People Just Like You and Me
With the drumbeat of fear on both sides, it’s almost impossible for any of us in the U.S. to meet a North Korean, much less share insights and come to see them as people like ourselves. Yet in 1987, I was lucky enough to do just that. I was teaching English at the...The Death and Death of Great Chinese Cities
In the Epilogue to my Blue Ear Books title Live at the Forbidden City: Musical Encounters in China and Taiwan, I reflected ruefully that the China I’d described in the narrative, which had still retained much of its aesthetically rich pre‒twentieth century...Poking the Dragon
A while back I released the album Views from Chicheng Precipice, a sort of audio counterpart to my Blue Ear Books title Live at the Forbidden City, both being end results of my experiences within Chinese culture. Hoping that Chinese listeners might take interest in my...Digging to China
Greetings, readers – many thanks for visiting the Blue Ear Books author blogs! I’d like to begin my inaugural blog post by warmly thanking Blue Ear Books publisher Ethan Casey, first and foremost for graciously publishing the updated edition of my book Live at the...Home Free: An American Road trip
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"Ethan Casey listened hard and well in his books on Haiti and Pakistan. Now he's listening to America." - Paul Rogat Loeb
Alive and Well in Pakistan: A Human Journey in a Dangerous Time
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"Compulsory reading for anyone visiting Pakistan" - Harvard International Review
"The author's real journey is a search for common humanity." - The Daily Telegraph
Bearing the Bruise: A Life Graced by Haiti
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"A heartfelt account" - Paul Farmer
Live at the Forbidden City
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"A vivid account of China's musical past" - Songlines