Sinology Books
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Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.29 — 185,562 ratings — published -350
The Search For Modern China (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,335 ratings — published 1990
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,456 ratings — published -475
On China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,386 ratings — published 2011
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.30 — 126,412 ratings — published 1991
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.38 — 740 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 — 2,853 ratings — published 2013
China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (History of Imperial China, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.93 — 306 ratings — published 2009
Three Kingdoms (4-Volume Boxed Set)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,919 ratings — published 1301
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,476 ratings — published 2002
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,324 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 — 3,995 ratings — published 2007
China: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.87 — 980 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 — 1,293 ratings — published 1996
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,428 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 4.15 — 95 ratings — published 1999
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,445 ratings — published 2025
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.09 — 170 ratings — published
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.39 — 44,199 ratings — published 2022
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung (Vinyl Bound)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,259 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 — 1,216 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 — 81 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 — 239 ratings — published 2008
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,644 ratings — published 1926
The True Story of Ah Q (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,586 ratings — published 1922
The Shortest History of China (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,211 ratings — published 2021
In the Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.84 — 19 ratings — published 1999
The Chairman's New Clothes: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.17 — 42 ratings — published 1971
A Short History of Chinese Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.33 — 690 ratings — published 1948
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.94 — 584,832 ratings — published -500
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.09 — 390,408 ratings — published 2005
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,159 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 — 5,295 ratings — published 2010
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.25 — 56,037 ratings — published 1997
China in Ten Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,083 ratings — published 2011
China's Political System (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.94 — 63 ratings — published 2004
China: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,477 ratings — published 2008
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.88 — 592 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 — 318 ratings — published 2021
A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.50 — 24 ratings — published 2007
The Chinese World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.06 — 16 ratings — published 1968
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,703 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 — 1,979 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 4.22 — 2,185 ratings — published 2012
History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.97 — 332 ratings — published 1997
The Rise of Modern China (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.39 — 348 ratings — published 1970
China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.67 — 162 ratings — published 2001
Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,599 ratings — published 2008
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,974 ratings — published 2008
China’s Search for Security (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.22 — 64 ratings — published 2012
“The outstanding achievements of Matteo Ricci, the man whom Demiéville called the "founding father of Western Sinology" (Demiéville 1966, 38), had a high cost: in particular, his prejudices against Buddhism and Chinese religion have had enduring consequences; he circumscribed the field of Sinology by excluding entire areas of the Chinese intellectual and religious life. We may therefore wonder to what extent "every Western Sinologist should recognize his forebearer in him [Ricci]" (Demiéville 1967, 88). Certainly, this genealogy has lost some of its legitimizing power and needs to be questioned if it cannot be transcended.”
― 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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