Jonathan Mirsky
Jonathan Mirsky is a historian and journalist specializing in Chinese affairs. In 2002 he was the first I.F. Stone Teaching Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Journalism School. (August 2009)
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September 24, 2009: The True Story of Izzy
American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone by D.D. Guttenplan
July 2, 2009: China's Dictators at Work: The Secret Story
Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang translated from the Chinese and edited by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang, and Adi Ignatius, with a foreword by Roderick MacFarquhar
February 26, 2009: The China We Don't Know
Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village by Ralph A. Thaxton Jr.
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
November 20, 2008: Vietnam: Dead Souls
Ghosts of War in Vietnam by Heonik Kwon
The Boat by Nam Le
August 14, 2008: The Chinese and the Dalai Lama (letter)
July 17, 2008: How He Sees It Now
May 15, 2008: In the Heart of Darkness
To the End of Hell: One Woman's Struggle to Survive Cambodia's Khmer Rouge by Denise Affonço, translated from the French by Margaret Burn and Katie Hogben, with introductions by David Chandler and Jon Swain
February 14, 2008: He Won't Give In
Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China by Kang Zhengguo, translated from the Chinese by Susan Wilf, with an introduction by Perry Link
November 8, 2007: China's Area of Darkness
Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang by James A. Millward
November 16, 2006: Edgar Snow's Alterations (letter)
October 19, 2006: Court Favorite
Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Superstar by Brook Larmer
May 11, 2006: China: The Shame of the Villages
Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China by Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Mark Selden
From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China by Merle Goldman
April 27, 2006: 'Tiananmen Follies': An Exchange
November 17, 2005: The Case of Dai Qing (letter)
October 6, 2005: China: The Uses of Fear
Tiananmen Follies: Prison Memoirs and Other Writings by Dai Qing,translated and edited by Nancy Yang Liu, Peter Rand, and Lawrence R. Sullivan, with a foreword by Ian Buruma
December 2, 2004: Destroying the Dharma
A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye by Melvyn C. Goldstein, Dawei Sherap, and William R. Siebenschuh
When the Sky Fell to Earth: The New Crackdown on Buddhism in Tibet a report by the International Campaign for Tibet
May 27, 2004: Taiwan on the Edge
May 13, 2004: The Party Isn't Over
Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change by Bruce J. Dickson
Beyond Tiananmen: The Politics of US–China Relations, 1989–2000 by Robert L. Suettinger
November 20, 2003: The Hong Kong Gesture
October 9, 2003: Wartime Lies
The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975 by David W.P. Elliott
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg
May 29, 2003: How the Chinese Spread SARS
February 27, 2003: China's Psychiatric Terror
Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and Its Origins in the Mao Era by Robin Munro
May 23, 2002: There Were Worse Places
Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora of Communities of Shanghai by Marcia Reynders Ristaino
December 20, 2001: Inside the Whale
Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing by Ian Buruma
October 18, 2001: China's Assault on the Environment
Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China by Judith Shapiro
Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century by Vaclav Smil
May 17, 2001: Un-Chinese Activities
Treason by the Book Jonathan D. Spence
March 8, 2001: Writers in a Cold Wind
The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System by Perry Link
February 8, 2001: The Truth About Tiananmen
The Tiananmen Papers compiled by Zhang Liang, edited by Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link, and with an afterword by Orville Schell
September 21, 2000: 'The Never-Ending War': An Exchange
June 29, 2000: 'Taiwan Stands Up'
May 25, 2000: The Never-Ending War
Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy by Robert S. McNamara, by James G. Blight, by Robert K. Brigham, by Thomas J. Biersteker, by Herbert Y. Schandler
Reporting Vietnam, Part One: American Journalism 1959-1969; Part Two: American Journalism 1969-1975 two volumes
American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War by David Kaiser
Guerrilla Diplomacy: The NLF's Foreign Relations and the Viet Nam War by Robert K. Brigham
Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
Dragon Ascending: Vietnam and the Vietnamese by Henry Kamm
The Secret War Against Hanoi: Kennedy's and Johnson's Use of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam by Richard H. Shultz Jr.
