From the August 2023 Issue Tombs with a View Life and Afterlife in Ancient China By Jessica Rawson LR
From the June 2023 Issue Safe Haven China The Box with the Sunflower Clasp: Uncovering a Jewish Family’s Flight to Wartime Shanghai By Rachel Meller LR
From the March 2023 Issue Slow Boat to China Chinese Dreams in Romantic England: The Life and Times of Thomas Manning By Edward Weech LR
From the February 2022 Issue How the Typewriter Changed Chinese Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China By Jing Tsu
From the August 2021 Issue Mind Your Thumbs The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information By Craig Robertson LR
From the November 2016 Issue What’s in a Name? Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook By Matt Houlbrook LR
From the July 2012 Issue Foreign Fantasies Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War By Stephen Platt LR
From the September 2012 Issue Beyond the Great Wall Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 By Odd Arne Westad LR
From the October 2013 Issue Boxing Clever Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China By Jung Chang LR
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