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.

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....

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AROUND THE WORLD

NONFICTION

POLITICS

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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....

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AROUND THE WORLD

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.”...

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HISTORY