February 2023 Issue Jeffrey Wasserstrom Tangled Tales of a Traumatic Time Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution By Tania Branigan
October 2022 Issue Jennifer Altehenger The Ghost at the Party Congress China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower By Frank Dikötter LR
February 1990 Issue David Chipp Chinese Whispers The Long March to the Fourth of June By Li Xiao Jun (Translated by E J Griffiths) LR
August 1992 Issue David Chipp Another Aged Survivor Lives to Tell the Tale The New Emperors: Mao and Deng - A Dual Biography By Harrison E Salisbury LR
September 2019 Issue Christian Goeschel Portraits in Tyranny How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century By Frank Dikötter LR
March 2019 Issue Christopher Coker The Long Arm of the Chairman Maoism: A Global History By Julia Lovell LR
May 2016 Issue Graham Hutchings Apocalypse Mao The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976 By Frank Dikötter LR
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) LR
September 2010 Issue Jonathan Mirsky ‘Livelihood Issues’ Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62 By Frank Dikötter LR
August 2008 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Reforming Opinions The Battle for China's Past: Mao & the Cultural Revolution By Mobo Gao 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) LR
November 2006 Issue Paul Johnson A Dance With the Devil Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao By Margaret MacMillan LR
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) LR
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 LR
June 2013 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Voice of the People Lu Xun’s Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence By Gloria Davies LR
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