Jonathan Mirsky

Case Closed?

A Death in Peking: Who Really Killed Pamela Werner?

By Graeme Sheppard

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April 2017 Issue

Jonathan Fenby

First Leap Forward

Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination

By Robert Bickers

LR

February 2017 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Communist Poster Boy

No Wall Too High

By Xu Hongci (Translated by Erling Hoh)

LR

March 2016 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Girls Allowed

China’s Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy

By Kay Ann Johnson

One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment

By Mei Fong

LR

September 1986 Issue

Paul Theroux

Chuang Shang Wen-Xue

Life and Death in Shanghai

By Nien Cheng

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May 2003 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

A Sorority of Character

Four Sisters of Hofei

By Annping Chin

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June 2003 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Stealing the Crown’s Jewel

The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China and the Japanese Occupation

By Philip Snow

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August 2003 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

The Shanghai Beat

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift In Shanghai

By Robert Bickers

LR

May 2004 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

The Going Strikes

Falun Gong: The End of Days

By Maria Hsia Chang

LR

July 2004 Issue

Christopher Ondaatje

The One About the Chinese Condom Factory

Mr China

By Tim Clissold

LR

August 2004 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Death In Tibet

Sky Burial

By Xinran (Julia Lovell, Esther Tyldesley (Trans)

LR

June 2009 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Reluctant Dictator

The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China

By Jay Taylor

LR

August 2008 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Reforming Opinions

The Battle for China's Past: Mao & the Cultural Revolution

By Mobo Gao

LR

August 2008 Issue

Kerry Brown

War & Peace

The City of Heavenly Tranquillity: Beijing in the History of China

By Jasper Becker

China: A History

By John Keay

LR

September 2008 Issue

Timothy Brook

Sapient Sinophile

Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China

By Simon Winchester

LR

October 2008 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Sore Feet, Heavenly Eyes

China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation

By Xinran (Translated by Esther Tyldesley, Nicky Harman and Julia Lovell)

LR

April 2006 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

A Bodyguard of Lies

The Long March

By Sun Shuyun

LR

April 2012 Issue

Piers Brendon

Never the Twain Shall Meet

A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking’s Foreign Colony

By Julia Boyd

LR

March 2005 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Towing the Party Line

The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin

By Robert Lawrence Kuhn

LR

September 2012 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Behind the Miracle

Scattered Sand: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants

By Hsiao-Hung Pai

LR

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