| 09/03/2010 | The Merry Mysogynist by Colin Cotterrill
reviewed by Robert H. Abel
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| 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
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| 02/03/2010 | The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa by Deborah Brautigam
reviewed by Peter Wood
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| 26/02/2010 | Petals from the Sky by Mingmei Yip
reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 23/02/2010 | China Bound and Unbound: History in the Making -- an Early Returnee's Account by Frances Wong
reviewed by Hilton Yip
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| 22/02/2010 | Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World by James Mather
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 18/02/2010 | Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics by William H. Overholt
reviewed by Mark Clifford
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| 16/02/2010 | Shanghai, China's Gateway to Modernity by Marie-Claire Bergere
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 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
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| 09/02/2010 | China's Last Empire by William Rowe
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 07/02/2010 | Lustrum by Robert Harris
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 04/02/2010 | Dominion From Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power by Bruce Cummings
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 02/02/2010 | Body2Body by Jerome Kugan and Pang Khee Teik (eds.)
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 31/01/2010 | Spies in the Garden: A Novel of War and Espionage by Bob Bergin
reviewed by Richard Garrett
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| 29/01/2010 | Cycling Home from Siberia by Rob Lilwall
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 26/01/2010 | Hotel China by SCC Overton and Edmund Price (eds.) / Hong Kong Writers Circle
reviewed by Robert H. Abel
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| 24/01/2010 | Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 21/01/2010 | Hidden Buddhas by Liza Dalby
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 18/01/2010 | A Diamond in the Desert: Behind the Scenes in the World's Richest City by Jo Tatchell
reviewed by Peter Wood
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| 15/01/2010 | Xanadu: Marco Polo and Europe's discovery of the East by John Man
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 13/01/2010 | Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 10/01/2010 | Love in Translation by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga
reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 07/01/2010 | China's Cosmopolitan Empire by Mark Lewis
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 04/01/2010 | The Boat To Redemption by Su Tong
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 02/01/2010 | The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 29/12/2009 | Occupied City by David Peace
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 26/12/2009 | The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters by Richard Bernstein
reviewed by Tim O'Connell
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| 23/12/2009 | Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 20/12/2009 | The Word Book by Mieko Kanai
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 14/12/2009 | We Shall Suffer There by Tony Banham
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 12/12/2009 | After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Sunni-Shia Split in Islam by Lesley Hazleton
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 08/12/2009 | Breaking Through by Li Lanqing
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 05/12/2009 | Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement by Andrew Walder
reviewed by Peter Wood
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| 01/12/2009 | The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 24/11/2009 | Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples by Christopher de Bellaigue
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/11/2009 | In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labour Camp by Gao Er Tai
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 15/11/2009 | A Good Fall by Ha Jin
reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 12/11/2009 | Democracy Kills: What's So Good About Having the Vote? by Humphrey Hawksley
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 08/11/2009 | Journey of a Thousand Miles by Lang Lang and David Ritz
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 05/11/2009 | A Gift to my Children by Jim Rogers
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 01/11/2009 | The Beijing of Possibilities by Jonathan Tel
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 30/10/2009 | Crazy for Kanji: A Students Guide to the Wonderful World of Japanese Characters by Eve Kushner
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 25/10/2009 | Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 22/10/2009 | Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup
reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 19/10/2009 | Supermarket by Satoshi Azuchi
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 13/10/2009 | Nazarbayez and the Making of Kazakhstan by Jonathan Aitken
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 10/10/2009 | Rock Carvings in Hong Kong by William Meacham
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 07/10/2009 | Conflict by Nelson Rand
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 05/10/2009 | Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 01/10/2009 | A Robe of Feathers by Thersa Matsuura
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 27/09/2009 | Friends and Enemies: The Past, Present and Future of the Communist Party of China by Kerry Brown
reviewed by Peter Wood
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| 19/09/2009 | Signs of a Colonial Era by Andrew Yanne / Gillis Heller
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 14/09/2009 | Military Culture in Imperial China by Nicola di Cosmo
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 08/09/2009 | Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 03/09/2009 | Everything Asian by Sung J Woo
reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 28/08/2009 | Through the Looking Glass by Paul French
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 20/08/2009 | Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 15/08/2009 | Fixing Global Finance by Martin Wolf
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 09/08/2009 | The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 04/08/2009 | Popular Protest in China by Kevin O'Brien (ed.)
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 01/08/2009 | Oh! A mystery of mono no aware by Todd Shimoda
reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 27/07/2009 | Another Gulmohar Tree by Aamer Hussein
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 18/07/2009 | China in 2008 by Kate Merkel-Hess, Kenneth Pomeranz, Jeffrey N Wasserstrom (eds.)
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 11/07/2009 | Out of Steppe by Daniel Metcalfe
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 08/07/2009 | China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties by Mark Lewis
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 04/07/2009 | English by Wang Gang
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 01/07/2009 | China High: My Fast Times in the 010, A Beijing Memoir by ZZ
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 25/06/2009 | Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 22/06/2009 | The Mao Case by Qiu Xiaolong
reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
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| 17/06/2009 | A Comrade, Lost and Found by Jan Wong
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 14/06/2009 | The Way of Herodotus: Travels with the Man Who Invented History by Justin Marozzi
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 10/06/2009 | The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
reviewed by Isaac Stone Fish
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| 07/06/2009 | Ten Days and Nine Nights: an Adoption Story by Yumi Heo
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 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
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| 02/06/2009 | Open Hearts Open Doors: Reflections on China's Past & Future by Elizabeth Gill Lui
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 31/05/2009 | UFO in Her Eyes by Guo Xiaolu
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 26/05/2009 | Butcher & Bolt by David Loyn
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 23/05/2009 | Incense Tree: Collected Poems by Louise Ho
reviewed by Tammy Ho
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| 20/05/2009 | Once on a Moonless Light by Dai Sijie
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 17/05/2009 | Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China by James Fallows
reviewed by Isaac Stone Fish
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| 14/05/2009 | Audition by Ryu Murakami
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 10/05/2009 | Poorly Made in China by Paul Midler
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 07/05/2009 | The Cape and Other Stories From the Japanese Ghetto by Kenji Nakagami
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 04/05/2009 | The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 29/04/2009 | Brothers by Yu Hua
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 26/04/2009 | Blood and Bamboo by James Church
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 22/04/2009 | China Museums by Miriam Clifford, Cathy Giangrande and Antony White
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 19/04/2009 | Utamaro Revealed: A Guide to Subjects, Themes & Motifs by Gina Collia-Suzuki
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 15/04/2009 | Archibald Wavell: The Life and Times of an Imperial Servant by Adrian Fort
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 13/04/2009 | The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Rome from 400 to 1000 by Chris Wickham
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 11/04/2009 | The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 05/04/2009 | The Dragon and the Crown: Hong Kong Memoirs by Stanley Kwan / Nicole Kwan
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 03/04/2009 | The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flas Fiction from Contemporary China by Shouhua Qi (ed.)
reviewed by Isaac Stone Fish
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| 29/03/2009 | Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang
reviewed by Mark Clifford
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| 28/03/2009 | Light and Shade: Sketches from an Uncommon Life by Solomon Bard
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 22/03/2009 | Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery by Patricia Bjaaland Welch
reviewed by Mark Clifford
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| 20/03/2009 | The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 15/03/2009 | Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 12/03/2009 | Bad Traffic by Simon Lewis
reviewed by Isaac Stone Fish
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| 08/03/2009 | Axis of Convenience by Bobo Lo
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 05/03/2009 | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 03/03/2009 | Smoke and Mirrors by Pallavi Aiyar
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 23/02/2009 | Murderers in Mausoleums: Riding the Back Roads of Empire Between Moscow and Beijing by Jeffrey Tayler
reviewed by Isaac Stone Fish
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| 18/02/2009 | The Great Wall Revisited, From the Jade Gate to Old Dragon's Head by William Lindesay
reviewed by Valery Garrett
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| 16/02/2009 | Tokyo Fiancee by Amelie Nothomb
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 12/02/2009 | Falling Through the Roof by Thubten Samphel
reviewed by Tsering Namgyal
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| 09/02/2009 | Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel L. Everett
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 04/02/2009 | Falling Off the Edge by Alex Perry
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 01/02/2009 | Outside Beauty by Cynthia Kadohata
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 24/01/2009 | China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 20/01/2009 | Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance -- and Why They Fall by Amy Chua
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 14/01/2009 | The Girl From Foreign by Sadia Shephard
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 08/01/2009 | The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 04/01/2009 | Retribution by Max Hastings
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 01/01/2009 | Millennium by Tom Holland
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 29/12/2008 | Chinese Calligraphy by Wang Youfen (trans./ed.)
