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The Art of War
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Tao Te Ching
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Dream of the Red Chamber
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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Monkey: The Journey to the West
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The Analects
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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Waiting
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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Soul Mountain
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The Joy Luck Club
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Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems
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The Book of Chuang Tzu
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Five T'Ang Poets
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Mencius
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Love in a Fallen City
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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
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Du Fu: A Life in Poetry
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The Selected Poems of Li Po
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1 of 2 (chapter 1-60)
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Outlaws of the Marsh (4-Volume Boxed Set)
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Red Sorghum
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To Live
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
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The Journey to the West, Volume 1
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The Songs of the South: An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets
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Red Scarf Girl
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3.80 avg rating — 17,653 ratings
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Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
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Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
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4.08 avg rating — 42,153 ratings
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Poems
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4.08 avg rating — 200 ratings
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War Trash
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Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen Cao #1)
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Wolf Totem
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Beijing Coma
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The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days
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4.19 avg rating — 2,579 ratings
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Searching for Sylvie Lee
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The Crazed
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Girl in Translation
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Mao's Last Dancer
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Red Azalea
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The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get To Me
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魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
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The Noodle Maker
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Raise the Red Lantern: A Critically Acclaimed Film and Three Dark Novellas About Family and Corruption in 1930s China
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The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 5: The Dreamer Wakes
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Big Breasts & Wide Hips
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Abridged Chinese Classic Series: The Besieged City
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The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 3: The Warning Voice
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The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 2: The Crab-Flower Club
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Life and Death in Shanghai
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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A Case of Two Cities (Inspector Chen Cao, #4)
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The Valley of Amazement
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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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Empress
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The Girl Who Played Go
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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The Kitchen God's Wife
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Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
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The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry
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Chinese fairy tales: Forty Stories Told by Almond-Eyed Folk
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The Republic of Wine
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Dream of Ding Village
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Three Kingdoms (4-Volume Boxed Set)
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Xunzi: Basic Writings
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The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan
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The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 4: The Debt of Tears
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Six Records of a Floating Life
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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
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Mo Tzu: Basic Writings
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Pearl of China
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Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution
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Half a Lifelong Romance
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The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. One: The Gathering
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Border Town
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Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations - Volume I: From Antiquity to the Tang Dynasty
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Dreams of Joy (Shanghai Girls, #2)
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Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
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Sandalwood Death
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The Butcher's Wife and Other Stories
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Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 1
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Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and China Before and After
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Once on a Moonless Night
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Wang in Love and Bondage: Three Novellas by Wang Xiaobo
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China Men
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The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese Schoolgirl
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Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
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Selected Stories by Xuemo 雪漠小说精选
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The Mao Case (Inspector Chen Cao #6)
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Into the Desert
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The Peony Pavilion
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Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh
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Endless River: Li Po and Tu Fu : A Friendship in Poetry
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Spring Moon: A Novel of China
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A Madman's Diary 狂人日記
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The Tao Speaks: Lao-Tzu's Whispers of Wisdom
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The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
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While the translation is stilted, I enjoyed the experience of seeing Nanjing through the eyes of each of the girls - and the postscript makes for interesting reflection on the challenging times when women left the land to explore opportunity in the city - and what really became of Xin Ran's characters based on real-life.