2026 Reading Challenge

Light on China Series

36 primary works • 36 total works
Light on China is a series of English language books on China. Recently launched in Beijing, the series carries first-hand, eyewitness accounts of the huge transformation in China over the 100 years or so leading up to the time of liberation.

The series consist of some 50 books on China by foreign friends, observers and journalists.
When Serfs Stood Up in Tibet
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3.75 · 24 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1959 · 11 editions
Report from Strong's trip to Tibet in 1959, direct…

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    China Shakes the World
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    4.00     · 45 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1949 · 17 editions
    Book by Belden, Jack

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    The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh
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    4.48     · 31 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1956 · 24 editions
    Chu Teh, one of the legendary figures of the Chine…

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    Unknown War: North China 1937 - 1945
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 1975 · 4 editions
    The war against Japan in North China remained almo…

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    Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh: The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2010 · 59 editions
    This is a reproduction of a book published before …

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    Chinese Destinies: Sketches of Present-Day China
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    0.00     · published 1977 · 1 edition

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    Good Deeds & Gun Boats: Two Centuries of American-Chinese Encounters
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1990 · 3 editions
    Book by Deane, Hugh

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    A China Childhood
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    4.33     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
    Born to missionaries, a little American girl tells…

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    First Act In China: The Story Of The Sian Mutiny
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    0.00     · published 1973 · 4 editions
    The story of China's Sian Mutiny and its effects o…

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    Battle Hymn Of China
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    4.65     · 17 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1944 · 25 editions
    Battle Hymn of China by Agnes Smedley, also publis…

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    China Fights Back - An American Woman With The Eighth Route Army
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    4.25     · 12 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1977 · 26 editions
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dat…

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    Twin Stars of China: A Behind-the-Scenes Story of China's Valiant Struggle for Existence by a U.S. Marine who Lived & Moved With the People
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1975 · 6 editions
    Lang:- English, Pages 377. Reprinted in 2016 with …

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    The People's Doctor: George Hatem and China's Revolution
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    1.50     · 2 Ratings · published 1997 · 4 editions
    The young George Hatem journeyed to Shanghai in 19…

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    Call of Yanan: A Story of the Indian Medical Mission to China 1938-1943
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    0.00     · published 2003 · 1 edition

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    The Stilwell Papers
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    3.93     · 41 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1948 · 24 editions
    His American men worshipped him. The Chinese armie…

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    From Vagabond to Journalist: Edgar Snow in Asia, 1928-1941
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1996 · 2 editions
    At the age of nineteen Edgar Snow (1905-1972) left…

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    Rewi Alley an Autobiography
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · published 1987 · 6 editions

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    China's Millions: The Revolutionary Struggles from 1927 to 1935
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    0.00     · 1 edition
    American left-wing author Anna Louise Strong's acc…

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    Inside China Today: A Western View
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    0.00     · published 1983 · 2 editions
    An examination of the culture, society, and politi…

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    Ten Mile Inn: Mass movement in a Chinese village
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    4.50     · 6 Ratings · published 1979 · 5 editions

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    On Her Own: Journalistic Adventures from San Francisco to the Chinese Revolution, 1917-27
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · published 1993 · 5 editions
    Born in 1897, Milly Bennett lived an extraordinary…

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    From Opium War to Liberation
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    4.69     · 13 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1956 · 6 editions
    The purpose of this concise treatment was never to…

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    A memoir of China in revolution: from the Boxer Rebellion to the People's Republic
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    3.67     · 6 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1974 · 3 editions
    A memoir of China in from the Boxer Rebellion to t…

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    A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman
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    3.69     · 469 Ratings · 41 Reviews · published 1945 · 21 editions
    Within the common destiny is the individual destin…

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    Women in Modern China
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    0.00     · published 1967 · 1 edition

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    Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution
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    4.03     · 31 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 1993 · 8 editions
    Agnes Smedley, author of Daughter of Earth , worke…

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    Two Kinds of Time
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    4.53     · 32 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2008 · 10 editions
    Graham Peck (1914-1968) made his first trip to Chi…

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    China Builds for Democracy; A story of cooperative industry,
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    0.00     · published 1972 · 5 editions
    { 15.34 x 23.59 cms} Leather Binding on Spine and …

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    I See A New China
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1986 · 8 editions
    The author went to China in 1937 as a war correspo…

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    China Fights Back
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2004 · 1 edition

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    Woman in world history: Life and times of Soong Ching Ling
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    0.00     · 5 editions
    Book by Epstein, Israel

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    My China Years
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    3.38     · 16 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1984 · 7 editions
    The author recounts her years in China and records…

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    James G Endicott Rebel Out of China
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · published 1980 · 4 editions
    Book by Endicott, Shirley Jane

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    Tibet transformed
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1983 · 2 editions
    Book by Epstein, Israel

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    Inside Red China
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    4.17     · 6 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1977 · 3 editions
    During the 1930s, Helen Snow lived the glomorous a…

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    Remembering Koji Ariyoshi: An American GI in Yenan
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    0.00     · published 2004 · 3 editions

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