Isabel Hilton
Articles by Isabel Hilton
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Books
Chinese whisperer
- 16 October 2008
Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China
Simon Winchester
Viking, 336pp, £20
Books
Terror in the east
- 17 April 2008
The Bloody White Baron
James Palmer Faber & Faber, 272pp, £18.99
Society
So farewell, Castro
- 21 February 2008
- 32 comments
As the Cuban leader steps down, Isabel Hilton assesses the legacy of the longest, most controversial presidency in the world and Stephanie Blankenburg looks at the future of the Cuban revolution
Politics
Still a messiah?
- 04 October 2007
- 43 comments
Forty years after his death, Che Guevara has little to offer as a guide for making revolution. So why does his image continue to inspire an almost religious following?
Books
Living on the edge
- 29 January 2007
The Writing on the Wall: China and the west in the 21st century
Will Hutton Little, Brown, 448pp, £20
ISBN 0316730181
World Affairs
Away from home
- 08 May 2006
The Aquariums of Pyongyang: ten years in the North Korean Gulag
Kang Chol-hwan and Pierre Rigoulot, translated by Yair Reiner Atlantic Books, 238pp, £8.99
ISBN 1843544997
Politics
Karl, China needs you
- 20 February 2006
Just when it seemed it was all over for Marx, the Chinese Communist Party has had a spectacular change of heart
World Affairs
It's all going pear shaped
- 19 December 2005
2006 - the world : Fancy a nice quiet year? No chance. As the Bush-Blair projects unravel, things are going to get weird. And then there's the weather to worry about
Books
People power
- 29 August 2005
Wild Grass: China's revolution from below
Ian Johnson Penguin, 324pp, £8.99
ISBN 0141021551
Politics
Latin America rises up
- 20 June 2005
While Bush pursues his global mission, big changes are happening in his own backyard. A region Washington is used to bullying has started to rebel - and it has found a new friend
