John Gittings, writer on China and world affairs

After teaching at the University of Westminster I worked at The Guardian (UK) for twenty years as assistant foreign editor and chief foreign leader-writer (1983-2003). Having specialised for many years on China and East Asia, I am now doing research on peace history and am helping to edit the International Encyclopaedia of Peace (OUP).

Recent work:

"HERE BE DRAGONS!" a review of eight recent books on China, all by a strange coincidence containing the word dragon in their title.

"AFTER TRIDENT: PEACE OR PROLIFERATION?"

David Davies Memorial Institute lecture, 2007

Longer version now published in International Relations, Dec. 07.

THE CHANGING FACE OF CHINA: FROM MAO TO MARKET

Further details on Oxford University Press or Amazon UK websites.

IF MAO HAD MET ROOSEVELT: an alternative view of US-China relations after the Second World War and during the cold war.

AGNES SMEDLEY AND THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN: how the radical US writer reported from behind Japanese lines for the MG.