reviewed by James Hayes
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| 26/12/2008 | Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics by Yasheng Huang
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 23/12/2008 | Worlds at War by Anthony Pagden
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 21/12/2008 | Socialism is Great! by Lijia Zhang
reviewed by John D. Van Fleet
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| 18/12/2008 | Right of Passage: Travels from Brooklyn to Bali by Rahul Jacob
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 16/12/2008 | Global Shanghai 1850-2010 by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 13/12/2008 | Love Marriage by V.V. Ganeshananthan
reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 11/12/2008 | The China Lover by Ian Buruma
reviewed by Isaac Stone Fish
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| 08/12/2008 | The Fold by An Na
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 05/12/2008 | Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong by Helen Leung Hok-sze
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 02/12/2008 | New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters by Joe Earle
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 29/11/2008 | The Collector of Worlds by Ilya Troyanov
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 27/11/2008 | Paper Butterfly by Diane Wei Liang
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 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
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| 23/11/2008 | What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 17/11/2008 | Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945: Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley by Geoffrey Emerson
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 12/11/2008 | KFC in China, Secret Recipe for Success by Warren K. Liu
reviewed by John D. Van Fleet
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| 09/11/2008 | Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910: A Comparison with British India by Alexander Morrison
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 06/11/2008 | Little Hut of Leaping Fishes by Chiew-Siah Tei
reviewed by Isaac Stone Fish
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| 03/11/2008 | The Age of Openness, China Before Mao by Frank Dikotter
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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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
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| 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
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| 20/10/2008 | Gardens of Water by Alan Drew
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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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| 08/10/2008 | The Forbidden City by Geremie R. Barme
reviewed by Tim O'Connell
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| 05/10/2008 | Phil Chapman by Wild China: Natural Wonders of the World's Most Enigmatic Land
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 28/09/2008 | Animal's People by Indra Sinha
reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 21/09/2008 | The Ancient Ship by Zhang Wei
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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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
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| 10/09/2008 | My Favourite Wife by Tony Parsons
reviewed by Peg Fong
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| 08/09/2008 | Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion by Hal Abelson / Ken Ledeen / Harry Lewis
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 03/09/2008 | One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
reviewed by Mark Clifford
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| 01/09/2008 | The Finder by Colin Harrison
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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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
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| 24/08/2008 | The Foreigner by Francie Lin
reviewed by Peg Fong
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| 20/08/2008 | Real World by Natsuo Kirino
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 17/08/2008 | The New Paradigm for Financial Markets by George Soros
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 14/08/2008 | The Ginseng Hunter by Jeff Talarigo
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 09/08/2008 | Descent into Chaos by Ahmed Rashid
reviewed by Mark Clifford
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| 07/08/2008 | Gandhi & Churchill by Arthur Herman
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 02/08/2008 | Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
reviewed by Robert H. Abel
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| 31/07/2008 | Join the Revolution, Comrade by Charles Foran
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 28/07/2008 | Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
reviewed by Mark Clifford
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| 28/07/2008 | The Eye of Jade by Diane Wei Liang
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 22/07/2008 | Empires of the Indus by Alice Albinia
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 18/07/2008 | The Ghost War by Alex Berenson
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 14/07/2008 | Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present by Valery Garrett
reviewed by Tim O'Connell
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| 11/07/2008 | Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008 by Xu Guoqi
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 09/07/2008 | The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 07/07/2008 | Breath by Tim Winton
reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
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| 04/07/2008 | Mo's Mischief by Hongying Yang
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 03/07/2008 | Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan by Donald Keene
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 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
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| 29/06/2008 | The Open Road by Pico Iyer
reviewed by Terry Grose
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| 25/06/2008 | Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet by Sherri L. Smith
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 22/06/2008 | The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage by Alexandra Harney
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 18/06/2008 | Bamboo Goalposts by Rowan Simons
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 15/06/2008 | Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution by Moying Li
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 12/06/2008 | The Glass Slipper and Other Stories by Shotaro Yasuoka
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 09/06/2008 | Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuschia Dunlop
reviewed by Peg Fong
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| 09/06/2008 | Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 02/06/2008 | Foreign Devil: Thirty Years of Reporting from The Far East by Richard Hughes
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 31/05/2008 | Peach Blosson Pavilion by Mingmei Yip
reviewed by Peg Fong
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| 28/05/2008 | Repatriated by Adriaan Van Dis
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 25/05/2008 | The Imperial Capitals of China by Arthur Cotterell
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 22/05/2008 | The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Brian M. Fagan
reviewed by Mark Clifford
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| 20/05/2008 | The Second Plane -- September 11: Terror and Boredom by Martin Amis
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 17/05/2008 | China's Great Train: Beijing's Drive and the Campaign to Remake Tibet by Abrahm Lustgarten
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 13/05/2008 | Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
reviewed by Vineetha Mokkil
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| 11/05/2008 | A Year in Tibet by Sun Shuyun
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 07/05/2008 | The Ghost Mountain Boys by James Campbell
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 04/05/2008 | Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling by Grant Hayter-Menzies
reviewed by Tim O'Connell
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| 30/04/2008 | The Wakame Gatherers by Holly Thompson / Kazumi Wilds (illus.)
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 27/04/2008 | The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 23/04/2008 | Secondhand World by Katherine Min
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 20/04/2008 | The Authentic Confucius by Annping Chin
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 20/04/2008 | How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 15/04/2008 | Ling Ling Looked in the Mirror by Ming and Wah Chen / Mariko Jesse (illus.)
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 14/04/2008 | Love & Lust by Hong Kong Writers' Circle
reviewed by Sasha Seth
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| 07/04/2008 | The Temple of the Wild Geese and Bamboo Dolls of Echizen by Tsutomu Mizukami / Dennis Washburn (trans.)
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 31/03/2008 | Little Emperors: A Year With the Future of China by JoAnn Dionne
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 25/03/2008 | The Painter From Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 14/03/2008 | What Does China Think by Mark Leonard
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 09/03/2008 | Gender, Sexuality and Body Politics in Modern Asia by Michael G Peletz
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 02/03/2008 | Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 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
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| 24/02/2008 | The Solitude of Emperors by David Davidar
reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 23/02/2008 | Midori by Moonlight by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 16/02/2008 | Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink by David Remnick (ed.)
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 14/02/2008 | China's Brave New World: And Other Tales for Global Times by Jeffrey N. Wassterstrom
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 09/02/2008 | Indie Girl by Kavita Daswani
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 09/02/2008 | 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Guo Xiaolu
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 27/01/2008 | Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
reviewed by Tim O'Connell
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| 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
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| 20/01/2008 | The Assassin's Song by M. G. Vassanji
reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 13/01/2008 | Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime and the Uighur in China by Blaine Kaltman
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 06/01/2008 | The Budding Tree by Aiko Kitahara / Ian MacDonald (trans.)
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 30/12/2007 | Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India Since the Great Rebellion by Maria Misra
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 26/12/2007 | Realm of the Dead by Uchida Hyakken / Rachel DiNitto (trans)
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 23/12/2007 | The Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 20/12/2007 | Where Empires Collided by Michael Share
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 16/12/2007 | Red Mandarin Dress by Qiu Xiaolong
reviewed by Paul French
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| 09/12/2007 | The First Emperor of China by Frances Wood
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 09/12/2007 | The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 02/12/2007 | The Dowry Bride by Shobhan Bantwal
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 30/11/2007 | Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 25/11/2007 | Goodbye Madame Butterfly by Sumie Kawakami
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 25/11/2007 | Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex von Tunzelmann
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 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
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| 18/11/2007 | The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 11/11/2007 | Global Body Shopping by Xiang Biao
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 11/11/2007 | Peony in Love by Lisa See
reviewed by Jane Wong
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| 04/11/2007 | Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 01/11/2007 | Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 29/10/2007 | The Analects of Confucius by Burton Watson (trans.)
reviewed by Bruce Dalbrack
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| 26/10/2007 | Botchan by Natsume Soseki / J. Cohn (trans.)
