Humphrey Hawksley

The Biggest Fish in the Sea

The Future Is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-first Century

By Parag Khanna

The Costliest Pearl: China’s Struggle for India’s Ocean

By Bertil Lintner

Kyril FitzLyon

Spectator Sport

Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba 1928-1978

By Paul Hollander

Jonathan Mirsky

Tutorials from a Transvestite

China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser

By Michael Bristow

Jonathan Mirsky

Dog Days

Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up

By Xiaolu Guo

Crashing the Party: An American Reporter in China

By Scott Savitt

Nick Holdstock

Leaps of Faith

The Souls of China: The Return of Religion after Mao

By Ian Johnson

Jonathan Fenby

First Leap Forward

Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination

By Robert Bickers

Jonathan Mirsky

Communist Poster Boy

No Wall Too High

By Xu Hongci (Translated by Erling Hoh)

Mick Brown

Last Dance in Lhasa

Tibet in Agony: Lhasa 1959

By Jianglin Li (Translated by Susan Wilf)

Jonathan Mirsky

Flow Country

The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China

By Philip Ball

Graham Hutchings

Apocalypse Mao

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

By Frank Dikötter

Jonathan Mirsky

Girls Allowed

China’s Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy

By Kay Ann Johnson

One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment

By Mei Fong

William Hamilton-Dalrymple

Pass the Sikh Back, Sarah

Chinese Characters

By Sarah Lloyd

Paul Theroux

Slow Boat to China

China – Land of Discovery

By Robert K G Temple

The New Chinese Revolution

By Lynn Pan

Waves

By Bei Dao

Jonathan Mirsky

Wild West

China’s Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State

By Nick Holdstock

Alexander Monro

KMT to ABC

The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China

By Huan Hsu