June 2021 Issue Simon Cartledge One Country, One System Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship By Stephen Vines LR
October 2020 Issue Michael Burleigh The View from Beijing Xi Jinping: The Backlash By Richard McGregor China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism By Rana Mitter
April 2017 Issue Jonathan Fenby First Leap Forward Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination By Robert Bickers 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
April 2012 Issue Michael Burleigh Going Green After the Arab Spring: How Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolts By John R Bradley 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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