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21/09/2011	Poppadom Preach by Almas Khan reviewed by Graham Ranger
18/09/2011	Matteo Ricci: A Jesuit in the Ming Court by Michela Fontana reviewed by Jonathan Chatwin
15/09/2011	The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka reviewed by Melanie Ho
12/09/2011	Ghetto at the Center of the World by Gordon Matthews reviewed by Bill Purves
07/09/2011	The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk & Popular Literature by Victor H. Mair & Mark Bender (eds.) reviewed by Loh Su Hsing
04/09/2011	The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad reviewed by Hilton Yip
31/08/2011	Shieldwall by Justin Hill reviewed by Peter Gordon
28/08/2011	The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam reviewed by Melanie Ho
24/08/2011	An Empty Room by Mu Xin reviewed by Peter Gordon
21/08/2011	Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka reviewed by Vernon Ram
16/08/2011	In Stitches by Tony Youn reviewed by Bill Purves
13/08/2011	Beautiful Thing by Sonia Faleiro reviewed by Manasi Subramaniam
09/08/2011	Monsieur Linh and His Child by Philippe Claudel reviewed by Peter Gordon
07/08/2011	Butterfly's Child by Angela Davis-Gardner reviewed by Peg Fong
05/08/2011	The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux reviewed by Bill Purves
02/08/2011	The Return of the Galon King: History, Law, and Rebellion in Colonial Burma by Maitrii Aung-Thwin reviewed by Anthony T. Gorton
29/07/2011	The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra by Roger Hart reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
26/07/2011	Reluctant Regulators by Leo Goodstadt reviewed by Michael Hsu
23/07/2011	Pao by Kerry Young reviewed by Peter Gordon
20/07/2011	In the Sea there are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
17/07/2011	The To-Let House by Daisy Hasan reviewed by Todd Shimoda
14/07/2011	Red Shambhala: Magic, Prophecy, Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia by Andrei Znamenski reviewed by Peter Gordon
11/07/2011	The Beautiful One Has Come by Suzanne Kamata reviewed by Melanie Ho
09/07/2011	D�cadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse by Derek Sandhaus (ed.) reviewed by Jonathan Chatwin
06/07/2011	Mission to China by Mary Laven reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
03/07/2011	The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon reviewed by Rajat Chaudhuri
30/06/2011	The Cloud Messenger by Aamer Hussein reviewed by Manasi Subramaniam
27/06/2011	On China by Henry Kissinger reviewed by Kerry Brown
22/06/2011	You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity by Robert Lane Greene reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/06/2011	Homer Lea: American Soldier of Fortune by Lawrence Kaplan reviewed by Stephen Maire
16/06/2011	Manazuru by Hiromi Kawakami reviewed by Todd Shimoda
12/06/2011	Japan's Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922 by Paul E. Dunscomb reviewed by Peter Gordon
09/06/2011	Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff reviewed by Bill Purves
04/06/2011	Anya's War by Andrea Alban Daughter of Xanadu by Dori Jones Yang reviewed by Loh Su Hsing
01/06/2011	Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa reviewed by Melanie Ho
29/05/2011	Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld reviewed by Nigel Collett
25/05/2011	Isle of Dreams by Keizo Hino reviewed by Todd Shimoda
21/05/2011	Why the West Rules -- For Now by Ian Morris reviewed by Kerry Brown
18/05/2011	The Urban Design of Concession: Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Treaty Ports by Peter Cookson Smith reviewed by Peter Gordon
15/05/2011	Butterfly's Sisters: The Geisha in Western Culture by Yoko Kawaguchi reviewed by Todd Shimoda
12/05/2011	Mauritius: On the Spice Route, 1598-1810 by Denis Piat reviewed by Peter Gordon
09/05/2011	India: A Portrait -- An Intimate Biography of 1.2 Billion People by Patrick French reviewed by Nigel Collett
07/05/2011	The Empress and Mrs Conger: The Uncommon Friendship of Two Women and Two Worlds by Grant Hayter-Menzies reviewed by Jonathan Chatwin
04/05/2011	World and Town by Gish Jen reviewed by Todd Shimoda
01/05/2011	Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu reviewed by Loh Su Hsing
28/04/2011	Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
23/04/2011	The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 by Robert Bickers reviewed by Hilton Yip
18/04/2011	Saying the Unsayable: Monarchy and Democracy in Thailand by Soren Ivarsson and Lotte Isager (eds.) reviewed by Anthony T. Gorton
11/04/2011	Paper Scissors Stone by Kit Fan reviewed by Peter Gordon
05/04/2011	Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff reviewed by Melanie Ho
01/04/2011	Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand reviewed by Bill Purves
27/03/2011	The Indian Ocean Tsunami: The Global Response to a Natural Disaster by Pradyuma P. Karan & Shanmugam P. Subbiah (eds.) reviewed by Peter Gordon
21/03/2011	A Shattered Youth: Surviving the Khmer Rouge by Sathavy Kim reviewed by Tshering Tashi
13/03/2011	Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
09/03/2011	A Different Sky by Meira Chand reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
02/03/2011	Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier reviewed by Peter Gordon
26/02/2011	To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron reviewed by Bill Purves
21/02/2011	Chinese Whiskers by Pallavi Aiyar reviewed by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
16/02/2011	Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie reviewed by Jonathan Chatwin
13/02/2011	The Agency series: A Spy in the House, The Body at the Tower by Y. S. Lee reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
09/02/2011	The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel by Nicholas Ostler reviewed by Peter Gordon
07/02/2011	A Riot of Goldfish by Kanoko Okamoto reviewed by Melanie Ho
04/02/2011	Measurements: Sketches from Hong Kong by Melanie Ho and SCC Overton (eds.) reviewed by Robert H. Abel
28/01/2011	Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert Kaplan reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
26/01/2011	Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikotter reviewed by Jonathan Chatwin
23/01/2011	Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda reviewed by Peter Gordon
22/01/2011	The Last Speakers by K. David Harrison reviewed by Tshering Tashi
16/01/2011	The Wind from The East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution and the Legacy of the 1960s by Richard Wolin reviewed by Kerry Brown
12/01/2011	Seized by Max Hardberger reviewed by Bill Purves
09/01/2011	Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim al-Khalili reviewed by Peter Gordon
06/01/2011	The Wobbling Pivot by Pamela Crossley reviewed by Peter Wood
02/01/2011	Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea by Suk-Young Kim reviewed by Deric McNish
31/12/2010	The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai by Ruiyan Xu reviewed by Jonathan Chatwin
26/12/2010	Matterhorn by Karl Marlante reviewed by Todd Shimoda
22/12/2010	ARTiculations: Undefining Chinese Contemporary Art by Jerome Silbergeld & Dora C.Y. Ching (eds.) reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/12/2010	The Temple-Goers by Aatish Taseer reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
15/12/2010	Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee reviewed by Nigel Collett
12/12/2010	Indonesia: 500 Early Postcards by Leo Haks & Steven Wachlin reviewed by Peter Gordon
08/12/2010	Years of Red Dust by Qiu Xiaolong reviewed by Melanie Ho
05/12/2010	The Book of Change by Eileen Chang reviewed by Katherine Foster
01/12/2010	In the Lap of the Gods by Li Miao Lovett reviewed by Robert H. Abel
27/11/2010	The Icarus Diaries by Kate Hoyland reviewed by Duncan Hewitt
24/11/2010	The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant reviewed by Gary Verstick
21/11/2010	The Great Wall: A Cultural History by Carlos Rojas reviewed by Jonathan Chatwin
17/11/2010	Higher Education? How Colleges are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids -- and What We Can Do About It by Andrew Hacker & Claudia Dreifus reviewed by Peter Gordon
13/11/2010	Habit of a Foreign Sky by Xu Xi reviewed by Nigel Collett
09/11/2010	The Cloak of Dreams by Bela Balazs reviewed by Peter Gordon
03/11/2010	Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China by Susan Greenhalgh reviewed by Peter Wood
31/10/2010	Butterfly's Shadow by Lee Langley reviewed by Peter Gordon
27/10/2010	The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe reviewed by Todd Shimoda
24/10/2010	The World is Bigger Now by Euna Lee Imprisoned in Paradise: Japanese Internee Road Workers at the World War II Kooskia Internment Camp by Priscilla Wegars reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/10/2010	Half Life by Roopa Farooki reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
19/10/2010	Tony Blair: A Journey by Tony Blair reviewed by Kerry Brown
13/10/2010	The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China by Deiter Kuhn reviewed by Stephen Maire
11/10/2010	The Last Speakers by K. David Harrison reviewed by Peter Gordon
09/10/2010	Murder in the High Himalaya by Jonathan Green reviewed by Tshering Tashi
03/10/2010	The House of Rajani by Alon Hilu reviewed by Melanie Ho
30/09/2010	The Rainbow Orchid by Gareth Ewing The 24th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography by Tetsu Saiwai reviewed by Peter Gordon
27/09/2010	The Lives of Confucius by Michael Nylan/Thomas Wilson reviewed by Stephen Maire
22/09/2010	Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith Asia Alone: The Dangerous Post-Crisis Divide From America by Simon S. C. Tay reviewed by Peter Gordon
20/09/2010	Wretched Rebels: Rural Disturbances on the Eve of the Chinese Revolution by Lucien Bianco reviewed by Peter Wood
15/09/2010	Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong reviewed by Katherine Foster
13/09/2010	The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi reviewed by Peter Gordon
09/09/2010	Serious Men by Manu Joseph reviewed by Rajat Chaudhuri
05/09/2010	North Korea Caught in Time: Images of War and Reconstruction by Chris Springer reviewed by Peter Wood
02/09/2010	The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell reviewed by Todd Shimoda
30/08/2010	Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image by Kam Louie (ed.) 80�: a photobook project by Mary Lee reviewed by Peter Gordon
26/08/2010	Road of Bones: The Siege of Kohima 1944; The Epic Story of the Last Great Stand of Empire by Fergal Keane reviewed by Richard Garrett
22/08/2010	The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze Age Herders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony reviewed by Peter Gordon
18/08/2010	Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen by Marilyn Chin reviewed by Melanie Ho
13/08/2010	Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau and the Question of Chineseness by Cathryn H. Clayton reviewed by Peter Gordon
09/08/2010	Kissing the Mask by William T. Vollmann reviewed by Todd Shimoda
