Laurence Westwood
@lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social
crime novelist interested in Chinese law, both dynastic and modern, and possibly retired investigator
www.laurencewestwood.com
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November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
#histbookchat #sinology New arrival! The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China by Ruixue Jia & Hongbin Li (2025) - supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social who was awarded her English degree after reading only one book (Great Gatsby) just to stop her rabbiting on about it
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
#histbookchat #sinology New arrival! The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China by Ruixue Jia & Hongbin Li (2025) - supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social who was awarded her English degree after reading only one book (Great Gatsby) just to stop her rabbiting on about it
#histbookchat Great piece in The Perfect Voice from Mister Banerjee @shoumojitb.bsky.social on the Nuremberg trials
www.theperfectvoice.in/post/the-nur...
www.theperfectvoice.in/post/the-nur...
The Nuremberg Reckoning: When a Court of Victors Became the Conscience of Nations
Eighty years on, the Nuremberg trials, for all its imperfections, remain the world’s most audacious attempt to tame barbarism with law.Courtroom 600 of the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg today has lon...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
#histbookchat Great piece in The Perfect Voice from Mister Banerjee @shoumojitb.bsky.social on the Nuremberg trials
www.theperfectvoice.in/post/the-nur...
www.theperfectvoice.in/post/the-nur...
#histbookchat #photofriday took a few days off from my own writing & finished Raiders, Rulers, & Traders by @davidchaffetz.bsky.social I'm not a great believer in books changing people's lives but I'll never look at horses the same way again! Amazing book! There was so much I never realised before..
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#histbookchat #photofriday took a few days off from my own writing & finished Raiders, Rulers, & Traders by @davidchaffetz.bsky.social I'm not a great believer in books changing people's lives but I'll never look at horses the same way again! Amazing book! There was so much I never realised before..
#histbookchat My latest piece in The Perfect Voice, Mumbai,
on China, hostage diplomacy, and the passing of Anthony Grey (1938-2025) - with thanks to Mister Banerjee's editorial red pen! @shoumojitb.bsky.social #sinology #journalism
www.theperfectvoice.in/post/anthony...
on China, hostage diplomacy, and the passing of Anthony Grey (1938-2025) - with thanks to Mister Banerjee's editorial red pen! @shoumojitb.bsky.social #sinology #journalism
www.theperfectvoice.in/post/anthony...
Anthony Grey: The Reporter Beijing Tried to Break
A young British correspondent sent to decode Mao’s China instead became one of the earliest symbols of hostage diplomacy.Anthony Grey, who passed away last month aged 87, first learned what it meant t...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#histbookchat My latest piece in The Perfect Voice, Mumbai,
on China, hostage diplomacy, and the passing of Anthony Grey (1938-2025) - with thanks to Mister Banerjee's editorial red pen! @shoumojitb.bsky.social #sinology #journalism
www.theperfectvoice.in/post/anthony...
on China, hostage diplomacy, and the passing of Anthony Grey (1938-2025) - with thanks to Mister Banerjee's editorial red pen! @shoumojitb.bsky.social #sinology #journalism
www.theperfectvoice.in/post/anthony...
#histbookchat Some #CrimeFiction from me today: Death in Berlin by M. M. Kaye (1955, this edition 1985) #amreading #BookSky 📚💜
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
#histbookchat Some #CrimeFiction from me today: Death in Berlin by M. M. Kaye (1955, this edition 1985) #amreading #BookSky 📚💜
#histbookchat Part 1 of Sino-Japanese War by John Dong out now from Helion - Part 2 due Spring 2026
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
#histbookchat Part 1 of Sino-Japanese War by John Dong out now from Helion - Part 2 due Spring 2026
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
It's fish tank cleaning day and the fish 🐟🐠🐡🦈wanted some #blues so I chose their namesake - they were so excited! - Paper Doll by Samantha Fish (2025) 🎵🎶🎵 - very cool
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's fish tank cleaning day and the fish 🐟🐠🐡🦈wanted some #blues so I chose their namesake - they were so excited! - Paper Doll by Samantha Fish (2025) 🎵🎶🎵 - very cool
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Street poster, Beijing - The Core Values of Chinese Socialism. And, in case you were wondering they are the National (Prosperity, Democracy, Civility, Harmony), the Social (Freedom, Equality, Justice, Rule of Law) and the Individual (Patriotism, Dedication, Integrity, Friendship). So now you know….
November 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Street poster, Beijing - The Core Values of Chinese Socialism. And, in case you were wondering they are the National (Prosperity, Democracy, Civility, Harmony), the Social (Freedom, Equality, Justice, Rule of Law) and the Individual (Patriotism, Dedication, Integrity, Friendship). So now you know….
#histbookpost sadly, no new book offering this week but a long (64pg😬) paper on Xi Jinping's concept of law and the future of law in China: Zeming Liu & Benjamin Liebman: Redefining Law in China
#law #China #research #funread
Open Access
American Journal of Comparative Law 2025
#law #China #research #funread
Open Access
American Journal of Comparative Law 2025
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
#histbookpost sadly, no new book offering this week but a long (64pg😬) paper on Xi Jinping's concept of law and the future of law in China: Zeming Liu & Benjamin Liebman: Redefining Law in China
#law #China #research #funread
Open Access
American Journal of Comparative Law 2025
#law #China #research #funread
Open Access
American Journal of Comparative Law 2025
#BookSky 📚💜Starship Troopers is to be filmed again. My thoughts on this and on Robert Heinlein's (most?) controversial novel in The Perfect Voice with editorial thanks to the esteemed Mister Banerjee @shoumojitb.bsky.social #sciencefiction
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November 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
#BookSky 📚💜Starship Troopers is to be filmed again. My thoughts on this and on Robert Heinlein's (most?) controversial novel in The Perfect Voice with editorial thanks to the esteemed Mister Banerjee @shoumojitb.bsky.social #sciencefiction
www.theperfectvoice.in/post/the-gal...
www.theperfectvoice.in/post/the-gal...
