Jonathan Mirsky Archives All Years = 106 Articles Decade 1960s = 16 Articles Year 1966 = 3 Articles Year 1967 = 6 Articles Year 1968 = 4 Articles Year 1969 = 3 Articles Decade 1970s = 11 Articles Year 1971 = 2 Articles Year 1972 = 5 Articles Year 1973 = 2 Articles Year 1974 = 2 Articles Decade 1980s = 24 Articles Year 1980 = 4 Articles Year 1983 = 1 Article Year 1985 = 7 Articles Year 1986 = 7 Articles Year 1988 = 1 Article Year 1989 = 4 Articles Decade 1990s = 36 Articles Year 1990 = 7 Articles Year 1991 = 3 Articles Year 1992 = 3 Articles Year 1993 = 1 Article Year 1994 = 4 Articles Year 1995 = 2 Articles Year 1996 = 2 Articles Year 1997 = 4 Articles Year 1998 = 4 Articles Year 1999 = 6 Articles Decade 2000s = 14 Articles Year 2000 = 6 Articles Year 2006 = 2 Articles Year 2008 = 3 Articles Year 2009 = 3 Articles Decade 2010s = 5 Articles Year 2010 = 5 Articles Jonathan Mirsky • 106 Items / 46 Articles, 60 Reviews
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Books & the Arts
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Asia Trap: What Do We Do Now? (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
America and China, by Hsin-hai Chang
America and China by Hsin-hai ChangVietnam: Between Two Truces by Jean Lacouture [+]
The Battle for Hong Kong (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
A Borrowed Place, by Frank Welsh
A Borrowed Place by Frank Welsh [+]
Betrayal (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
The Last Governor, by Jonathan Dimbleby
The Last Governor by Jonathan Dimbleby [+]
The Bottom of the Well (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Gender Politics in Modern China, by Tani E. Barlow
Gender Politics in Modern China by Tani E. BarlowEngendering China by Christina K. Gilmartin, Gail Hershatter, and Lisa Rofel, ... [+]
Brutalized in China (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
The Vagrants, by Yiyun Li
The Vagrants by Yiyun LiA Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li Articles
"Cease-Fire First" Jonathan Mirsky
Conversation with a Monk
Books
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Changes of tune in China (3 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
The Making of Foreign Policy in China, by A. Doak Barnett
The Making of Foreign Policy in China by A. Doak BarnettChina's One-Child Family Policy by Elizabeth Croll, Delia Davin, and Penny KaneIdeology and Policy in China Since the Third Plenum, 1978-84 by Stuart R. Schram [+]
The China We Don't Know (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China, by Ralph A. Thaxton Jr.
Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China by Ralph A. Thaxton Jr.Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang [+]
China: The Defining Moment (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
The Legacy of Tiananmen, by James A.R. Miles
The Legacy of Tiananmen by James A.R. Miles [+]
China: The Shame of the Villages (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China, by Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickow...
Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China by Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Mark Selden, ...From Comrade to Citizen by Merle Goldman Foreign
China's army splits Jonathan Mirsky
Foreign
China's human rights Jonathan Mirsky
China's marxism Jonathan Mirsky
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Col. America (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
The Betrayal, by William R. Corson
The Betrayal by William R. Corson [+]
Contemporary Affairs (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
Thunder from the East, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Thunder from the East by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Books
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Decisions for War (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Papers On the War, by Daniel Ellsberg
Papers On the War by Daniel EllsbergFire in the Lake by Frances FitzGerald [+]
Democratic Vistas? (4 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
China's Transition, by Andrew J. Nathan
China's Transition by Andrew J. NathanDemocratization in China and Taiwan by Bruce J. DicksonThe Political Economy of Corruption in China by Julia KwongBeyond Beijing by Dali L. Yang [+]
Dissecting a Sparrow (5 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Mass Movement in a Chinese Village, by Isabel Crook and David Crook
Mass Movement in a Chinese Village by Isabel Crook and David CrookInside Peking: A Personal Record by Beverley HooperFor Mao by Philip Corrigan, Harvie Ramsay, and Derek SayerBroken Images by Simon LeysThe China Difference by Ross Terrill Books & Arts
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Dripping Water and the Rock (3 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Cold Nights, by P.A. Chin
Cold Nights by P.A. ChinFortress Besieged by Ch'ien Chung-ShuLiterature of the People's Republic of China by Kai-Yu Hsu [+]
The East is read (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
Behind the Forbidden Door, by Tiziano Terzani
Behind the Forbidden Door by Tiziano Terzani [+]
The Empire Strikes Back (5 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Tiananmem: The Rape of Peking, by Michael Fathers and Andrew Higgins
Tiananmem: The Rape of Peking by Michael Fathers and Andrew HigginsTiananmen Square by Scott Simmie and Bob NixonTiananmen Diary by Harrison E. SalisburyJune Four Beijing Spring by David C. Turnley, Peter Turnley, and Melinda Liu, ... Books & the Arts
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Forms of Modern Sinology (3 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Student Nationalism in China, 1927-1937, by John Israel
Student Nationalism in China, 1927-1937 by John IsraelWhen China Wakes by Robert GuillainPeking and People's Wars by Samuel B. Griffith II [+]
General (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
China and Ourselves, by Bruce Douglass and Ross Terrill
China and Ourselves by Bruce Douglass and Ross Terrill General Jonathan Mirsky
The American Historical Review, June 1973 , p. 658
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Giap, Chou and the Willies (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Big Victory, Great Task, by General Vo Nguyen Giap
Big Victory, Great Task by General Vo Nguyen GiapChou En-lai: China's Gray Eminence by Kai-yu Hsu [+]
Hanoi and the Front (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
The United States in Vietnam, by George McTurnan Kahin and John W. Lewis
The United States in Vietnam by George McTurnan Kahin and John W. LewisVietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire by Thich Nhat Hanh Books
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High Drama in Foggy Bottom (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
The Pentagon Papers: As Published by the New York Times, by Neil Sheehan, Fox Butterfie...
The Pentagon Papers: As Published by the New York Times by Neil Sheehan, Fox Butterfield, and Hedrick Smith, ...United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967 [+]
Ho Chi Mihn: Poet in Leg Irons (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
Prison Diary, by Ho Chi Minh
Prison Diary by Ho Chi Minh [+]
How Reds Smashed Reds (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
Fractured Rebellion, by Andrew G. Walder
Fractured Rebellion by Andrew G. Walder [+]
Ill wind (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Agriculture in China's Modern Economic Development, by Nicholas R. Lardy
Agriculture in China's Modern Economic Development by Nicholas R. LardyFood Grain Procurement and Consumption in China by Kenneth R. Walker [+]
In A Cruel Country (3 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic, by Bette Bao Lord
Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic by Bette Bao LordA Higher Kind of Loyalty by Liu BinyanTell the World by Liu Binyan, Ruan Ming, and Xu Gang [+]
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao, by Roderick MacFarquhar, Timothy Cheek, and Eugene...
The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao by Roderick MacFarquhar, Timothy Cheek, and Eugene Wu, ... [+]
Jumping Into the Sea (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
China Wakes, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
China Wakes by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunnMandate of Heaven by Orville Schell Letters Jean-Paul Sartre, Charles M. Holmes, and Stephen Spender, ...
Letters Samuel J. Eldersveld, Neal Zaslaw, and Alfred Brendel, ...
Letters Orrin DeForest, Jonathan Mirsky, and Edward Albee, ...
Letters William E. Colby, Jonathan Mirsky, and Stephen C. Pelletiere, ...
Letters Rakiya Omaar, Roland F. Perkins, and Hugh Lloyd-Jones, ...
Letters James C. Thomson, Jr., Jonathan Mirsky, and Marvin M. Miller, ...
Letters Kishore Mahbubani, Ian Buruma, and Daniel Wikler, ...
