Calum MacLeod

@CalumMacLeod3

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History made! ⚽🇺🇿
As the White Wolves play in their first-ever #WorldCup, are you ready to explore their stunning homeland? 🐺
Discover #Uzbekistan with the most detailed guidebook to the country ever written. Published today! 👇 (1/3)
#Samarkand #SilkRoad #TravelGuide

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Calum MacLeod @CalumMacLeod3 Dec 18, 2020

The fabulous 'Red Sands' is a Christmas cracker, full of inspiring, insightful reportage & recipes from across Central Asia. @edentravels

Calum MacLeod @CalumMacLeod3 Sep 18, 2020

Put China into better context: ‘China Remembers’, an oral history of the PRC’s extraordinary first 50 years, is republished as an e-book (by Zhang Lijia and me), revealing the human heart of modern China’s many revolutions. From a fruit peddler to the first yuan billionaire, from

Calum MacLeod @CalumMacLeod3 May 31, 2019

"For authoritarian regimes like China’s, history is power, because their political systems are legitimized through myths."

Ian Johnson @iandenisjohnson May 30, 2019

How the Party Decided to Shoot Its Own Citizens:
Our @nybooks exclusive (and unpaywalled) look at a new book edited by @NewCenturyBaopu with secret documents on the #June4 massacre, as well as a first look at Mao secretary Li Rui's personal archives.
nybooks.com/articles/2019/…
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Calum MacLeod @CalumMacLeod3 May 23, 2017

For the full story of China's religious revival, enjoy Ian Johnson's new 'Souls of China' - @iandenisjohnson amazon.com/Souls-China-Re…