Sang Ye 桑曄 and Geremie R. Barmé (GRB), The Rings of Beijing, Inside China’s Global Aura, an oral history account of China and the Chinese capital. The book is organised spatially and thematically around the six ring roads (and the seventh ‘nimbus of garbage’) of Beijing.

To date, the following translations, with introductory material, have been published online:

• Wang Dan: Accounting for 111 Years, GRB
• Bai Jian: The Torchbearer, GRB
• Teacher Zhang: A Window on the Forbidden City, translated by Linda Jaivin, with GRB
• Yang Zhiyuan: Huang Shan, Selling Scenery to the Bourgeoisie, GRB
• Zhai Quan’an: The Han Supremisist, GRB
• The Taxi Driver: Driving in Circles, GRB
• Zhao Hang: 1949-2009, Sixty Years Under the Radar, GRB
• Lü Shunfang: Fifty-thousand Orphans and the Way Home, translated by Linda Jaivin