October 2021 Issue Tim Summers Caught Between Two Empires The Gate to China: A New History of the People’s Republic & Hong Kong By Michael Sheridan LR
May 2021 Issue Mike Cormack Playing for High Stakes Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai By James Carter Kings of Shanghai: Two Rival Dynasties and the Creation of Modern China By Jonathan Kaufman LR
October 2020 Issue Michael Burleigh The View from Beijing Xi Jinping: The Backlash By Richard McGregor China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism By Rana Mitter
September 2020 Issue Rana Mitter One Country, One System Eat the Buddha: The Story of Modern Tibet Through the People of One Town By Barbara Demick
June 2020 Issue Piers Brendon The Professor & the Chairman The China Journals: Ideology and Intrigue in the 1960s By Hugh Trevor-Roper (Edited by Richard Davenport-Hines) LR
August 1992 Issue David Chipp Another Aged Survivor Lives to Tell the Tale The New Emperors: Mao and Deng - A Dual Biography By Harrison E Salisbury LR
October 2019 Issue Vaudine England Tiger Wives Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China By Jung Chang LR
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
October 2016 Issue Mick Brown Last Dance in Lhasa Tibet in Agony: Lhasa 1959 By Jianglin Li (Translated by Susan Wilf) LR
May 2016 Issue Graham Hutchings Apocalypse Mao The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976 By Frank Dikötter 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
June 2015 Issue Frank Dikötter Number Two Capitalist Roader Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life By Alexander V Pantsov & Steven I Levine
May 2015 Issue Alexander Monro KMT to ABC The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China By Huan Hsu LR
July 2003 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Tale From Tiananmen Lake with No Name: A True Story of Love and Conflict in Modern China By Diane Wei Liang LR
November 2003 Issue Graham Hutchings Anatomy Of A Leader Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shel and the China He Lost By Jonathan Fenby 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
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
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