Tibet
Mao devours his foes
Frank Dikötter, professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong and winner of the Samuel Johnson prize in 2011,…
Bored and lonely in Kathmandu
It started as a ‘shoke’ — the Anglo-Indian slang word for ‘hobby’. Bored and lonely in Kathmandu, the young Assistant…
Curiosities for Christmas
There is not, sadly, a dedicated Trivia Books section in your local Waterstones, although at this time of year there…
The great British kowtow
Cameron and Osborne have a very clear China policy: do whatever China wants
‘Money, money, money’
The Dalai Lama on Cameron’s China policy
There will be blood
If you’re in the least bit squeamish you’d better stop reading now. What follows is not for those who blanch…
Little brother’s helper
Can there ever have been another book in which one of the authors (Anne Thurston in this case) so effectively…