Letters Thomas A. Dubbs, Marcia Angell, and Jonathan Mirsky, ...
Letters Sanford Schwartz, Stephen R. Shalom, and Janet Kesterberg Amighi, ...
Books & the Arts
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The Levels of Manipulation (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
War, Peace, and the Viet Cong, by Douglas Pike
War, Peace, and the Viet Cong by Douglas Pike [+]
Literature of the Wounded (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, by Jung Chang
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung ChangVoices from the Whirlwind by Feng Jicai [+]
Lost Horizons (4 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
The Myth of Shangri-La, by Peter Bishop
The Myth of Shangri-La by Peter BishopFreedom in Exile by Dalai LamaA History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951 by Melvyn C. Goldstein and Geler RimpocheMy Tibet by Dalai Lama [+]
The Mark of Cain (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Vol. III, by Roderick MacFarquhar
The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Vol. III by Roderick MacFarquharMao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, Vol. IV by Stuart R. Schram, Nancy J. Hodes, and Stephen C. Averill, ... [+]
Message from Mao (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
Edgar Snow: A Biography, by John Maxwell Hamilton
Edgar Snow: A Biography by John Maxwell Hamilton [+]
Message from Shangri-La (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
High Peaks, Pure Earth, by Hugh E. Richardson and Michael Aris
High Peaks, Pure Earth by Hugh E. Richardson and Michael Aris [+]
The Myth of Mao's China (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
China Misperceived, by Steven W. Mosher
China Misperceived by Steven W. Mosher [+]
The Never-Ending War (13 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Argument Without End, by Robert S. McNamara, James G. Blight, and Robert K. Brigham, ...
Argument Without End by Robert S. McNamara, James G. Blight, and Robert K. Brigham, ...Reporting Vietnam, Part Two by Ward JustReporting Vietnam, Part One by Ward JustAmerican Tragedy by David E. KaiserGuerrilla Diplomacy by Robert K. BrighamChoosing War by Fredrik LogevallDragon Ascending by Henry KammThe Secret War Against Hanoi by Richard H. Shultz, Jr.In the Jaws of History by Bui Diem and David ChanoffA Better War by Lewis SorleyVietnam: The Necessary War by Michael LindAmerica's War in Vietnam by Larry H. AddingtonMemories of Pure Spring by Duong Thu Huong 'The Never-Ending War' James G. Blight, David Chanoff, and Jonathan Mirsky, ...
An Exchange
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No Trumpets, No Drums (3 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
The Sorrow of War, by Bao Ninh
The Sorrow of War by Bao NinhNovel Without a Name by Duong Thu HuongParadise of the Blind by Thu Huong Duong The North Vietnamese in Paris Jonathan Mirsky
II. What They Don't Say
Nothing to Celebrate Jonathan Mirsky
Mourning the fiftieth anniversary of China's revolution
One Child Per Family (No Girls) Jonathan Mirsky
The Infanticide Tragedy in China
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The Party's Secrets (3 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Time for Telling Truth is Running Out, by Vera Schwarcz
Time for Telling Truth is Running Out by Vera SchwarczA Chinese Odyssey by Anne F. ThurstonChinese Village, Socialist State by Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Mark Selden, ... [+]
Peking, Hong Kong, & the US (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
The Coming Conflict with China, by Richard Bernstein and Ross H. Munro
The Coming Conflict with China by Richard Bernstein and Ross H. Munro Peking's Choice Jonathan Mirsky
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Reconsidering Vietnam (9 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Vietnam,
Vietnam The Vietnam Reader by Walter CappsThe Dynamics of Defeat by Eric M. BergerudStrange Ground by Harry MaurerThe Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 by Marilyn Blatt YoungWar by Other Means by Carlyle A. ThayerVietnam at War by Phillip B. DavidsonRomancing Vietnam by Justin WintleRemembering Heaven's Face by John Balaban Return to Vietnam David Slawson, Stephen Denney, and Eric M. Bergerud, ...
