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The Party Never Sleeps
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From Mao’s informants to Xi Jinping’s digital panopticon, China’s Communist Party has transformed surveillance into its most potent instrument of political survival.
“We know how much the internet has changed...
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The Greening Of China
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China’s environmental awakening has brought cleaner skies and greener industries, but the costs of decades of ecological devastation remain immense.
Mao Zedong was not a farmer. Though born into a...
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The Myth of the Maverick Bookshop
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Zheng Liu’s study of independent bookselling in China reveals a vibrant retail culture but skirts the politics that shape it.
The independent bookshop is one of modern capitalism’s most stubborn...
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Scam Republics of the Mekong
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Cyber fraud, human trafficking and weak states have fused into a criminal ecosystem that even China’s heavy hand struggles to dismantle
Chinese actor Wang Xing with Thai police authorities
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The Judge and the Darkness
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The assassination of Judge Giovanni Falcone more than three decades ago laid bare Italy’s long war with the Mafia and the cost of defying it.
Capaci, Sicily, the site of...
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Anthony Grey: The Reporter Beijing Tried to Break
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A young British correspondent sent to decode Mao’s China instead became one of the earliest symbols of hostage diplomacy.
Anthony Grey was held hostage in Peking during Mao's 'Cultural Revolution.'...
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The Galaxy According to Heinlein: The Return of Starship Troopers
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Published at the height of the Cold War, Starship Troopers shocked readers with its unapologetic militarism and strict civic philosophy.
First edition dust jacket of Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein...
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Document Number 9 and China’s Ideological Cold War
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Xi Jinping’s secret manifesto against ‘Western values’ still shapes the Party’s battle to preserve its grip on power.
In April 2013, the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)...
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How a Murder in Colonial Bengal Sparked a Forensic Revolution
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The murder of Hridaynath Ghosh seemed unsolvable until a brown smudge on a calendar and a classification system devised in Kolkata rewrote the rules of justice.
William James Herschel
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Keir Starmer’s Chagos Folly
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Trapped between hollow justice and cold realpolitik, the Chagossians are the expendable casualties nobody bothers to count.
The seven tiny atolls of the Chagos Archipelago in the middle of the...
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Casting of the Pearls: A Diplomatic Puzzle that shaped History’s Course
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A 1077 diplomatic mission from the Chola Empire to the Song court raises questions about ancient maritime rivalries, trade and the blurred lines between empires.
In the Songshi, the written...
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Victorians, Volcanoes and Vanishing Species: The Great Auk’s Tragic Story
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In the spring of 1848, two British naturalists, John Wolley and Alfred Newton, sailed to Iceland, propelled by equal measures of ambition and desperation. Their quarry was not just any...
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