify, where a new episode lands on the first Tuesday of every month. Or listen to this episode right here, where we also post the transcript. At the turn of the 21st century, around 64% of China’s population lived in the countryside.
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Can China Actually Go Green?

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By Alexander Boyd
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Reviewed: In Search of Green China by Ma Tianjie (Polity, May 2025). In the late 2000s, a Chinese friend in Beijing liked telling a dark joke. He would try to convince me to smoke with him by gesturing toward the haze above us. “Hey,” he’d say with a wry smile, “at least cigarettes have filters.” To many of us in the 21st century, it is difficult to imagine industrial development without its negative image of environmental decline.
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