June 1987 Issue William Hamilton-Dalrymple Pass the Sikh Back, Sarah Chinese Characters By Sarah Lloyd LR
June 2015 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Wild West China’s Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State By Nick Holdstock LR
May 2015 Issue Alexander Monro KMT to ABC The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China By Huan Hsu LR
August 2014 Issue Nick Holdstock From Beijing to Xinjiang Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China By Evan Osnos The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China By David Eimer LR
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