A century of complex relations between Communists and workers in China

The essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellion

The words of China’s most famous political prisoner

What happened to the left in Russia?

A magisterial history of resistance to the rising of the British empire

A major new contribution to the study of China’s revolutions and counterrevolutions over the past century

"Well sourced and artfully crafted, offering a comprehensive history of India’s ideology” – Jacobin

A global future in the history of a single village

A feminist movement clashing with China’s authoritarian government

“As compassionate as it is trenchant, this rare fiction is an illuminating guide through the great disorder of our times.” —Pankaj Mishra

From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire

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

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

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