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Books set in China:



Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Waiting by Ha Jin
Soul Mountain by Xingjian Gao
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
Good Women of China by Xinran
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China by Hualing Nieh
Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
Shanghai Baby: A Novel by Wei Hui
The Painter From Shanghai: A Novel by Jennifer Epstein
Distant Land of My Father, The by Bo Caldwell
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Peony in Love by Lisa See
Peony by Pearl S. Buck
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Peter Hessler
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Red Azalea by Anchee Min
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler
Miss Chopsticks by Xinran
Fried Eggs with Chopsticks by Polly Evans
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en
China Road by Rob Gifford
Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost
Pearl of China by Anchee Min
Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth by Hilary Spurling
The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester
Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
The Analects by Confucius
The Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was by Barry Hughart
Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now by Jan Wong
Big in China: My Unlikely Adventure by Alan Paul
The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence
The Lost Daughters of China by Karin Evans
Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security by Andrew Nathan
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong
Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China by Rachel DeWoskin
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China by Paul Theroux
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Iron & Silk by Mark Salzman
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
War Trash by Ha Jin
Empress by Shan Sa
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck
Peach Blossom Pavilion by Mingmei Yip
Lost In Translation by Nicole Mones
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman
The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall
Flower Net by Lisa See (1st book in series)
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sons by Pearl S. Buck
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong (1st book in series)
The Crazed by Ha Jin
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up by Liao Yiwu
The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen
Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons In Life, Love, And Language by Deborah Fallows
The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze Back
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
The Last Days of Old Beijing by Michael Meyer
The Story of the Stone, Vol. 1: The Golden Days by Cao Xueqin (1st book in series)
The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Zhisui Li
The Little Red Book - Quotations from Mao Tse-tung by Mao Tse-tung
Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip P. Pan
God's Chinese Son: Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
Chinese Lessons by John Pomfret
The Black Rose by Thomas B. Costain
China in Ten Words by Yu Hua

More books set in China:



Dialogues in Paradise by Can Xue
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
Fall of the Pagoda by Eileen Chang
The Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan
The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai: A Novel by Ruiyan Xu
Farewell, Shanghai by Angel Wagenstein
Shanghai Station by Bartle Bull
Shanghai by Harriet Sergeant
Shanghai Shadows by Lois Ruby
Shanghai Diary: A Young Girl's Journey by Ursula Bacon
A Floating Life: The Adventures of Li Po: A Historical Novel by Simon Elegant
The Foremost Good Fortune by Susan Conley
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li
Leaden Wings by Zhang Jie
The King of Trees: Three Novellas by Ah Cheng
Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World by Yang Erche Namu
Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang
The Mother by Pearl S. Buck
The Exile by Pearl S. Buck
Nanjing Requiem by Ha Jin
Nanjing 1937: A Love Story by Ye Zhaoyan
One Man's Bible by Gao Xingjian
Ocean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg by James MacManus
Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah Shlian
Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian
The Interior by Lisa See
Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man by Oliver August
Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of Verse by Red Pine
Red Star over China by Edgar Snow
Rickshaw Boy by She Lao
"Socialism Is Great!": A Worker's Memoir of the New China by Lijia Zhang
Ten Green BottlesTen Green Bottles by Vivian Jeanette Kaplan
A Thread of Sky by Deanna Fei
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
Under Fishbone Clouds by Sam Meekings
Ten Episodes in China's Diplomacy by Qian Qichen

More Books Set in China:




Where Underpants Come From by Joe Bennett
The Yangtze Valley and Beyond by Isabella L. Bird
China to Me by Emily Hahn
The Clouds Should Know Me By Now: Buddhist Poet Monks of China
A Good Fallby Ha Jin
Ocean of Words: Stories by Ha Jin
Cousin Felix Meets the Buddha: And Other Encounters in China and Tibet
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China by Jen Lin-Liu
Serve the People!: A Novel by Yan Lianke
The Chinese Nail Murders by Robert Hans van Gulik (1st Judge Dee mystery)
Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival by Dean King
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist

Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler

Fried Eggs With Chopsticks by Polly Evans

The Red Thread by Ann Hood

Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck

Butterfly Swords by Jeannie Lin

"Made in China" (various authors)

Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction from Today's China by various authors

More books set in China:


