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
September 2020 Issue Rana Mitter One Country, One System Eat the Buddha: The Story of Modern Tibet Through the People of One Town By Barbara Demick
October 2016 Issue Mick Brown Last Dance in Lhasa Tibet in Agony: Lhasa 1959 By Jianglin Li (Translated by Susan Wilf) LR
May 2016 Issue Graham Hutchings Apocalypse Mao The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976 By Frank Dikötter LR
June 2009 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Reluctant Dictator The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China By Jay Taylor LR
August 2008 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Reforming Opinions The Battle for China's Past: Mao & the Cultural Revolution By Mobo Gao LR
August 2008 Issue Kerry Brown War & Peace The City of Heavenly Tranquillity: Beijing in the History of China By Jasper Becker China: A History By John Keay 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
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