Cathay

About the Book

Traveling through the chaotic landscape of modern China, Fergus M. Bordewich discovers the remains of an older world that Communism did its best to erase.

“Mr. Bordewich, by searching so assiduously, so affectionately, and so understandingly for legacies of the Chinese past, may paradoxically be giving us some foretastes of a China yet to be.”
—Jan Morris

About the Author

Fergus M. Bordewich’s other books include My Mother’s Ghost, a memoir, and Killing the White Man’s Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century. As a journalist, he has traveled widely in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Reader’s Digest, Smithsonian, American Heritage, and many other publications.