A Few More US Reviews of Midnight in Peking

A few more reviews that are also, in some instances, broader features on Beijing and so may be of interest…

Jonathan Kaiman came for a stroll through the hutongs, Legation Quarter and the Badlands back in March and makes some apposite points about the book, 1937 and modern day Beijing and Chinese politics in the Los Angeles Times here and re-ran in the Chicago Tribune here.

The Christian Science Monitor did a question and answer session here – Can’t believe they actually printed my term “bum-numbingly boring” – someone will complain about British smut getting in the papers!! Carry On Up the Fox Tower!!

A longer and more in-depth interview with Peter Boyle on 630 K-HOW in Denver – here

A mixed review from USA Today where the reviewer even got my name wrong and didn’t like the book much at all! here. However, they changed the mistake and then, very kindly, made me a Book of the Weekend pick.

And the mighty Oprah‘s Spring Reading list – here

The San Francisco Bay Guardian did a Q&A on Midnight in Peking here

PopMatters were kind too!

And the New Yorker book blog likes Midnight in Peking too