| 21/09/2011 | Poppadom Preach by Almas Khan reviewed by Graham Ranger
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| 18/09/2011 | Matteo Ricci: A Jesuit in the Ming Court by Michela Fontana reviewed by Jonathan Chatwin
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| 15/09/2011 | The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 12/09/2011 | Ghetto at the Center of the World by Gordon Matthews reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 07/09/2011 | The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk & Popular Literature by Victor H. Mair & Mark Bender (eds.) reviewed by Loh Su Hsing
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| 04/09/2011 | The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad reviewed by Hilton Yip
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| 31/08/2011 | Shieldwall by Justin Hill reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 28/08/2011 | The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 24/08/2011 | An Empty Room by Mu Xin reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 21/08/2011 | Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka reviewed by Vernon Ram
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| 16/08/2011 | In Stitches by Tony Youn reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 13/08/2011 | Beautiful Thing by Sonia Faleiro reviewed by Manasi Subramaniam
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| 09/08/2011 | Monsieur Linh and His Child by Philippe Claudel reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 07/08/2011 | Butterfly's Child by Angela Davis-Gardner reviewed by Peg Fong
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| 05/08/2011 | The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 02/08/2011 | The Return of the Galon King: History, Law, and Rebellion in Colonial Burma by Maitrii Aung-Thwin reviewed by Anthony T. Gorton
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| 29/07/2011 | The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra by Roger Hart reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
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| 26/07/2011 | Reluctant Regulators by Leo Goodstadt reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 23/07/2011 | Pao by Kerry Young reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 20/07/2011 | In the Sea there are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 17/07/2011 | The To-Let House by Daisy Hasan reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 14/07/2011 | Red Shambhala: Magic, Prophecy, Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia by Andrei Znamenski reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 11/07/2011 | The Beautiful One Has Come by Suzanne Kamata reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 09/07/2011 | Décadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse by Derek Sandhaus (ed.) reviewed by Jonathan Chatwin
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| 06/07/2011 | Mission to China by Mary Laven reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
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| 03/07/2011 | The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon reviewed by Rajat Chaudhuri
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| 30/06/2011 | The Cloud Messenger by Aamer Hussein reviewed by Manasi Subramaniam
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| 27/06/2011 | On China by Henry Kissinger reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 22/06/2011 | You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity by Robert Lane Greene reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/06/2011 | Homer Lea: American Soldier of Fortune by Lawrence Kaplan reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 16/06/2011 | Manazuru by Hiromi Kawakami reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 12/06/2011 | Japan's Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922 by Paul E. Dunscomb reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 09/06/2011 | Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 04/06/2011 | Anya's War by Andrea Alban Daughter of Xanadu by Dori Jones Yang reviewed by Loh Su Hsing
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| 01/06/2011 | Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 29/05/2011 | Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 25/05/2011 | Isle of Dreams by Keizo Hino reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 21/05/2011 | Why the West Rules -- For Now by Ian Morris reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 18/05/2011 | The Urban Design of Concession: Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Treaty Ports by Peter Cookson Smith reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 15/05/2011 | Butterfly's Sisters: The Geisha in Western Culture by Yoko Kawaguchi reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 12/05/2011 | Mauritius: On the Spice Route, 1598-1810 by Denis Piat reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 09/05/2011 | India: A Portrait -- An Intimate Biography of 1.2 Billion People by Patrick French reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 07/05/2011 | The Empress and Mrs Conger: The Uncommon Friendship of Two Women and Two Worlds by Grant Hayter-Menzies reviewed by Jonathan Chatwin
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| 04/05/2011 | World and Town by Gish Jen reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 01/05/2011 | Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu reviewed by Loh Su Hsing
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| 28/04/2011 | Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 23/04/2011 | The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 by Robert Bickers reviewed by Hilton Yip
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| 18/04/2011 | Saying the Unsayable: Monarchy and Democracy in Thailand by Soren Ivarsson and Lotte Isager (eds.) reviewed by Anthony T. Gorton
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| 11/04/2011 | Paper Scissors Stone by Kit Fan reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 05/04/2011 | Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 01/04/2011 | Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 27/03/2011 | The Indian Ocean Tsunami: The Global Response to a Natural Disaster by Pradyuma P. Karan & Shanmugam P. Subbiah (eds.) reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 21/03/2011 | A Shattered Youth: Surviving the Khmer Rouge by Sathavy Kim reviewed by Tshering Tashi
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| 13/03/2011 | Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
