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  • Isham Cook Isham Cook's favorite novels that immerse you in Chinese history Book cover of My Splendid Concubine Book cover of Yang Shen Book cover of The China Memoirs of Thomas Rowley Book cover of The Painter from Shanghai Book cover of K: The Art of Love
  • Bret Hinsch The best books about Chinese history that will surprise you Book cover of The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention Book cover of Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi Book cover of The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China Book cover of Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 Book cover of Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan
  • Peter Zarrow The best books on how imperial China became modern China Book cover of The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man's Life in a North China Village, 1857-1942 Book cover of Rickshaw Beijing: City People & Politics in the 1920s Book cover of History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth Book cover of Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928 Book cover of The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures
  • Laurie Dennis The best books for entering the world of imperial China Book cover of The Golden Days Book cover of A Hero Born Book cover of The Troubled Empire Book cover of A Tale of Two Melons: Emperor and Subject in Ming China Book cover of The First Emperor: Selections from the Historical Records (Oxford World's Classics)
  • Kerry Brown The best books on modern Chinese history Book cover of The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution Book cover of Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to XI Jinping Book cover of The Killing Wind: A Chinese County's Descent Into Madness During the Cultural Revolution Book cover of Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village Book cover of How the Red Sun Rose: The Origin and Development of the Yan'an Rectification Movement, 1930-1945
  • Melissa Addey The best books on the concubines of imperial China Book cover of Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas Book cover of Empress Orchid Book cover of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Book cover of The Good Earth Book cover of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
  • Yijie Zhuang The best history and environmental history books of China Book cover of Escapism Book cover of Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty I Book cover of The Analects of Confucius: The Books of Confucian Wisdom Book cover of Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations, and Civilization Book cover of The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History
  • Yang Ye The best books to understand China, and its people and civilization Book cover of The Cambridge Illustrated History of China Book cover of The Arts of China Book cover of The Art of Chinese Poetry Book cover of Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China Book cover of Another World Lies Beyond: Creating Liu Fang Yuan, the Huntington’s Chinese Garden
  • Deborah Shlian The best books on modern China's myths, religions, politics, and culture Book cover of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Book cover of Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China Book cover of The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom Book cover of Waiting Book cover of Life and Death in Shanghai
  • Elizabeth Langston The best “fish out of water” historical novels Book cover of The Sword Dancer Book cover of The Witch of Blackbird Pond Book cover of Fever 1793 Book cover of Longing Book cover of Code Name Verity
  • Margaret Bensfield Sullivan The best memoirs to read when you want to travel the world...via armchair Book cover of Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Book cover of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life Book cover of Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time Book cover of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Book cover of My Family and Other Animals
  • Karl Andrews The best books that always take me back to China Book cover of Half of Man Is Woman Book cover of Death of a Red Heroine Book cover of Love in a Fallen City Book cover of A Hero Born Book cover of Journey to the West
  • Caroline Studdert The best books about and by madly inspiring women Book cover of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Book cover of Journeys Without a Map: A Writer's Life Book cover of The Musical Life: Hedwig Stein: Emigree Pianist Book cover of Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark Book cover of The Past is Myself
  • Weina Dai Randel The best books to understand Chinese women Book cover of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Book cover of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Book cover of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Book cover of Empress Orchid Book cover of Love in a Fallen City
  • Rohan Monteiro The best fantasy books that are off the beaten path Book cover of The Name of the Wind Book cover of Waylander Book cover of The Lies of Locke Lamora Book cover of Empire in Black and Gold Book cover of Mistress of the Empire
  • Moshik Temkin The best books on leadership and history Book cover of The Feast of the Goat Book cover of The Autobiography of Malcolm X Book cover of The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi Book cover of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression Book cover of Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China's Cultural Revolution
  • Sylvia Vetta The best memoirs which help us understand the world Book cover of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Book cover of Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Book cover of Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Book cover of Call the Midwife Book cover of Greetings from Bury Park: Race. Religion. Rock 'n' Roll
  • Ellen Alpsten The best books about history’s hidden heroines Book cover of Child of the Morning Book cover of Desiree Book cover of The Other Boleyn Girl Book cover of Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey Book cover of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
  • Laurie Gough The best books on women overcoming odds and doing extraordinary things Book cover of Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley Book cover of Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family Book cover of Educated: A Memoir Book cover of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Book cover of Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
  • Fan Wu The best books about China’s Cultural Revolution Book cover of To Live Book cover of Woman from Shanghai: Tales of Survival from a Chinese Labor Camp Book cover of Wolf Totem Book cover of Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China's Cultural Revolution Book cover of Life and Death in Shanghai
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