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 21/10/2007 | Last Seen in Lhasa by Claire Scobie
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 18/10/2007 | Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter by Shoko Tendo
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 12/10/2007 | Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 07/10/2007 | A Company of Planters by John Dodd
reviewed by Terry Grose
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| 05/10/2007 | Lust. Caution by Eileen Chang / Wang Hui Ling / James Schamus
reviewed by Bruce Dalbrack
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| 01/10/2007 | Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia by Joe Studwell
reviewed by John D. Van Fleet
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| 25/09/2007 | China Road: A Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 23/09/2007 | Fieldwork by Mischa Belinksi
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 16/09/2007 | Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China 1574-1724 by Liam Matthew Brockey
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 15/09/2007 | Woman on the Other Shore by Mitsuyo Kakuta
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 10/09/2007 | Earning the Laundry Stripes by Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 04/09/2007 | First Pass Under Heaven by Nathan Gray
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 02/09/2007 | The Pool of Unease by Catherine Sampson
Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 26/08/2007 | The Dragon and the Foreign Devils by Harry G Gelber
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 22/08/2007 | India After Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 19/08/2007 | Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World by Josh Kurlantzick
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 13/08/2007 | Struggling Giant: China in the 21st Century by Kerry Brown
reviewed by Paul French
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| 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
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| 29/07/2007 | Filming by Tabish Khair
reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 23/07/2007 | For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors: The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings by Janet Lee Scott
reviewed by Valery Garrett
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| 15/07/2007 | Getting Rich First: Life in a Changing China by Duncan Hewitt
reviewed by John D. Van Fleet
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| 12/07/2007 | Lost Men by Brian Leung
reviewed by Wes Stevens
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| 08/07/2007 | A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers by Guo Xiaolu
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 04/07/2007 | The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 03/07/2007 | The Dream of Rome by Boris Johnson
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 24/06/2007 | The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 21/06/2007 | The American Diary of a Japanese Girl by Yone Noguchi / Edward Marx and Laura E. Franey (eds.)
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 17/06/2007 | The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
reviewed by Michael Scown
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| 14/06/2007 | Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 11/06/2007 | Piercing by Ryu Murakami
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 06/06/2007 | The Eye of Jade by Diane Wei Liang
reviewed by Reid Mitchell
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| 04/06/2007 | Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 31/05/2007 | Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945 by Liao Ping-Hui and David Der-Wei Wang, eds.
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 27/05/2007 | Manga of the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyoshi of Edo Japan by Adam L. Kern
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 23/05/2007 | A Handbook to Luck by Cristina Garcia
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 20/05/2007 | Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S. by Roland Kelts
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 15/05/2007 | High Tea in Mosul by Lynne O'Donnell
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 13/05/2007 | At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches by Susan Sontag
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 09/05/2007 | Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy by Ben MacIntyre
reviewed by Richard Garrett
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| 06/05/2007 | The Peacock Throne by Sujit Saraf
Fireproof by Raj Kamal Jha
reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 02/05/2007 | The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
reviewed by Alexandra Moss
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| 28/04/2007 | The Universe: A Biography by John Gribbin
Genesis Machines: The New Science of Biocomputing by Martyn Amos
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 26/04/2007 | Plum Wine by Angela Davis-Gardener
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 22/04/2007 | Welcome to Pyongyang by Charlie Crane
reviewed by Paul French
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| 17/04/2007 | A Fragile Hope by Ken Kamoche
reviewed by Wes Stevens
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| 12/04/2007 | Forgotten Wars by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 08/04/2007 | On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 06/04/2007 | In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 04/04/2007 | A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder by Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 31/03/2007 | American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges
reviewed by Tim O'Connell
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| 24/03/2007 | Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
reviewed by Mary Lee
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| 21/03/2007 | Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Other Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 17/03/2007 | The Perfect Spy by Larry Berman
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 13/03/2007 | I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China by Zhu Wen
reviewed by Wes Stevens
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| 09/03/2007 | In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 01/03/2007 | In the Line of Fire by Pervez Musharraf
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 21/02/2007 | Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thurbron
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 17/02/2007 | The Eighth Promise by William Poy Lee
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 14/02/2007 | Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 11/02/2007 | A Case of Two Cities by Qiu Xiaolong
reviewed by Paul French
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| 08/02/2007 | Project Integrens by John Biggs
reviewed by Tammy Ho
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| 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
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| 31/01/2007 | The Teahouse Fire by Avery Ellis
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 28/01/2007 | The Last Mughal: The Fate of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 25/01/2007 | Fruit Dreams and Other Asian Stories by Roseanne Thong
reviewed by Wes Stevens
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| 21/01/2007 | Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 17/01/2007 | The Uninvited by Geling Yan
reviewed by Mary Lee
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| 15/01/2007 | God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad by Charles Allen
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 09/01/2007 | Rogue Raider: The Tale of Captain Lauterbach and the Indian Mutiny by Nigel Barley
reviewed by Richard Garrett
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| 06/01/2007 | You Must Like Cricket? Memoirs of an Indian Cricket Fan by Soumya Bhattacharya
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 31/12/2006 | Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 27/12/2006 | Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao by Margaret Macmillan
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 24/12/2006 | Love and Revolution by Ping Lu, Nancy Du (trans.)
reviewed by John D. Van Fleet
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| 20/12/2006 | Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni
Kabul In Winter by Anne Jones
reviewed by Terry Grose
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| 17/12/2006 | The High Road to China by Kate Teltscher
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 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
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| 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
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| 06/12/2006 | Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation by Michael Zielenziger
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 03/12/2006 | Locked Out, Stories Far from Home by Alison Jean Lester
reviewed by Wes Stevens
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| 26/11/2006 | The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India by Tristram Stuart
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 23/11/2006 | Hong Kong U Writing: an anthology by Tammy Ho (ed.)
reviewed by Reid Mitchell
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| 19/11/2006 | Salaam, Paris by Kavita Daswani
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 15/11/2006 | The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 12/11/2006 | Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China by John Pomfret
reviewed by Tim O'Connell
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| 07/11/2006 | Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts by Aili Mu, Julie Chiu, Howard Goldblatt (selected and translated by)
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 05/11/2006 | Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan 1793-1841 by Donald Keene
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 29/10/2006 | February Flowers by Fan Wu
reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 25/10/2006 | The J-Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall by Ian Bremmer
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 22/10/2006 | The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror by George Soros
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 18/10/2006 | The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 15/10/2006 | The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 11/10/2006 | What the Chinese Don't Eat by Xinran
reviewed by Gordon G. Chang
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| 08/10/2006 | The Tales of the Heike by Burton Watson (trans) / Haruo Shirane (ed.)
