Book review: Chinese business in the making of a Malay state, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang

Review of Chinese business in the making of a Malay State, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang, by Wu Xiao An (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003)

Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Philosophy and the Occult, paperback

The book explores the aesthetic and political implications of the relationship between magic and mimesis in the work of those early twentieth-century writers, artists and filmmakers who were most self-consciously experimental, including James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein.