Blog Entries by BJ Arthur
Essential Information for Understanding
Eurasian Crossroads—A Book Review
Eurasian Crossroads—a detailed, but panoramic, picture of this ancient, but still very robust, Turkic civilization and its homeland.
Rickshaw Boy
A Book Review
Can poverty rob a man of his soul? Can betrayal by the things you love most break the constraints of the God-given conscience and society’s mores? Rickshaw Boy challenges the reader with these wrenching considerations. Though set in a bygone era in a culture that has since been transformed by globalization, Lao She speaks to us clearly—perhaps even more so than to his contemporaries.
John Song: Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man
A Book Review
"A colorfully descriptive and meticulously documented" biography of John Song.
When Meridians Guide Needles Not Ships
All that the layman could ever want to know about the historical development and philosophical roots of both Chinese and Western medicine in a condensed and readable form: that is Dr. Pak-Wah Lai’s gift to the readers of The Dao of Healing.
Sinicization: China Only for the Chinese
Sinicization attempts to close the Chinese mind to all that is not CCP-approved and to once again shut the window on the world.
Great Books of China
A Book Review
In this anthology of sixty-six works, Frances Wood provides a succinct but rich overview of the “doings” of the oldest continuous civilization on earth.
Frog—a Book Review
Read Frog with care, pray for those seeking Truth in a troubled, chaotic culture, and celebrate Mo Yan’s genius.