Authors

• Tariq Ali
• Benedict Anderson
• Giovanni Arrighi
• Angana P. Chatterji

• Wang Hui
• Max Lane
• Michael Maar
• Mei Zhi

• Pankaj Mishra
• Hsiao-Hung Pai
• Arundhati Roy
• Peggy Seagrave

• Sterling Seagrave
• Ece Temelkuran
• Romila Thapar
• Chaohua Wang

Books

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  The Prisoner

  by Hwang Sok-yong

  A sweeping account of imprisonment—in time, in language, and in a divided country—from Korea’s most acclaimed novelist

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  The Indian Ideology

  by Perry Anderson

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

  6 posts

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  China in One Village

  by Liang Hong

  A global future in the history of a single village

  3 posts

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  Betraying Big Brother

  by Leta Hong Fincher

  A feminist movement clashing with China’s authoritarian government

  8 posts

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  The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japanese ’68

  Edited by Gavin Walker

  The story of Japan’s forgotten radical 1968

  1 post

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  The Runaways

  by Fatima Bhutto

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

  3 posts

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  The Verso Book of Dissent

  Edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim

  From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad

  47 posts

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  Insurgent Empire

  by Priyamvada Gopal

  How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire

  29 posts

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  Russia without Putin

  by Tony Wood

  How the West’s obsession with Vladimir Putin prevents it from understanding Russia

  9 posts

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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

  2 posts

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  Kitchen Curse

  by Eka Kurniawan

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

  7 posts

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  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?

  2 posts

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  Poets of the Chinese Revolution

  by Chen Duxiu, Chen Yi, et al.

  How poetry and revolution meshed in Red China

  2 posts

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  The Burning Forest: India’s War Against the Maoists

  by Nandini Sundar

  An empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, and homes and communities destroyed

  4 posts

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  The Other

  by Ryszard Kapuściński

  The master of literary reportage reflects on the West’s encounters with the non-European

  2 posts

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  Uprising in Pakistan

  by Tariq Ali

  Pakistan 1968: the history of a revolution

  5 posts

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  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

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  On Practice and Contradiction

  by Mao Zedong

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

  6 posts

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  The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism

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

  11 posts

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  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