About
Dr Jonathan Chatwin is a travel writer and journalist, and the author of Long Peace Street: A walk in modern China, and Anywhere Out of the World, a literary biography of the travel writer and novelist Bruce Chatwin.
His essays and articles have been published by CNN, the British Film Institute, the South China Morning Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books and the Asian Review of Books amongst others, and he writes regularly on Chinese history and culture for a range of publications.
Praise for Long Peace Street
‘Filled with insights, observations and anecdotes, Chatwin brings to life the past – and present – of one of the world’s great cities in an account that is as thoughtful as it is informative.'
Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University and author of The Silk Roads.
'Bringing together past and present, personal and political, Jonathan Chatwin gives readers a thoughtful and deeply-informed account of modern China through the marvellous device of a stroll down Beijing's longest avenue - and all in lucid and compelling prose.'
Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China and author of China's War with Japan.
This three-dimension, moving timeline along the heart of imperial and contemporary Beijing made me want to head out the door and follow Chatwin's flaneur footsteps. "Long Peace Street" seamlessly blends history and reporting, shining a light on both the capital's neglected bookends and its dense core. I couldn't put it down.
Michael Meyer, author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, In Manchuria, and The Road to Sleeping Dragon.
'Jonathan Chatwin offers a distinctive window onto Beijing's past and present by taking readers along with him on a long trek down an important thoroughfare. An appealing mix of anecdotes from a journey and digressions backward in time make Long Peace Street a novel addition to the rich literature on China's sprawling capital.'
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, coauthor of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know.
