Jonathan Mirsky

Girls Allowed

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

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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

Kerry Brown

War & Peace

The City of Heavenly Tranquillity: Beijing in the History of China

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China: A History

By John Keay

Piers Brendon

Never the Twain Shall Meet

A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking’s Foreign Colony

By Julia Boyd

George Walden

One Big Unhappy Family

The Tree That Bleeds: A Uighur Town on the Edge

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