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 05/10/2006 | Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Robert Harris
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 02/10/2006 | Brothers by Da Chen
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 28/09/2006 | Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Marukami
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 24/09/2006 | Moving House and Other Poems from Hong Kong by Gillian Bickley
reviewed by Tammy Ho
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| 20/09/2006 | Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond by Pankaj Mishra
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 16/09/2006 | Londonstani by Gautam Malkani
reviewed by Paul French
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| 14/09/2006 | Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey
Two Lives by Vikram Seth
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 10/09/2006 | The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 06/09/2006 | Everything in Style: Harriet Low's Macau by Rosemary Wank-Nolasco Lamas
reviewed by Valery Garrett
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| 03/09/2006 | Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad by Robert Asahina
reviewed by Brett F. Woods
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| 30/08/2006 | A Place Where Sunflowers Grow by Amy Lee-Tai and Felicia Hoshino (illustrator)
reviewed by Roseanne Thong
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| 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
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| 23/08/2006 | Dancing with the Two-Headed Tigress by Tina Biswas
reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 20/08/2006 | Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire by Saul David
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 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
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| 13/08/2006 | The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints by Amy Reigle Newland, Editor
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 05/08/2006 | The Gods We Worship Live Next Door by Bino A. Realuyo
reviewed by David McKirdy
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| 02/08/2006 | Tourism by Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 28/07/2006 | Osman's Dream by Caroline Finkel
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 23/07/2006 | Bodies in Motion by Mary Anne Mohanraj
reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 17/07/2006 | A Sea of Green by Bill Purves
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 14/07/2006 | The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred by Niall Ferguson
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 11/07/2006 | Building Shanghai: The Story of China's Gateway. by Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 08/07/2006 | Scourge and Fire: Savanarola and Renaissance Italy by Lauro Martines
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 02/07/2006 | Gordon Wu: The Man Who Turned The Lights On: Gordon Wu by Rosemary Sayer
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 29/06/2006 | The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru: Britain's Forgotten Wartime Tragedy by Tony Banham
reviewed by Richard Garrett
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| 26/06/2006 | The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 23/06/2006 | The Long March by Sun Shuyun
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 20/06/2006 | A Sea of Green by Bill Purves
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 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
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| 17/06/2006 | The Dragon's Pearl by Sirin Phathanothai
reviewed by Paul French
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| 15/06/2006 | Shigeru Ban by Matilda McQuaid
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 13/06/2006 | Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present by Peter Hessler
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 08/06/2006 | Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend by Christopher Ross
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 05/06/2006 | Synthetic Worlds by Edward Castranova
The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 02/06/2006 | The People's Republic of Desire by Annie Wang
reviewed by Paul French
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| 31/05/2006 | Malinche by Laura Esquivel
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 30/05/2006 | The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America by Paul Chiasson
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 26/05/2006 | The Brigadier's Wife by Chris Tao
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 22/05/2006 | Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 20/05/2006 | Excellence Without a Soul: How Great University Forgot Education by Harry R Lewis
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 18/05/2006 | Shopping in the Renaissance by Evelyn Welch
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 16/05/2006 | The Third Ear by Chris Lonsdale
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 13/05/2006 | Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 10/05/2006 | ARCHIPELAGO: Stories by Wes Stevens
reviewed by Graham Ranger
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| 07/05/2006 | China Shakes the World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation by James Kynge
reviewed by Paul French
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| 04/05/2006 | How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life by Kaavya Viswanathan
reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 01/05/2006 | Falling Blossom by Peter Pagnamenta and Momoko Williams
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 29/04/2006 | The Accidental by Ali Smith
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 26/04/2006 | Camel Bells in the Windy Desert: Coming of Age in Inner Mongolia by Andrew Tu
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 25/04/2006 | White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 20/04/2006 | China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic by Karl Taro Greenfeld
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 15/04/2006 | The Match by Romesh Gunesekera
reviewed by Vernon Ram
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| 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
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| 07/04/2006 | American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville by Bernard-Henri Levy
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 04/04/2006 | The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 01/04/2006 | The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 29/03/2006 | City of the Queen by Shih Shuqing
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 25/03/2006 | Crossfire by Miyuki Miyabe
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 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
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| 19/03/2006 | Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer
reviewed by Paul French
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| 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
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| 14/03/2006 | Kuraj by Sivia di Natale
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 10/03/2006 | The Prester Quest by Nicholas Jubbins
reviewed by Paul French
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| 07/03/2006 | In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 04/03/2006 | Salman Rushdie by Shalimar the Clown
reviewed by Graham Ranger
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| 01/03/2006 | In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs by Christopher de Ballaigue
reviewed by Terry Grose
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| 25/02/2006 | Frangipani by Celestine Hitiura Vaite
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 23/02/2006 | Haunting Tales of Hong Kong by The Hong Kong Writers' Circle
reviewed by Tammy Ho
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| 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
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| 18/02/2006 | Two Lives by Vikram Seth
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 16/02/2006 | The Siege of Venice by Jonathan Keates
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 14/02/2006 | The Rose of Singapore by Peter Neville
reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
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| 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
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| 10/02/2006 | Entrys by Peter Bacho
reviewed by Paul Kim
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| 07/02/2006 | Zoom Out by Peter Maize
reviewed by David McKirdy
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| 05/02/2006 | Fair Trade For All: How Trade Can Promote Development by Joseph E Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton
reviewed by Bruce Dalbrack
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| 05/02/2006 | Shanghai Bride by Christina Ching Tsao
reviewed by Paul French
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| 25/01/2006 | Jakarta Undercover by Moammar Emka
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 21/01/2006 | Crash Course: Imagining a Better Future for Public Education by Chris Whittle
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 15/01/2006 | A Lover's Soliloquy by Eddie Tay
reviewed by Tammy Ho
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| 11/01/2006 | One Couple, Two Cultures: 81 Western-Chinese Couples Talk About Love and Marriage by Dan Waters
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 08/01/2006 | Untouchables by Narendra Jadhav
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 03/01/2006 | Ukiyo-e by Gian Carlo Calza
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 01/01/2006 | The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World by General Sir Rupert Smith
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 27/12/2005 | My Life as Emperor by Su Tong
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 24/12/2005 | Donald Keene by Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 21/12/2005 | Thug by Mike Dash
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 18/12/2005 | Everyday Asian by Patricia Yeo and Tom Steele
reviewed by Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee
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| 15/12/2005 | The Living Room of the Dead by Eric Stone
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 12/12/2005 | Wars Within by Janet Steele
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 10/12/2005 | Contemporary Japanese Thoughts by Richard Calichman (ed.)
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 09/12/2005 | Stick Out Your Tongue by Ma Jian
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 04/12/2005 | Private Dancer by Stephen Leather
reviewed by Paul French
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| 03/12/2005 | A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 30/11/2005 | One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Line of Doing Business in China by James McGregor
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 27/11/2005 | Language Education in China: Policy and Experience from 1949 by Agnes Lam
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 24/11/2005 | Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/11/2005 | Battle: A Visual Journey through 5000 years of Combat by R. G. Grant.
reviewed by Richard Garrett
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| 17/11/2005 | Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 13/11/2005 | The Sea by John Banville
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 11/11/2005 | Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World by Theodore C. Bestor
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 09/11/2005 | Not Quite the Diplomat by Chris Patten
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 06/11/2005 | Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 by Maya Jasanoff
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 06/11/2005 | One Billion Customers: Lessons from the frontlines of doing business in China by James McGregor
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 02/11/2005 | Eyewitness Travel Guide to China by Dorling Kindersley
reviewed by Paul French
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| 30/10/2005 | Fried Eggs With Chopsticks by Polly Evans
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 29/10/2005 | The Dancing Girls of Lahore by Louise Brown
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 27/10/2005 | Sahib: The British Soldier in India, 1750-1914 by Richard Holmes
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 22/10/2005 | Hot Property: The stealing of ideas in an age of globalization by Pat Choate
reviewed by Kim Nicholson
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| 22/10/2005 | Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 19/10/2005 | Gannibal by Hugh Barnes
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 17/10/2005 | The Lady and the Panda by Vicki Constantine Croke
reviewed by Paul French
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| 12/10/2005 | You'll Die in Singapore by Charles McCormac
reviewed by Richard Garrett
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| 10/10/2005 | Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 06/10/2005 | The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Graham Coleman (ed.)
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 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
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| 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
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| 02/10/2005 | Olga's Story by Stephanie Williams
reviewed by Terry Grose
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| 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
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| 29/09/2005 | A Brief History of the Paradox by Roy Sorensen
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 24/09/2005 | The Flight of the Swans by D. Devika Bai
reviewed by Sasha Seth
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| 23/09/2005 | Desert Rose by Mary Weijun Collins
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 21/09/2005 | 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 18/09/2005 | Searching for Buddha's Tooth: Personal Stories of Tibetan Culture by Tsering N. Khortsa
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 17/09/2005 | Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
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| 14/09/2005 | No god but God by Reza Aslan
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 11/09/2005 | Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England by Alison Weir
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 10/09/2005 | Surviving The Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45 by Brian MacArthur
reviewed by Richard Garrett
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| 07/09/2005 | How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare by Paul Jennings
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 04/09/2005 | Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea by Jasper Becker
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 03/09/2005 | The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 31/08/2005 | Flashman on the March by George McDonald Fraser
reviewed by Tim O'Connell
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| 28/08/2005 | Accidental Occidental by David McKirdy
reviewed by Bruce Dalbrack
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| 26/08/2005 | Facing Death in Cambodia by Peter Maguire
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 24/08/2005 | Flush by Carl Hiassen
reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
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| 21/08/2005 | A Kingdom Under Siege: Nepal's Maoist Insurgency, 1996-2004 by Deepak Thapa with Bandita Sijapti
reviewed by Paul French
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| 18/08/2005 | Kuhaku & Other Accounts From Japan by Bruce Rutledge (ed.)