05/08/2010	Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring by Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Michael F. Ties reviewed by Peter Gordon
31/07/2010	The Honey Gatherers by Mimlu Sen reviewed by Bill Purves
26/07/2010	The Geometry of God by Uzma Aslam Khan reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
22/07/2010	The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone reviewed by Peter Gordon
18/07/2010	Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter�s Memoir by Fatima Bhutto reviewed by Nigel Collett
14/07/2010	The Party by Richard McGregor reviewed by Kerry Brown
09/07/2010	Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick reviewed by Bill Purves
05/07/2010	Long for this World by Sonya Chung reviewed by Melanie Ho
03/07/2010	Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
27/06/2010	Burmese Lessons by Karen Connelly reviewed by Bill Purves
23/06/2010	The Happy Valley: A History and Tour of the Hong Kong Cemetery by Ken Nicholson reviewed by Peter Gordon
20/06/2010	Out of the Way! Out of the Way by Uma Krishnaswami reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
17/06/2010	Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus by Oliver Bullough reviewed by Peter Gordon
13/06/2010	Best Friends Forever: A World War Two Scrapbook by Beverly Patt reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
09/06/2010	The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
05/06/2010	Hatched: The Capacity for Sustainable Development by Bob Frame, Richard Gordon and Claire Mortimer (eds.) reviewed by Peter Wood
02/06/2010	China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom reviewed by Peter Gordon
31/05/2010	The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe reviewed by Kerry Brown
28/05/2010	The Planter's Wife by Stephen Simmons reviewed by Nigel Collett
25/05/2010	The Fall of the Pagoda by Eileen Chang reviewed by Katherine Foster
23/05/2010	The Future of China-Russian Relations by James Bellacqua (ed.) reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/05/2010	Vietnam: Rising Dragon by Bill Hayton reviewed by Kerry Brown
16/05/2010	Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman reviewed by Graham Ranger
13/05/2010	For All the Tea in China by Sarah Rose reviewed by Peter Gordon
11/05/2010	Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling reviewed by Nigel Collett
09/05/2010	Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco reviewed by Todd Shimoda
07/05/2010	Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler reviewed by Bill Purves
04/05/2010	Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother by Xinran reviewed by Melanie Ho
01/05/2010	The Miracle by Michael Schuman reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
28/04/2010	Crossing by Andrew Xia Fukuda reviewed by Robert H. Abel
26/04/2010	Singapore, A Biography by Mark Ravinder Frost / Yu-Mei Balasingamchow reviewed by Peter Gordon
23/04/2010	Eight White Nights by Andre Aciman reviewed by Nigel Collett
22/04/2010	Pearl of China by Anchee Min reviewed by Todd Shimoda
14/04/2010	Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson reviewed by Bill Purves
11/04/2010	Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong by Christine Loh reviewed by Kerry Brown
07/04/2010	The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China by Hannah Pakula reviewed by Hilton Yip
04/04/2010	Wartime in Burma: A Diary, January to June 1942 by Theippan Maung Wa (U Sein Tin) / L.E.Bagshaw & Anna J.Allott (trans. & eds.) reviewed by Richard Garrett
31/03/2010	Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
28/03/2010	The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford reviewed by Peter Gordon
24/03/2010	Butterfly Tears by Zoe S. Roy reviewed by Melanie Ho
22/03/2010	Surviving Paradise by Peter Rudiak-Gould reviewed by Bill Purves
19/03/2010	The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka reviewed by Peter Wood
17/03/2010	The Great Disconnect by Bill Barron reviewed by Peter Gordon
14/03/2010	Where There Are Asians There Are Rice Cookers: How National Went Global via Hong Kong by Yoshiko Nakano reviewed by John D. Van Fleet
12/03/2010	The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi reviewed by Peter Gordon
09/03/2010	The Merry Mysogynist by Colin Cotterrill reviewed by Robert H. Abel
05/03/2010	A Lion in Paris by Beatrice Alemagna Fledolin Upside Down by Antje Damm On the Tip of a Pin by Geeta Dharmarajan reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
02/03/2010	The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa by Deborah Brautigam reviewed by Peter Wood
26/02/2010	Petals from the Sky by Mingmei Yip reviewed by Melanie Ho
23/02/2010	China Bound and Unbound: History in the Making -- an Early Returnee's Account by Frances Wong reviewed by Hilton Yip
22/02/2010	Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World by James Mather reviewed by Peter Gordon
18/02/2010	Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics by William H. Overholt reviewed by Mark Clifford
16/02/2010	Shanghai, China's Gateway to Modernity by Marie-Claire Bergere reviewed by Kerry Brown
11/02/2010	Strategic Asia 2009-10: Economic Meltdown and Geopolitical Stability by Ashley J. Tellis / Andrew Marble / Travis Tanner (eds.) reviewed by Kaishi Lee
09/02/2010	China's Last Empire by William Rowe reviewed by Stephen Maire
07/02/2010	Lustrum by Robert Harris reviewed by Peter Gordon
04/02/2010	Dominion From Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power by Bruce Cummings reviewed by Kerry Brown
02/02/2010	Body2Body by Jerome Kugan and Pang Khee Teik (eds.) reviewed by Nigel Collett
31/01/2010	Spies in the Garden: A Novel of War and Espionage by Bob Bergin reviewed by Richard Garrett
29/01/2010	Cycling Home from Siberia by Rob Lilwall reviewed by Bill Purves
26/01/2010	Hotel China by SCC Overton and Edmund Price (eds.) / Hong Kong Writers Circle reviewed by Robert H. Abel
24/01/2010	Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple reviewed by Nigel Collett
21/01/2010	Hidden Buddhas by Liza Dalby reviewed by Todd Shimoda
18/01/2010	A Diamond in the Desert: Behind the Scenes in the World's Richest City by Jo Tatchell reviewed by Peter Wood
15/01/2010	Xanadu: Marco Polo and Europe's discovery of the East by John Man reviewed by Peter Gordon
13/01/2010	Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein reviewed by Todd Shimoda
10/01/2010	Love in Translation by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga reviewed by Melanie Ho
07/01/2010	China's Cosmopolitan Empire by Mark Lewis reviewed by Stephen Maire
04/01/2010	The Boat To Redemption by Su Tong reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
02/01/2010	The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam reviewed by Peter Gordon
29/12/2009	Occupied City by David Peace reviewed by Todd Shimoda
26/12/2009	The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters by Richard Bernstein reviewed by Tim O'Connell
23/12/2009	Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux reviewed by Nigel Collett
20/12/2009	The Word Book by Mieko Kanai reviewed by Todd Shimoda
14/12/2009	We Shall Suffer There by Tony Banham reviewed by Stephen Maire
12/12/2009	After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Sunni-Shia Split in Islam by Lesley Hazleton reviewed by Peter Gordon
08/12/2009	Breaking Through by Li Lanqing reviewed by Kerry Brown
05/12/2009	Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement by Andrew Walder reviewed by Peter Wood
01/12/2009	The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall reviewed by Peter Gordon
26/11/2009	The Long Road Back to China: The Burma Road Wartime Diaries by Carl Crow, Paul French (ed.) reviewed by John D. Van Fleet
24/11/2009	Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples by Christopher de Bellaigue reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/11/2009	In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labour Camp by Gao Er Tai reviewed by Bill Purves
15/11/2009	A Good Fall by Ha Jin reviewed by Melanie Ho
12/11/2009	Democracy Kills: What's So Good About Having the Vote? by Humphrey Hawksley reviewed by Peter Gordon
08/11/2009	Journey of a Thousand Miles by Lang Lang and David Ritz reviewed by Bill Purves
05/11/2009	A Gift to my Children by Jim Rogers reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
01/11/2009	The Beijing of Possibilities by Jonathan Tel reviewed by Peter Gordon
30/10/2009	Crazy for Kanji: A Student�s Guide to the Wonderful World of Japanese Characters by Eve Kushner reviewed by Todd Shimoda
25/10/2009	Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw reviewed by Peter Gordon
22/10/2009	Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
19/10/2009	Supermarket by Satoshi Azuchi reviewed by Todd Shimoda
13/10/2009	Nazarbayez and the Making of Kazakhstan by Jonathan Aitken reviewed by Kerry Brown
10/10/2009	Rock Carvings in Hong Kong by William Meacham reviewed by Peter Gordon
07/10/2009	Conflict by Nelson Rand reviewed by Bill Purves
05/10/2009	Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker reviewed by Stephen Maire
01/10/2009	A Robe of Feathers by Thersa Matsuura reviewed by Todd Shimoda
27/09/2009	Friends and Enemies: The Past, Present and Future of the Communist Party of China by Kerry Brown reviewed by Peter Wood
19/09/2009	Signs of a Colonial Era by Andrew Yanne / Gillis Heller reviewed by Peter Gordon
14/09/2009	Military Culture in Imperial China by Nicola di Cosmo reviewed by Stephen Maire
08/09/2009	Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan reviewed by Peter Gordon
03/09/2009	Everything Asian by Sung J Woo reviewed by Melanie Ho
28/08/2009	Through the Looking Glass by Paul French reviewed by Kerry Brown
20/08/2009	Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth reviewed by Peter Gordon
15/08/2009	Fixing Global Finance by Martin Wolf reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
09/08/2009	The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa reviewed by Todd Shimoda
04/08/2009	Popular Protest in China by Kevin O'Brien (ed.) reviewed by Kerry Brown
01/08/2009	Oh! A mystery of mono no aware by Todd Shimoda reviewed by Melanie Ho
27/07/2009	Another Gulmohar Tree by Aamer Hussein reviewed by Peter Gordon
18/07/2009	China in 2008 by Kate Merkel-Hess, Kenneth Pomeranz, Jeffrey N Wasserstrom (eds.) reviewed by Kerry Brown
11/07/2009	Out of Steppe by Daniel Metcalfe reviewed by Peter Gordon
08/07/2009	China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties by Mark Lewis reviewed by Stephen Maire
04/07/2009	English by Wang Gang reviewed by Peter Gordon
01/07/2009	China High: My Fast Times in the 010, A Beijing Memoir by ZZ reviewed by Kerry Brown
25/06/2009	Shanghai Girls by Lisa See reviewed by Melanie Ho
22/06/2009	The Mao Case by Qiu Xiaolong reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
17/06/2009	A Comrade, Lost and Found by Jan Wong reviewed by Kerry Brown
14/06/2009	The Way of Herodotus: Travels with the Man Who Invented History by Justin Marozzi reviewed by Peter Gordon
10/06/2009	The Vagrants by Yiyun Li reviewed by Isaac Stone Fish