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| 09/03/2011 | A Different Sky by Meira Chand reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 02/03/2011 | Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 26/02/2011 | To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 21/02/2011 | Chinese Whiskers by Pallavi Aiyar reviewed by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
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| 16/02/2011 | Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie reviewed by Jonathan Chatwin
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| 13/02/2011 | The Agency series: A Spy in the House, The Body at the Tower by Y. S. Lee reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 09/02/2011 | The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel by Nicholas Ostler reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 07/02/2011 | A Riot of Goldfish by Kanoko Okamoto reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 04/02/2011 | Measurements: Sketches from Hong Kong by Melanie Ho and SCC Overton (eds.) reviewed by Robert H. Abel
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| 28/01/2011 | Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert Kaplan reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
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| 26/01/2011 | Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikotter reviewed by Jonathan Chatwin
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| 23/01/2011 | Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 22/01/2011 | The Last Speakers by K. David Harrison reviewed by Tshering Tashi
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| 16/01/2011 | The Wind from The East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution and the Legacy of the 1960s by Richard Wolin reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 12/01/2011 | Seized by Max Hardberger reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 09/01/2011 | Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim al-Khalili reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 06/01/2011 | The Wobbling Pivot by Pamela Crossley reviewed by Peter Wood
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| 02/01/2011 | Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea by Suk-Young Kim reviewed by Deric McNish
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| 31/12/2010 | The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai by Ruiyan Xu reviewed by Jonathan Chatwin
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| 26/12/2010 | Matterhorn by Karl Marlante reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 22/12/2010 | ARTiculations: Undefining Chinese Contemporary Art by Jerome Silbergeld & Dora C.Y. Ching (eds.) reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/12/2010 | The Temple-Goers by Aatish Taseer reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 15/12/2010 | Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 12/12/2010 | Indonesia: 500 Early Postcards by Leo Haks & Steven Wachlin reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 08/12/2010 | Years of Red Dust by Qiu Xiaolong reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 05/12/2010 | The Book of Change by Eileen Chang reviewed by Katherine Foster
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| 01/12/2010 | In the Lap of the Gods by Li Miao Lovett reviewed by Robert H. Abel
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| 27/11/2010 | The Icarus Diaries by Kate Hoyland reviewed by Duncan Hewitt
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| 24/11/2010 | The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant reviewed by Gary Verstick
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| 21/11/2010 | The Great Wall: A Cultural History by Carlos Rojas reviewed by Jonathan Chatwin
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| 17/11/2010 | Higher Education? How Colleges are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids -- and What We Can Do About It by Andrew Hacker & Claudia Dreifus reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 13/11/2010 | Habit of a Foreign Sky by Xu Xi reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 09/11/2010 | The Cloak of Dreams by Bela Balazs reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 03/11/2010 | Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China by Susan Greenhalgh reviewed by Peter Wood
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| 31/10/2010 | Butterfly's Shadow by Lee Langley reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 27/10/2010 | The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 24/10/2010 | The World is Bigger Now by Euna Lee Imprisoned in Paradise: Japanese Internee Road Workers at the World War II Kooskia Internment Camp by Priscilla Wegars reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/10/2010 | Half Life by Roopa Farooki reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 19/10/2010 | Tony Blair: A Journey by Tony Blair reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 13/10/2010 | The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China by Deiter Kuhn reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 11/10/2010 | The Last Speakers by K. David Harrison reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 09/10/2010 | Murder in the High Himalaya by Jonathan Green reviewed by Tshering Tashi
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| 03/10/2010 | The House of Rajani by Alon Hilu reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 30/09/2010 | The Rainbow Orchid by Gareth Ewing The 24th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography by Tetsu Saiwai reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 27/09/2010 | The Lives of Confucius by Michael Nylan/Thomas Wilson reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 22/09/2010 | Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith Asia Alone: The Dangerous Post-Crisis Divide From America by Simon S. C. Tay reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 20/09/2010 | Wretched Rebels: Rural Disturbances on the Eve of the Chinese Revolution by Lucien Bianco reviewed by Peter Wood
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| 15/09/2010 | Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong reviewed by Katherine Foster
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| 13/09/2010 | The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 09/09/2010 | Serious Men by Manu Joseph reviewed by Rajat Chaudhuri
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| 05/09/2010 | North Korea Caught in Time: Images of War and Reconstruction by Chris Springer reviewed by Peter Wood
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| 02/09/2010 | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 30/08/2010 | Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image by Kam Louie (ed.) 80ą: a photobook project by Mary Lee reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 26/08/2010 | Road of Bones: The Siege of Kohima 1944; The Epic Story of the Last Great Stand of Empire by Fergal Keane reviewed by Richard Garrett
