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Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.29 — 187,857 ratings — published -350
The Search For Modern China (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,387 ratings — published 1990
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,807 ratings — published -475
On China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,519 ratings — published 2011
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.31 — 128,932 ratings — published 1991
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.38 — 760 ratings — published 1990
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,943 ratings — published 2013
China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (History of Imperial China, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.92 — 317 ratings — published 2009
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,113 ratings — published 1301
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,450 ratings — published 2018
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,005 ratings — published 2007
China: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.86 — 994 ratings — published 1992
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,308 ratings — published 1996
The Art of Cloning: Creative Production During China's Cultural Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.88 — 42 ratings — published 2017
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,049 ratings — published 2025
The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.16 — 96 ratings — published 1999
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.17 — 344 ratings — published 2007
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,778 ratings — published 2025
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.06 — 189 ratings — published 2023
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.38 — 46,672 ratings — published 2022
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung (Vinyl Bound)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.53 — 4,396 ratings — published 1964
The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,229 ratings — published 2018
The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.64 — 85 ratings — published 2009
The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.92 — 241 ratings — published 2008
Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.91 — 80 ratings — published 1995
To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.06 — 32 ratings — published 2002
Great State: China and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.87 — 418 ratings — published 2019
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,707 ratings — published 1926
The True Story of Ah Q (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,617 ratings — published 1922
The Shortest History of China (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,441 ratings — published 2021
In the Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.95 — 21 ratings — published 1999
The Chairman's New Clothes: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.14 — 43 ratings — published 1971
A Short History of Chinese Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.32 — 697 ratings — published 1948
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.94 — 596,763 ratings — published -500
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,222 ratings — published 2016
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,412 ratings — published 2010
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.26 — 57,902 ratings — published 1997
China in Ten Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,383 ratings — published 2011
China's Political System (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.94 — 64 ratings — published 2004
China: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,529 ratings — published 2008
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.89 — 606 ratings — published 1996
China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.16 — 325 ratings — published 2021
A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.44 — 25 ratings — published 2007
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,671 ratings — published 2002
The Chinese World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.12 — 17 ratings — published 1968
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,769 ratings — published 2006
Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,011 ratings — published 2016
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,253 ratings — published 2012
History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.98 — 337 ratings — published 1997
The Rise of Modern China (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.39 — 351 ratings — published 1970
“Owing to the lingering Jesuit influence, the study of Confucianism continued to prevail in Western Sinology, while Chinese Buddhism and Chan came to be considered mere offshoots of Indian mysticism.”
― Chan Insights and Oversights
― Chan Insights and Oversights
“Most American and European scholars believe that the Chinese speak their languages, only that they "talk" in Chinese.”
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