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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 1576 times as china)
avg rating 4.30 — 125,183 ratings — published 1991
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 1123 times as china)
avg rating 4.08 — 505,694 ratings — published 2006
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 1072 times as china)
avg rating 4.01 — 261,898 ratings — published 1931
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1065 times as china)
avg rating 4.09 — 389,253 ratings — published 2005
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 844 times as china)
avg rating 3.97 — 712,145 ratings — published 1989
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 841 times as china)
avg rating 3.94 — 579,076 ratings — published
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Paperback)
by (shelved 731 times as china)
avg rating 3.64 — 68,538 ratings — published 2000
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 690 times as china)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,984 ratings — published 1997
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (Paperback)
by (shelved 675 times as china)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,016 ratings — published 2001
China in Ten Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 659 times as china)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,943 ratings — published 2011
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 651 times as china)
avg rating 4.29 — 184,168 ratings — published -350
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 644 times as china)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,873 ratings — published 2014
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 633 times as china)
avg rating 3.92 — 163,545 ratings — published 2009
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 598 times as china)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,665 ratings — published 2008
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 592 times as china)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,677 ratings — published 2006
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 543 times as china)
avg rating 4.26 — 8,145 ratings — published 2009
The Search For Modern China (Paperback)
by (shelved 541 times as china)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,296 ratings — published 1990
On China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 515 times as china)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,301 ratings — published 2011
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 510 times as china)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,307 ratings — published 2011
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices (Paperback)
by (shelved 505 times as china)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,387 ratings — published 2002
Mao: The Unknown Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 476 times as china)
avg rating 3.83 — 13,972 ratings — published 2002
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 476 times as china)
avg rating 4.29 — 128,473 ratings — published 2017
To Live (Paperback)
by (shelved 474 times as china)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,716 ratings — published 1992
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 469 times as china)
avg rating 4.35 — 213,037 ratings — published 2023
The Bonesetter's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 449 times as china)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,442 ratings — published 2001
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 448 times as china)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,249 ratings — published 2010
Waiting (Paperback)
by (shelved 423 times as china)
avg rating 3.55 — 23,766 ratings — published 1999
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 410 times as china)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,270 ratings — published 2010
Life and Death in Shanghai (Paperback)
by (shelved 406 times as china)
avg rating 4.33 — 14,084 ratings — published 1986
Red Sorghum (Paperback)
by (shelved 391 times as china)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,964 ratings — published 1987
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as china)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,272 ratings — published -475
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 388 times as china)
avg rating 4.40 — 225,065 ratings — published 2008
The Kitchen God's Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 357 times as china)
avg rating 4.04 — 88,385 ratings — published 1991
Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid, #1)
by (shelved 348 times as china)
avg rating 3.90 — 26,002 ratings — published 2003
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 344 times as china)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,804 ratings — published 2013
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 342 times as china)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,155 ratings — published 2003
Dreams of Joy (Shanghai Girls, #2)
by (shelved 313 times as china)
avg rating 4.11 — 69,016 ratings — published 2011
Peony in Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 313 times as china)
avg rating 3.64 — 50,839 ratings — published 2007
Three Kingdoms (4-Volume Boxed Set)
by (shelved 312 times as china)
avg rating 4.37 — 6,792 ratings — published 1301
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 305 times as china)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,801 ratings — published 2013
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 289 times as china)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,126 ratings — published 2016
Soul Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as china)
avg rating 3.60 — 5,913 ratings — published 1990
Falling Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as china)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,289 ratings — published 1997
Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 288 times as china)
avg rating 3.93 — 24,364 ratings — published 2016
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 287 times as china)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,159 ratings — published 2012
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 284 times as china)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,260 ratings — published 2018
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 283 times as china)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,617 ratings — published 2025
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 278 times as china)
avg rating 4.40 — 176,230 ratings — published 2010
Red Azalea: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as china)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,797 ratings — published 1993
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 275 times as china)
avg rating 4.16 — 502,678 ratings — published 2018
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
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“The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose some weight." By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of "health" and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image.”
― Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
― Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
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