For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Mao Zedong

March 2019 Issue

Christopher Coker

The Long Arm of the Chairman

Maoism: A Global History

By Julia Lovell

Graham Hutchings

Apocalypse Mao

The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976

By Frank Dikötter

September 1986 Issue

Paul Theroux

Chuang Shang Wen-Xue

Life and Death in Shanghai

By Nien Cheng

October 2003 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Picture The Revolution

Red-Color News Soldier

By Li Zhensheng, Robert Pledge (ed) Jonathan Spence (intr)

Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on The Eve of Revolution

By Jack Bins, Crolyn Wakeman, Ken Light (Intr, Edd)

August 2008 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Reforming Opinions

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

By Mobo Gao

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)

April 2006 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

A Bodyguard of Lies

The Long March

By Sun Shuyun

November 2012 Issue

Steve Tsang

Great Leap Backward

Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao’s Great Famine

By Yang Jisheng (Translated by Stacy Mosher & Guo Jian)

March 2014 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Crossing the Net

Ping-Pong Diplomacy: Ivor Montagu and the Astonishing Story Behind the Game That Changed the World

By Nicholas Griffin

June 2013 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Voice of the People

Lu Xun’s Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence

By Gloria Davies