History on the Wing
Golden Inches: The China Memoir of Grace Service
edited by John S. Service
December 20, 1990 issue
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John K. Fairbank (1907–1991) was an American sinologist. His final book was China: A New History.
History on the Wing
Golden Inches: The China Memoir of Grace Service
edited by John S. Service
December 20, 1990 issue
Keeping up with the New China
Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform
by Orville Schell
Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience
edited by Geremie Barmé, edited by John Minford
Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China
by David Kidd
Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China
by Colin Thubron
March 16, 1989 issue
Roots of Revolution
Ancestors: 900 Years in the Life of a Chinese Family
by Frank Ching
Half of Man Is Woman
by Zhang Xianliang, translated by Martha Avery
November 10, 1988 issue
Born Too Late
The Last Emperor is a spectacular film photographed in brilliant color. It is also a moral drama with controversial political overtones of great ambiguity.
The Last Emperor
a film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Twilight in the Forbidden City (1973), out of print
by Reginald F. Johnston. with a preface by the Emperor
From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi
translated by W.J.F. Jenner
From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi
reprinted with new general and chapter introductions by W.J.F. Jenner, afterword by Simon Winchester
The Last Emperor
by Edward Behr
The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
translated by Kuo Ying Paul Tsai, edited, with a revised preface and epilogue and Paul Kramer
A Dream of Tartary: The Origins and Misfortunes of Henry Pu Yi
by Henry McAleavy
Pu Yi: J'étais empereur de Chine: L'autobiographie du dernier empereur de Chine (1906–1967)
February 18, 1988 issue
The Chinese Behemoth
The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China
by Frederic Wakeman Jr.
The Chinese Emperor
by Jean Lévi, translated by Barbara Bray
January 21, 1988 issue
Look Back in Anger
To the Storm: The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman
recounted by Yue Daiyun, written by Carolyn Wakeman
After the Nightmare: A Survivor of the Cultural Revolution Reports on China Today
by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro
Warm Winds, Cold Winds: Intellectual Life in China Today
by Judith Shapiro and Liang Heng
The Cultural Revolution and Post-Mao Reforms: A Historical Perspective
by Tang Tsou
July 17, 1986 issue
Utopian Fevers
The Origins of the Cultural Revolution Vol 2: The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960
by Roderick MacFarquhar
One Billion: A China Chronicle
by Jay Mathews and Linda Mathews
January 19, 1984 issue
The Real Stuff
Kenkenroku: A Diplomatic Record of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895 Press)
by Mutsu Munemitsu, edited and translated by Gordon Mark Berger
My Thirty-Three Years' Dream: The Autobiography of Miyazaki Toten
translated by Eto Shinkichi, translated by Marius B. Jansen
April 14, 1983 issue
‘Red’ or ‘Expert’?
Education Under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools, 1960-1980
by Jonathan Unger
Competitive Comrades: Career Incentives and Student Strategies in China
by Susan L. Shirk
China's Intellectual Dilemma: Politics and University Enrolment, 1949-1978
by Robert Taylor
December 2, 1982 issue
China on the Rocks
China: Alive in the Bitter Sea
by Fox Butterfield
From the Center of the Earth: The Search for the Truth about China
by Richard Bernstein
May 27, 1982 issue
Drop by Drop
"Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" China Encounters the West
by Orville Schell
April 16, 1981 issue
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