| 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.)
80: 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 26/04/2010 | Singapore, A Biography by Mark Ravinder Frost / Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 04/02/2010 | Dominion From Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power by Bruce Cummings
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 29/01/2010 | Cycling Home from Siberia by Rob Lilwall
reviewed by Bill Purves
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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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| 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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| 07/01/2010 | China's Cosmopolitan Empire by Mark Lewis
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 02/01/2010 | The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 28/08/2009 | Through the Looking Glass by Paul French
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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| 15/08/2009 | Fixing Global Finance by Martin Wolf
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 04/08/2009 | Popular Protest in China by Kevin O'Brien (ed.)
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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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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| 01/07/2009 | China High: My Fast Times in the 010, A Beijing Memoir by ZZ
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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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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| 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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| 26/05/2009 | Butcher & Bolt by David Loyn
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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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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| 10/05/2009 | Poorly Made in China by Paul Midler
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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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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| 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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| 05/04/2009 | The Dragon and the Crown: Hong Kong Memoirs by Stanley Kwan / Nicole Kwan
reviewed by Bill Purves
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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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| 08/03/2009 | Axis of Convenience by Bobo Lo
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 17/08/2008 | The New Paradigm for Financial Markets by George Soros
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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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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| 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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| 22/07/2008 | Empires of the Indus by Alice Albinia
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 27/04/2008 | The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
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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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| 31/03/2008 | Little Emperors: A Year With the Future of China by JoAnn Dionne
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 30/12/2007 | Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India Since the Great Rebellion by Maria Misra
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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| 20/12/2007 | Where Empires Collided by Michael Share
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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| 09/12/2007 | The First Emperor of China by Frances Wood
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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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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| 11/11/2007 | Global Body Shopping by Xiang Biao
reviewed by Stephen Maire
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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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| 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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| 07/10/2007 | A Company of Planters by John Dodd
reviewed by Terry Grose
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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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| 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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| 04/09/2007 | First Pass Under Heaven by Nathan Gray
reviewed by Bill Purves
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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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| 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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| 08/07/2007 | A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers by Guo Xiaolu
reviewed by Shahbano Bilgrami
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| 03/07/2007 | The Dream of Rome by Boris Johnson
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 17/06/2007 | The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
reviewed by Michael Scown
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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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| 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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| 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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| 22/04/2007 | Welcome to Pyongyang by Charlie Crane
reviewed by Paul French
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| 12/04/2007 | Forgotten Wars by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 28/01/2007 | The Last Mughal: The Fate of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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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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| 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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| 06/01/2007 | You Must Like Cricket? Memoirs of an Indian Cricket Fan by Soumya Bhattacharya
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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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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| 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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| 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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| 26/11/2006 | The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India by Tristram Stuart
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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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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| 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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| 11/10/2006 | What the Chinese Don't Eat by Xinran
reviewed by Gordon G. Chang
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 28/07/2006 | Osman's Dream by Caroline Finkel
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 07/05/2006 | China Shakes the World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation by James Kynge
reviewed by Paul French
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| 01/05/2006 | Falling Blossom by Peter Pagnamenta and Momoko Williams
reviewed by Nigel Collett
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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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| 01/04/2006 | The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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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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| 10/03/2006 | The Prester Quest by Nicholas Jubbins
reviewed by Paul French
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 26/08/2005 | Facing Death in Cambodia by Peter Maguire
reviewed by Kerry Brown
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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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| 10/08/2005 | Saturday by Ian McEwan
reviewed by Paul French
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 10/06/2005 | Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
reviewed by John Walsh
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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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| 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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| 27/04/2005 | Empire: Impressions from China by James Whitlow Delano
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 20/01/2005 | An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra
reviewed by John Walsh
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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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| 22/12/2004 | Invisible Trade by Gerrie Lim
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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| 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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| 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 | Borges: A Life by Edwin Williamson
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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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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| 13/11/2004 | Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner
reviewed by John Walsh
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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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| 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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| 15/10/2004 | The Invisible Palace by Jose Manuel Tesoro
reviewed by John Walsh
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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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| 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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| 15/09/2004 | Tales from a Broad: An Unreliable Memoir by Fran Lebowitz
reviewed by Suzanne Moore
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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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| 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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| 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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| 14/08/2004 | The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures by Richard Duncan
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 13/06/2004 | Revolution Day: The Human Story of the Battle for Iraq by Rageh Omaar
reviewed by John Walsh
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 17/03/2004 | The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori by Mark Ravina
reviewed by John Walsh
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 07/01/2004 | Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 06/11/2003 | Post Impressions by Kevin Sinclair
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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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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| 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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| 15/10/2003 | Building Democracy: Creating Good Government for Hong Kong by Christine Loh (ed.)