07/06/2009	Ten Days and Nine Nights: an Adoption Story by Yumi Heo reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
04/06/2009	The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia -- and How It Died by Philip Jenkins reviewed by Tim O'Connell
02/06/2009	Open Hearts Open Doors: Reflections on China's Past & Future by Elizabeth Gill Lui reviewed by Todd Shimoda
31/05/2009	UFO in Her Eyes by Guo Xiaolu reviewed by Peter Gordon
26/05/2009	Butcher & Bolt by David Loyn reviewed by Stephen Maire
23/05/2009	Incense Tree: Collected Poems by Louise Ho reviewed by Tammy Ho
20/05/2009	Once on a Moonless Light by Dai Sijie reviewed by Peter Gordon
17/05/2009	Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China by James Fallows reviewed by Isaac Stone Fish
14/05/2009	Audition by Ryu Murakami reviewed by Todd Shimoda
10/05/2009	Poorly Made in China by Paul Midler reviewed by Peter Gordon
07/05/2009	The Cape and Other Stories From the Japanese Ghetto by Kenji Nakagami reviewed by Todd Shimoda
04/05/2009	The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer reviewed by Peter Gordon
02/05/2009	Macao's Church of Saint Paul: A Glimmer of the Baroque in China by Cesar Guillen Nunez reviewed by Tim O'Connell
29/04/2009	Brothers by Yu Hua reviewed by Todd Shimoda
26/04/2009	Blood and Bamboo by James Church reviewed by Peter Gordon
22/04/2009	China Museums by Miriam Clifford, Cathy Giangrande and Antony White reviewed by Kerry Brown
19/04/2009	Utamaro Revealed: A Guide to Subjects, Themes & Motifs by Gina Collia-Suzuki reviewed by Todd Shimoda
15/04/2009	Archibald Wavell: The Life and Times of an Imperial Servant by Adrian Fort reviewed by Nigel Collett
13/04/2009	The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Rome from 400 to 1000 by Chris Wickham reviewed by Peter Gordon
11/04/2009	The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
05/04/2009	The Dragon and the Crown: Hong Kong Memoirs by Stanley Kwan / Nicole Kwan reviewed by Bill Purves
03/04/2009	The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China by Shouhua Qi (ed.) reviewed by Isaac Stone Fish
29/03/2009	Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang reviewed by Mark Clifford
28/03/2009	Light and Shade: Sketches from an Uncommon Life by Solomon Bard reviewed by Peter Gordon
22/03/2009	Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery by Patricia Bjaaland Welch reviewed by Mark Clifford
20/03/2009	The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
15/03/2009	Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie reviewed by Peter Gordon
12/03/2009	Bad Traffic by Simon Lewis reviewed by Isaac Stone Fish
08/03/2009	Axis of Convenience by Bobo Lo reviewed by Kerry Brown
05/03/2009	Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford reviewed by Melanie Ho
03/03/2009	Smoke and Mirrors by Pallavi Aiyar reviewed by Peter Gordon
23/02/2009	Murderers in Mausoleums: Riding the Back Roads of Empire Between Moscow and Beijing by Jeffrey Tayler reviewed by Isaac Stone Fish
18/02/2009	The Great Wall Revisited, From the Jade Gate to Old Dragon's Head by William Lindesay reviewed by Valery Garrett
16/02/2009	Tokyo Fiancee by Amelie Nothomb reviewed by Peter Gordon
12/02/2009	Falling Through the Roof by Thubten Samphel reviewed by Tsering Namgyal
09/02/2009	Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel L. Everett reviewed by Peter Gordon
04/02/2009	Falling Off the Edge by Alex Perry reviewed by Bill Purves
01/02/2009	Outside Beauty by Cynthia Kadohata reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
24/01/2009	China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran reviewed by Stephen Maire
20/01/2009	Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance -- and Why They Fall by Amy Chua reviewed by Peter Gordon
14/01/2009	The Girl From Foreign by Sadia Shephard reviewed by Nigel Collett
08/01/2009	The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee reviewed by Peter Gordon
04/01/2009	Retribution by Max Hastings reviewed by Stephen Maire
01/01/2009	Millennium by Tom Holland reviewed by Peter Gordon
29/12/2008	Chinese Calligraphy by Wang Youfen (trans./ed.) reviewed by James Hayes
26/12/2008	Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics by Yasheng Huang reviewed by Peter Gordon
23/12/2008	Worlds at War by Anthony Pagden reviewed by Stephen Maire
21/12/2008	Socialism is Great! by Lijia Zhang reviewed by John D. Van Fleet
18/12/2008	Right of Passage: Travels from Brooklyn to Bali by Rahul Jacob reviewed by Peter Gordon
16/12/2008	Global Shanghai 1850-2010 by Jeffrey Wasserstrom reviewed by Kerry Brown
13/12/2008	Love Marriage by V.V. Ganeshananthan reviewed by Melanie Ho
11/12/2008	The China Lover by Ian Buruma reviewed by Isaac Stone Fish
08/12/2008	The Fold by An Na reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
05/12/2008	Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong by Helen Leung Hok-sze reviewed by Nigel Collett
02/12/2008	New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters by Joe Earle reviewed by Todd Shimoda
29/11/2008	The Collector of Worlds by Ilya Troyanov reviewed by Peter Gordon
27/11/2008	Paper Butterfly by Diane Wei Liang reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
24/11/2008	City of Heavenly Tranquility: Beijing in the History of China by Jasper Becker The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed by Michael Meyer reviewed by Tim O'Connell
23/11/2008	What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
17/11/2008	Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945: Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley by Geoffrey Emerson reviewed by Bill Purves
12/11/2008	KFC in China, Secret Recipe for Success by Warren K. Liu reviewed by John D. Van Fleet
09/11/2008	Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910: A Comparison with British India by Alexander Morrison reviewed by Peter Gordon
06/11/2008	Little Hut of Leaping Fishes by Chiew-Siah Tei reviewed by Isaac Stone Fish
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29/10/2008	Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by Christina Thompson reviewed by Bill Purves
25/10/2008	The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in a China Before Mao by Charles N. Li Footprints in the Snow by Chan Master Sheng-Yen reviewed by Peg Fong
20/10/2008	Gardens of Water by Alan Drew reviewed by Peter Gordon
13/10/2008	The Man on Mao's Right: From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life Inside China's Foreign Ministry by Ji Chaozhu reviewed by Kerry Brown
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28/09/2008	Animal's People by Indra Sinha reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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14/09/2008	Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China by Philip Pan reviewed by Mark Clifford
10/09/2008	My Favourite Wife by Tony Parsons reviewed by Peg Fong
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28/08/2008	Rivals: How the The Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan will Shape the Next Decade by Bill Emmott reviewed by Kerry Brown
24/08/2008	The Foreigner by Francie Lin reviewed by Peg Fong
20/08/2008	Real World by Natsuo Kirino reviewed by Todd Shimoda
17/08/2008	The New Paradigm for Financial Markets by George Soros reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
14/08/2008	The Ginseng Hunter by Jeff Talarigo reviewed by Peter Gordon
09/08/2008	Descent into Chaos by Ahmed Rashid reviewed by Mark Clifford
07/08/2008	Gandhi & Churchill by Arthur Herman reviewed by Nigel Collett
02/08/2008	Beijing Coma by Ma Jian reviewed by Robert H. Abel
31/07/2008	Join the Revolution, Comrade by Charles Foran reviewed by Peter Gordon
28/07/2008	Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt reviewed by Mark Clifford
28/07/2008	The Eye of Jade by Diane Wei Liang reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
22/07/2008	Empires of the Indus by Alice Albinia reviewed by Nigel Collett
18/07/2008	The Ghost War by Alex Berenson reviewed by Peter Gordon
14/07/2008	Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present by Valery Garrett reviewed by Tim O'Connell
11/07/2008	Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008 by Xu Guoqi reviewed by Stephen Maire
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07/07/2008	Breath by Tim Winton reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
04/07/2008	Mo's Mischief by Hongying Yang reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
03/07/2008	Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan by Donald Keene reviewed by Todd Shimoda
30/06/2008	Building Energy Efficiency: Why Green Buildings are Key to Asia's Future by Wen Hong / Madelaine Steller Chiang / Ruth A. Shapiro / Mark L. Clifford / Margarethe P. Laurenzi (editor) reviewed by Doug Ogden
29/06/2008	The Open Road by Pico Iyer reviewed by Terry Grose
25/06/2008	Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet by Sherri L. Smith reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
22/06/2008	The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage by Alexandra Harney reviewed by Peter Gordon
18/06/2008	Bamboo Goalposts by Rowan Simons reviewed by Kerry Brown
15/06/2008	Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution by Moying Li reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
12/06/2008	The Glass Slipper and Other Stories by Shotaro Yasuoka reviewed by Todd Shimoda
09/06/2008	Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuschia Dunlop reviewed by Peg Fong
09/06/2008	Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen reviewed by Peter Gordon
05/06/2008	The Story of a Stele: China's Nestorian Monument and Its Reception in the West, 1625-1916 by Michael Keevak reviewed by Tim O'Connell
02/06/2008	Foreign Devil: Thirty Years of Reporting from The Far East by Richard Hughes reviewed by Peter Gordon
31/05/2008	Peach Blosson Pavilion by Mingmei Yip reviewed by Peg Fong
28/05/2008	Repatriated by Adriaan Van Dis reviewed by Peter Gordon
25/05/2008	The Imperial Capitals of China by Arthur Cotterell reviewed by Stephen Maire
22/05/2008	The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Brian M. Fagan reviewed by Mark Clifford
20/05/2008	The Second Plane -- September 11: Terror and Boredom by Martin Amis reviewed by Michael Hsu
17/05/2008	China's Great Train: Beijing's Drive and the Campaign to Remake Tibet by Abrahm Lustgarten reviewed by Bill Purves
13/05/2008	Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan reviewed by Vineetha Mokkil
11/05/2008	A Year in Tibet by Sun Shuyun reviewed by Peter Gordon
07/05/2008	The Ghost Mountain Boys by James Campbell reviewed by Stephen Maire
04/05/2008	Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling by Grant Hayter-Menzies reviewed by Tim O'Connell
30/04/2008	The Wakame Gatherers by Holly Thompson / Kazumi Wilds (illus.) reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
27/04/2008	The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz reviewed by Todd Shimoda
23/04/2008	Secondhand World by Katherine Min reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
