Ed Pulford is an anthropologist and senior lecturer in Chinese studies at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on everyday experiences of socialism and empire across Eurasia, including in the Russia-China borderlands where his first two books, Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between (2019) and Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea (2024), are set.
Ed Pulford
Articles
In the Shadow of Stalin
Ed Pulford reviews Ben Nathans’s “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement” and Perry Link and Wu Dazhi’s “I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo.”
Autocracy and Historical Accidents: On Katie Stallard’s “Dancing on Bones” and Joseph W. Esherick’s “Accidental Holy Land”
Ed Pulford considers Katie Stallard’s “Dancing on Bones” and Joseph W. Esherick’s “Accidental Holy Land.”
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