• The Best Books on the Hong Kong Protests - Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
  • The Best Books on the Hong Kong Protests - Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong by Holmes Chan (editor)
  • The Best Books on the Hong Kong Protests - Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong by Christine Loh
  • The Best Books on the Hong Kong Protests - The Trial by Franz Kafka
  • The Best Books on the Hong Kong Protests - Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson

The Best Books on the Hong Kong Protests, recommended by Ben Bland

Around the world people have followed the standoff in Hong Kong with apprehension, as local protestors have taken on the might of China’s powerful Communist Party. Here Ben Bland, author of Generation HK and Director at Australian think tank the Lowy Institute, talks us through books to better understand what’s been going on these past few years and what’s at stake for Hong Kong’s citizens and activists.

  • The best books on June 4th - Neither Gods nor Emperors by Craig Calhoun
  • The best books on June 4th - The Pro-Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces by Jonathan Unger
  • The best books on June 4th - New Ghosts, Old Dreams by Geremie Barme and Linda Jaivin
  • The best books on June 4th - The People's Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim
  • The best books on June 4th - The Gate of Heavenly Peace by Carma Hinton

The best books on June 4th, 1989, recommended by Jeffrey Wasserstrom

In contrast to Eastern Europe, the 1989 protests in China did not lead to the overthrow of the Communist Party. But if China’s leaders chose the right course on June 4th, 1989, why are they still frightened to come to terms with it? Sinologist and historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom picks the best books to understand events at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and around China on that hot summer night.

  • The best books on Uyghur Nationalism - Inner Asian Frontiers of China by Owen Lattimore
  • The best books on Uyghur Nationalism - Pivot of Asia by Owen Lattimore
  • The best books on Uyghur Nationalism - Return to Kashghar by Gunnar Jarring
  • The best books on Uyghur Nationalism - Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia by Andrew D. Forbes
  • The best books on Uyghur Nationalism - Xinjiang by S Frederick Starr (editor)

The best books on Uyghur Nationalism, recommended by Michael Dillon

It’s hard to understand what’s going on in the Xinjiang region of China and the nationalism of the Uyghurs who live there without reading some history. Here Professor Michael Dillon, a historian at King’s College London, suggests books to read on the Uyghurs, focusing in particular on scholars and diplomats whose work gives insight into the period before the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949.