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
Shanghai Girls by Lisa SeeWhite Shanghai by Elvira BaryakinaThe Distant Land of My Father by Bo CaldwellUnsavory Elements by Tom  CarterEmpire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
Books set in SHANGHAI
59 books — 51 voters
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

Zodiac Circle by Tamuna TsertsvadzeThe Tale of Temujin by Sarah BrennanThe Tale of Run Run Rat by Sarah BrennanThe Tale of Pin Yin Panda by Sarah BrennanThe Tale of Oswald Ox by Sarah Brennan
The Chinese Calendar Tales
8 books — 6 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

Midnight in Peking by Paul   FrenchChinese Shadows by Simon LeysRickshaw Boy by Lao SheBraised Pork by An YuThe Dragon's Tail by Adam Williams
Books set in BEIJING
49 books — 15 voters
The Last Kingdom by Bernard CornwellThe Winter King by Bernard CornwellHild by Nicola GriffithZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad AkreyiThe Crystal Cave by Mary  Stewart
Fiction set in 5th to 10th centuries
173 books — 84 voters

The national mobilization to exterminate the "Four Pests"... was the first of a series of disasters precipitated by the Great Helmsman after the Anti-Rightist Campaign. "National mobilisation" meant that all 500 million people in China stopped work in order to take up a single specific task — in this case, the extermination of sparrows, flies, mosquitoes, and rats. ...more
Charles N. Li, The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in a China Before Mao

Sima Qian
Sometimes, to the strains of licentious music, he made Lao Ai walk along with a wheel of tong-wood attached to his penis, and he ensured that the Queen Dowager heard about it so that she might be tempted.
Sima Qian

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books about the history of China in the 19th and 20th centuries
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