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The Search For Modern China (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,279 ratings — published 1990
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.29 — 182,931 ratings — published -350
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,103 ratings — published -475
On China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,235 ratings — published 2011
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.30 — 124,103 ratings — published 1991
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.38 — 728 ratings — published 1990
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,754 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 — 301 ratings — published 2009
Three Kingdoms (4-Volume Boxed Set)
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avg rating 4.37 — 6,692 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 4.34 — 3,200 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 — 3,990 ratings — published 2007
China: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.87 — 972 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 — 1,277 ratings — published 1996
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,890 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 3.90 — 2,016 ratings — published 2025
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung (Vinyl Bound)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.50 — 4,117 ratings — published 1964
The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,199 ratings — published 2018
The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.62 — 76 ratings — published 2009
The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.96 — 230 ratings — published 2008
The Shortest History of China (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,008 ratings — published 2021
The Chairman's New Clothes: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.22 — 41 ratings — published 1971
A Short History of Chinese Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.33 — 684 ratings — published 1948
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.94 — 573,722 ratings — published -500
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.09 — 388,008 ratings — published 2005
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,089 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 — 5,186 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 — 54,136 ratings — published 1997
China in Ten Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,813 ratings — published 2011
China's Political System (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.93 — 60 ratings — published 2004
China: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,423 ratings — published 2008
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.89 — 588 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 — 307 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
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,314 ratings — published 2002
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,647 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 — 1,956 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 — 2,133 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 — 328 ratings — published 1997
The Rise of Modern China (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.39 — 347 ratings — published 1970
China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.67 — 161 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 — 1,588 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 — 1,966 ratings — published 2008
China’s Search for Security (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.24 — 62 ratings — published 2012
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.25 — 8,847 ratings — published 2014
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.91 — 10,737 ratings — published 2013
Imperial China, 900–1800 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 4.43 — 201 ratings — published 2000
The Death of Woman Wang (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sinology)
avg rating 3.46 — 987 ratings — published 1978
Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sinology)
avg rating 4.14 — 56 ratings — published 2007
Han Feizi, The Art of Statecraft in Early China (2-vol set): A Bilingual Edition
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
“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
“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
