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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 14,351 ratings — published 2001
The Search For Modern China (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,405 ratings — published 1990
On China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,591 ratings — published 2011
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.31 — 130,170 ratings — published 1991
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,799 ratings — published 2006
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.24 — 9,020 ratings — published 2014
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.26 — 8,269 ratings — published 2009
Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,178 ratings — published 2016
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as china-books)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,940 ratings — published 2008
China in Ten Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,538 ratings — published 2011
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,318 ratings — published 2010
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.01 — 266,176 ratings — published 1931
Land of Big Numbers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as china-books)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,538 ratings — published 2021
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.08 — 544,104 ratings — published 2006
Mao: The Unknown Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as china-books)
avg rating 3.84 — 14,312 ratings — published 2002
Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,719 ratings — published 2013
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,757 ratings — published 2002
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,241 ratings — published 2003
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as china-books)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,821 ratings — published 2008
Life and Death in Shanghai (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.33 — 14,287 ratings — published 1986
Soul Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as china-books)
avg rating 3.60 — 6,090 ratings — published 1990
Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as china-books)
avg rating 3.85 — 892 ratings — published 2009
How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.28 — 315 ratings — published
The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.05 — 211 ratings — published
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,760 ratings — published 2020
Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.05 — 578 ratings — published 2020
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,576 ratings — published 2011
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,152 ratings — published 2018
The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,234 ratings — published 2018
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.08 — 653 ratings — published 2017
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,264 ratings — published 2016
One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,405 ratings — published 2016
Waiting (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 3.55 — 24,170 ratings — published 1999
To Live (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.31 — 30,126 ratings — published 1992
Mao’s Last Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.09 — 518 ratings — published 2006
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.26 — 58,740 ratings — published 1997
China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,926 ratings — published 2014
The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,475 ratings — published 2014
Red Sorghum (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 3.81 — 9,394 ratings — published 1987
Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,144 ratings — published 2013
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,457 ratings — published 2010
Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 466 ratings — published 2007
Red Dust: A Path Through China (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,391 ratings — published 2001
The Man Who Stayed Behind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.25 — 222 ratings — published 1993
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,539 ratings — published 2012
Red Azalea: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,925 ratings — published 1993
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,289 ratings — published 2012
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.09 — 394,009 ratings — published 2005
Raise the Red Lantern (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 3.59 — 4,078 ratings — published 1990
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as china-books)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,497 ratings — published 2006