In the Jaws of History by Bui Diem, with David Chanoff
A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam by Lewis Sorley
Vietnam, the Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict by Michael Lind
America's War in Vietnam: A Short Narrative History by Larry H. Addington
Memories of a Pure Spring by Duong Thu Huong, Translated from the Vietnamese by Nina McPherson, by Phan Huy Duong
April 27, 2000: A Lamas' Who's Who
April 13, 2000: On Noel Annan (1916–2000)
November 4, 1999: Misfortune in Shanghai
September 23, 1999: The Dalai Lama and the CIA (letter)
July 15, 1999: Holding Out in Hong Kong
June 10, 1999: The Dalai Lama on Succession and on the CIA
April 8, 1999: Message from Shangri-La
High Peaks, Pure Earth: Collected Writings on Tibetan History and Culture by Hugh Richardson, edited with an introduction by Michael Aris
August 13, 1998: Democratic Vistas?
China's Transition by Andrew J. Nathan
Democratization in China and Taiwan: The Adaptability of Leninist Parties by Bruce J. Dickson
The Political Economy of Corruption in China by Julia Kwong
Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China by Dali L. Yang
March 5, 1998: Talking with Wei Jingsheng
February 5, 1998: The Mark of Cain
The Origins of the Cultural Revolution 3: The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-1966 by Roderick MacFarquhar
Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949 Vol. IV: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Soviet Republic 1931-1934 edited by Stuart R. Schram, by Nancy J. Hodes Associate Editor, by Stephen C. Averill Guest Associate Editor
September 25, 1997: Betrayal
The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong by Jonathan Dimbleby
June 12, 1997: Peking's Choice
April 24, 1997: Peking, Hong Kong, & the US
The Coming Conflict with China by Richard Bernstein, by Ross H. Munro
January 9, 1997: China: The Defining Moment
The Legacy of Tiananmen: China in Disarray by James Miles
May 23, 1996: How China Lost Taiwan
February 29, 1996: River of Fire
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Jonathan D. Spence
September 21, 1995: No Trumpets, No Drums
The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam by Bao Ninh, translated by Phan Thanh Hao
Novel Without a Name by Duong Thu Huong, translated by Phan Huy Duong, by Nina McPherson
Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong, translated by Phan Huy Duong, by Nina McPherson
June 22, 1995: Jumping Into the Sea
China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power by Nicholas D. Kristof, by Sheryl WuDunn
Mandate of Heaven: A New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Bohemians, and Technocrats Lays Claim to China's Future by Orville Schell
November 17, 1994: Unmasking the Monster
The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician, Dr. Li Zhisui translated by Tai Hung-chao, with the editorial assistance of Anne F. Thurston, foreword by Andrew J. Nathan
October 6, 1994: The Bottom of the Well
Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism edited by Tani E. Barlow
Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State edited by Christine K. Gilmartin, edited by Gail Hershatter, edited by Lisa Rofel, edited by Tyrene White
June 9, 1994: The Prodigal Sons
April 7, 1994: The Battle for Hong Kong
A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong by Frank Welsh
March 25, 1993: The Party's Secrets
Time for Telling Truth Is Running Out: Conversations with Zhang Shenfu by Vera Schwarcz
A Chinese Odyssey: The Life and Times of a Chinese Dissident by Anne F. Thurston
Chinese Village, Socialist State by Edward Friedman, by Paul G. Pickowicz, by Mark Selden, with Kay Ann Johnson
November 5, 1992: Squaring the Chinese Circle
Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture by Jonathan D. Spence
The Cambridge History of China: Volume 15, The People's Republic Part 2: Revolutions Within the Chinese Revolution 1966–1982 edited by Roderick MacFarquhar, edited by John K. Fairbank
April 9, 1992: Return to Vietnam: An Exchange
March 5, 1992: Literature of the Wounded
