From the September 1980 Issue Information is Power The Geopolitics of Information By Anthony Smith LR
From the April 2017 Issue First Leap Forward Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination By Robert Bickers LR
From the February 2010 Issue ‘God’s Masterpiece’? The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China By Hannah Pakula LR
From the July 2009 Issue A Ringside View Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang By Translated and edited by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang and Adi Ignatius LR
From the August 2013 Issue Tending Their Plots How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region By Joe Studwell LR
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