Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China

Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea

Ed Pulford is an anthropologist and lecturer in Chinese studies at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. His research focuses on China–Russia relations and the past and present of socialism, and his first book,&nbsp;Mirrorlands,&nbsp;is an anthropological and historical account of life in the borderlands between China and Russia.

Ed Pulford

Autocracy and Historical Accidents: On Katie Stallard’s “Dancing on Bones” and Joseph W. Esherick’s “Accidental Holy Land”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Ed Pulford is an anthropologist and lecturer in Chinese studies at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. His research focuses on China–Russia relations and the past and present of socialism, and his first book,&nbsp;Mirrorlands,&nbsp;is an anthropological and historical account of life in the borderlands between China and Russia.