Katie Stallard was a foreign correspondent for the U.K.’s Sky News in both Russia and China, from where she also reported on North and South Korea, traveling to Pyongyang and the DMZ in the course of her work. She has drawn on those experiences to write Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea, a book which looks at the ways in which authoritarian leaders in each of those countries have used history to buttress their regimes. Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times included it as one of the best books on politics in 2022. Now based in the U.S., she is a senior editor at the New Statesman, where she writes about China and global affairs.
Katie Stallard.Illustration by Lauren Crow
Q: Your new book, Dancing on Bones, looks at the ways in which post-World War Two regimes in China, Russia and North Korea have used history to bolster their power. Could you explain the main themes of the book?
A: This book came out of my repo
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