2007 "A Historical View of Western Reporting
in China", China Media Research, 3(1), 2007, pp. 61-64.
2006 (a) "In memory of Yan Huizhu", an investigation into the life and death of a Shanghai opera star who committed suicide in the Cultural
Revolution South China Morning Post, 11 September 2006.
(b) "Long Live the People", China Review, No. 34, February 2006, a history of this simple revolutionary slogan --
yet one rarely heard under Chinese communist rule.
2005 (a) "Looking at China", Soundings (London), No. 30, 2005, pp. 98-110
(b) "Half a superpower", New Statesman (London), 1 January 2005 (in China 2005 feature).
(c) "From Mao to the Market: China special issue" (ed.), Red Pepper", No.
136, December 2005
2004 (a) "Would he have been better?", London Review of Books, 4 March 2004 (review of Jonathan Fenby, Generalissimo:Chiang
Kai-shek and the China he lost).
(b) "Letter from Changzhou: Confidence on the Yangtze, China Review (London:
Great Britain-China Centre), Spring 2004.
(c) "Spreading tinder over dry scrub", London Review of Books, 8 July 2004
(review of Wang Chaohua, ed., One China Many Paths
2002 "China's Search for International Status and US-China
Relations" (paper to People's University, Beijing)
2000 (a) "Fever
Pitch", Index on Censorship, 3/2000
(b) "Lost Souls", Guardian Weekend, August 5, (the story of
CIM missionaries Anna Jakobsen and Sarah Young)
1999-2003
(a) "Inside Asia": fortnightly column in The Guardian Weekly
1998 (a) "We
should not forget Hong Kong", The World Today 54:4 (London: RIIA)
(b) "Cost of a miracle" in Bell & Webb eds., An Embarrassment of
Tyrannies: 25 Years of Index Against Censorship (London: Gollancz)
1997 "Reconciliation
in Europe: Lessons for Asia", in Chung-in Moon ed., History Cognition and Peace in East Asia (Seoul: Yonsei Univ. Press)
1995 (a) "The
Years of Great Debate", The China Quarterly, No. 143 (anniversary edition)
(b) "After Deng", London Review of Books, July 6, 1995
1993 "Understanding
Revolutionary China", The China Quarterly, No. 133 (review essay)