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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| 29/09/2003 | Adventure Capitalist by Jim Rogers
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 22/08/2003 | A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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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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| 05/08/2003 | The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 01/08/2003 | Freud and the Non-European by Edward Said
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 28/07/2003 | China Modern by Sharon Leece
reviewed by Lynelle Rose
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| 25/07/2003 | Over Hong Kong, Volume Seven by Kasyan Bartlett
reviewed by Ian Kuchel
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| 22/07/2003 | The Geography of Thought: How Asian and Westerners Think Differently ... and Why by Richard E. Nisbett
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 16/07/2003 | Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester
reviewed by Paul McGuire
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| 13/07/2003 | Standard Deviations by Karl Taro Greenfeld
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 08/07/2003 | The Maverick and his Machine by Kevin Maney
reviewed by Jake van der Kamp
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| 03/07/2003 | The Bear Watches the Dragon: Russia's Perceptions of China and the Evolution of Russian-Chinese Relations Since the Eighteenth Century by Alexander Lukin
Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: War, Trade, Science, Governance by Wang Gungwu
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 29/06/2003 | art of artjamming by Betty Cheung and Wilson Chik
reviewed by Mani Rao
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| 25/06/2003 | Lessons from an Empire Builder: Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy by Partha Bose
reviewed by Jaya Banerji
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| 14/06/2003 | Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 12/06/2003 | Lake with No Name by Diane Wei Liang
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 01/06/2003 | What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson
reviewed by Terry Grose
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| 30/05/2003 | The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China by Keith Ladler
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 23/05/2003 | Overcome viruses by Wu Tien Tze
reviewed by Robert Blain
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| 21/05/2003 | Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland by Takeyuki Tsuda
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 15/05/2003 | After Jihad by Noah Feldman
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 09/05/2003 | The Last Secrets of the Silk Road by Alexandra Tolstoy
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 02/05/2003 | Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society by Daniel Barenboim and Edward W. Said
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 25/04/2003 | The Best Democracy Money can Buy by Greg Palast
reviewed by Christine Loh
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| 16/04/2003 | The Gate by Francois Bizot
reviewed by Charles Foran
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| 04/04/2003 | Green Gold: The Empire of Tea by Alan and Iris MacFarlane
The Gunpowder Gardens: Travels Through India and China in Search of Tea by Jason Goodwin
reviewed by Terry Grose
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| 27/03/2003 | The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia by Anna Reid
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 20/03/2003 | Secrets and Spies: The Harbin Files by Mara Moustafine
reviewed by Erna McCulla
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| 13/03/2003 | Showdown at Changsha by John Alley
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 25/02/2003 | Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King
reviewed by Terry Grose
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| 22/02/2003 | The Siege of Shangri-La by Michael McRae
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 19/02/2003 | World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 13/02/2003 | Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges by Deirdre Chetham
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 10/02/2003 | Creative Leaps by Michael Newman
reviewed by Nick Theobald
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| 05/02/2003 | Pendragon: The Definitive Account of the Origins of Arthur by Steve Blake and Scott Lloyd
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 30/01/2003 | 1421: The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 27/01/2003 | Straight Face by Nigel Hawthorne
reviewed by Eileen Knights
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| 24/01/2003 | Fences and Windows by Naomi Klein
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 21/01/2003 | What Went Wrong? by Bernard Lewis
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 15/01/2003 | Getting Heard by Christine Loh & Civic Exchange
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 13/01/2003 | In the Devil's Garden by Stewart Lee Allen
reviewed by Terry Grose
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| 11/01/2003 | By the Sword by Richard Cohen
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 06/01/2003 | Tomorrow's Gold by Marc Faber
reviewed by Jake van der Kamp
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| 03/01/2003 | Out of the Flames by Lawrence & Nancy Goldstone
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 30/12/2002 | China and the WTO: Changing China, Changing World Trade by Supachai Panitchpakdi and Mark L. Clifford
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 27/12/2002 | The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance by Paul Robert Walker
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 24/12/2002 | Hong Kong Hikes by Christian Wright
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 20/12/2002 | Hong Kong English by Kingsley Bolton
Translation and Information Technology by Chan Sin-wai
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 06/12/2002 | Geisha, A Life by Mineko Iwasaki
reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
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| 03/12/2002 | The Opium Wars by W. Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 23/11/2002 | Jamie's Kitchen by Jamie Oliver
reviewed by Nell Nelson
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| 10/11/2002 | Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam by Gilles Kepel
Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan by Mary Anne Weaver
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 08/11/2002 | Four Sisters of Hofei by Annping Chin
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 05/11/2002 | Building Brands and Believers by Kent Wertime
reviewed by Rosemary Sayer