20/04/2008	The Authentic Confucius by Annping Chin reviewed by Stephen Maire
20/04/2008	How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard reviewed by Peter Gordon
15/04/2008	Ling Ling Looked in the Mirror by Ming and Wah Chen / Mariko Jesse (illus.) reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
14/04/2008	Love & Lust by Hong Kong Writers' Circle reviewed by Sasha Seth
07/04/2008	The Temple of the Wild Geese and Bamboo Dolls of Echizen by Tsutomu Mizukami / Dennis Washburn (trans.) reviewed by Todd Shimoda
31/03/2008	Little Emperors: A Year With the Future of China by JoAnn Dionne reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
25/03/2008	The Painter From Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein reviewed by Peter Gordon
18/03/2008	Profits, Politics and Panics: Hong Kong's Banks and the Making of a Miracle Economy, 1935-1985 by Leo F. Goodstadt reviewed by Michael Hsu
14/03/2008	What Does China Think by Mark Leonard reviewed by Peter Gordon
09/03/2008	Gender, Sexuality and Body Politics in Modern Asia by Michael G Peletz reviewed by Nigel Collett
02/03/2008	Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
29/02/2008	The Economic and Strategic Rise of China and India: Asian Realignments after the 1997 Financial Crisis by David B.H. Denoon reviewed by Bruce Dalbrack
24/02/2008	The Solitude of Emperors by David Davidar reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
23/02/2008	Midori by Moonlight by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
16/02/2008	Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink by David Remnick (ed.) reviewed by Michael Hsu
14/02/2008	China's Brave New World: And Other Tales for Global Times by Jeffrey N. Wassterstrom reviewed by Peter Gordon
09/02/2008	Indie Girl by Kavita Daswani reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
09/02/2008	20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Guo Xiaolu reviewed by Peter Gordon
31/01/2008	In The Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia by Ronald H. Spector reviewed by Richard Garrett
27/01/2008	Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson reviewed by Tim O'Connell
22/01/2008	China into the Future: Making Sense of the World's Most Dynamic Economy by W John Hoffmann and Michael J Enright (eds.) reviewed by Kerry Brown
20/01/2008	The Assassin's Song by M. G. Vassanji reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
13/01/2008	Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime and the Uighur in China by Blaine Kaltman reviewed by Peter Gordon
06/01/2008	The Budding Tree by Aiko Kitahara / Ian MacDonald (trans.) reviewed by Todd Shimoda
30/12/2007	Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India Since the Great Rebellion by Maria Misra reviewed by Nigel Collett
26/12/2007	Realm of the Dead by Uchida Hyakken / Rachel DiNitto (trans) reviewed by Todd Shimoda
23/12/2007	The Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra reviewed by Peter Gordon
20/12/2007	Where Empires Collided by Michael Share reviewed by Stephen Maire
16/12/2007	Red Mandarin Dress by Qiu Xiaolong reviewed by Paul French
09/12/2007	The First Emperor of China by Frances Wood reviewed by Stephen Maire
09/12/2007	The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin reviewed by Peter Gordon
02/12/2007	The Dowry Bride by Shobhan Bantwal reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
30/11/2007	Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman reviewed by Nigel Collett
25/11/2007	Goodbye Madame Butterfly by Sumie Kawakami reviewed by Todd Shimoda
25/11/2007	Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex von Tunzelmann reviewed by Nigel Collett
18/11/2007	A Century of Travels in China: Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s by Douglas Kerr / Julia Kuehn (eds.) reviewed by Valery Garrett
18/11/2007	The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado reviewed by Peter Gordon
11/11/2007	Global Body Shopping by Xiang Biao reviewed by Stephen Maire
11/11/2007	Peony in Love by Lisa See reviewed by Jane Wong
04/11/2007	Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan reviewed by Michael Hsu
01/11/2007	Gifted by Nikita Lalwani reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
29/10/2007	The Analects of Confucius by Burton Watson (trans.) reviewed by Bruce Dalbrack
26/10/2007	Botchan by Natsume Soseki / J. Cohn (trans.) reviewed by Todd Shimoda
21/10/2007	Last Seen in Lhasa by Claire Scobie reviewed by Bill Purves
18/10/2007	Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter by Shoko Tendo reviewed by Todd Shimoda
12/10/2007	Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
07/10/2007	A Company of Planters by John Dodd reviewed by Terry Grose
05/10/2007	Lust. Caution by Eileen Chang / Wang Hui Ling / James Schamus reviewed by Bruce Dalbrack
01/10/2007	Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia by Joe Studwell reviewed by John D. Van Fleet
25/09/2007	China Road: A Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford reviewed by Kerry Brown
23/09/2007	Fieldwork by Mischa Belinksi reviewed by Peter Gordon
16/09/2007	Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China 1574-1724 by Liam Matthew Brockey reviewed by Michael Hsu
15/09/2007	Woman on the Other Shore by Mitsuyo Kakuta reviewed by Peter Gordon
10/09/2007	Earning the Laundry Stripes by Manreet Sodhi Someshwar reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
04/09/2007	First Pass Under Heaven by Nathan Gray reviewed by Bill Purves
02/09/2007	The Pool of Unease by Catherine Sampson Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett reviewed by Peter Gordon
26/08/2007	The Dragon and the Foreign Devils by Harry G Gelber reviewed by Kerry Brown
22/08/2007	India After Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha reviewed by Nigel Collett
19/08/2007	Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World by Josh Kurlantzick reviewed by Peter Gordon
13/08/2007	Struggling Giant: China in the 21st Century by Kerry Brown reviewed by Paul French
06/08/2007	Lawrence and Aaronsohn: T. E. Lawrence, Aaron Aaronsohn, and the Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Ronald Florence reviewed by Peter Gordon
29/07/2007	Filming by Tabish Khair reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
23/07/2007	For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors: The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings by Janet Lee Scott reviewed by Valery Garrett
15/07/2007	Getting Rich First: Life in a Changing China by Duncan Hewitt reviewed by John D. Van Fleet
12/07/2007	Lost Men by Brian Leung reviewed by Wes Stevens
08/07/2007	A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers by Guo Xiaolu reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
04/07/2007	The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak reviewed by Peter Gordon
03/07/2007	The Dream of Rome by Boris Johnson reviewed by Michael Hsu
24/06/2007	The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
21/06/2007	The American Diary of a Japanese Girl by Yone Noguchi / Edward Marx and Laura E. Franey (eds.) reviewed by Todd Shimoda
17/06/2007	The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb reviewed by Michael Scown
14/06/2007	Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren reviewed by Peter Gordon
11/06/2007	Piercing by Ryu Murakami reviewed by Todd Shimoda
06/06/2007	The Eye of Jade by Diane Wei Liang reviewed by Reid Mitchell
04/06/2007	Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani reviewed by Peter Gordon
31/05/2007	Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945 by Liao Ping-Hui and David Der-Wei Wang, eds. reviewed by John Walsh
27/05/2007	Manga of the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyo�shi of Edo Japan by Adam L. Kern reviewed by Todd Shimoda
23/05/2007	A Handbook to Luck by Cristina Garcia reviewed by Peter Gordon
20/05/2007	Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S. by Roland Kelts reviewed by Todd Shimoda
15/05/2007	High Tea in Mosul by Lynne O'Donnell reviewed by Nigel Collett
13/05/2007	At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches by Susan Sontag reviewed by Michael Hsu
09/05/2007	Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy by Ben MacIntyre reviewed by Richard Garrett
06/05/2007	The Peacock Throne by Sujit Saraf Fireproof by Raj Kamal Jha reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
02/05/2007	The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly reviewed by Alexandra Moss
28/04/2007	The Universe: A Biography by John Gribbin Genesis Machines: The New Science of Biocomputing by Martyn Amos reviewed by Peter Gordon
26/04/2007	Plum Wine by Angela Davis-Gardener reviewed by Todd Shimoda
22/04/2007	Welcome to Pyongyang by Charlie Crane reviewed by Paul French
17/04/2007	A Fragile Hope by Ken Kamoche reviewed by Wes Stevens
12/04/2007	Forgotten Wars by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper reviewed by Nigel Collett
08/04/2007	On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan reviewed by Peter Gordon
06/04/2007	In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce reviewed by John Walsh
04/04/2007	A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder by Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman reviewed by Peter Gordon
31/03/2007	American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges reviewed by Tim O'Connell
24/03/2007	Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino reviewed by Mary Lee
21/03/2007	Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Other Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath reviewed by Peter Gordon
17/03/2007	The Perfect Spy by Larry Berman reviewed by Bill Purves
13/03/2007	I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China by Zhu Wen reviewed by Wes Stevens
09/03/2007	In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce reviewed by Peter Gordon
04/03/2007	Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron reviewed by Peter Gordon
01/03/2007	In the Line of Fire by Pervez Musharraf reviewed by John Walsh
21/02/2007	Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thurbron reviewed by Bill Purves
17/02/2007	The Eighth Promise by William Poy Lee reviewed by Todd Shimoda
14/02/2007	Christine Falls by Benjamin Black reviewed by Peter Gordon
11/02/2007	A Case of Two Cities by Qiu Xiaolong reviewed by Paul French
08/02/2007	Project Integrens by John Biggs reviewed by Tammy Ho
03/02/2007	The Writing on the Wall. Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy. by Will Hutton reviewed by Stephen Maire
31/01/2007	The Teahouse Fire by Avery Ellis reviewed by Todd Shimoda
28/01/2007	The Last Mughal: The Fate of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple reviewed by Nigel Collett
25/01/2007	Fruit Dreams and Other Asian Stories by Roseanne Thong reviewed by Wes Stevens
21/01/2007	Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals reviewed by Kerry Brown
17/01/2007	The Uninvited by Geling Yan reviewed by Mary Lee
15/01/2007	God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad by Charles Allen reviewed by John Walsh
