Politics

The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to...

With Jason Y. Ng, introduction by Ai WeiweiThe must read book for anyone who cares about Hong Kong and democracy. At what point do you stand up to power?When he...

The Feminist Awakening in China How the Feminist Five and the rise of China's feminist movement are challenging China's authoritarian government On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015,...

A New World DisorderAs the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s...

The Paradoxes of Chinese StruggleA major new contribution to the study of China's revolutions and counterrevolutions over the past century.Over recent decades China has experienced massive change and development. China...

Economic Possibilities from a Global PerspectiveHong Kong is a dynamic city. But the contrast between the well-off and the poor is stark. In the 1980s and 1990s, and to a...

How we lose it and how we fight back This urgent manifesto from a Nobel Peace Prize nominee argues that until all of us are free, none of us are....

The Rebellion for Democracy in South KoreaThe essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellion.On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to...

The first book from a former intelligence community insiderThe mysterious, brutal, and calculating Kim Jong Un has risen to become the unchallenged dictator of a nuclear rogue state. He now...

Dispossession and Defiance in Hong KongAn award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious...

Inequality, Environmental Destruction, and Imagining Poverty in the 21st CenturyA critical reflection on the power of moviemaking to shape our collective imagination of better futuresThrough a close analysis of more...

'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary Review From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life...

An Imprisoned Writer SpeaksIn Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in re-education camps. One of the incarcerated — whose sentence,...