September 2024 Issue Kerry Brown Last True Believer in Beijing The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China By Michael Sheridan LR
June 1982 Issue Kyril FitzLyon Spectator Sport Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba 1928-1978 By Paul Hollander LR
June 2015 Issue Frank Dikötter Number Two Capitalist Roader Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life By Alexander V Pantsov & Steven I Levine
November 2003 Issue Graham Hutchings Anatomy Of A Leader Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shel and the China He Lost By Jonathan Fenby 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
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
December 2011 Issue Frank Dikötter The Tenacity of Hope God is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China By Liao Yiwu (Translated by Wenguang Huang) LR
April 2012 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Copycats & Bamboozles China in Ten Words By Yu Hua (Translated by Allan H Barr) 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
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