The Malaysian Insider :: Books
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| Julia Lovell’s history of China wins Jan Michalski Prize 2012 Posted: 24 Nov 2012 03:32 PM PST  NEW YORK, Nov 25 — An examination of China's relationship with foreign powers won this year's prestigious and international Jan Michalski Prize, which went to The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Dr Julia Lovell. The book's purpose is to lay the foundation for an understanding of modern China and, especially, the present-day importance of the Opium Wars in terms of a national sense of identity and China's place in the world. An award of 50,000 swiss francs (RM 164,818) goes to Dr Lovell; also in contention were two other non-fiction works in the form of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder and Kaiser von Amerika (lit. King of America: The Great Escape from Galicia) by Martin Pollack. Previous years' winners were novels; György Dragomán won in 2011 with The White King, and 2010 saw Aleksander Hemon take the prize for The Lazarus Project. — AFP-Relaxnews |
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