"Unusual and thoughtful. . . . Takes the poet’s or the novelist’s
joy in turning a commonplace detail to the angle at which it
reveals its glint of meaning."—David Lattimore, New York Times Book
Review
"This is a superb book, one that answers many questions about the
Chinese, past and present."—Srully Blotnick, Forbes Magazine
"1587, A Year of No Significance, for all its scholarship, has the
surreal visionary quality of Kafka’s beautiful and frustrating
story 'The Great Wall of China.'"—John Updike, The New Yorker
Winner of the American Book Award for History Paperback in 1983
"No book of this kind in any language exists for the entire Chinese
history field. Its most remarkable quality is the skill with which
is conveys the texture of life, imparting to the reader a sense of
having been inside the environment of Chinese politics and of
seeing the complexities of another world as immediate and
intelligible matters."—Frederick W. Mote, Princeton University
"It is top-hole, full of information, and a first-rate
argumentation as to how China got the way it did. I know of none
better."—L. Carrington Goodrich, Columbia University
"Excellent both as history and as a piece of
literature."—Lien-sheng Yang, Harvard University
"Imaginative and resourceful. . . . Informed both by humanistic
concern and a broad knowledge of technology and economics."—Edward
L. Farmer, University of Minnesota
"Analytical and innovative. . . . It will galvanize our thinking
for many years to come."—Hoklam Cham, University of Washington
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