December 2023 Issue Rana Mitter Beijing’s Number One Pushkin Expert Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China’s Superpower Future By Chun Han Wong LR
December 2022 Issue Andrew Small Great Game, Reluctant Players Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire By Raffaello Pantucci & Alexandros Petersen LR
October 2022 Issue Jennifer Altehenger The Ghost at the Party Congress China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower By Frank Dikötter LR
July 2018 Issue Christopher Coker Will China Rule the Waves? Asian Waters: The Struggle over the Asia-Pacific and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion By Humphrey Hawksley LR
July 2017 Issue Michael Burleigh The Eagle & the Dragon The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present By John Pomfret Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power By Howard W French Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? By Graham Allison LR
April 2017 Issue Jonathan Fenby First Leap Forward Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination By Robert Bickers LR
September 2003 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Rebel Province Wild West China: The Taming of Xinjiang By Christian Tyler LR
April 2008 Issue Jonathan Mirsky A Straitlaced Sage Confucius: A Life of Thought and Politics By Annping Chin LR
March 2005 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Towing the Party Line The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin By Robert Lawrence Kuhn LR
March 2013 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Trials of the Artist Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei By Barnaby Martin LR
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