Martin Laflamme

Martin Laflamme is a Canadian Foreign Service Officer who has served in Tokyo, Beijing (twice), Kandahar, and Taipei. The views presented here are his own.

Articles

The Masks of Xi Jinping: On Alfred L. Chan’s “Xi Jinping” and Joseph Torigian’s “Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion”
Who is Xi Jinping and what comes after? Martin Laflamme reviews Alfred L. Chan’s biography of Xi Jinping and Joseph Torigian’s study of power struggles in the Soviet Union and the PRC....
Martin LaflammeDec 2, 2022
From the Silk Road to New Jersey
Martin Laflamme on the first-ever publication of the entire Lo Archive, a collection of photographs which captures the glory of the Buddhist caves of Dunhuang....
Martin LaflammeMar 18, 2022
- Translation
The Life — and Lives — of the Party: Communism in China, 1921–2021
Martin Laflamme evaluates “The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives” and “From Rebel to Ruler.”...
Martin LaflammeJul 22, 2021
- History

Martin Laflamme

Articles

The Masks of Xi Jinping: On Alfred L. Chan’s “Xi Jinping” and Joseph Torigian’s “Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion”

From the Silk Road to New Jersey

The Life — and Lives — of the Party: Communism in China, 1921–2021