Listen to Chris Horton talk about his new primer on Taiwan, "Ghost Nation," on Episode 26 of the China Books Podcast: chinabooksreview.com/2025/11/04/e...
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Great stuff from Tonio Andrade on China and the origins of gunpowder #sinology #histbookchat
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Great stuff from Tonio Andrade on China and the origins of gunpowder #sinology #histbookchat
Latest read! #histbookchat The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman (1967, this the 2003 reprint) - the Royal Navy's newest nuclear submarine, HMS Temeraire, is in Asian waters and sailing into danger off the coast of Red China.... #exciting
November 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Latest read! #histbookchat The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman (1967, this the 2003 reprint) - the Royal Navy's newest nuclear submarine, HMS Temeraire, is in Asian waters and sailing into danger off the coast of Red China.... #exciting
Latest arrival for Halloween!! The Revolutionists by Jason Burke (2025) @jasonburke2.bsky.social from The Bodley Head as
as supplied by the Scream (Drama) Queen of Dromore herself 🧙♀️🧹🐈, Aunty Lesley of Bridge Books
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
#histbookchat #BookSky📚💜
as supplied by the Scream (Drama) Queen of Dromore herself 🧙♀️🧹🐈, Aunty Lesley of Bridge Books
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
#histbookchat #BookSky📚💜
October 31, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Latest arrival for Halloween!! The Revolutionists by Jason Burke (2025) @jasonburke2.bsky.social from The Bodley Head as
as supplied by the Scream (Drama) Queen of Dromore herself 🧙♀️🧹🐈, Aunty Lesley of Bridge Books
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
#histbookchat #BookSky📚💜
as supplied by the Scream (Drama) Queen of Dromore herself 🧙♀️🧹🐈, Aunty Lesley of Bridge Books
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
#histbookchat #BookSky📚💜
#histbookchat podcast for the Japan specialists....
This week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Stephen C Mercado (“Japanese Spy Gear and Special Weapons: How Noborito’s Scientists & Technicians Served in the 2nd World War & the Cold War”) @penswordbooks asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...
October 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
#histbookchat podcast for the Japan specialists....
#histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜 #CrimeFiction I recommended this to @yorgosmoraitis.bsky.social for his class some time ago and decided I ought to read it for myself!!😂The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kai (2014) trans. Jeremy Tiang (2016) - six interlocking murder investigations moving backwards 1/2
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
#histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜 #CrimeFiction I recommended this to @yorgosmoraitis.bsky.social for his class some time ago and decided I ought to read it for myself!!😂The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kai (2014) trans. Jeremy Tiang (2016) - six interlocking murder investigations moving backwards 1/2
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latest read! #BookSky 📚💜 #histbookchat Some more fiction from Douglas Reeman: The Iron Pirate (1986)
October 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
latest read! #BookSky 📚💜 #histbookchat Some more fiction from Douglas Reeman: The Iron Pirate (1986)
It's fish tank cleaning day and the fish 🐟🐠🐡🦈wanted some #spacerock and an album they hadn't heard before, so Into The Woods by Hawkwind (2017) - really, really good!!🎵🎶🎵
October 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It's fish tank cleaning day and the fish 🐟🐠🐡🦈wanted some #spacerock and an album they hadn't heard before, so Into The Woods by Hawkwind (2017) - really, really good!!🎵🎶🎵
#BookSky 📚💜 Latest read! Death in Kashmir by M.M. Kaye (1953, this edition 1984) #CrimeFiction #amreading
It's 1947, and there are both spies and murder on the glittering ski slopes of Kashmir...
It's 1947, and there are both spies and murder on the glittering ski slopes of Kashmir...
October 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
#BookSky 📚💜 Latest read! Death in Kashmir by M.M. Kaye (1953, this edition 1984) #CrimeFiction #amreading
It's 1947, and there are both spies and murder on the glittering ski slopes of Kashmir...
It's 1947, and there are both spies and murder on the glittering ski slopes of Kashmir...
#histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜 I wrote about the Tea & Horse Agency keeping the Song Dynasty alive (militarily) in my first Magistrate Zhu novel, now for a greater history of the horse: Raiders, Rulers, & Traders (2024) by @davidchaffetz.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
#histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜 I wrote about the Tea & Horse Agency keeping the Song Dynasty alive (militarily) in my first Magistrate Zhu novel, now for a greater history of the horse: Raiders, Rulers, & Traders (2024) by @davidchaffetz.bsky.social
Very cool! Looking forward to this! 👏 #histbookchat #sinology
Many things shocked John and I as we were finishing Stars That Pause: 2,000 Years of UFO Encounters & Lore, but the sheer number of classical accounts that match up to anonymous experiences today is wild!
Excerpt from an ancient Chinese UFO account
Waiting for An Encounter (1/3)
Excerpt from an ancient Chinese UFO account
Waiting for An Encounter (1/3)
October 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Very cool! Looking forward to this! 👏 #histbookchat #sinology
#BookSky 📚💜 #CrimeFiction Latest read! Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto (1958) trans. Jesse Kirkwood (2022) as supplied by the Queen of the Dromore Underworld herself, Aunty Lesley of Bridge Books @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#BookSky 📚💜 #CrimeFiction Latest read! Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto (1958) trans. Jesse Kirkwood (2022) as supplied by the Queen of the Dromore Underworld herself, Aunty Lesley of Bridge Books @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social