Bloomsbury Publishing 221 pages $28 and £20 Dialogue Books £20īy blending journalistic inquiry with historical insights and poetic descriptions, the author turns a complex and traumatic subject-racism and the legacy of slavery in America-into a beautiful, insightful and even enjoyable journey. The well-born are shielded from the worst effects of anti-corruption probes, the author charges: “Red aristocrats got a prison sentence commoners got a bullet in the head.” Scribner 320 pages $30 and £20Īn extraordinary behind-the-scenes glimpse of the nexus of business and politics in China from a former insider, combining explosive revelations with grubby details of elite life. Mostly told pseudonymously, they are touching, joyful, defiant-and honest. To be published in America by Astra House in March $28Ī Ghanaian feminist and activist relays stories of sexual freedom and relationships.
If these basic problems are not fixed, say the authors, China will struggle to reach its goal of broad prosperity.
Many are malnourished, lack reading glasses or suffer from energy-sapping intestinal worms. The biggest obstacle to China’s development is that rural children-two-thirds of the total-do terribly in school, argues this stunningly researched book. University of Chicago Press 248 pages $27.50 and £22
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