The Red Flag

by David Priestland

“Hugely ambitious and boldly achieved, The Red Flag explores the roots, perversions, and manifold intellectual and geographic developments of the most dynamic and disruptive…

Red Star Over China

by Edgar Snow

A reissue of Edgar Snow’s classic account as the first Westerner to meet Mao and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936.

Marx’s Das Kapital

by Francis Wheen

“As Wheen skillfully shows, there was an underlying love-hate relationship between Marx and capitalism. As early as the Manifesto, he had written of capitalism’s…

Daughter of the River

by Hong Ying

“This remarkable account of a childhood spent on the banks of the Yangtze River . . . explores the depths of personal and civil…