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  • Isham Cook 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
  • Peter Zarrow 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 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)
  • Bret Hinsch 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
  • Kerry Brown 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 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 History and environmental history 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
  • Stephen C. Angle How ancient Confucianism tells us to live well now Book cover of The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning Modern Civility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy Book cover of Ethical Excellence: Philosophers, Psychologists, and Real-Life Exemplars Show Us How to Achieve It Book cover of Understanding the Analects of Confucius: A New Translation of Lunyu with Annotations Book cover of Learning to Be a Sage: Selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, Arranged Topically Book cover of Confucianism in China: An Introduction
  • Yang Ye Understanding China 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
  • Ellen Alpsten 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
  • Karl Andrews Books that 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
  • Moshik Temkin 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
  • Caroline Studdert 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
  • Tom Carter Chinese prostitution and vice Book cover of The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai Book cover of Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China Book cover of Northern Girls: Life Goes On Book cover of Whispers and Moans: Interviews with the Men and Women of Hong Kong's Sex Industry Book cover of The World of Suzie Wong
  • Susan Wan Dolling Translated books that capture the magic of the original, making what’s unfamiliar, foreign or ancient, accessible Book cover of Yannis Ritsos: Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses Book cover of The Odyssey Book cover of The Golden Days Book cover of Poems of Akhmatova Book cover of Beowulf
  • Rohan Monteiro Fantasy that is 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
  • Andrew G. Walder China from Mao through Tiananmen Book cover of June Fourth Book cover of Mao's Last Revolution Book cover of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China Book cover of Tibet in Agony: Lhasa 1959 Book cover of Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
  • Debra Liu Finding the soul of China through travel and Tao Book cover of Tales of the Dancing Dragon Book cover of Grand Canal, Great River Book cover of The Daoist Tradition Book cover of The Shortest History of China Book cover of Xu Xiake's Travels
  • Laurie Gough Women overcoming odds 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
  • Deborah Shlian 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
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