An Exchange
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Verse (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
China: The Other Communism, by K.S. Karol
China: The Other Communism by K.S. Karol [+]
Book Reviews (5 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
A New U.S. Policy Toward China, by A. Doak Barnett
A New U.S. Policy Toward China by A. Doak BarnettRemaking China Policy by Richard Moorsteen and Morton AbramowitzNations in Darkness: China, Russia, and America by John G. StoessingerAmerica's Response to China by Warren I. CohenRevolution and Chinese Foreign Policy by Peter Van NessPolitical Science Quarterly, June 1973 , pp. 301-304
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Nuptial Pads and a Question of Inheritance (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
In the Midst of Wars, by Edward G. Lansdale
In the Midst of Wars by Edward G. Lansdale [+]
Literary Crypt (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture, by Richard H. Solomon
Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture by Richard H. Solomon [+]
River of Fire (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
God's Chinese Son, by Jonathan D. Spence
God's Chinese Son by Jonathan D. Spence [+]
The Root of Resistance (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Patterns of Vietnamese Response to Foreign Intervention, 1858-1900, by Truong Buu Lam
Patterns of Vietnamese Response to Foreign Intervention, 1858-1900 by Truong Buu LamThe Military Half by Jonathan Schell A Sinologist in China Jonathan Mirsky
Digging Beneath the "Panda Image"
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Squaring the Chinese Circle (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Chinese Roundabout, by Jonathan D. Spence
Chinese Roundabout by Jonathan D. SpenceThe Cambridge History of China, Vol. 15, Part 2 by Roderick MacFarquhar, John K. Fairbank, and Denis Twitchett, ... [+]
Stories from the Ice Age (4 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Spring Bamboo, by Jeanne Tai
Spring Bamboo by Jeanne TaiI Myself Am a Woman by Ling Ding, Tani E. Barlow, and Gary J. BjorgeLapse of Time by Wang AnyiBaotown by Wang Anyi Books & Arts
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A Thousand Gaping Wounds (5 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
China and the Three Worlds, by King C. Chen
China and the Three Worlds by King C. ChenShaping of Chinese Foreign Policy by Greg O'LearyChina's Role in World Affairs by Michael B. YahudaChina and the West by Jerome Ch'enChina, the United Nations, and World Order by Samuel S. KimThe Tombs of Ben Sue Jonathan Mirsky
"Too Blind Stupid To See"
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The True Story of Izzy (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
American Radical, by D.D. Guttenplan
American Radical by D.D. Guttenplan Books & the Arts
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Two Sides to the Dienbienphu Story (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Viet-Nam Witness, 1953-66, by Bernard B. Fall
Viet-Nam Witness, 1953-66 by Bernard B. FallDien Bien Phu by Vo Nguyen Giap [+]
United States (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
Foreign Relations of the United States 1946, Vol. VII,
Foreign Relations of the United States 1946, Vol. VII [+]
United States (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948,
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948 [+]
Unmaking a Village (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
The Village of Ben Suc, by Jonathan Schell
The Village of Ben Suc by Jonathan Schell [+]
Unmasking the Monster (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
The Private Life of Chairman Mao, by Li Zhi-Sui
The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Li Zhi-Sui [+]
Vietnam Now (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
Vietnam: Rising Dragon, by Bill Hayton
Vietnam: Rising Dragon by Bill Hayton [+]
Vietnam: Dead Souls (2 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Ghosts of War in Vietnam, by Heonik Kwon
Ghosts of War in Vietnam by Heonik KwonThe Boat by Nam Le [+]
The War That Will Not End (7 Reviews) Jonathan Mirsky
Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam, by Morley Safer
Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam by Morley SaferLost Victory by William Colby and James McCargarSlow Burn by Orrin DeForest and David ChanoffThe Limits of Air Power by Mark ClodfelterAs I Saw It by Dean Rusk and Richard RuskTears Before the Rain by Larry EngelmannHearts of Sorrow by James M. Freeman [+]
The War We'll Never Understand (Review) Jonathan Mirsky
Matterhorn, by Karl Marlantes
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