Roderick MacFarquhar

General George C. Marshall meeting with Chang Chun and Zhou Enlai, circa 1946

Mission Impossible

The China Mission: George Marshall’s Unfinished War, 1945–1947

by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

September 27, 2018 issue

The Red Emperor

January 18, 2018 issue

Worshipers at the Tibetan Buddhist Lama Temple in central Beijing, March 2014

China’s Astounding Religious Revival

‘The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao’ by Ian Johnson

The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao

by Ian Johnson

June 8, 2017 issue

President Xi Jinping, Central Discipline Inspection Committee Secretary Wang Qishan, and Premier Li Keqiang, Tiananamen Square, Beijing, September 2014

China: The Superpower of Mr. Xi

Xi is the most powerful leader of China since Deng Xiaoping, with a developing personality cult

The Governance of China

by Xi Jinping

Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping: Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression?

by Willy Wo-Lap Lam

August 13, 2015 issue

Zhuang Zedong playing at the twenty-sixth World Table Tennis Championships, in which he won the men’s singles title, Beijing, 1961

Paddling to Peking

Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World

by Nicholas Griffin

March 20, 2014 issue

John Paton Davies Jr., circa 1943, when he was a State Department official based in China

The ‘Breaking of an Honorable Career’

China Hand: An Autobiography

by John Paton Davies Jr.

April 25, 2013 issue

Dong Xiwen: The Founding Ceremony of the Nation (1951), showing Mao proclaiming the birth of the People’s Republic of China from the Imperial Palace Gate at Tiananmen Square, 1949

Who Was Mao Zedong?

Mao: The Real Story

by Alexander V. Pantsov with Steven I. Levine

October 25, 2012 issue

‘No Truck With Pakistan’

November 24, 2011 issue

Chen Yanning: Chairman Mao Inspects the Guangdong Countryside, 1972. This painting, from Asia Society’s recent exhibition ‘Art and China’s Revolution,’ shows Mao’s visit to the outskirts of Guangzhou during the first year of the Great Leap Forward, the initiative that propelled China into a famine resulting in millions of deaths.

The Worst Man-Made Catastrophe, Ever

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962

by Frank Dikötter

February 10, 2011 issue

The Pride of Empire

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997

by Piers Brendon

September 24, 2009 issue

Mission to Mao

Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World

by Margaret MacMillan

June 28, 2007 issue

India: The Imprint of Empire

October 23, 1997 issue

Demolition Man

March 27, 1997 issue

Deng’s Last Campaign

December 17, 1992 issue

John King Fairbank (1907–1991)

October 24, 1991 issue

The Anatomy of Collapse

September 26, 1991 issue

The End of the Chinese Revolution

What Deng Xiaoping failed to comprehend is that Tiananmen Square 1989 was virtually the mirror opposite of the Cultural Revolution.

July 20, 1989 issue

Passing the Baton in Beijing

February 18, 1988 issue

The End of the Long March

December 19, 1985 issue