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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
4.30 average rating, · 127.4k ratings
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Beautiful Country
Qian Julie Wang
4.16 average rating, · 39.8k ratings
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Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Adeline Yen Mah
4.08 average rating, · 42.3k ratings
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Mao's Last Dancer
Li Cunxin
4.14 average rating, · 32.9k ratings
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The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun
Brother Yun
4.30 average rating, · 22.4k ratings
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Life and Death in Shanghai
Nien Cheng
4.33 average rating, · 14.2k ratings
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The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
Xinran
4.32 average rating, · 13.6k ratings
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
Peter Hessler
4.28 average rating, · 14.2k ratings
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Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
Peter Hessler
4.26 average rating, · 8.2k ratings
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Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
Paul Theroux
4.04 average rating, · 9.6k ratings
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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
Barbara Demick
4.23 average rating, · 7.8k ratings
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China in Ten Words
Yu Hua
4.05 average rating, · 9.2k ratings
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Peter Hessler
4.23 average rating, · 7.7k ratings
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Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
Xinran
4.09 average rating, · 8k ratings
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
Helen Zia
4.46 average rating, · 5.6k ratings
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Chasing the Dragon: One Womans Struggle Against the Darkness of Hong Kong's Drug Dens
Jackie Pullinger
4.41 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
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The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
Jonathan Kaufman
4.28 average rating, · 5.4k ratings
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Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman
Gladys Aylward
4.39 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Ezra F. Vogel
4.46 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor
4.33 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
Tessa Hulls
4.41 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
Fuchsia Dunlop
4.11 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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Stories of the Sahara
Sanmao
4.45 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
Weiwei Ai
4.23 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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