09/01/2007	Rogue Raider: The Tale of Captain Lauterbach and the Indian Mutiny by Nigel Barley reviewed by Richard Garrett
06/01/2007	You Must Like Cricket? Memoirs of an Indian Cricket Fan by Soumya Bhattacharya reviewed by Peter Gordon
31/12/2006	Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
27/12/2006	Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao by Margaret Macmillan reviewed by Kerry Brown
24/12/2006	Love and Revolution by Ping Lu, Nancy Du (trans.) reviewed by John D. Van Fleet
20/12/2006	Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni Kabul In Winter by Anne Jones reviewed by Terry Grose
17/12/2006	The High Road to China by Kate Teltscher reviewed by Nigel Collett
13/12/2006	In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar Oasis by Laureen Vonnegut A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear by Atiq Rahimi reviewed by Peter Gordon
08/12/2006	Carl Crow, A Tough Old China Hand: The Life, Times and Adventures of an American in Shanghai by Paul French reviewed by Kerry Brown
06/12/2006	Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation by Michael Zielenziger reviewed by Todd Shimoda
03/12/2006	Locked Out, Stories Far from Home by Alison Jean Lester reviewed by Wes Stevens
26/11/2006	The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India by Tristram Stuart reviewed by Michael Hsu
23/11/2006	Hong Kong U Writing: an anthology by Tammy Ho (ed.) reviewed by Reid Mitchell
19/11/2006	Salaam, Paris by Kavita Daswani reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
15/11/2006	The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger reviewed by Peter Gordon
12/11/2006	Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China by John Pomfret reviewed by Tim O'Connell
07/11/2006	Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts by Aili Mu, Julie Chiu, Howard Goldblatt (selected and translated by) reviewed by Peter Gordon
05/11/2006	Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan 1793-1841 by Donald Keene reviewed by Todd Shimoda
29/10/2006	February Flowers by Fan Wu reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
25/10/2006	The J-Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall by Ian Bremmer reviewed by Peter Gordon
22/10/2006	The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror by George Soros reviewed by Michael Hsu
18/10/2006	The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth reviewed by Peter Gordon
15/10/2006	The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
11/10/2006	What the Chinese Don't Eat by Xinran reviewed by Gordon G. Chang
08/10/2006	The Tales of the Heike by Burton Watson (trans) / Haruo Shirane (ed.) reviewed by Todd Shimoda
05/10/2006	Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Robert Harris reviewed by Peter Gordon
02/10/2006	Brothers by Da Chen reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
28/09/2006	Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Marukami reviewed by Peter Gordon
24/09/2006	Moving House and Other Poems from Hong Kong by Gillian Bickley reviewed by Tammy Ho
20/09/2006	Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond by Pankaj Mishra reviewed by Nigel Collett
16/09/2006	Londonstani by Gautam Malkani reviewed by Paul French
14/09/2006	Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey Two Lives by Vikram Seth reviewed by Peter Gordon
10/09/2006	The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour reviewed by Nigel Collett
06/09/2006	Everything in Style: Harriet Low's Macau by Rosemary Wank-Nolasco Lamas reviewed by Valery Garrett
03/09/2006	Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad by Robert Asahina reviewed by Brett F. Woods
30/08/2006	A Place Where Sunflowers Grow by Amy Lee-Tai and Felicia Hoshino (illustrator) reviewed by Roseanne Thong
27/08/2006	Guangxi: Microsoft, China and Bill Gates's Plan to Win the Road Ahead by Robert Buderi and Gregory T. Huang reviewed by Paul French
23/08/2006	Dancing with the Two-Headed Tigress by Tina Biswas reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
20/08/2006	Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire by Saul David reviewed by Nigel Collett
17/08/2006	The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities from Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums by Peter Watson and Cecilia Todeschini reviewed by Peter Gordon
13/08/2006	The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints by Amy Reigle Newland, Editor reviewed by Todd Shimoda
05/08/2006	The Gods We Worship Live Next Door by Bino A. Realuyo reviewed by David McKirdy
02/08/2006	Tourism by Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
28/07/2006	Osman's Dream by Caroline Finkel reviewed by Peter Gordon
23/07/2006	Bodies in Motion by Mary Anne Mohanraj reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
17/07/2006	A Sea of Green by Bill Purves reviewed by John Walsh
14/07/2006	The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred by Niall Ferguson reviewed by Michael Hsu
11/07/2006	Building Shanghai: The Story of China's Gateway. by Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren reviewed by Kerry Brown
08/07/2006	Scourge and Fire: Savanarola and Renaissance Italy by Lauro Martines reviewed by Peter Gordon
05/07/2006	The Search for a Vanishing Beijing: A Guide to China's Capital Through the Ages by M. A. Aldrich reviewed by Valery Garrett
02/07/2006	Gordon Wu: The Man Who Turned The Lights On: Gordon Wu by Rosemary Sayer reviewed by John Walsh
29/06/2006	*The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru: Britain's Forgotten Wartime Tragedy* by Tony Banham reviewed by Richard Garrett
26/06/2006	The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart reviewed by Peter Gordon
23/06/2006	The Long March by Sun Shuyun reviewed by Kerry Brown
20/06/2006	A Sea of Green by Bill Purves reviewed by Paul McGuire
19/06/2006	China: The Balance Sheet -- What the World Needs to Know Now About the Emerging Superpower by The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Institute for International Economics reviewed by Peter Gordon
17/06/2006	The Dragon's Pearl by Sirin Phathanothai reviewed by Paul French
15/06/2006	Shigeru Ban by Matilda McQuaid reviewed by Todd Shimoda
13/06/2006	Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present by Peter Hessler reviewed by Peter Gordon
08/06/2006	Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend by Christopher Ross reviewed by Nigel Collett
05/06/2006	Synthetic Worlds by Edward Castranova The Long Tail by Chris Anderson reviewed by Peter Gordon
02/06/2006	The People's Republic of Desire by Annie Wang reviewed by Paul French
31/05/2006	Malinche by Laura Esquivel reviewed by Peter Gordon
30/05/2006	The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America by Paul Chiasson reviewed by Peter Gordon
26/05/2006	The Brigadier's Wife by Chris Tao reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
22/05/2006	Arthur & George by Julian Barnes reviewed by Michael Hsu
20/05/2006	Excellence Without a Soul: How Great University Forgot Education by Harry R Lewis reviewed by Peter Gordon
18/05/2006	Shopping in the Renaissance by Evelyn Welch reviewed by Peter Gordon
16/05/2006	The Third Ear by Chris Lonsdale reviewed by Paul McGuire
13/05/2006	Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky reviewed by Peter Gordon
10/05/2006	ARCHIPELAGO: Stories by Wes Stevens reviewed by Graham Ranger
07/05/2006	China Shakes the World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation by James Kynge reviewed by Paul French
04/05/2006	How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life by Kaavya Viswanathan reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
01/05/2006	Falling Blossom by Peter Pagnamenta and Momoko Williams reviewed by Nigel Collett
29/04/2006	The Accidental by Ali Smith reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
26/04/2006	Camel Bells in the Windy Desert: Coming of Age in Inner Mongolia by Andrew Tu reviewed by Paul McGuire
25/04/2006	White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway reviewed by Peter Gordon
20/04/2006	China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic by Karl Taro Greenfeld reviewed by John Walsh
15/04/2006	The Match by Romesh Gunesekera reviewed by Vernon Ram
12/04/2006	Bellini and the East by Caroline Campbell The Lust For Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies by Robert Irwin reviewed by Peter Gordon
07/04/2006	American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville by Bernard-Henri Levy reviewed by Michael Hsu
04/04/2006	The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
01/04/2006	The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene reviewed by Michael Hsu
29/03/2006	City of the Queen by Shih Shuqing reviewed by Peter Gordon
25/03/2006	Crossfire by Miyuki Miyabe reviewed by John Walsh
22/03/2006	Heirs of the Prophet: The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad and the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism by Barnaby Rogerson reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/03/2006	Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer reviewed by Paul French
14/03/2006	Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade, Lessons from Shanghai by Andrew Ross reviewed by Kerry Brown
14/03/2006	Kuraj by Sivia di Natale reviewed by Peter Gordon
10/03/2006	The Prester Quest by Nicholas Jubbins reviewed by Paul French
07/03/2006	In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant reviewed by Peter Gordon
04/03/2006	Salman Rushdie by Shalimar the Clown reviewed by Graham Ranger
01/03/2006	In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs by Christopher de Ballaigue reviewed by Terry Grose
25/02/2006	Frangipani by Celestine Hitiura Vaite reviewed by Peter Gordon
23/02/2006	Haunting Tales of Hong Kong by The Hong Kong Writers' Circle reviewed by Tammy Ho
21/02/2006	Nuclear Showdown, North Korea Takes on the World by Gordon G Chang Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader, North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley K Martin reviewed by Kerry Brown
18/02/2006	Two Lives by Vikram Seth reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
16/02/2006	The Siege of Venice by Jonathan Keates reviewed by Peter Gordon
14/02/2006	The Rose of Singapore by Peter Neville reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
12/02/2006	A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester reviewed by Tim O'Connell
10/02/2006	Entrys by Peter Bacho reviewed by Paul Kim
07/02/2006	Zoom Out by Peter Maize reviewed by David McKirdy
05/02/2006	Fair Trade For All: How Trade Can Promote Development by Joseph E Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton reviewed by Bruce Dalbrack
05/02/2006	Shanghai Bride by Christina Ching Tsao reviewed by Paul French
25/01/2006	Jakarta Undercover by Moammar Emka reviewed by Kerry Brown
21/01/2006	Crash Course: Imagining a Better Future for Public Education by Chris Whittle reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/01/2006	Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Superstar by Brook Larmer reviewed by Paul French
