books on China

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Paul Thereoux. Kowloon Tong

Lu Hsun. Selected Stories

Li Cunzin. Mao’s Last Dance

Hannah Pakula. The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China

Leslie T. Chang. Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China

Lisa See. Shanghai Girl

Chan Koon-chung. The Golden Age

Xue Xinran. Message From an Unknown Chinese Mother

Xue Xinran. The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

Esther Cheo Ying. Black Country to Red China.

Lynn Pan. Tracing it Home: Journeys around a Chinese Family

Han Suyin. A Many Splendoured Thing

Sterling Seagrave. The Soon Dynasty

Jung Chang. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China.

Jung Chang. Mao: The Unknown Story

Peter Hessler. Oracle Bones: A Journey between China?s Past and Present

Simon Winchester. River at the Center of the World: A Journey up the Yangtze and Back in

Chinese Time

Peter Hessler. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze.

Rob Gifford. China Road: A Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power.

Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziang

Clyde Prestowitze. Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift in Wealth and Power to the East.

Tim Clisold. Mr. China: A Memoir.

David Aikman. Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power.

Janice Y.K. Lee. The Piano Teacher.

Martin Booth. Gweilo.

Jerrilyn Farmer. Dim Sum Dead.

Han Suyin. The Crippled Tree

Jan Wong. Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now

James Clavell. Tai Pan

Shirley Lim. Among the White Moon Faces

Aaron Shepard. Monkey King

Xu Xi. The Unwalled City

Ha Jin. War Trash

Myself a Mandarin by Austin Coate

"Monkey King" by Timothy Mo