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 15/08/2005 | Hide Tide: How Climate Crisis is Engulfing Our Planet by Mark Lynas
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 12/08/2005 | My Friend the Enemy by J.B. Cheaney
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 10/08/2005 | Saturday by Ian McEwan
reviewed by Paul French
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| 08/08/2005 | The Cairo House by Samia Serageldin
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 05/08/2005 | Nanda Devi: A Journey to the Last Sanctuary by Hugh Thomson
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 03/08/2005 | Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East by Clyde Prestowitz
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 01/08/2005 | Surface by Siddhartha Deb
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 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
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| 27/07/2005 | The Asian Mystique by Sheridan Prasso
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 25/07/2005 | Fan Tan by Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 23/07/2005 | I'm Coming To Take You To Lunch by Simon Napier-Bell
reviewed by David McKirdy
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| 21/07/2005 | Medici Money by Tim Parks
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/07/2005 | Above the City: Hiking Hong Kong Island by Alice Kershaw and Ginger Thrash
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 16/07/2005 | Foreign Babes in Beijing by Rachel DeWoskin
reviewed by Paul French
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| 13/07/2005 | The Alchemy of Desire by Tarun J. Tejpal
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 11/07/2005 | Big Breasts and Wide Hips by Mo Yan
reviewed by Paul French
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| 08/07/2005 | The Jade Garden: New and notable plants from Asia by Peter Wharton, Brent Hine, Douglas Justice
reviewed by Bruce Dalbrack
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| 06/07/2005 | Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 05/07/2005 | Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 28/06/2005 | Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China by Gray Tuttle
reviewed by Bruce Dalbrack
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| 26/06/2005 | Sparrows, Bedbugs, and Body Shadows by Sheldon Lou
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 23/06/2005 | The Butcher of Amritsar by Nigel Collett
reviewed by David McKirdy
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| 21/06/2005 | Through Siberia By Accident by Dervla Murphy
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/06/2005 | Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
reviewed by Dania Shawwa
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| 17/06/2005 | Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 12/06/2005 | Girls for Breakfast by David Yoo
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 10/06/2005 | Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 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
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| 03/06/2005 | Mad About the Mekong: Exploration and Empire in South-East Asia by John Keay
reviewed by Tim O'Connell
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| 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
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| 29/05/2005 | The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber
reviewed by Dania Shawwa
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| 27/05/2005 | Good Luck Life by Rosemary Gong
reviewed by Jessica Ogilvy-Stuart
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| 25/05/2005 | Engaging the Law in China by Neil Diamant, Stanley Lubman, and Kevin O'Brien (eds.)
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 22/05/2005 | The Book of Loss by Julith Jedamus
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 19/05/2005 | Shadow Family by Miyuki Miyabe
reviewed by Paul French
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| 17/05/2005 | Living and Working in Hong Kong by Rachel Wright
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 15/05/2005 | The Pope's Daughter by Caroline P. Murphy
reviewed by Tim O'Connell
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| 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
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| 11/05/2005 | The Columbia Guide to Asian American History by Gary Y. Okihiro
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 07/05/2005 | What is Modernity? by Takeuchi Yoshimi
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 04/05/2005 | In the Time of Madness by Richard Lloyd Parry
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 30/04/2005 | Fortress Besieged by Qian Zhongshu
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 27/04/2005 | Empire: Impressions from China by James Whitlow Delano
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 23/04/2005 | The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen by Mitali Perkins
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 21/04/2005 | Ponzi's Scheme by Mitchell Zuckoff
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/04/2005 | Deng Xiaoping and the Cultural Revolution: A Daughter Recalls the Critical Years by Deng Rong
reviewed by Bruce Dalbrack
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| 16/04/2005 | China, Inc. by Ted C. Fishman
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 10/04/2005 | The Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 07/04/2005 | North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula - A Modern History by Paul French
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 03/04/2005 | China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia by James Lilley
reviewed by Tim O'Connell
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| 31/03/2005 | The Book and the Sword by Louis Cha
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 27/03/2005 | Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith
reviewed by Paul French
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| 23/03/2005 | The Orientalist by Tom Reiss
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 20/03/2005 | Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
reviewed by David McKirdy
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| 15/03/2005 | Uneasy Partners: The Conflict between Public Interest and Private Profit in Hong Kong by Leo F. Goodstadt
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 13/03/2005 | Snobs by Julian Fellowes
reviewed by Tracy Quan
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| 10/03/2005 | Lexus: The Relentless Pursuit by Chester C Dawson III
reviewed by David McKirdy
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| 06/03/2005 | Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
reviewed by Paul French
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| 02/03/2005 | In Times of Siege by Githa Hariharan
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 28/02/2005 | Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 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
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| 24/02/2005 | One Hand, Two Fingers by Gavin Coates
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 20/02/2005 | Pol Pot: the History of a Nightmare by Philip Short
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 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
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| 10/02/2005 | Passing Under Heaven by Justin Hill
reviewed by Terry Grose
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| 06/02/2005 | Dream Jungle by Jessica Hagedorn
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 04/02/2005 | The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin by Robert Lawrence Kuhn
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 30/01/2005 | Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 27/01/2005 | China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD by James C. Y. Watt
reviewed by Valery Garrett
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| 23/01/2005 | The Ramayana for Children by Bulbul Sharma & K P Sudesh (illus.)
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 23/01/2005 | The Train to Lo Wu by Jess Row
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 20/01/2005 | An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 16/01/2005 | Winter in China by Douglas Galbraith
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 12/01/2005 | When Strange Gods Call by Pam Chun
reviewed by Sasha Seth
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| 09/01/2005 | The Flame Tree by Richard Lewis
reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
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| 05/01/2005 | Forgotten Armies by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
reviewed by Richard Garrett
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| 02/01/2005 | Maharanis by Lucy Moore
reviewed by Suzanne Moore
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| 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
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| 29/12/2004 | Being Eurasian: Memories across Racial Divides by Vicky Lee
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 26/12/2004 | Old Filth by Jane Gardham
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 24/12/2004 | Beijing Doll by Chun Sue
reviewed by Paul French
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| 22/12/2004 | Invisible Trade by Gerrie Lim
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/12/2004 | The Emperor's Old Clothes by Jake van der Kamp
reviewed by James T.C. Tan
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| 19/12/2004 | Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Marukami
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 15/12/2004 | Stretch Your Life by Chris Watts and Tim Noonan
reviewed by Jessica Ogilvy-Stuart
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| 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
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| 11/12/2004 | Transforming Korean Politics: Democracy, Reform, and Culture by Young Whan Kihl
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 08/12/2004 | Shouting at the Mountain: a Hong Kong story of love and commitment by Andrew & Elsie Tu
reviewed by David McKirdy
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| 05/12/2004 | One's Company: A Journey to China in 1933 by Peter Fleming
reviewed by Paul French
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| 05/12/2004 | Conversations in Bolzano by Sandor Marai
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 02/12/2004 | The Crocodile who wanted to be Famous by Alan Jefferies, Mariko Jesse (illus.) and Liang Yue (translator)
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 28/11/2004 | China Illustrated: Western Views of the Middle Kingdom by Arthur Hacker
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 27/11/2004 | Lilla's Feast by Frances Osborne
reviewed by Jane Ram
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| 24/11/2004 | My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 24/11/2004 | Borges: A Life by Edwin Williamson
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 19/11/2004 | The Fearless Man by Donald Pfarrer
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 19/11/2004 | The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffet & George Soros by Mark Tier
reviewed by Jake van der Kamp
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| 16/11/2004 | Adventures with Kids: The Essential Guide to Hong Kong for the Expat Parent by Sarah Woods
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 13/11/2004 | Once Removed by Mako Yoshikawa
reviewed by Jane Lewis
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| 13/11/2004 | Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 09/11/2004 | Delicate Access by Madeleine Marie Slavick
reviewed by Tammy Ho
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| 06/11/2004 | Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800 by Anna Jackson and Amin Jaffer (editors)
reviewed by Valery Garrett
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| 05/11/2004 | The Wishing Tree by Roseanne Thong
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 03/11/2004 | Autumn Bridge by Takashi Matsuoka
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 30/10/2004 | Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
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| 30/10/2004 | A High Degree of Atrocity by Jay Scott Kanes
reviewed by Timothy Kaiser
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| 27/10/2004 | Colours and Characters of China: Sketches and paintings by Lorette E. Roberts
reviewed by Jane Ram
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| 24/10/2004 | Comrades and Strangers: Behind the Closed Doors of North Korea by Michael Harrold
reviewed by Paul French
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| 24/10/2004 | The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 20/10/2004 | The Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo
reviewed by Jane Ram
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| 16/10/2004 | The Love Wife by Gish Jen
reviewed by Suzanne Moore
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| 16/10/2004 | War Trash by Ha Jin
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 15/10/2004 | The Invisible Palace by Jose Manuel Tesoro
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 10/10/2004 | Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
reviewed by Sasha Seth
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| 10/10/2004 | The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
reviewed by Terry Grose
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| 05/10/2004 | Twenty-First Century Plague: The Story of SARS by Thomas Abraham
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 02/10/2004 | God's Soldiers by Jonathan Wright
reviewed by Tim O'Connell
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| 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