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| 22/08/2010 | The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze Age Herders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 18/08/2010 | Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen by Marilyn Chin reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 13/08/2010 | Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau and the Question of Chineseness by Cathryn H. Clayton reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 09/08/2010 | Kissing the Mask by William T. Vollmann reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 05/08/2010 | Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring by Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Michael F. Ties reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 31/07/2010 | The Honey Gatherers by Mimlu Sen reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 26/07/2010 | The Geometry of God by Uzma Aslam Khan reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 22/07/2010 | The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 18/07/2010 | Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughters Memoir by Fatima Bhutto reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 14/07/2010 | The Party by Richard McGregor reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 09/07/2010 | Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 05/07/2010 | Long for this World by Sonya Chung reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 03/07/2010 | Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 27/06/2010 | Burmese Lessons by Karen Connelly reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 23/06/2010 | The Happy Valley: A History and Tour of the Hong Kong Cemetery by Ken Nicholson reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 20/06/2010 | Out of the Way! Out of the Way by Uma Krishnaswami reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 17/06/2010 | Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus by Oliver Bullough reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 13/06/2010 | Best Friends Forever: A World War Two Scrapbook by Beverly Patt reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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| 09/06/2010 | The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 05/06/2010 | Hatched: The Capacity for Sustainable Development by Bob Frame, Richard Gordon and Claire Mortimer (eds.) reviewed by Peter Wood
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| 02/06/2010 | China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 31/05/2010 | The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 28/05/2010 | The Planter's Wife by Stephen Simmons reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 25/05/2010 | The Fall of the Pagoda by Eileen Chang reviewed by Katherine Foster
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| 23/05/2010 | The Future of China-Russian Relations by James Bellacqua (ed.) reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/05/2010 | Vietnam: Rising Dragon by Bill Hayton reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 16/05/2010 | Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman reviewed by Graham Ranger
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| 13/05/2010 | For All the Tea in China by Sarah Rose reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 11/05/2010 | Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 09/05/2010 | Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 07/05/2010 | Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 04/05/2010 | Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother by Xinran reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 01/05/2010 | The Miracle by Michael Schuman reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 28/04/2010 | Crossing by Andrew Xia Fukuda reviewed by Robert H. Abel
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| 26/04/2010 | Singapore, A Biography by Mark Ravinder Frost / Yu-Mei Balasingamchow reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 23/04/2010 | Eight White Nights by Andre Aciman reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 22/04/2010 | Pearl of China by Anchee Min reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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| 14/04/2010 | Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 11/04/2010 | Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong by Christine Loh reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 07/04/2010 | The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China by Hannah Pakula reviewed by Hilton Yip
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| 04/04/2010 | Wartime in Burma: A Diary, January to June 1942 by Theippan Maung Wa (U Sein Tin) / L.E.Bagshaw & Anna J.Allott (trans. & eds.) reviewed by Richard Garrett
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| 31/03/2010 | Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga reviewed by Niranjana Iyer
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| 28/03/2010 | The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 24/03/2010 | Butterfly Tears by Zoe S. Roy reviewed by Melanie Ho
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| 22/03/2010 | Surviving Paradise by Peter Rudiak-Gould reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 19/03/2010 | The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka reviewed by Peter Wood
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| 17/03/2010 | The Great Disconnect by Bill Barron reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 14/03/2010 | Where There Are Asians There Are Rice Cookers: How National Went Global via Hong Kong by Yoshiko Nakano reviewed by John D. Van Fleet
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| 12/03/2010 | The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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: Flash 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 23/02/2004 | The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Ted Riccardi reviewed by Douglas Crets
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 12/12/2003 | Hello Kitty by Ken Belson and Brian Bremner reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 21/11/2003 | Sights and Secrets: Sketches and paintings of Hong Kong by Lorette Roberts reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 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
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| 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
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