Whatever the genre you fancy, the English-language book titles of 2011 are sure to delight, Chitralekha Basu says.

Since the New Year is less than a week old, and assuming that your "China-reading" lists for 2011 are still blank sheets, or nearly so, we would like to bring you a selection of what the English-language publishers have lined up. Here's a checklist that, we hope, will have some use for anybody remotely interested in China - be it its past, present or future; people, politics or photographs; writers, revolutions or real estate.

Economy/Politics