A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and Its Neighbours - Paperback

by Pankaj Mishra (Author)

'Thoughtful, intelligent, rigorous and deeply insightful'- TimeOut
'Intriguing vignettes of [China's] transformation '- Business World

Full of unexpected ideas and fresh insights, A Great Clamour is an extraordinary account of contemporary Asia from one of our finest essayists. Journeying through China, Tibet, Mongolia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Japan, Mishra explores the contradictions and dynamism of modern-day China, simultaneously drawing a vivid portrait of its neighbors, and the shadow the restless giant casts over its stage.

Author Biography

Pankaj Mishra is the author of From the Ruins of Empire and several other books. He is a columnist at Bloomberg View and the New York Times Book Review, and writes regularly for The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and the New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.