Free Trade’s First Missionary: Sir John Bowring in Europe and Asia by Philip Bowring reviewed by Stephen Joyce
What’s Wrong with Diplomacy?: The Future of Diplomacy and the Case of China and the UK by Kerry Brown reviewed by Tim Summers
The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination by Robeson Taj Frazier reviewed by Glyn Ford
She Will Build Him a City by Raj Kamal Jha reviewed by Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
Packing Up: Further Adventures of a Trailing Spouse by Brigid Keenan reviewed by Tim Hannigan
The Four Books by Yan Lianke reviewed by Jonathan Chatwin
Paint by Numbers: China’s Art Factory from Mao to Now by Claire van den Heever reviewed by Juan José Morales