From the September 2019 Issue From Beijing with Love Great State: China and the World By Timothy Brook LR
From the February 2014 Issue Roads to Xanadu Mr Selden’s Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart and the South China Sea By Timothy Brook
From the November 2010 Issue Qin Up History of Imperial China By Timothy Brook (General Editor), Mark Edward Lewis, Dieter Kuhn & William T Rowe LR
From the November 2008 Issue Slice and Dice Death by a Thousand Cuts By Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, and Gregory Blue LR
From the July 2008 Issue The Half-Open Window Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World By Timothy Brook LR
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