Takes the reader inside one of the most secretive countries in the world, exposing the internal chaos, blind faith, rampant corruption, and terrifying cruelty of its rulers. This work details the vain efforts to change North Korea by actors inside and outside the country and the dangers this highly [...]

In this deeply informed, clear-eyed portrait of China today, renowned Beijing-based journalist Jasper Becker looks at the world's most populous nation and where it's headed as it transforms itself into a global economic power. Becker is the ideal guide to the profound changes in China that are alrea[...]

For seventy years Mongolia was all but closed to the west - a forbidden country, shrouded in darkness. Jasper Becker had long dreamed of exploring the sweeping land that lay just beyond China’s Great Wall and when communism disintegrated, he finally did. Setting out from Kublai Khan’s ca[...]