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The Burmese Labyrinth

by Carlos Sardiña Galache

A first-hand account of the complex, bloody history of Myanmar and the origins of the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingyas
Kitchen Curse

by Eka Kurniawan

Nominated for the Man Booker International, Eka Kurniawan brings his short stories into English for the first time

5 posts
Afterlives of Chinese Communism

Edited by Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere, et al.

Seventy years after the Chinese Revolution of 1949, what remains of Mao’s communist legacy?

3 posts
Insurgent Empire

by Priyamvada Gopal

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire

16 posts

Revolution in the Air

by Max Elbaum

The first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968

17 posts
On Practice and Contradiction

by Mao Zedong

The writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution, introduced by Slavoj Žižek

6 posts
The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism

by Achin Vanaik
The definitive analysis of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India and the challenges for the radical Left
5 posts
The Art of Cloning

by Pang Laikwan

Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformity

4 posts

The Verso Book of Dissent

Edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim
Fully updated compendium of revolt and resistance
42 posts
The Soviet Century

by Moshe Lewin

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a classic history of the Soviet era, from 1917 to its fall

10 posts
The WikiLeaks Files

by WikiLeaks

What Cablegate tells us about the reach and ambitions of US Empire

18 posts
Annihilation of Caste

by B.R. Ambedkar

The classic analysis of the caste system with an extensive introduction by Arundhati Roy

11 posts

China’s Twentieth Century

by Wang Hui

An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century

10 posts
Tibet on Fire

by Tsering Woeser
Why Tibetan monks are setting themselves on fire
5 posts
The Seasons of Trouble

by Rohini Mohan

“Gripping and profoundly moving ... an astonishing feat of reportage.” – NPR Guide to 2014’s Great Reads

8 posts
Man Tiger

by Eka Kurniawan
Winner of the Financial Times Emerging Voices Fiction Award 2016, and longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016
9 posts

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