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Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
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In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao's revolution a... »
1421: The Year China Discovered America
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Hi! For all of the reviewers who say this is ALL bunk, unsubstantiated stories and fabrications: You are wrong. I heard about this book, when it was being published, and the information that was coming out about this subject, at the same time that I happened to go to Acapulco for vacation. I am a History Major, so... »
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.)
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Honestly, good for people with experience in China or not, but I think it resonated with me in particular because I have experienced much of what he describes. It also provides interesting background and history on the language and politics. His mastery is the ability to observe and conceptualize his environment without passing judgment. This is one of... »
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Risi
This book represents a great journey into China reaching from the bright lights of Shanghai to the far rural communities. The insights shared come from t... »
The Web That Has No Weaver : Understanding Chin
For the last several years I ended the winter with coughing fits and lung congestion, for which I sought and received the usual western remedies, which pr... »
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.)
In 1996, 26-year-old Peter Hessler arrived in Fuling, a town on China's Yangtze River, to begin a two-year Peace Corps stint as a teacher at the local col... »
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of
China has endured much hardship in its history, as Iris Chang shows in her ably researched The Rape of Nanking, a book that recounts the horrible e... »
China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Trou
Is China good or bad for the rest of the world? Does China need us as much as we need China? I thought that James Kynge did a good job in "China Shakes t... »
On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey
Genealogy buffs would do well to read this "One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of [Lisa See's] Chinese-American History" as an excellent example of how to write th... »
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chine
Snow White's stepmother looks like a pussycat compared to the monster under which Adeline Yen Mah suffered. The author's memoir of life in mainland China ... »
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