Chinese History


The Search For Modern China
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
Mao: The Unknown Story
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China, #1)
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
China: A History
The Art of War
Tai-Pan by James ClavellNoble House by James ClavellSouth China Morning Blues by Ray HechtThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset MaughamEating Smoke by Chris Thrall
Books Set in Hong Kong
147 books — 120 voters
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiThe Immigrant by Nery McMahonBlack Indian by Shonda BuchananThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Non Fiction/Memoirs by Women of Color
346 books — 68 voters

Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseThe Longest Day by Cornelius RyanAn Army at Dawn by Rick AtkinsonWith the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge
Best World War II History (nonfiction)
692 books — 508 voters
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. VogelThe Search For Modern China by Jonathan D. SpenceThe Early Chinese Empires by Mark Edward LewisChina Marches West by Peter C. PerdueImperial China, 900–1800 by Frederick W. Mote
Chinese history
42 books — 11 voters

Journey to the West by Biao  WangThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiFemales of Valor by Widad AkreyiZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad AkreyiRoots of To-Be Templars by Widad Akreyi
Best books on history and culture.
134 books — 89 voters

British colonial disdain for human rights even left its mark on the English language. The word “coolie” was borrowed from a Chinese word that literally means “bitter labor.” The Romanized first syllable coo means “bitter” and the second syllable lie mimics the pronunciation of the Chinese logograph that means “labor.” This Chinese word sprang into existence shortly after the Opium War in the nineteenth century when Britain annexed several territories along the eastern seaboard of China. Those t ...more
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books about the history of China in the 19th and 20th centuries
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