From the July 2024 Issue Tea & Antipathy The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power By Kerry Brown LR
From the February 2024 Issue Hard Times on the Yangtze The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China By Timothy Brook LR
From the December 2023 Issue Beijing’s Number One Pushkin Expert Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China’s Superpower Future By Chun Han Wong LR
From the September 2023 Issue Scholars versus Censors Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future By Ian Johnson
From the April 2023 Issue Friends in Need China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord By Philip Snow LR
From the July 2022 Issue Au Revoir Saigon The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam By Christopher Goscha LR
From the December 2021 Issue Day of Infamy Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War By Brendan Simms & Charlie Laderman LR
From the March 2021 Issue Women of the World Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology By Frances Larson LR
From the December 2020 Issue Setting the World Ablaze Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire By Tim Harper LR
From the September 2020 Issue One Country, One System Eat the Buddha: The Story of Modern Tibet Through the People of One Town By Barbara Demick
From the September 2019 Issue From Beijing with Love Great State: China and the World By Timothy Brook LR
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