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| 01/11/2002 | Hub Culture by Stan Stalnaker
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 26/10/2002 | A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal by Anthony Bourdain
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 24/10/2002 | One Man's Bible by Gao Xingjiang
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 22/10/2002 | Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
reviewed by William May
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| 14/10/2002 | Recreating Asia by Frank Juergen-Richter & Pamela CM Mar
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 08/10/2002 | How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
reviewed by Michael Hsu
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| 05/10/2002 | The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
Words and Rules
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 30/09/2002 | The Good Women of China by Xinran
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 17/09/2002 | Escape from China by Zhang Bo Li
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 09/09/2002 | Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux
reviewed by Wayne E. Yang
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| 03/09/2002 | The Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 21/08/2002 | Red Dust by Ma Jian
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 11/08/2002 | The Plague Race by Edward Marriott
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 05/08/2002 | Timor: A Nation Reborn by Bill Nicol
reviewed by Benedict Rogers
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| 29/07/2002 | Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated by Gore Vidal
reviewed by Todd Crowell
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| 24/07/2002 | Wuhu Diary by Emily Prager
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 17/07/2002 | Foreign Devils: Expatriates in Hong Kong by May Holdsworth
reviewed by Gillian Bickley
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| 11/07/2002 | Heaven is High, the Emperor Far Away by Valery Garrett
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 08/07/2002 | India Unbound by Gurcharan Das
reviewed by Jaya Banerji
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| 03/07/2002 | Discover Macau by Todd Crowell
reviewed by Annabel Jackson
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| 26/06/2002 | The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee by Paisley Rekdal
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 14/06/2002 | The China Dream by Joe Studwell
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 07/06/2002 | Happy Days with the Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver
reviewed by Nell Nelson
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| 06/05/2002 | The Trouser People by Andrew Marshall
reviewed by Chandrahas Choudhury
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| 26/04/2002 | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 15/04/2002 | China Dawn by David Sheff
Asia's Digital Dividends by David C Michael and Greg Sutherland
dot.con by John Cassidy
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 03/04/2002 | The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 22/03/2002 | Bloodfeud: Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England by Richard Fletcher
The Last English King by Julian Rathbone
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 01/03/2002 | Marketing Asian Places by Philip Kotler, Michael Alan Hamlin, Irving Rein and Donald H Haider
reviewed by Christine Loh
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| 22/02/2002 | Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan by Alex Kerr
reviewed by Simon Ogus
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| 19/02/2002 | Growing Up in a Korean Kitchen by Hi Sooshin Hepinstall
reviewed by Nell Nelson
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| 16/02/2002 | The Spice Routes, Recipes and Lore by Chris and Carolyn Caldicott
reviewed by Ann Beatty
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| 16/02/2002 | The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg
reviewed by Christine Loh
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| 07/02/2002 | The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
reviewed by Peter Clarke
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| 02/02/2002 | Living with Landmines by Bill Purves
reviewed by Mark Ranson
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| 07/01/2002 | China on the Lam by Bill Purves
reviewed by Malcolm Phillips
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| 27/12/2001 | An Unexpected Light by Jason Elliot
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 24/12/2001 | Hong Kong Landscapes: Along the MacLehose Trail by Bernie Owen and Raynor Shaw
reviewed by Bill Purves
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| 22/12/2001 | The Minimalist Cooks Dinner by Mark Bittman
reviewed by Benny Chia
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| 17/12/2001 | Bad Elements: Among the Rebels, Dissidents, and Democrats of Greater China by Ian Buruma
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 16/12/2001 | Doctor! Doctor! by Jake van der Kamp
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 14/12/2001 | China Style by Sharon Leece
reviewed by Elaine Leung
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| 30/11/2001 | False Papers by Andre Aciman
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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| 21/11/2001 | Drink Drank Drunk by Ben Canaider and Greg Duncan Powell
reviewed by Jeannie Cho Lee
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| 02/11/2001 | River Town by Peter Hessler
reviewed by Charles Foran
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| 21/10/2001 | Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower
reviewed by Robert H. Abel
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| 10/10/2001 | The Coming Collapse of China by Gordon G. Chang
reviewed by Frank Ching
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| 04/10/2001 | The Great Wall of China by Daniel Schwartz
reviewed by Benny Chia
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| 21/09/2001 | Down Under by Bill Bryson
reviewed by Brent E. Horner
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| 07/09/2001 | The Missionary and the Libertine by Ian Buruma
reviewed by Robert H. Abel
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| 01/09/2001 | Next by Michael Lewis
reviewed by Christine Loh
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| 28/08/2001 | Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table by Mai Pham
reviewed by Nell Nelson
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| 30/07/2001 | Computer Law by Chris Reed & John Angel
reviewed by Hugo Ngaw and Willie So
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| 15/03/2001 | Book Business by Jason Epstein
reviewed by Peter Gordon
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