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| 30/09/2004 | Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 26/09/2004 | The Last Valley, Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam by Martin Windrow
reviewed by Richard Garrett
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| 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
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| 22/09/2004 | The Little Red Writing Book by Brandon Royal
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/09/2004 | Le Colonial by Kien Nguyen
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 17/09/2004 | Everything Happens for a Reason by Kavita Daswani
reviewed by Sasha Seth
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| 15/09/2004 | Tales from a Broad: An Unreliable Memoir by Fran Lebowitz
reviewed by Suzanne Moore
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| 14/09/2004 | Sleepwalking by Nicola Morgan
reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
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| 12/09/2004 | Dangerous Garden: The quest for plants to change our lives by David Stuart
reviewed by Jane Ram
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| 12/09/2004 | My Father's War by Adrian van Dis
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 12/09/2004 | Out by Natsuo Kirino
reviewed by Paul French
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| 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
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| 03/09/2004 | Victorine by Catherine Texier
reviewed by Suzanne Moore
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| 01/09/2004 | Peacock Cries by Hong Ying
reviewed by Paul French
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| 29/08/2004 | The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 27/08/2004 | Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
reviewed by Douglas Crets
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| 25/08/2004 | The Girl in the Golden House by John Biggs
reviewed by Christine Loh
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| 21/08/2004 | Non-Fiction: a book of extraordinary truths by Chuck Palahniuk
reviewed by Tim O'Connell
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| 21/08/2004 | Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 18/08/2004 | The Advocate by Marcello Fois
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 16/08/2004 | At the Water's Edge by Pradeep Jeganathan
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 14/08/2004 | The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by MG Vassanji
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 14/08/2004 | The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures by Richard Duncan
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 07/08/2004 | The Tyrant's Novel by Thomas Keneally
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 05/08/2004 | The Bus Stopped by Tabish Khair
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 02/08/2004 | Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood by Martin Booth
reviewed by David McKirdy
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| 29/07/2004 | The Leader by Guy Walters
reviewed by Paul French
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| 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
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| 20/07/2004 | Spilled water by Sally Grindlay
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 16/07/2004 | Co-prosperity in Cross-culturalism: Indians in Hong Kong by Kirti Narain and Kwok Siu-Tong
reviewed by Chetan Bhagat
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| 14/07/2004 | Tokyo by Mo Hayder
reviewed by Paul French
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| 12/07/2004 | The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian Fagan
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 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
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| 06/07/2004 | Pick Up Your Parrots and Monkeys by William Pennington
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 04/07/2004 | The Last Song of Dusk by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 02/07/2004 | Losing the New China by Ethan Gutmann
reviewed by Paul French
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| 30/06/2004 | The Stories of English by David Crystal
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 27/06/2004 | Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes by Shoba Narayan
reviewed by Jane Ram
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| 25/06/2004 | Clearing Ground by Martin Alexander
reviewed by Pauline Burton
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| 24/06/2004 | When Red is Black by Qiu Xiaolong
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 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
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| 11/06/2004 | Transmission by Hari Kunzru
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 09/06/2004 | In Pursuit of Plants: Experiences of nineteenth & early twentieth century plant collectors by Philip Short
reviewed by Jane Ram
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| 06/06/2004 | The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 04/06/2004 | Colombo Bay by Richard Pollak
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 02/06/2004 | Gardens of Persia by Penelope Hobhouse
reviewed by Jane Ram
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| 30/05/2004 | Wall Street Meat by Andy Kessler
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 28/05/2004 | The King of America by Samantha Gillison
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 24/05/2004 | Chaucer by Peter Ackroyd
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 23/05/2004 | The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa
reviewed by Jaya Banerji
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| 19/05/2004 | Overleaf Hong Kong by Xu Xi
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 16/05/2004 | The Retreat of The Elephants: An Environmental History of China by Mark Elvin
reviewed by Christine Loh
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| 14/05/2004 | Mr China by Tim Clissold
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 12/05/2004 | Remembering China: A Cultural Revelation of Forgotten Lives and Times by Yasuto Kitahara
reviewed by Valery Garrett
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| 10/05/2004 | Doing It by Melvin Burgess
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 08/05/2004 | Village of Stone by Guo Xiaolu
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 05/05/2004 | Absolute Friends by John le Carre
reviewed by Paul French
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| 02/05/2004 | Duel in the Snows by Charles Allen
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 29/04/2004 | The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
reviewed by Paul French
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| 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
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| 24/04/2004 | The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell
reviewed by Sue Bond
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| 23/04/2004 | The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
reviewed by Jaya Banerji
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| 21/04/2004 | A Clone of Your Own? by Arlene Judith Klotzko
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 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
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| 18/04/2004 | Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 15/04/2004 | Drive On! by L.J.K Setright
reviewed by David McKirdy
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| 12/04/2004 | Falun Gong: The End of Days by Maria Hsia Chang
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 09/04/2004 | Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life by John Gribbin
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 07/04/2004 | A Land Without Evil by Benedict Rogers
reviewed by Paul French
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| 04/04/2004 | The Orient in a Mirror by Roland and Sabrina Michaud
The Alhambra by Robert Irwin
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 01/04/2004 | Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China by Frank Dikotter, Lars Laamann and Zhou Xun
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 31/03/2004 | The Big Year by Mark Obmascik
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 28/03/2004 | A Plague upon Humanity by Daniel Barenblatt
reviewed by Richard Garrett
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| 26/03/2004 | At the Epicentre: Hong Kong and the SARS Outbreak by Christine Loh (ed.)
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 23/03/2004 | The Spice Garden by Michael Vatikiotis
reviewed by John Walsh
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| 21/03/2004 | Miss Smithers by Susan Juby
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 19/03/2004 | The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 14/03/2004 | Pompeii by Robert Harris
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 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
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| 03/03/2004 | Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China by Ian Johnson
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 29/02/2004 | Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost by Jonathan Fenby
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 27/02/2004 | The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 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
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| 15/02/2004 | Star by John Singleton
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 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
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| 08/02/2004 | Tomorrow's People by Susan Greenfield
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 05/02/2004 | Bereavement and Consolation: Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan by Harold Bolitho
reviewed by L.S. de Lamas
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| 01/02/2004 | The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang by John Ayto
reviewed by Brian Hawkins
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| 29/01/2004 | Soul Stealer by Martin Booth
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 27/01/2004 | My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 24/01/2004 | Raincheck Renewed by Kavita Jindal
reviewed by David McKirdy
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| 21/01/2004 | Eragon by Christopher Paolini
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 18/01/2004 | Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies by Victor D. Cha and David C. Kang
reviewed by Gordon G. Chang
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| 15/01/2004 | Spy High: Episode 1 - The Frankenstein Factory by A.J. Butcher
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 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
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| 05/01/2004 | The Touch by Colleen McCullough
reviewed by Rosie Milne
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| 30/12/2003 | Trawler by Redmond O'Hanlon
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 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
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| 24/12/2003 | Trespassing by Uzma Aslam Khan
reviewed by Jaya Banerji
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| 21/12/2003 | The Burma Road by Donovan Webster
reviewed by Richard Garrett
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| 19/12/2003 | The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston
reviewed by L.S. de Lamas
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| 16/12/2003 | Food Court by Timothy Kaiser
reviewed by Douglas Crets
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| 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
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| 07/12/2003 | Alice, I Think by Susan Juby
reviewed by Christine Bruce
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| 05/12/2003 | The Chinese in America by Iris Chang
reviewed by Wenkai Tay
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| 02/12/2003 | The Roaring Nineties by Joseph Stiglitz
reviewed by James T.C. Tan
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| 29/11/2003 | Red-Color News Soldier by Li Zhensheng
reviewed by Valery Garrett
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| 27/11/2003 | From Rice to Riches by Jane Hutcheon
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 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
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| 16/11/2003 | Dude, Where's My Country by Michael Moore
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 14/11/2003 | The Great Unravelling by Paul Krugman
reviewed by Jake van der Kamp
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| 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
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| 09/11/2003 | Lakas and the Manilatown Fish by Anthony D Robles
Chachaji's Cup by Uma Krishnaswami
reviewed by Roseanne Thong
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| 06/11/2003 | Post Impressions by Kevin Sinclair
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 26/10/2003 | Not the Slightest Chance by Tony Banham
The Fall of Hong Kong by Philip Snow
reviewed by Richard Garrett
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| 24/10/2003 | The English Roses by Madonna
reviewed by Amy Robinson
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| 22/10/2003 | Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/10/2003 | China: Enabling a New Era of Changes by Pamela Mar and Frank-Jurgen Richter
reviewed by Terry Grose
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| 17/10/2003 | Going Home, Coming Home by Truong Tran
reviewed by Roseanne Thong
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| 15/10/2003 | Building Democracy: Creating Good Government for Hong Kong by Christine Loh (ed.)
