- Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia by Robert E. Herzstein (Cambridge UP, 2005)
- Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric edited and translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn (Cornell UP, 2000)
- A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947 by Lai Tse-han, Ramon H. Myers, and Wei Wou (Stanford UP, 1991)
This has been characterized as a "case study of pseudo-objectivity" written by KMT apologists at the Hoover Institution, but it's still important to read, I think. - The United States in the Asia-Pacific since 1945 by Roger Buckley (Cambridge UP, 2002)
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Four new books in the former native speaker's library
It was almost like a birthday present (except that I paid for them...). This afternoon I got a box from Labyrinth Books, containing the four books that I ordered in November. They are all hardbound books, but only one (the Luce book) has a dust jacket. But three of them were less than US$10 each, and the last book was only $15. Not a bad deal...
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2 comments:
Yes, the 2-28 books sucks beyond all limits of suckiness. It's that bad -- never mind the $$, you'll be wanting the 3 hours you spent reading it back.
But why are you reading Renaissance debates on Rhetoric? Surely they are but footnotes to Quintillian and Lucian of Samosata?
Michael
I don't have Tragic Beginning with me now, but I was struck by the direction the book went in toward the end--discussing "terrorist" acts conducted by Taiwan Independence activists. Interesting to me in terms of how public memories of 228 have been framed. (This is not meant to be a new observation--just commenting on something I noticed, particularly in contrast to the trip to the Taipei 228 Museum.)
As to your second comment: surely you don't mean to allude to Lucian's "Ignorant Book Collector"... ;)
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