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From the November 2017 Issue Tutorials from a Transvestite China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser By Michael Bristow LR
From the August 2017 Issue Dog Days Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up By Xiaolu Guo Crashing the Party: An American Reporter in China By Scott Savitt LR
From the July 2001 Issue What’s Behind the Blue Door? Inside Notting Hill By Miranda Davies and Sarah Anderson LR
From the February 2017 Issue Communist Poster Boy No Wall Too High By Xu Hongci (Translated by Erling Hoh) LR
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From the November 2015 Issue Crossing the Yalu Stars between the Sun and Moon: One Woman’s Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom By Lucia Jang & Susan McLelland The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story By Hyeonseo Lee with David John In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom By Yeonmi Park with Maryanne Vollers LR
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From the June 2015 Issue Wild West China’s Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State By Nick Holdstock LR
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