15/01/2006	A Lover's Soliloquy by Eddie Tay reviewed by Tammy Ho
11/01/2006	One Couple, Two Cultures: 81 Western-Chinese Couples Talk About Love and Marriage by Dan Waters reviewed by Peter Gordon
08/01/2006	Untouchables by Narendra Jadhav reviewed by Nigel Collett
03/01/2006	Ukiyo-e by Gian Carlo Calza reviewed by Todd Shimoda
01/01/2006	The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World by General Sir Rupert Smith reviewed by Michael Hsu
27/12/2005	My Life as Emperor by Su Tong reviewed by Peter Gordon
24/12/2005	Donald Keene by Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World reviewed by Todd Shimoda
21/12/2005	Thug by Mike Dash reviewed by Nigel Collett
18/12/2005	Everyday Asian by Patricia Yeo and Tom Steele reviewed by Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee
15/12/2005	The Living Room of the Dead by Eric Stone reviewed by Peter Gordon
12/12/2005	Wars Within by Janet Steele reviewed by John Walsh
10/12/2005	Contemporary Japanese Thoughts by Richard Calichman (ed.) reviewed by Michael Hsu
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04/12/2005	Private Dancer by Stephen Leather reviewed by Paul French
03/12/2005	A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage reviewed by Peter Gordon
30/11/2005	One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Line of Doing Business in China by James McGregor reviewed by Kerry Brown
27/11/2005	Language Education in China: Policy and Experience from 1949 by Agnes Lam reviewed by Peter Gordon
24/11/2005	Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/11/2005	Battle: A Visual Journey through 5000 years of Combat by R. G. Grant. reviewed by Richard Garrett
17/11/2005	Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk reviewed by Peter Gordon
13/11/2005	The Sea by John Banville reviewed by Peter Gordon
11/11/2005	Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World by Theodore C. Bestor reviewed by Michael Hsu
09/11/2005	Not Quite the Diplomat by Chris Patten reviewed by Peter Gordon
06/11/2005	Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 by Maya Jasanoff reviewed by John Walsh
06/11/2005	One Billion Customers: Lessons from the frontlines of doing business in China by James McGregor reviewed by Peter Gordon
02/11/2005	Eyewitness Travel Guide to China by Dorling Kindersley reviewed by Paul French
30/10/2005	Fried Eggs With Chopsticks by Polly Evans reviewed by Bill Purves
29/10/2005	The Dancing Girls of Lahore by Louise Brown reviewed by Peter Gordon
27/10/2005	Sahib: The British Soldier in India, 1750-1914 by Richard Holmes reviewed by Nigel Collett
22/10/2005	Hot Property: The stealing of ideas in an age of globalization by Pat Choate reviewed by Kim Nicholson
22/10/2005	Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin reviewed by Paul McGuire
19/10/2005	Gannibal by Hugh Barnes reviewed by Peter Gordon
17/10/2005	The Lady and the Panda by Vicki Constantine Croke reviewed by Paul French
12/10/2005	You'll Die in Singapore by Charles McCormac reviewed by Richard Garrett
10/10/2005	Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
06/10/2005	The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Graham Coleman (ed.) reviewed by John Walsh
06/10/2005	Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd In Search of Shakespeare by Michael Wood Helen of Troy by Betthany Hughes reviewed by Peter Gordon
05/10/2005	Regional Powerhouse -- The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China by Michael Enright, Edith Scott, Ka-mun Chang reviewed by Paul French
02/10/2005	Olga's Story by Stephanie Williams reviewed by Terry Grose
02/10/2005	Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization by Michael Goldman reviewed by John Walsh
29/09/2005	A Brief History of the Paradox by Roy Sorensen reviewed by Michael Hsu
24/09/2005	The Flight of the Swans by D. Devika Bai reviewed by Sasha Seth
23/09/2005	Desert Rose by Mary Weijun Collins reviewed by Paul McGuire
21/09/2005	1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann reviewed by Peter Gordon
18/09/2005	Searching for Buddha's Tooth: Personal Stories of Tibetan Culture by Tsering N. Khortsa reviewed by John Walsh
17/09/2005	Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
14/09/2005	No god but God by Reza Aslan reviewed by Peter Gordon
11/09/2005	Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England by Alison Weir reviewed by Paul McGuire
10/09/2005	Surviving The Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45 by Brian MacArthur reviewed by Richard Garrett
07/09/2005	How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare by Paul Jennings reviewed by Paul McGuire
04/09/2005	Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea by Jasper Becker reviewed by Kerry Brown
03/09/2005	The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw reviewed by Peter Gordon
31/08/2005	Flashman on the March by George McDonald Fraser reviewed by Tim O'Connell
28/08/2005	Accidental Occidental by David McKirdy reviewed by Bruce Dalbrack
26/08/2005	Facing Death in Cambodia by Peter Maguire reviewed by Kerry Brown
24/08/2005	Flush by Carl Hiassen reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
21/08/2005	A Kingdom Under Siege: Nepal's Maoist Insurgency, 1996-2004 by Deepak Thapa with Bandita Sijapti reviewed by Paul French
18/08/2005	Kuhaku & Other Accounts From Japan by Bruce Rutledge (ed.) reviewed by Todd Shimoda
15/08/2005	Hide Tide: How Climate Crisis is Engulfing Our Planet by Mark Lynas reviewed by Peter Gordon
12/08/2005	My Friend the Enemy by J.B. Cheaney reviewed by Paul McGuire
10/08/2005	Saturday by Ian McEwan reviewed by Paul French
08/08/2005	The Cairo House by Samia Serageldin reviewed by Peter Gordon
05/08/2005	Nanda Devi: A Journey to the Last Sanctuary by Hugh Thomson reviewed by Bill Purves
03/08/2005	Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East by Clyde Prestowitz reviewed by Peter Gordon
01/08/2005	Surface by Siddhartha Deb reviewed by Todd Shimoda
29/07/2005	Strategy: A Step-by-Step Approach to the Development and Presentation of World Class Business Strategy by Mark Daniell reviewed by Peter Gordon
27/07/2005	The Asian Mystique by Sheridan Prasso reviewed by Todd Shimoda
25/07/2005	Fan Tan by Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell reviewed by Peter Gordon
23/07/2005	I'm Coming To Take You To Lunch by Simon Napier-Bell reviewed by David McKirdy
21/07/2005	Medici Money by Tim Parks reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/07/2005	Above the City: Hiking Hong Kong Island by Alice Kershaw and Ginger Thrash reviewed by Bill Purves
16/07/2005	Foreign Babes in Beijing by Rachel DeWoskin reviewed by Paul French
13/07/2005	The Alchemy of Desire by Tarun J. Tejpal reviewed by Peter Gordon
11/07/2005	Big Breasts and Wide Hips by Mo Yan reviewed by Paul French
08/07/2005	The Jade Garden: New and notable plants from Asia by Peter Wharton, Brent Hine, Douglas Justice reviewed by Bruce Dalbrack
06/07/2005	Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson reviewed by Peter Gordon
05/07/2005	Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner reviewed by Peter Gordon
03/07/2005	The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen reviewed by John Walsh
29/06/2005	Court in Time: A Magistrate's Court in Nineteenth Century Hong Kong by Gillian Bickley (ed.) reviewed by Peter Gordon
28/06/2005	Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China by Gray Tuttle reviewed by Bruce Dalbrack
26/06/2005	Sparrows, Bedbugs, and Body Shadows by Sheldon Lou reviewed by John Walsh
23/06/2005	The Butcher of Amritsar by Nigel Collett reviewed by David McKirdy
21/06/2005	Through Siberia By Accident by Dervla Murphy reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/06/2005	Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi reviewed by Dania Shawwa
17/06/2005	Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap reviewed by Peter Gordon
12/06/2005	Girls for Breakfast by David Yoo reviewed by Paul McGuire
10/06/2005	Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday reviewed by John Walsh
08/06/2005	Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie reviewed by Peter Gordon
06/06/2005	The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 by Diarmaid Ferriter reviewed by Charles Foran
03/06/2005	Mad About the Mekong: Exploration and Empire in South-East Asia by John Keay reviewed by Tim O'Connell
31/05/2005	Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim by Ziauddin Sardar A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment by Chris Lowney reviewed by Peter Gordon
29/05/2005	The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber reviewed by Dania Shawwa
27/05/2005	Good Luck Life by Rosemary Gong reviewed by Jessica Ogilvy-Stuart
25/05/2005	Engaging the Law in China by Neil Diamant, Stanley Lubman, and Kevin O'Brien (eds.) reviewed by Michael Hsu
22/05/2005	The Book of Loss by Julith Jedamus reviewed by Todd Shimoda
19/05/2005	Shadow Family by Miyuki Miyabe reviewed by Paul French
17/05/2005	Living and Working in Hong Kong by Rachel Wright reviewed by Peter Gordon
15/05/2005	The Pope's Daughter by Caroline P. Murphy reviewed by Tim O'Connell
12/05/2005	National Security and Fundamental Freedoms: Hong Kong's Article 23 Under Scrutiny by Fu Hualing, Carole J Petersen and Simon N M Young (eds.) reviewed by Bruce Dalbrack
11/05/2005	The Columbia Guide to Asian American History by Gary Y. Okihiro reviewed by Peter Gordon
07/05/2005	What is Modernity? by Takeuchi Yoshimi reviewed by Michael Hsu
04/05/2005	In the Time of Madness by Richard Lloyd Parry reviewed by Kerry Brown
30/04/2005	Fortress Besieged by Qian Zhongshu reviewed by Peter Gordon
27/04/2005	Empire: Impressions from China by James Whitlow Delano reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
23/04/2005	The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen by Mitali Perkins reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
21/04/2005	Ponzi's Scheme by Mitchell Zuckoff reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/04/2005	Deng Xiaoping and the Cultural Revolution: A Daughter Recalls the Critical Years by Deng Rong reviewed by Bruce Dalbrack
16/04/2005	China, Inc. by Ted C. Fishman reviewed by Peter Gordon
14/04/2005	Money for the Bank: A Banker's Guide to Marketing by Peter Geldart reviewed by Michael Hsu
10/04/2005	Why Did They Kill: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide by Alexander Laban Hinton reviewed by Kerry Brown
10/04/2005	The Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin reviewed by Peter Gordon
07/04/2005	North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula - A Modern History by Paul French reviewed by John Walsh
03/04/2005	China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia by James Lilley reviewed by Tim O'Connell
31/03/2005	The Book and the Sword by Louis Cha reviewed by Peter Gordon
27/03/2005	Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith reviewed by Paul French
23/03/2005	The Orientalist by Tom Reiss reviewed by Peter Gordon
20/03/2005	Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta reviewed by David McKirdy
15/03/2005	Uneasy Partners: The Conflict between Public Interest and Private Profit in Hong Kong by Leo F. Goodstadt reviewed by Michael Hsu
