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History, Politics & Society160
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
4.30 average rating, · 127.4k ratings
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Mao's Last Dancer
Li Cunxin
4.14 average rating, · 32.9k 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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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Kai-Fu Lee
4.09 average rating, · 17k ratings
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Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
Patrick McGee
4.48 average rating, · 9.6k ratings
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The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
Patrick Radden Keefe
4.16 average rating, · 12.1k ratings
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On China
Henry Kissinger
4.19 average rating, · 10.4k ratings
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Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Dan Wang
4.09 average rating, · 10.5k ratings
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Evan Osnos
4.24 average rating, · 8.9k 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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Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
Barbara Demick
4.15 average rating, · 7.5k 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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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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How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
Joe Studwell
4.26 average rating, · 5.2k 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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The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
Michael Pillsbury
4.20 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
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