Time Out Shanghai – Best China Books of the Year 2011

The Time Out Shanghai Best China Books of the Year list is out for 2011. OK, so I like that I’m included and I like the line – “Midnight in Peking has all the page turnability of a Ruth Rendell mystery.” However, The Fat Years was also good as was Lynn Pan’s Gangsters in Paradise and Zha Jianying’s Tide Players. Of course I don’t like that Kissinger, the murdering old war criminal, is on the list but some people seem to find him interesting for some reason (of course, the recently and sadly departed Hitch always knew better than to praise him).