February 2004 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
China’s God Squad
Jesus In Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power
By David Aikman
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March 2004 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
Elephants, Never Forget
The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China
By Mark Elwin
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April 2015 Issue
Nick Holdstock
In Search of the Willow Palisade
In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China
By Michael Meyer
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April 2015 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
He Fought the Law
The Barefoot Lawyer: The Remarkable Memoir of China’s Bravest Political Activist
By Chen Guangcheng (Translated by Danica Mills)
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May 2004 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
The Going Strikes
Falun Gong: The End of Days
By Maria Hsia Chang
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July 2004 Issue
Christopher Ondaatje
The One About the Chinese Condom Factory
Mr China
By Tim Clissold
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August 2004 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
Death In Tibet
Sky Burial
By Xinran (Julia Lovell, Esther Tyldesley (Trans)
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December 2004 Issue
Lucy Popescu
Ven Ngawang Phulchung
August 2014 Issue
Nick Holdstock
From Beijing to Xinjiang
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China
By Evan Osnos
The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China
By David Eimer
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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
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June 2011 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
What Henry Saw
On China
By Henry Kissinger
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February 2011 Issue
John Keay
Peking In
The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832–1914
By Robert Bickers
LR
November 2010 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
Qin Up
History of Imperial China
By Timothy Brook (General Editor), Mark Edward Lewis, Dieter Kuhn & William T Rowe
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July 2010 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
Many Poisoned Rivers
When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind – Or Destroy It
By Jonathan Watts
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June 2009 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
Reluctant Dictator
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China
By Jay Taylor
LR
December 2008 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
Death of the Baiji
Witness to Extinction: How We Failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin
By Samuel Turvey
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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)
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