13/03/2005	Snobs by Julian Fellowes reviewed by Tracy Quan
10/03/2005	Lexus: The Relentless Pursuit by Chester C Dawson III reviewed by David McKirdy
06/03/2005	Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya reviewed by Paul French
02/03/2005	In Times of Siege by Githa Hariharan reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
28/02/2005	Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey reviewed by Bill Purves
25/02/2005	Business Creativity by Arthur Gogatz and Rueben Mondejar The Chinese Tao of Business by George T. Haley, et al. Human Resource Management: Challenges in Asia by Hugh Bucknall and Reiji Ohtaki The Citibank Guide to Building Personal Wealth by Leo Gough reviewed by Peter Gordon
24/02/2005	One Hand, Two Fingers by Gavin Coates reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
20/02/2005	Pol Pot: the History of a Nightmare by Philip Short reviewed by Kerry Brown
17/02/2005	The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era by Micheline R. Ishay reviewed by Michael Hsu
13/02/2005	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond reviewed by Peter Gordon
10/02/2005	Passing Under Heaven by Justin Hill reviewed by Terry Grose
06/02/2005	Dream Jungle by Jessica Hagedorn reviewed by Peter Gordon
04/02/2005	The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin by Robert Lawrence Kuhn reviewed by John Walsh
30/01/2005	Bound by Donna Jo Napoli reviewed by Paul McGuire
27/01/2005	China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD by James C. Y. Watt reviewed by Valery Garrett
23/01/2005	The Ramayana for Children by Bulbul Sharma & K P Sudesh (illus.) reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
23/01/2005	The Train to Lo Wu by Jess Row reviewed by Peter Gordon
20/01/2005	An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra reviewed by John Walsh
16/01/2005	Winter in China by Douglas Galbraith reviewed by Peter Gordon
12/01/2005	When Strange Gods Call by Pam Chun reviewed by Sasha Seth
09/01/2005	The Flame Tree by Richard Lewis reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
05/01/2005	Forgotten Armies by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper reviewed by Richard Garrett
02/01/2005	Maharanis by Lucy Moore reviewed by Suzanne Moore
31/12/2004	Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World by Justin Marozzi Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman by Frances Stonor Saunders reviewed by Peter Gordon
29/12/2004	Being Eurasian: Memories across Racial Divides by Vicky Lee reviewed by John Walsh
26/12/2004	Old Filth by Jane Gardham reviewed by Peter Gordon
24/12/2004	Beijing Doll by Chun Sue reviewed by Paul French
22/12/2004	Invisible Trade by Gerrie Lim reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/12/2004	The Emperor's Old Clothes by Jake van der Kamp reviewed by James T.C. Tan
19/12/2004	Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Marukami reviewed by Peter Gordon
15/12/2004	Stretch Your Life by Chris Watts and Tim Noonan reviewed by Jessica Ogilvy-Stuart
12/12/2004	Points of View: A Century of Letters to the Editor of the South China Morning Post by Kevin Sinclair and Anneliese O'Young Hwa (editors) reviewed by Peter Gordon
11/12/2004	Transforming Korean Politics: Democracy, Reform, and Culture by Young Whan Kihl reviewed by John Walsh
08/12/2004	Shouting at the Mountain: a Hong Kong story of love and commitment by Andrew & Elsie Tu reviewed by David McKirdy
05/12/2004	One's Company: A Journey to China in 1933 by Peter Fleming reviewed by Paul French
05/12/2004	Conversations in Bolzano by Sandor Marai reviewed by Peter Gordon
02/12/2004	The Crocodile who wanted to be Famous by Alan Jefferies, Mariko Jesse (illus.) and Liang Yue (translator) reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
28/11/2004	China Illustrated: Western Views of the Middle Kingdom by Arthur Hacker reviewed by Peter Gordon
27/11/2004	Lilla's Feast by Frances Osborne reviewed by Jane Ram
24/11/2004	My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
24/11/2004	Borges: A Life by Edwin Williamson reviewed by Michael Hsu
19/11/2004	The Fearless Man by Donald Pfarrer reviewed by John Walsh
19/11/2004	The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffet & George Soros by Mark Tier reviewed by Jake van der Kamp
16/11/2004	Adventures with Kids: The Essential Guide to Hong Kong for the Expat Parent by Sarah Woods reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
13/11/2004	Once Removed by Mako Yoshikawa reviewed by Jane Lewis
13/11/2004	Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner reviewed by John Walsh
09/11/2004	Delicate Access by Madeleine Marie Slavick reviewed by Tammy Ho
06/11/2004	Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800 by Anna Jackson and Amin Jaffer (editors) reviewed by Valery Garrett
05/11/2004	The Wishing Tree by Roseanne Thong reviewed by Paul McGuire
03/11/2004	Autumn Bridge by Takashi Matsuoka reviewed by Peter Gordon
30/10/2004	Sixty Lights by Gail Jones reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
30/10/2004	A High Degree of Atrocity by Jay Scott Kanes reviewed by Timothy Kaiser
27/10/2004	Colours and Characters of China: Sketches and paintings by Lorette E. Roberts reviewed by Jane Ram
24/10/2004	Comrades and Strangers: Behind the Closed Doors of North Korea by Michael Harrold reviewed by Paul French
24/10/2004	The Plot Against America by Philip Roth reviewed by Peter Gordon
20/10/2004	The Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo reviewed by Jane Ram
16/10/2004	The Love Wife by Gish Jen reviewed by Suzanne Moore
16/10/2004	War Trash by Ha Jin reviewed by Peter Gordon
15/10/2004	The Invisible Palace by Jose Manuel Tesoro reviewed by John Walsh
10/10/2004	Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni reviewed by Sasha Seth
10/10/2004	The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard reviewed by Terry Grose
05/10/2004	Twenty-First Century Plague: The Story of SARS by Thomas Abraham reviewed by Peter Gordon
02/10/2004	God's Soldiers by Jonathan Wright reviewed by Tim O'Connell
02/10/2004	Modernization and Revolution in China: from the Opium Wars to World by June Grasso, Jay Corrin and Michael Kort reviewed by John Walsh
30/09/2004	Snow by Orhan Pamuk Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres reviewed by Peter Gordon
26/09/2004	The Last Valley, Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam by Martin Windrow reviewed by Richard Garrett
24/09/2004	The Man Who Died Twice: The Life and Adventures of Morrison of Peking by Peter Thompson & Robert Macklin reviewed by Paul French
22/09/2004	The Little Red Writing Book by Brandon Royal reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/09/2004	Le Colonial by Kien Nguyen reviewed by John Walsh
17/09/2004	Everything Happens for a Reason by Kavita Daswani reviewed by Sasha Seth
15/09/2004	Tales from a Broad: An Unreliable Memoir by Fran Lebowitz reviewed by Suzanne Moore
14/09/2004	Sleepwalking by Nicola Morgan reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
12/09/2004	Dangerous Garden: The quest for plants to change our lives by David Stuart reviewed by Jane Ram
12/09/2004	My Father's War by Adrian van Dis reviewed by Peter Gordon
12/09/2004	Out by Natsuo Kirino reviewed by Paul French
05/09/2004	Critical Mass: How One Things Leads to Another by Philip Ball Wider Than the Sky:The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness by Gerald Edelman reviewed by Peter Gordon
03/09/2004	Victorine by Catherine Texier reviewed by Suzanne Moore
01/09/2004	Peacock Cries by Hong Ying reviewed by Paul French
29/08/2004	The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian reviewed by Peter Gordon
27/08/2004	Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi reviewed by Douglas Crets
25/08/2004	The Girl in the Golden House by John Biggs reviewed by Christine Loh
21/08/2004	Non-Fiction: a book of extraordinary truths by Chuck Palahniuk reviewed by Tim O'Connell
21/08/2004	Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington reviewed by Michael Hsu
18/08/2004	The Advocate by Marcello Fois reviewed by Peter Gordon
16/08/2004	At the Water's Edge by Pradeep Jeganathan reviewed by John Walsh
14/08/2004	The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by MG Vassanji reviewed by Peter Gordon
14/08/2004	The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures by Richard Duncan reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
07/08/2004	The Tyrant's Novel by Thomas Keneally reviewed by John Walsh
05/08/2004	The Bus Stopped by Tabish Khair reviewed by Peter Gordon
02/08/2004	Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood by Martin Booth reviewed by David McKirdy
29/07/2004	The Leader by Guy Walters reviewed by Paul French
27/07/2004	Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat reviewed by Peter Gordon
23/07/2004	Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear: Russia's War with Japan by Richard Connaughton reviewed by Richard Garrett
20/07/2004	Spilled water by Sally Grindlay reviewed by Paul McGuire
16/07/2004	Co-prosperity in Cross-culturalism: Indians in Hong Kong by Kirti Narain and Kwok Siu-Tong reviewed by Chetan Bhagat
14/07/2004	Tokyo by Mo Hayder reviewed by Paul French
12/07/2004	The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian Fagan reviewed by John Walsh
08/07/2004	Sky Burial by Xinran reviewed by Peter Gordon
08/07/2004	Murder at the Horny Toad Bar and Other Outrageous Tales of Thailand by Dean Barrett reviewed by Douglas Crets
06/07/2004	Pick Up Your Parrots and Monkeys by William Pennington reviewed by Paul McGuire
04/07/2004	The Last Song of Dusk by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi reviewed by Peter Gordon
02/07/2004	Losing the New China by Ethan Gutmann reviewed by Paul French
30/06/2004	The Stories of English by David Crystal reviewed by Peter Gordon
27/06/2004	Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes by Shoba Narayan reviewed by Jane Ram
25/06/2004	Clearing Ground by Martin Alexander reviewed by Pauline Burton
24/06/2004	When Red is Black by Qiu Xiaolong reviewed by Peter Gordon
20/06/2004	Jewellery of Tibet and the Himalayas by John Clarke reviewed by Jane Ram
18/06/2004	Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan by Hugh Thomas reviewed by Peter Gordon
16/06/2004	Heaven Lake by John Dalton reviewed by Tim O'Connell
13/06/2004	Revolution Day: The Human Story of the Battle for Iraq by Rageh Omaar reviewed by John Walsh
11/06/2004	Transmission by Hari Kunzru reviewed by Peter Gordon
09/06/2004	In Pursuit of Plants: Experiences of nineteenth & early twentieth century plant collectors by Philip Short reviewed by Jane Ram
06/06/2004	The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron reviewed by Peter Gordon
04/06/2004	Colombo Bay by Richard Pollak reviewed by Bill Purves
02/06/2004	Gardens of Persia by Penelope Hobhouse reviewed by Jane Ram
30/05/2004	Wall Street Meat by Andy Kessler reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
28/05/2004	The King of America by Samantha Gillison reviewed by Peter Gordon
