Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian of China. Until 1998 he was East Asia editor of The Times of London. (October 2011)
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Making It Big in China
October 27, 2011
Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China
by Jianying Zha
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How Good Are China’s Schools?
October 13, 2011
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Will There Be a ‘Duel of Dalai Lamas’?
May 26, 2011
Tragedy in Crimson: How the Dalai Lama Conquered the World but Lost the Battle with China
by Tim Johnson
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The War We’ll Never Understand
December 9, 2010
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
by Karl Marlantes
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A Hero of Our Time
November 11, 2010
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How Reds Smashed Reds
November 11, 2010
Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement
by Andrew G. Walder
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Vietnam Now
June 24, 2010
Vietnam: Rising Dragon
by Bill Hayton
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Brutalized in China
March 11, 2010
The Vagrants
by Yiyun Li
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
by Yiyun Li
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‘The True Story of Izzy’: An Exchange
December 17, 2009
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The True Story of Izzy
September 24, 2009
American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone
by D.D. Guttenplan
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China’s Dictators at Work: The Secret Story
July 2, 2009
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
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The China We Don’t Know
February 26, 2009
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
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Vietnam: Dead Souls
November 20, 2008
Ghosts of War in Vietnam
by Heonik Kwon
The Boat
by Nam Le
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The Chinese and the Dalai Lama
August 14, 2008
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How He Sees It Now
July 17, 2008
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In the Heart of Darkness
May 15, 2008
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
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He Won’t Give In
February 14, 2008
Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China
by Kang Zhengguo, translated from the Chinese by Susan Wilf, with an introduction by Perry Link
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China’s Area of Darkness
November 8, 2007
Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang
by James A. Millward
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Edgar Snow’s Alterations
November 16, 2006
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Court Favorite
October 19, 2006
Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Superstar
by Brook Larmer
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China: The Shame of the Villages
May 11, 2006
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
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‘Tiananmen Follies’: An Exchange
April 27, 2006
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The Case of Dai Qing
November 17, 2005
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China: The Uses of Fear
October 6, 2005
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
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Taiwan on the Edge
May 27, 2004
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The Party Isn’t Over
May 13, 2004
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
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The Hong Kong Gesture
November 20, 2003
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Wartime Lies
October 9, 2003
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
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How the Chinese Spread SARS
May 29, 2003
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China’s Psychiatric Terror
February 27, 2003
Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and Its Origins in the Mao Era
by Robin Munro
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There Were Worse Places
May 23, 2002
Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora of Communities of Shanghai
by Marcia Reynders Ristaino
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Inside the Whale
December 20, 2001
Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing
by Ian Buruma
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China’s Assault on the Environment
October 18, 2001
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
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Un-Chinese Activities
May 17, 2001
Treason by the Book
Jonathan D. Spence
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Writers in a Cold Wind
March 8, 2001
The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System by Perry Link
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‘The Never-Ending War’: An Exchange
September 21, 2000
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‘Taiwan Stands Up’
June 29, 2000
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The Never-Ending War
May 25, 2000
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
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A Lamas’ Who’s Who
April 27, 2000
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On Noel Annan (1916–2000)
April 13, 2000
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Misfortune in Shanghai
November 4, 1999
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The Dalai Lama and the CIA
September 23, 1999
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Holding Out in Hong Kong
July 15, 1999
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The Dalai Lama on Succession and on the CIA
June 10, 1999
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Message from Shangri-La
April 8, 1999
High Peaks, Pure Earth: Collected Writings on Tibetan History and Culture
by Hugh Richardson, edited with an introduction by Michael Aris
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Democratic Vistas?
August 13, 1998
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
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Talking with Wei Jingsheng
March 5, 1998
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The Mark of Cain
February 5, 1998
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
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Betrayal
September 25, 1997
The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong by Jonathan Dimbleby
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Peking’s Choice
June 12, 1997
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Peking, Hong Kong, & the US
April 24, 1997
The Coming Conflict with China by Richard Bernstein, by Ross H. Munro
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China: The Defining Moment
January 9, 1997
The Legacy of Tiananmen: China in Disarray by James Miles
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How China Lost Taiwan
May 23, 1996
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River of Fire
February 29, 1996
God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Jonathan D. Spence
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No Trumpets, No Drums
September 21, 1995
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
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Jumping Into the Sea
June 22, 1995
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Unmasking the Monster
November 17, 1994
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
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The Bottom of the Well
October 6, 1994
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
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The Prodigal Sons
June 9, 1994
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The Battle for Hong Kong
April 7, 1994
A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong by Frank Welsh
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The Party’s Secrets
March 25, 1993
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
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Squaring the Chinese Circle
November 5, 1992
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 19661982 edited by Roderick MacFarquhar, edited by John K. Fairbank
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Return to Vietnam: An Exchange
April 9, 1992
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Literature of the Wounded
March 5, 1992
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
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China Perceived
November 7, 1991
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Reconsidering Vietnam
October 10, 1991
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, 19451975 by Harry Maurer
The Vietnam Wars: 1945–1990 by Marilyn B. Young
War by Other Means: National Liberation and Revolution in Viet-Nam 195460 by Carlyle A. Thayer
Vietnam at War: The History: 19461975 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
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The Myth of Mao’s China
May 30, 1991
China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality by Steven W. Mosher
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Lost Horizons
December 20, 1990
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, 19131951: The Demise of the Lamaist State
by Melvyn C. Goldstein
My Tibet Dalai Lama, photographs and introduction by Galen Rowell
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Heroin, Laos, & the CIA
November 22, 1990
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Endless War
November 8, 1990
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The Lost Weekend
October 25, 1990
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The War That Will Not End
August 16, 1990
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
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Human Rights in China
June 14, 1990
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In A Cruel Country
April 26, 1990
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
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The Empire Strikes Back
February 1, 1990
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 34 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
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Stories from the Ice Age
October 26, 1989
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
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
June 29, 1989
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
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Mao and Snow
April 27, 1989
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Message from Mao
February 16, 1989
Edgar Snow: A Biography
by John Maxwell Hamilton
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Nuremberg and Vietnam
August 12, 1971
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Report from the China Sea
August 21, 1969
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Col. America
April 10, 1969
The Betrayal by Colonel William Corson
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The North Vietnamese in Paris II. What They Don’t Say
October 24, 1968
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Banned in China
January 9, 2012
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Murdoch's Chinese Adventure
July 26, 2011
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China's Political Prisoners: True Confessions?
June 30, 2011
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Jailed for Words: Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo
October 11, 2010