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Adam Smith in Beijing

by Giovanni Arrighi
Acclaimed exploration of China’s emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion.
15 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
Annihilation of Caste

by B.R. Ambedkar

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

14 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 Bullet and the Ballot Box

by Aditya Adhikari

Twenty-first-century revolution in one of the remotest places in the world

2 posts
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

1 post
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

3 posts
Capitalism: A Ghost Story

by Arundhati Roy
An impassioned manifesto from the author of Booker-winner God of Small Things, one of the most vocal campaigners in the world
8 posts

Chechnya

by Tony Wood

A powerful argument for Chechen self-determination, and a definitive history of the region.

6 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
Client State

by Gavan McCormack
McCormack traces Japan's institutional, political and military transformation through a history of its subservience to Washington Consensus policies.
2 posts
Deep Mountain

by Ece Temelkuran
A personal and political journey to the heart of the Turkey-Armenia conflict, by Turkey’s most famous female journalist.
11 posts

Down with Colonialism!

by Ho Chi Minh
Walden Bello on Ho Chi Minh’s inspirational anti-imperialism.
3 posts
The End of the Revolution

by Wang Hui

A compelling examination of the future of Chinese modernity by the leading member of China’s “New Left.”

17 posts
F

by Mei Zhi

China's first literary dissident's Kafkaesque journey through the prisons of the Cultural Revolution.

2 posts
The Future as Cultural Fact

by Arjun Appadurai

Acclaimed author presents a decade's research toward creating an anthropology of the future.

4 posts

Gandhi

by Kathryn Tidrick
A major reinterpretation of Gandhi’s life, politics, religion and nation
1 post
Gold Warriors

by Peggy Seagrave and Sterling Seagrave
Drawing on a vast range of original documents and interviews, Gold Warrior exposes one of the great state secrets of the twentieth century.
1 post
The Indian Ideology

by Perry Anderson

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

4 posts
Insurgent Empire

by Priyamvada Gopal

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire

23 posts

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