This is a political treatise that deals with the China issue from a completely new perspective. Disparaging as he may sound, from page to page, toward "the old system" and the Communist Party's various wiles, the author demonstrates his mysteriously
I'm someone who has to figure out the why of things.
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Social science: I'm working on a general theory of everything. :-) I.e., why are people the way they are. I like the Teaching Company courses and the Oxford "Very Short Introduction" series because you can get a great overview of a wide variety of topics. (And then go off to research specifics.)
Fiction: I don't read much, I prefer movies. The fiction I've written has been either science-fiction or historical. (Short stories, a novel, several screenplays.)
I can't say I have any favorite authors, though I do have favorite books. The books I like are the ones that tell me things I didn't know, especially regarding human behavior.