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Voices from the Whirlwind: An Oral History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution edited by Feng Jicai, foreword by Robert Coles
November 7, 1991: China Perceived (letter)
October 10, 1991: Reconsidering Vietnam
Vietnam: Citizens Detained for Peaceful Expression
A Vietnam Reader by Walter Capps
The Dynamics of Defeat: The Vietnam War in Hau Nghia Province by Eric M. Bergerud
Strange Ground: An Oral History of Americans in Vietnam, 1945–1975 by Harry Maurer
The Vietnam Wars: 1945–1990 by Marilyn B. Young
War by Other Means: National Liberation and Revolution in Viet-Nam 1954–60 by Carlyle A. Thayer
Vietnam at War: The History: 1946–1975 by Phillip B. Davidson
Romancing Vietnam: Inside the Boat Country by Justin Wintle
Remembering Heaven's Face: A Moral Witness in Vietnam by John Balaban
May 30, 1991: The Myth of Mao's China
China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality by Steven W. Mosher
December 20, 1990: Lost Horizons
The Myth of Shangri-La: Tibet, Travel Writing and the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape by Peter Bishop
Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
A History of Modern Tibet, 1913–1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State by Melvyn C. Goldstein
My Tibet Dalai Lama, photographs and introduction by Galen Rowell
November 22, 1990: Heroin, Laos, & the CIA (letter)
November 8, 1990: Endless War (letter)
October 25, 1990: The Lost Weekend (letter)
August 16, 1990: The War That Will Not End
Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam by Morley Safer
Lost Victory: A Firsthand Account of America's Sixteen-Year Involvement in Vietnam by William Colby, by James McCarger
Slow Burn: The Rise and Bitter Fall of American Intelligence in Vietnam by Orrin DeForest, by David Chanoff
The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam by Mark Clodfelter
As I Saw It by Dean Rusk as told to Richard Rusk, edited by Daniel S. Papp
Tears Before the Rain: An Oral History of the Last Days of the Fall of Vietnam by Larry Engelmann
Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives by James M. Freeman
Vietnam: 'Renovation' (Doi Moi), The Law and Human Rights in the 1980s Amnesty International
June 14, 1990: Human Rights in China (letter)
April 26, 1990: In A Cruel Country
Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic by Bette Bao Lord
A Higher Kind of Loyalty: A Memoir by China's Foremost Journalist by Liu Binyan
'Tell the World': What Happened in China and Why by Liu Binyan, with Ruan Ming, by Xu Gang, translated by Helen L. Epstein
February 1, 1990: The Empire Strikes Back
Tiananmen: The Rape of Peking by Michael Fathers, by Andrew Higgins
Tiananmen Square by Scott Simmie, by Bob Nixon
Massacre in Beijing: The Events of 3–4 June, 1989 and Their Aftermath the Ad Hoc Study Group on Human Rights in China a report prepared by the International League for Human Rights and
Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June by Harrison E. Salisbury
June Four: A Chronicle of the Chinese Democratic Uprising by the photographers and reporters of the Ming Pao News, translated by Zi Jin, by Qin Zhou
Beijing Spring photographs by David Turnley, by Peter Turnley, text by Melinda Liu
October 26, 1989: Stories from the Ice Age
Spring Bamboo: A Collection of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories compiled and translated by Jeanne Tai, with a foreword by Bette Bao Lord, an introduction by Leo Ou-fan Lee
I Myself Am a Woman: Selected Writings of Ding Ling edited by Tani E. Barlow, with Gary J. Bjorge
Lapse of Time by Wang Anyi, introduction by Jeffrey Kinkley
Baotown by Wang Anyi, translated by Martha Avery
June 29, 1989: The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward edited by Roderick MacFarquhar, by Timothy Cheek, by Eugene Wu, with contributions by Merle Goldman, by Benjamin Schwartz
April 27, 1989: Mao and Snow (letter)
February 16, 1989: Message from Mao
Edgar Snow: A Biography by John Maxwell Hamilton
August 12, 1971: Nuremberg and Vietnam (letter)
August 21, 1969: Report from the China Sea
April 10, 1969: Col. America
The Betrayal by Colonel William Corson
October 24, 1968: The North Vietnamese in Paris II. What They Don't Say