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 12/10/2003 | My Name is Sei Shonagon by Jan Blensdorf
reviewed by L.S. de Lamas
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| 10/10/2003 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Marc Haddon
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 08/10/2003 | The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 05/10/2003 | Banking in Asia: Acquiring a Profit Mindset by Tab Bowers, Greg Gibb, Jeffrey Wong et al.
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 02/10/2003 | Holy Fools by Joanne Harris
reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
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| 29/09/2003 | Adventure Capitalist by Jim Rogers
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 26/09/2003 | Brick Lane by Monica Ali
reviewed by Jaya Banerji
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| 24/09/2003 | Bunker 13 by Aniruddha Bahal
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 23/09/2003 | The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The Story of George Scovell by Mark Urban
reviewed by Richard Garrett
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| 21/09/2003 | For the Record and other poems of Hong Kong by Gillian Bickley
reviewed by David McKirdy
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| 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
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| 18/09/2003 | The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 16/09/2003 | A Dictionary of Maqiao by Han Shaogong
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 13/09/2003 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
reviewed by Lynelle Rose
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| 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
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| 08/09/2003 | The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
reviewed by Annabel Jackson
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| 06/09/2003 | To Live by Yu Hua
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 04/09/2003 | Rabid Dogs in the East: Behind the Patient's Back by Bruce Sinclair Vaughan
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 02/09/2003 | As of This Writing: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002 by Clive James
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 30/08/2003 | The Last Man by Jean-Baptiste Francois Xavier Cousin de Grainville; trans by I.F. & M. Clarke
reviewed by Gillian Bickley
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| 27/08/2003 | Yin Yu Tang: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House by Nancy Berliner
reviewed by Valery Garrett
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| 24/08/2003 | Cleaning House by Barry Kalb
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 22/08/2003 | A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/08/2003 | echolocation by Mani Rao
reviewed by Dino Mahoney
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| 14/08/2003 | Travelling with Djinns by Jamal Mahjoub
reviewed by Lynelle Rose
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| 12/08/2003 | Colonial Hong Kong in the Eyes of Elsie Tu by Elsie Tu
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 07/08/2003 | The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 05/08/2003 | The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 01/08/2003 | Freud and the Non-European by Edward Said
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 28/07/2003 | China Modern by Sharon Leece
reviewed by Lynelle Rose
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| 25/07/2003 | Over Hong Kong, Volume Seven by Kasyan Bartlett
reviewed by Ian Kuchel
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| 22/07/2003 | The Geography of Thought: How Asian and Westerners Think Differently ... and Why by Richard E. Nisbett
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/07/2003 | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
reviewed by Sue Bond
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| 16/07/2003 | Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 13/07/2003 | Standard Deviations by Karl Taro Greenfeld
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 11/07/2003 | The Colour by Rose Tremain
reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
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| 08/07/2003 | The Maverick and his Machine by Kevin Maney
reviewed by Jake van der Kamp
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| 05/07/2003 | Half and Half by Lensey Namioka
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 03/07/2003 | The Bear Watches the Dragon: Russia's Perceptions of China and the Evolution of Russian-Chinese Relations Since the Eighteenth Century by Alexander Lukin
Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: War, Trade, Science, Governance by Wang Gungwu
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 29/06/2003 | art of artjamming by Betty Cheung and Wilson Chik
reviewed by Mani Rao
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| 27/06/2003 | Throwaway Daughter by Ting-Xing Ye
reviewed by Christine Bruce
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| 25/06/2003 | Lessons from an Empire Builder: Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy by Partha Bose
reviewed by Jaya Banerji
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| 24/06/2003 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling
reviewed by Elaine Leung
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| 22/06/2003 | Facing The Light by Adele Geras
reviewed by Rosie Milne
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| 20/06/2003 | The Floating World by Cynthia Gralla
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 17/06/2003 | The Edge by Alan Gibbons
Caught in the Crossfire
Shadow of the Minotaur
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 14/06/2003 | Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 12/06/2003 | Lake with No Name by Diane Wei Liang
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 09/06/2003 | All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
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| 06/06/2003 | Monkey Hunting by Cristina Garcia
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 04/06/2003 | Due Preparations for the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital
reviewed by William May
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| 01/06/2003 | What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson
reviewed by Terry Grose
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| 30/05/2003 | The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China by Keith Ladler
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 28/05/2003 | Monday Redux by Robert Favole
reviewed by Christine Bruce
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| 25/05/2003 | Reversible Errors by Scott Turow
reviewed by William May
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| 23/05/2003 | Overcome viruses by Wu Tien Tze
reviewed by Robert Blain
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| 21/05/2003 | Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland by Takeyuki Tsuda
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 18/05/2003 | China's Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution by Da Chen
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 15/05/2003 | After Jihad by Noah Feldman
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 09/05/2003 | The Last Secrets of the Silk Road by Alexandra Tolstoy
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 06/05/2003 | The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 02/05/2003 | Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society by Daniel Barenboim and Edward W. Said
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 29/04/2003 | Sacking The Stork by Kris Webb and Kathy Wilson
reviewed by Rosie Milne
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| 25/04/2003 | The Best Democracy Money can Buy by Greg Palast
reviewed by Christine Loh
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| 22/04/2003 | The Brainfever Bird by Alan Sealy
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/04/2003 | Spellbound by Jane Green
reviewed by Elaine Leung
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| 16/04/2003 | The Gate by Francois Bizot
reviewed by Charles Foran
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| 13/04/2003 | The Money Dragon by Pam Chun
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 10/04/2003 | Double Fudge by Judy Blume
reviewed by Elaine Leung
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| 08/04/2003 | Big Numbers by Mary and John Gribbin
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 04/04/2003 | Green Gold: The Empire of Tea by Alan and Iris MacFarlane
The Gunpowder Gardens: Travels Through India and China in Search of Tea by Jason Goodwin
reviewed by Terry Grose
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| 02/04/2003 | Snake by Dewi Anggraeni
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 28/03/2003 | Wandering Warrior by Da Chen
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 27/03/2003 | The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia by Anna Reid
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 20/03/2003 | Secrets and Spies: The Harbin Files by Mara Moustafine
reviewed by Erna McCulla
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| 18/03/2003 | The Miniaturist by Kunal Basu
The Opium Clerk
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 13/03/2003 | Showdown at Changsha by John Alley
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 10/03/2003 | Buru Quartet by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
reviewed by Mark Hanusz
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| 09/03/2003 | An Ocean Apart, a World Away by Lensey Namioka
Ties that Bind, Ties That Break
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 06/03/2003 | A House by the River by Sid Smith
Something Like a House
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 05/03/2003 | Isn't it Romantic by Ron Hansen
reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
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| 01/03/2003 | The Boat Girl and The Magic Fish by Dean Barrett
reviewed by Roseanne Thong
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| 25/02/2003 | Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King
reviewed by Terry Grose
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| 22/02/2003 | The Siege of Shangri-La by Michael McRae
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/02/2003 | World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 16/02/2003 | One Day by Ardashir Vakil
Beach Boy
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 13/02/2003 | Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges by Deirdre Chetham
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 10/02/2003 | Creative Leaps by Michael Newman
reviewed by Nick Theobald
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| 05/02/2003 | Pendragon: The Definitive Account of the Origins of Arthur by Steve Blake and Scott Lloyd
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 01/02/2003 | Lady: My Life as a Bitch by Melvin Burgess
reviewed by Elaine Leung
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| 30/01/2003 | 1421: The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 27/01/2003 | Straight Face by Nigel Hawthorne
reviewed by Eileen Knights
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| 24/01/2003 | Fences and Windows by Naomi Klein
