From NI, a special issue on China. From THES, a review of books on China. In search of Chinese science: John Derbyshire (who Wikipedia hates) on Joseph Needham, sinologist and scientist. More on Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang. Rosie Blau reviews Liao Yiwu’s The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up and Floris-Jan van Luyn’s A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China. A review of Leslie Chang's Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China. Forget about a Shanghai stock bubble: The whole Chinese economy's getting ready to burst. Has China de-industrialised other developing countries? Europe and America can no longer afford to ignore China's increasing influence in the Indian Ocean (and in the South China Sea). A review of When China Rules the World by Martin Jacques (and more and more and more). Don't believe the hype about the dawn of a new Asian age — it will be many decades before the region takes over the world, if they ever do. A review of The Miracle: The Epic Story of Asia’s Quest for Wealth by Michael Schuman. There's more to Macau, a peninsula on the edge of China, than gambling and hotel resorts. China’s wild west: Ethnic conflict erupts in Beijing’s new frontier.