London. The Bodley Head. 2021. Reprint. Black & white and colour photographic plates, line illustrations, viii + 380pp. Hardback in dustjacket. "In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of..... More
United Kingdom. Fourth Estate. 2008. Black and white photographic illustrations, vii + 278pp, dustjacket. Very good copy. 'Miracles of Life' opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J.G.Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration..... More
United Kingdom. Verso Books. 2013. 326 pages, dustjacket. Hu Feng, the "counterrevolutionary" leader of a banned literary school, spent twenty-five years in Chinese Communist Party prison system. But back in the early days of Communist China he was among the party's chief literary theoreticians and critics - at least until..... More