April 2024 Issue Stephen Vines Land Where Allegories are Banned Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong By Michael C Davis LR
June 2023 Issue Piers Brendon Taipans, Pirates and Courtesans Fortune’s Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong By Vaudine England LR
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
June 2021 Issue Simon Cartledge One Country, One System Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship By Stephen Vines LR
September 2017 Issue Richard Cockett King of Kowloon Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong By Neil Monnery LR
September 2004 Issue Tim Heald Ghost Boy Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood By Martin Booth LR
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