Customer Review: I must confess that I read this book hoping for another Romance of the Three Kingdoms. While Outlaws of the Marsh starts strongly, following a number of interesting characters as they attempt to escape from misfortune, I lost interest about half way through. The last 20 or so chapters (excluding the... more info
Customer Review: Books on this subject are hard to find. Shapiro is a American Jew who knows more about modern China than almost any Westerners, including armchair sinologists like Jonathan Spence. He writes with wonderful scholarship plus intimate knowledge about the country he loves.
Customer Review: The book includes problems for the students to work through, and immediately after some of them has a section called "Problem Materials." One has to read the "problem materials" to understand the problems. It annoyed me that there is no indication where the materials for that problem end. Why... more info