Postcards From China

Travel Blog  •  Julia Ross  •  01.26.09 | 1:03 PM ET

Journalist James Fallows, who has been writing from China for The Atlantic since 2006, is just out with a new book, Postcards from Tomorrow Square. It collects some of his best China essays, covering Chinese politics, technology and culture. In the introduction, Fallows says if there’ s one thing he’s learned in two years as a China correspondent, it’s this: “No one can sensibly try to present the ‘real story’ or the ‘overall picture’ of this country. It is simply too big and too contradictory.” Amen.

For more of Fallows’ thoughts on China, see this recent Q&A with the ChinaBeat blog, or visit Fallows’ own blog for The Atlantic.

Tags: Travel Books, Asia, China, Literary Travel, News and Briefs

Julia Ross is a Washington, DC-based writer and frequent contributor to World Hum. She has lived in China and Taiwan, where she was a Fulbright scholar and Mandarin student. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Plenty and other publications. Her essay, Six Degrees of Vietnam, was shortlisted for "The Best American Travel Writing 2009."


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