Kerry Brown

In the Chairman’s Shadow

The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform

By Odd Arne Westad & Chen Jian

LR

July 2024 Issue

Rana Mitter

Tea & Antipathy

The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power

By Kerry Brown

LR

February 2024 Issue

Rana Mitter

Hard Times on the Yangtze

The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China

By Timothy Brook

LR

November 2023 Issue

Raffaello Pantucci

Eastern Promises

Black Ghosts: A Journey into the Lives of Africans in China

By Noo Saro-Wiwa

LR

September 2023 Issue

Rana Mitter

Scholars versus Censors

Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future

By Ian Johnson

September 2022 Issue

Julia Lovell

Operation Hanging Scroll

Fragile Cargo: China’s Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City

By Adam Brookes

February 2021 Issue

J E Hoare

Friends or Neighbours?

Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China–Korea Relations

By Odd Arne Westad

May 2020 Issue

Donald Rayfield

The Monks who Came in from the Cold

Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power

By Gregory Afinogenov

LR

February 1990 Issue

Robert Hsu

But is there a Soul Behind the Fig-Leaf?

The Soul of China

By Amaury de Riencourt

LR

September 2019 Issue

Rana Mitter

From Beijing with Love

Great State: China and the World

By Timothy Brook

LR

May 2019 Issue

Vaudine England

From Shanghai to Surrey

The Chinese in Britain: A History of Visitors and Settlers

By Barclay Price

LR

April 1999 Issue

Percy Cradock

Where Real Penetration is Impossible

The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds

By Jonathan Spence

LR

June 2018 Issue

John Keay

Poppy Power

Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age

By Stephen R Platt

LR

August 2016 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Flow Country

The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China

By Philip Ball

LR

May 2016 Issue

Timothy Brook

Making a Bang

The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History

By Tonio Andrade

LR

March 2004 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Elephants, Never Forget

The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China

By Mark Elwin

LR

August 2006 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Seeking Shangri-La

The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet

By Kate Teltscher

LR

November 2010 Issue

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