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The Search For Modern China (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,304 ratings — published 1990
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.29 — 184,321 ratings — published -350
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,289 ratings — published -475
On China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,314 ratings — published 2011
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.30 — 125,324 ratings — published 1991
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.38 — 736 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 — 2,807 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 — 303 ratings — published 2009
Three Kingdoms (4-Volume Boxed Set)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.37 — 6,808 ratings — published 1301
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,401 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 — 3,269 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 — 3,991 ratings — published 2007
China: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.87 — 976 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 — 1,287 ratings — published 1996
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,828 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 3.89 — 2,254 ratings — published 2025
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.40 — 43,014 ratings — published 2022
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung (Vinyl Bound)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.51 — 4,196 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 — 1,205 ratings — published 2018
The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.65 — 78 ratings — published 2009
The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.94 — 234 ratings — published 2008
The Shortest History of China (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,113 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 — 687 ratings — published 1948
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.94 — 579,859 ratings — published -500
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.09 — 389,383 ratings — published 2005
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,129 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 — 5,255 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 — 55,104 ratings — published 1997
China in Ten Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,960 ratings — published 2011
China's Political System (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.93 — 61 ratings — published 2004
China: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,450 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 4.17 — 309 ratings — published 2021
A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.57 — 23 ratings — published 2007
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,680 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 — 1,963 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 — 2,165 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 — 330 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 — 1,590 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 — 1,972 ratings — published 2008
China’s Search for Security (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.22 — 63 ratings — published 2012
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,875 ratings — published 2014
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,812 ratings — published 2013
Imperial China, 900–1800 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.44 — 202 ratings — published 2000
The Death of Woman Wang (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.47 — 995 ratings — published 1978
“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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