Books by Ian Williams
The Fire of the Dragon: China’s New Cold War
by Ian Williams
“I have to warn you, don’t read any Orwell books before you go to sleep. I cried when I read Who Cares, I was furious when I read Show Me the Bodies, I was dismayed when I read Divided. All these books bring you to certain emotions. This one, The Fire of the Dragon, just kept me awake because it scared me. And I’m not prone to hyperbole, generally.
What I found so incredibly powerful about this book is just how important it is that we all understand more about what is happening in China and its worldview. I’m not saying this in a nationalistic or close-minded way, but this book reveals the much scarier nature of the world, when you think about it through the lens of China. That’s what it challenges you to do. How China sees us and how we see China and the ambitions on both sides are so wildly different. The book shows how bad the policy has been in terms of individual governments in relation to supply of resources, what’s happening in Taiwan, what this author thinks will happen in Hong Kong. It kept me awake because it feels as though this is troubling in a way that not enough people are really thinking about and understand well enough.”
Interviews where books by Ian Williams were recommended
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The Fire of the Dragon: China’s New Cold War
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Invasion: Russia’s Bloody War and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival
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Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It
by Emily Kenway -
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The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy
by Philippe Sands -
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The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
by Angela Saini
The 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, recommended by Martha Lane Fox
The 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, recommended by Martha Lane Fox
The Orwell Prizes are the UK’s most prestigious prizes for writing about politics, awarded annually to books and articles that best meet George Orwell’s own ambition “to make political writing into an art.” Martha Lane Fox, chair of this year’s judging panel, talks us through the shortlist of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, awarded annually to a nonfiction book.
