This week on Sinica, we’re delighted to welcome back the stalwart Mr. Gady Epstein, Beijing correspondent for The Economist, to discuss the recent protests in Hong Kong, as well as the flux in China’s suicide rates. And specifically, we’ll be looking at the similarities and differences in the stories told by officials and rural women on this front.

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Recommendations:

• China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa, by Howard W. French (Knopf, 2014)
• Debating China: The U.S.-China Relationship in Ten Conversations, by Nina Hachigian (Oxford University Press, 2013)
• “Behind the Scenes in Putin’s Court: The Private Habits of a Latter-Day Dictator,” by Ben Judah, Newsweek, July 23, 2014