by James Kendall | Uncategorized
If you have read The Dragon Gate Conspiracy, you have already met a few of them: the laconic, sun-bronzed Sailors aboard the USS Patuxent. The book opens with Jack Gaines watching them banter in pidgin with Chinese hawkers from the rail as the gunboat noses upriver...
by James Kendall | Uncategorized
If you’ve picked up this novel, you’ve stepped into one of the most turbulent, and least remembered, chapters of modern Chinese history. A brief backgrounder may help orient you before the first shot is fired. The year is 1926. China is not, in any practical sense, a...
by James Kendall | Uncategorized
There is a particular kind of knowledge that accumulates slowly, over decades, without any clear plan for where it is going. You study a language because the military sends you to study it. You earn a graduate degree in Asian Studies for the same reason. You spend...
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