100 Poems from Tang and Song Dynasties by Qiu Xiaolong
The 17-Year-Old Hussars by Lu Nei
19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem is Translated
1988: I Want to Talk with the World by Han Han
Alive by Ha Jin
All That Work and Still No Boys by Kathryn Ma
All the Flowers in Shanghai by Duncan Jepson
All the Tea in China by Jane Orcutt
All Under Heaven by Pearl S. Buck
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch
The Ancient Ship by Zhang Wei
Apologies Forthcoming: Stories not about Mao by Xujun Eberlein
Autumn in Peking by Boris Vian
Autumn in the Han Palace by Ma Zhiyuan
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Bad Traffic by Simon Lewis (1st book in Inspector Jian series)
The Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne
Bamboo Swaying in the Wind: A Survivor's Story of Faith and Imprisonment in Communist China
The Banquet Bug by Geling Yan
The Barefoot Lawyer: A Memoir by Chen Guangcheng
The Bathing Women by Tie Ning
Battle of the Jade Horse by Alison Lloyd
The Before Midnight Scholar by Li Yu
Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China by Colin Thubron
Beijing Bastard: Into the Wilds of a Changing China by Val Wang
Beijing Confidential by Jan Wong
Beijing Doll by Chun Sue
Beijing Kid by Wei Su
The Beijing of Possibilities by Jonathan Tel
Beijing Tai Tai: Life, Laughter and Motherhood in China's Capital
Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future by Tom Scocca
Beijing, Beijing by Feng Tang
Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City by Lillian M. Li
Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds by Ping Fu
Between Silences: A Voice from China by Ha Jin
Beyond the Narrow Gate by Leslie Chang
Big Breasts and Wide Hips by Mo Yan
The Binding Chair or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society
Binu and the Great Wall by Su Tong
Black Girl, Will Travel: Wheels Up.... by E.N. Smith
Black Snow by Liu Heng
Blood Red Sunset: A Memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ma Bo
Blue Light in the Sky & Other Stories by Can Xue
The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin
The Boat to Redemption by Su Tong
The Book and the Sword by Jin Yong
The Book of Change by Eileen Chang
Border Run by Simon Lewis
Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution by Gao Yuan
Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
Bound Feet & Western Dress by Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
Bound Feet Blues: A Life Told in Shoes by Yang-May Ooi
The Boxer Rebellion by Diana Preston
Boxers by Gene Luen Yang (1st book in Boxers & Saints series)
A Boy's War by David Michell
Bright Moon, White Clouds: Selected Poems of Li Po by Li Bai
Bronze and Sunflower by Cao Wenxuan 曹文轩
Brothers by Yu Hua
Brothers by Da Chen
The Bus Stop by Gao Xingjian
The Butterfly and Other Stories by Meng Wang
Buy Me the Sky: The remarkable truth of China’s one-child generations by Xinran
Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather by Gao Xingjian

by Gu Hua
by Meihong Xu

Madame Mao: The White-Boned Demon: Revised Edition by Ross Terrill

Petals From The Sky by Mingmei Yip

The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal by Vicki Constantine Croke

The Ming Storytellers by Laura Rahme

China Diaries & Other Tales from the Road by John H. Rydzewski

News From Tartary by Peter Fleming

Five Star Billionaire: A Novel by Tash Aw

Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China by Guy Delisle

by Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson

An Ardis Cole mystery/adventure tale.

The Battle of Chibi
selections from the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms."

The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan

My Name is Number 4 by Ting-xing Ye

Mountain Girl River Girl by Ting-xing Ye

I Love Dollars And Other Stories of China by Wen Zhu

The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan: More Stories of China by Wen Zhu

Ten Tales Of Love by Zhang Yueran

The Promise Bird by Zhang Yueran

I Love My Mum by Chen Xiwo

Running Through Beijing by Xu Zechen

A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xue Qin (Tsao Hsueh-Chin)

Black Country to Red China: One Girl's Journey From War-torn England to Revolutionary China by Esther Cheo Ying

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Away from China

An evocative portrait of modern China, this poignant account of an Italian family’s adoption of a Chinese boy offers a rare vantage of the country’s evolving relationship with the West.

Boy in the Twilight: Stories of the Hidden China by Yu Hua

Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel by Yiyun Li

Three Souls by Janie Chang

Decoded: A Novel by Mai Jia

The Opium War by Julia Lovell

Non-fiction book about the Opium War.

Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West by Peter Hessler

Harbour Views by Philip Chatting

Dark Blossom by Vincent Stoia

Dark Blossom

Young Babylon by Lu Nei

French Concession by Bai Xiao

A Perfect Crime by A. Yi

From Chicken Feet To Crystal Baths: An Englishman's Travels Throughout China

Ian Mote

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The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

Frog by Mo Yan

The Incarnations by Susan Barker

The Peach Blossom Fan by Kong Shangren

The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon by Liu Zhenyun

The Courtesan by Alexandra Curry