Uncategorized Articles

This is a template for the category pages on your blog. You can csutomize this template by going to the Theme Builder screen (look in the left menu column, near the bottom under “Divi”). You want the one labeled “All Category Pages”.

What Was the Yangtze Patrol, and Who Were the River Rats?

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...
Read More

The World of The Dragon Gate Conspiracy

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...
Read More

Why I Write

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...
Read More
Why I Write

Why I Write

Apr 13, 2026 |

There is a particular kind of knowledge that accumulates slowly, over decades, without any clear plan for where it is...

No Results Found

The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.