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 21/01/2003 | What Went Wrong? by Bernard Lewis
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 18/01/2003 | The Crimson Petal and The White by Michel Faber
reviewed by Rosie Milne
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| 15/01/2003 | Getting Heard by Christine Loh & Civic Exchange
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 13/01/2003 | In the Devil's Garden by Stewart Lee Allen
reviewed by Terry Grose
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| 11/01/2003 | By the Sword by Richard Cohen
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 09/01/2003 | Skins by Sarah Hay
reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
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| 06/01/2003 | Tomorrow's Gold by Marc Faber
reviewed by Jake van der Kamp
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| 03/01/2003 | Out of the Flames by Lawrence & Nancy Goldstone
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 30/12/2002 | China and the WTO: Changing China, Changing World Trade by Supachai Panitchpakdi and Mark L. Clifford
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 27/12/2002 | The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance by Paul Robert Walker
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 24/12/2002 | Hong Kong Hikes by Christian Wright
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 20/12/2002 | Hong Kong English by Kingsley Bolton
Translation and Information Technology by Chan Sin-wai
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 16/12/2002 | A Loyal Character Dancer by Qiu Xiaolong
reviewed by Charles Foran
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| 11/12/2002 | Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 09/12/2002 | The Brave Little Seamstress by Mary Pope Osborne
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 06/12/2002 | Geisha, A Life by Mineko Iwasaki
reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
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| 03/12/2002 | The Opium Wars by W. Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 29/11/2002 | Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 25/11/2002 | Dorian by Will Self
reviewed by Rosie Milne
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| 23/11/2002 | Jamie's Kitchen by Jamie Oliver
reviewed by Nell Nelson
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| 20/11/2002 | The Wish List by Eoin Colfer
reviewed by Elaine Leung
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| 16/11/2002 | Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 14/11/2002 | Grass for My Pillow by Saiichi Maruya
reviewed by Bill Barron
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| 12/11/2002 | Coraline by Neil Gaiman
reviewed by Elaine Leung
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| 10/11/2002 | Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam by Gilles Kepel
Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan by Mary Anne Weaver
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 08/11/2002 | Four Sisters of Hofei by Annping Chin
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 05/11/2002 | Building Brands and Believers by Kent Wertime
reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
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| 03/11/2002 | Right Outside My Window by Mary Ann Hoberman
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 01/11/2002 | Hub Culture by Stan Stalnaker
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 29/10/2002 | Tokyo Station by Martin Cruz Smith
reviewed by Jake Needham
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| 26/10/2002 | A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal by Anthony Bourdain
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 24/10/2002 | One Man's Bible by Gao Xingjiang
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 22/10/2002 | Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
reviewed by William May
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| 19/10/2002 | Giggle, Giggle, Quack by Doreen Cronin
Baby, Come Out! by Fran Manushkin
reviewed by Susan Sprengeler
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| 16/10/2002 | The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
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| 14/10/2002 | Recreating Asia by Frank Juergen-Richter & Pamela CM Mar
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 12/10/2002 | Real Time: Stories and a Reminiscence by Amit Chaudhuri
reviewed by Christopher New
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| 08/10/2002 | How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 05/10/2002 | The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
Words and Rules
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 02/10/2002 | A Singing Bird Will Come by Karmel Schreyer
reviewed by Elaine Leung
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| 30/09/2002 | The Good Women of China by Xinran
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 27/09/2002 | The Secret Agent by Francine Mathews
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 25/09/2002 | The Moon in the Man by Elizabeth Honey
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 19/09/2002 | The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 17/09/2002 | Escape from China by Zhang Bo Li
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 10/09/2002 | The Dark Bride by Laura Restrepo
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 09/09/2002 | Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 03/09/2002 | The Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 28/08/2002 | The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
reviewed by Brent E. Horner
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| 25/08/2002 | China Run by David W. Ball
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 21/08/2002 | Red Dust by Ma Jian
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 18/08/2002 | Before we were Free by Julia Alvarez
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 11/08/2002 | The Plague Race by Edward Marriott
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 08/08/2002 | The Story of the Orchestra by Robert Levine
reviewed by Elaine Leung
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| 05/08/2002 | Timor: A Nation Reborn by Bill Nicol
reviewed by Benedict Rogers
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| 01/08/2002 | Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 29/07/2002 | Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated by Gore Vidal
reviewed by Todd Crowell
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| 24/07/2002 | Wuhu Diary by Emily Prager
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 20/07/2002 | Hokkaido Popsicle by Isaac Adamson
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 17/07/2002 | Foreign Devils: Expatriates in Hong Kong by May Holdsworth
reviewed by Gillian Bickley
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| 15/07/2002 | Watch Out! A Giant! by Eric Carle
reviewed by Eileen Knights
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| 11/07/2002 | Heaven is High, the Emperor Far Away by Valery Garrett
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 08/07/2002 | India Unbound by Gurcharan Das
reviewed by Jaya Banerji
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| 06/07/2002 | Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester
reviewed by Elaine Leung
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| 03/07/2002 | Discover Macau by Todd Crowell
reviewed by Annabel Jackson
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| 01/07/2002 | Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot by Margot Theis Raven
reviewed by George-Ann Gund
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| 27/06/2002 | Modern Indian Literature by Amit Chaudhuri
reviewed by Charles Foran
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| 26/06/2002 | The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee by Paisley Rekdal
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 21/06/2002 | Twelve Bar Blues by Patrick Neate
reviewed by Lauren Jackson
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| 19/06/2002 | Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 14/06/2002 | The China Dream by Joe Studwell
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 11/06/2002 | Video by Meera Nair
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 09/06/2002 | King Midas by Demi
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 07/06/2002 | Happy Days with the Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver
reviewed by Nell Nelson
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| 06/06/2002 | The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine
reviewed by Gillian Bickley
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| 04/06/2002 | The Rough Guide to Children's Books, 5-11 years by Nicholas Tucker
The Rough Guide to Children's Books, 0-5 years by Nicholas Tucker
reviewed by Elaine Leung
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| 31/05/2002 | The Master of Rain by Thomas Brady
reviewed by Jake Needham
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| 30/05/2002 | The Fourth Treasure by Todd Shimoda
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 24/05/2002 | Ferren and the White Doctor by Richard Harland
reviewed by Bill Condon
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| 19/05/2002 | Dream Stuff by David Malouf
reviewed by Todd Crowell
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| 15/05/2002 | Home of the Brave by Allen Say
reviewed by Elaine Leung
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| 13/05/2002 | Dirt Music by Tim Winton
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 08/05/2002 | The Feng Shui Detective Goes South by Nury Vittachi
reviewed by Robert H. Abel
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| 06/05/2002 | The Trouser People by Andrew Marshall
reviewed by Chandrahas Choudhury
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| 02/05/2002 | The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 29/04/2002 | Murder in China Red by Dean Barrett
reviewed by Gillian Bickley
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| 26/04/2002 | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 24/04/2002 | The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
reviewed by Jaya Banerji
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| 19/04/2002 | Laundry Man by Jake Needham
reviewed by Charles Foran
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| 15/04/2002 | China Dawn by David Sheff
Asia's Digital Dividends by David C Michael and Greg Sutherland
dot.con by John Cassidy
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 03/04/2002 | The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 25/03/2002 | The Summons by John Grisham
reviewed by Jake Needham
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| 22/03/2002 | Bloodfeud: Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England by Richard Fletcher
The Last English King by Julian Rathbone
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 21/03/2002 | Because a Fire was in My Head: 101 Poems to Remember by Michael Morpurgo
reviewed by Dianne Bates
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| 11/03/2002 | The Lucky Gourd Shop by Joanna Catherine Scott
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 11/03/2002 | Hunted by N.M. Browne
reviewed by Charles Foran
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| 09/03/2002 | When the Elephants Dance |
