Jasper Becker: 3 books
Mongolia
Travels in An Untamed Land
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
For seventy years Mongolia was all but closed to the west - a forbidden country, shrouded in darkness. Jasper Becker had long dreamed of exploring the sweeping land that lay just beyond China’s Great Wall and when communism disintegrated, he finally did. Setting out from Kublai Khan’s capital,...
Rogue Regime
Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
What happens when a dictator wins absolute power and isolates a nation from the outside world? In a nightmare of political theory stretched to madness and come to life, North Korea's Kim Jong Il made himself into a living god, surrounded by lies and flattery and beyond criticism. As over two million...
Dragon Rising
An Inside Look at China Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
No nation on Earth is as newsworthy as 21st-century China-and no book could be timelier than Dragon Rising, as world attention focuses on China's all-out effort to present itself as a modern world power and on the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Becker is the ideal guide to the profound changes within China...