David Chipp

Chinese Whispers

The Long March to the Fourth of June

By Li Xiao Jun (Translated by E J Griffiths)

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David Chipp

Another Aged Survivor Lives to Tell the Tale

The New Emperors: Mao and Deng - A Dual Biography

By Harrison E Salisbury

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September 2019 Issue

Christian Goeschel

Portraits in Tyranny

How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century

By Frank Dikötter

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March 2019 Issue

Christopher Coker

The Long Arm of the Chairman

Maoism: A Global History

By Julia Lovell

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May 2016 Issue

Graham Hutchings

Apocalypse Mao

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

By Frank Dikötter

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Paul Theroux

Chuang Shang Wen-Xue

Life and Death in Shanghai

By Nien Cheng

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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)

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Jonathan Mirsky

‘Livelihood Issues’

Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62

By Frank Dikötter

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August 2008 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Reforming Opinions

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

By Mobo Gao

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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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November 2006 Issue

Paul Johnson

A Dance With the Devil

Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao

By Margaret MacMillan

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April 2006 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

A Bodyguard of Lies

The Long March

By Sun Shuyun

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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)

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