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  • Martin Petersen The best books that capture the amazing complexity and drama of life in Shanghai in 1932 at the start of the Sino-Japanese War Book cover of City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir Book cover of China's Trial by Fire: The Shanghai War of 1932 Book cover of Old Shanghai: Gangsters in Paradise Book cover of Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World Book cover of The Jacquinot Safe Zone: Wartime Refugees in Shanghai
  • Chris Ruffle The best books showing China from an angle that Westerners don’t normally see Book cover of Decadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse Book cover of Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Stories Book cover of Death of a Red Heroine Book cover of Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern Book cover of The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
  • Adrian Bradshaw The best colour photography books on China Book cover of China Book cover of China Book cover of Phantom Shanghai Book cover of Nadav Kander: Yangtze, The Long River Book cover of Bruno Barbey: China 1973 - 2013: From Mao to Modernity
  • John Grant Ross The best novels set in Hunan Province in China Book cover of Border Town Book cover of Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Book cover of A Dictionary of Maqiao Book cover of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Book cover of The Sand Pebbles
  • Tong Ge The best books about Chinese modern history Book cover of The Good Earth Book cover of Dreams of Joy Book cover of Big Breasts and Wide Hips Book cover of Sandalwood Death Book cover of The Flowers of War
  • Laura Hostetler The best reads for understanding geo-politics and the rise of the nation state in China from the late Ming - 20th century Book cover of The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution Book cover of The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography Book cover of Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 Book cover of The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China Book cover of Thongchai: Siam Mapped Paper
  • 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
  • Victor Cunrui Xiong The best nonfiction and fiction books on China in the Tang period Book cover of China's Cosmopolitan Empire Book cover of The Sui Dynasty Book cover of The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of t'Ang Exotics Book cover of The Court of the Lion Book cover of Journey to the West
  • Christine Loh The best books about the Chinese Communist Party and Hong Kong Book cover of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China Book cover of The Communist Party of China and Marxism 1921-1985 Book cover of The Dynamics of Chinese Politics Book cover of Hong Kong's Watershed: The 1967 Riots Book cover of The Changing Legal Orders in Hong Kong and Mainland China: Essays on "One Country, Two Systems"
  • 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
  • Suzanne Litrel The best books on Chinese tradition, revolution, and change Book cover of Sources of Chinese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600 Book cover of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Book cover of Colors of the Mountain Book cover of God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan Book cover of The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
  • 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
  • Michael Meyer The best books set in China’s diverse regions by local Chinese writers Book cover of Border Town Book cover of The King of Trees Book cover of The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up Book cover of Rickshaw Boy Book cover of Love in a Fallen City
  • Stephen Vines The best books about Hong Kong and China Book cover of A History of Hong Kong Book cover of Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong Book cover of The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962--1976 Book cover of Modern China: a Guide to a Century of Change Book cover of The Impossible City
  • George Magnus The best books on understanding modern China Book cover of Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise Book cover of China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption Book cover of The Chinese Economy: Adaptation and Growth Book cover of The World According to China Book cover of Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World
  • Nick Holdstock The best books on the concentration camps in Xinjiang Book cover of Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang Book cover of Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China Book cover of Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang Book cover of The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority Book cover of In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony
  • 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
  • Pádraig Carmody The best books on China’s global and African strategies Book cover of The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order Book cover of The World Turned Upside Down: America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership Book cover of China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy Book cover of Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa Book cover of China and Africa: The New Era
  • Benno Weiner The best books to understand the plight of Tibetans in contemporary China Book cover of My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone Book cover of The Red Wind Howls Book cover of Forbidden Memory: Tibet during the Cultural Revolution Book cover of Lhasa: Streets with Memories Book cover of Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development
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