27/05/2004	Great Books for High School Kids: A Teachers' Guide to Books That Can Change Teens' Lives by Rick Ayers and Amy Crawford (eds.) reviewed by David Bickel
24/05/2004	Chaucer by Peter Ackroyd reviewed by Peter Gordon
23/05/2004	The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa reviewed by Jaya Banerji
19/05/2004	Overleaf Hong Kong by Xu Xi reviewed by John Walsh
16/05/2004	The Retreat of The Elephants: An Environmental History of China by Mark Elvin reviewed by Christine Loh
14/05/2004	Mr China by Tim Clissold reviewed by Peter Gordon
12/05/2004	Remembering China: A Cultural Revelation of Forgotten Lives and Times by Yasuto Kitahara reviewed by Valery Garrett
10/05/2004	Doing It by Melvin Burgess reviewed by Paul McGuire
08/05/2004	Village of Stone by Guo Xiaolu reviewed by Peter Gordon
05/05/2004	Absolute Friends by John le Carre reviewed by Paul French
02/05/2004	Duel in the Snows by Charles Allen reviewed by John Walsh
29/04/2004	The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad reviewed by Paul French
26/04/2004	Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford Genghis Khan: Life, Death and Resurrection by John Man reviewed by Peter Gordon
24/04/2004	The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell reviewed by Sue Bond
23/04/2004	The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra reviewed by Jaya Banerji
21/04/2004	A Clone of Your Own? by Arlene Judith Klotzko reviewed by John Walsh
19/04/2004	Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power by David Aikman reviewed by Tim O'Connell
18/04/2004	Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit reviewed by Peter Gordon
15/04/2004	Drive On! by L.J.K Setright reviewed by David McKirdy
12/04/2004	Falun Gong: The End of Days by Maria Hsia Chang reviewed by John Walsh
09/04/2004	Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life by John Gribbin reviewed by Peter Gordon
07/04/2004	A Land Without Evil by Benedict Rogers reviewed by Paul French
04/04/2004	The Orient in a Mirror by Roland and Sabrina Michaud The Alhambra by Robert Irwin reviewed by Peter Gordon
01/04/2004	Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China by Frank Dikotter, Lars Laamann and Zhou Xun reviewed by Michael Hsu
31/03/2004	The Big Year by Mark Obmascik reviewed by Bill Purves
28/03/2004	A Plague upon Humanity by Daniel Barenblatt reviewed by Richard Garrett
26/03/2004	At the Epicentre: Hong Kong and the SARS Outbreak by Christine Loh (ed.) reviewed by Peter Gordon
23/03/2004	The Spice Garden by Michael Vatikiotis reviewed by John Walsh
21/03/2004	Miss Smithers by Susan Juby reviewed by Paul McGuire
19/03/2004	The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra reviewed by Peter Gordon
17/03/2004	The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori by Mark Ravina reviewed by John Walsh
16/03/2004	The Feng Shui Detective's Casebook by Nury Vittachi reviewed by Paul McGuire
14/03/2004	Pompeii by Robert Harris reviewed by Peter Gordon
12/03/2004	Pyongyang: The Hidden History of the North Korean Capital by Chris Springer reviewed by Paul French
09/03/2004	Black Sheep: Journey to Borroloola by Nicholas Jose The Red Thread reviewed by Sue Bond
07/03/2004	Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages by Mark Abley The Alphabet by David Sacks reviewed by Peter Gordon
05/03/2004	The Big Read: Book of Books by The BBC reviewed by Elaine Leung
03/03/2004	Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China by Ian Johnson reviewed by Peter Gordon
29/02/2004	Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost by Jonathan Fenby reviewed by Michael Hsu
27/02/2004	The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander reviewed by Peter Gordon
26/02/2004	One Last Look by Susanna Moore reviewed by Jane Ram
23/02/2004	The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Ted Riccardi reviewed by Douglas Crets
21/02/2004	One Hundred Million Hearts by Kerri Sakamoto reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/02/2004	China by Yann Layma reviewed by Valery Garrett
17/02/2004	Tropical Flowering Plants: A guide to identification and cultivation by Kirsten Albrecht Llamas reviewed by Jane Ram
15/02/2004	Star by John Singleton reviewed by Paul McGuire
12/02/2004	Asia's New Crisis: Renewal through Total Ethical Management by Frank-Juergen Richter and Pamela C.M. Mar (editors) reviewed by John Walsh
10/02/2004	Shadowmancer by G. P.Taylor reviewed by Paul McGuire
08/02/2004	Tomorrow's People by Susan Greenfield reviewed by Peter Gordon
05/02/2004	Bereavement and Consolation: Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan by Harold Bolitho reviewed by L.S. de Lamas
01/02/2004	The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang by John Ayto reviewed by Brian Hawkins
29/01/2004	Soul Stealer by Martin Booth reviewed by Paul McGuire
27/01/2004	My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey reviewed by Peter Gordon
24/01/2004	Raincheck Renewed by Kavita Jindal reviewed by David McKirdy
21/01/2004	Eragon by Christopher Paolini reviewed by Paul McGuire
18/01/2004	Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies by Victor D. Cha and David C. Kang reviewed by Gordon G. Chang
15/01/2004	Spy High: Episode 1 - The Frankenstein Factory by A.J. Butcher reviewed by Paul McGuire
10/01/2004	The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure by Adam Williams reviewed by Jane Ram
07/01/2004	Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss reviewed by Peter Gordon
05/01/2004	The Touch by Colleen McCullough reviewed by Rosie Milne
30/12/2003	Trawler by Redmond O'Hanlon reviewed by Bill Purves
27/12/2003	Privatizing China: The Stock Markets and Their Role in Corporate Reform by Carl E Walter and Fraser JT Howie reviewed by John Walsh
24/12/2003	Trespassing by Uzma Aslam Khan reviewed by Jaya Banerji
21/12/2003	The Burma Road by Donovan Webster reviewed by Richard Garrett
19/12/2003	The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston reviewed by L.S. de Lamas
16/12/2003	Food Court by Timothy Kaiser reviewed by Douglas Crets
14/12/2003	A Writer's World: Travels 1950-2000 by Jan Morris reviewed by Michael Hsu
12/12/2003	Hello Kitty by Ken Belson and Brian Bremner reviewed by Peter Gordon
10/12/2003	Don Quixote in China: the Search for Peach Blossom Spring by Dean Barrett reviewed by Bill Purves
07/12/2003	Alice, I Think by Susan Juby reviewed by Christine Bruce
05/12/2003	The Chinese in America by Iris Chang reviewed by Wenkai Tay
02/12/2003	The Roaring Nineties by Joseph Stiglitz reviewed by James T.C. Tan
29/11/2003	Red-Color News Soldier by Li Zhensheng reviewed by Valery Garrett
27/11/2003	From Rice to Riches by Jane Hutcheon reviewed by Bill Purves
24/11/2003	Beijing to Barbados in a Rowboat: How China and the West Pulled Together to Row Across the Atlantic by Christian Havrehed reviewed by Tim O'Connell
21/11/2003	Sights and Secrets: Sketches and paintings of Hong Kong by Lorette Roberts reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/11/2003	Reading 'Lolita' in Tehran by Azar Nafisi reviewed by Douglas Crets
16/11/2003	Dude, Where's My Country by Michael Moore reviewed by Peter Gordon
14/11/2003	The Great Unravelling by Paul Krugman reviewed by Jake van der Kamp
11/11/2003	Sichuan Cookery by Fuchsia Dunlop Thai Food by David Thompson Taste of Macau: Portuguese Cuisine on the China Coast by Annabel Jackson reviewed by Jane Ram
09/11/2003	Lakas and the Manilatown Fish by Anthony D Robles Chachaji's Cup by Uma Krishnaswami reviewed by Roseanne Thong
06/11/2003	Post Impressions by Kevin Sinclair reviewed by Peter Gordon
03/11/2003	Shanghai Dancing by Brian Castro reviewed by Sue Bond
29/10/2003	Empire Made Me by Robert Bickers Empire by Niall Ferguson reviewed by Peter Gordon
26/10/2003	Not the Slightest Chance by Tony Banham The Fall of Hong Kong by Philip Snow reviewed by Richard Garrett
24/10/2003	The English Roses by Madonna reviewed by Amy Robinson
22/10/2003	Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/10/2003	China: Enabling a New Era of Changes by Pamela Mar and Frank-Jurgen Richter reviewed by Terry Grose
17/10/2003	Going Home, Coming Home by Truong Tran reviewed by Roseanne Thong
15/10/2003	Building Democracy: Creating Good Government for Hong Kong by Christine Loh (ed.) reviewed by Peter Gordon
12/10/2003	My Name is Sei Shonagon by Jan Blensdorf reviewed by L.S. de Lamas
10/10/2003	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Marc Haddon reviewed by Paul McGuire
08/10/2003	The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser reviewed by Peter Gordon
05/10/2003	Banking in Asia: Acquiring a Profit Mindset by Tab Bowers, Greg Gibb, Jeffrey Wong et al. reviewed by Michael Hsu
02/10/2003	Holy Fools by Joanne Harris reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
29/09/2003	Adventure Capitalist by Jim Rogers reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
26/09/2003	Brick Lane by Monica Ali reviewed by Jaya Banerji
24/09/2003	Bunker 13 by Aniruddha Bahal reviewed by Peter Gordon
23/09/2003	The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The Story of George Scovell by Mark Urban reviewed by Richard Garrett
21/09/2003	For the Record and other poems of Hong Kong by Gillian Bickley reviewed by David McKirdy
20/09/2003	Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan by Frederik L. Schodt reviewed by L.S. de Lamas
18/09/2003	The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud reviewed by Paul McGuire
16/09/2003	A Dictionary of Maqiao by Han Shaogong reviewed by Peter Gordon
13/09/2003	A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson reviewed by Lynelle Rose
11/09/2003	The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World by Fiammetta Rocco reviewed by Bill Purves
08/09/2003	The Book of Salt by Monique Truong reviewed by Annabel Jackson
06/09/2003	To Live by Yu Hua Chronicle of a Blood Merchant reviewed by Peter Gordon
04/09/2003	Rabid Dogs in the East: Behind the Patient's Back by Bruce Sinclair Vaughan reviewed by Bill Purves
02/09/2003	As of This Writing: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002 by Clive James reviewed by Michael Hsu
30/08/2003	The Last Man by Jean-Baptiste Francois Xavier Cousin de Grainville; trans by I.F. & M. Clarke reviewed by Gillian Bickley
27/08/2003	Yin Yu Tang: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House by Nancy Berliner reviewed by Valery Garrett
24/08/2003	Cleaning House by Barry Kalb reviewed by Bill Purves
22/08/2003	A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich reviewed by Peter Gordon
19/08/2003	echolocation by Mani Rao reviewed by Dino Mahoney
14/08/2003	Travelling with Djinns by Jamal Mahjoub reviewed by Lynelle Rose
12/08/2003	Colonial Hong Kong in the Eyes of Elsie Tu by Elsie Tu reviewed by Peter Gordon
07/08/2003	The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown reviewed by Paul McGuire
05/08/2003	The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt reviewed by Peter Gordon
01/08/2003	Freud and the Non-European by Edward Said reviewed by Michael Hsu
28/07/2003	China Modern by Sharon Leece reviewed by Lynelle Rose
25/07/2003	Over Hong Kong, Volume Seven by Kasyan Bartlett reviewed