Top 10 China non-fiction, memoir and autobiography
1. 
Journey to the West: A Long March from Eastern Dream to Western Reality
by:
Biao Wang
4.27 avg rating — 142 ratings 
8. 
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
by:
Adeline Yen Mah
4.08 avg rating — 40,818 ratings 9. 
The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past
by:
Karin Evans
4.01 avg rating — 2,449 ratings 
11. 
Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and China Before and After
by:
Anna Wang Yuan
3.96 avg rating — 91 ratings 12. 
The Chief Witness: escape from China’s modern-day concentration camps 4.55 avg rating — 883 ratings
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Buy Me the Sky: The remarkable truth of China's one-child generations
by:
Xinran
3.63 avg rating — 727 ratings 16. 
Song of Praise for a Flower: One Woman's Journey through China's Tumultuous 20th Century
by:
Fengxian Chu
4.54 avg rating — 215 ratings 17. 
Eighth Moon: The True Story of a Young Girl's Life in Communist China
by:
Bette Bao Lord
3.97 avg rating — 217 ratings 18. 
Understanding China: Learning from China's Past, Present, and Future
by:
Stefan Piech
3.92 avg rating — 64 ratings 
18. 
The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
by:
Jonathan Kaufman
4.27 avg rating — 4,820 ratings 21. 
The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China
by:
Chen Guangcheng
4.29 avg rating — 438 ratings 
25. 
The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking: A Memoir
by:
Ying-Ying Chang
3.87 avg rating — 375 ratings 26. 
God's Double Agent: The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom
by:
Bob Fu
4.53 avg rating — 1,305 ratings 
31. 
Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom
by:
Yangzom Brauen
3.96 avg rating — 1,701 ratings 
36. 
Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods
by:
Amelia Pang
4.35 avg rating — 2,144 ratings 37. 
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
by:
Jung Chang
3.90 avg rating — 4,095 ratings 
39. 
Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China
by:
Karoline Kan
4.05 avg rating — 1,941 ratings 
42. 
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
by:
Iris Chang
4.24 avg rating — 50,742 ratings 
45. 
Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve
by:
Lenora Chu
4.15 avg rating — 2,430 ratings 
48. 
Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China
by:
Kay Ann Johnson
4.16 avg rating — 253 ratings 49. 
Daughter of China: The True Story of Forbidden Love in Modern China
by:
Meihong Xu
3.79 avg rating — 446 ratings 50. 
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
by:
Jung Chang
3.91 avg rating — 10,431 ratings 
57. 
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
by:
Leslie T. Chang
3.93 avg rating — 9,485 ratings 58. 
One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
by:
Mei Fong
3.96 avg rating — 3,257 ratings 59. 
Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
by:
Helen Zia
4.47 avg rating — 5,196 ratings 60. 
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love
by:
Xinran
4.12 avg rating — 3,080 ratings 
63. 
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
by:
Yang Jisheng
3.95 avg rating — 352 ratings 64. 
A Heart for Freedom: The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, Her Daring Escape, and Her Quest to Free China's Daughters
by:
Chai Ling
3.80 avg rating — 1,081 ratings 65. 
Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution
by:
Moying Li
3.73 avg rating — 976 ratings 66. 
A Thousand Pieces of Gold: Growing Up Through China's Proverbs
by:
Adeline Yen Mah
3.86 avg rating — 739 ratings 
69. 
The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese Schoolgirl
by:
Ma Yan
3.67 avg rating — 1,024 ratings 70. 
The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State
by:
Fang Lizhi
4.28 avg rating — 174 ratings 71. 
Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art
by:
Bruce Lee
4.18 avg rating — 776 ratings 72. 
The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
by:
Sun Shuyun
3.83 avg rating — 492 ratings 
74. 
The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution
by:
Mobo C.F. Gao
3.94 avg rating — 218 ratings 75. 
For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey Through a Chinese Prison
by:
Liao Yiwu
4.01 avg rating — 423 ratings 76. 
The Root of Chinese Qigong 2nd. Ed.: Secrets of Health, Longevity, & Enlightenment
by:
Yang Jwing-Ming
4.19 avg rating — 424 ratings 
78. 
The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
by:
Ji Xianlin
4.03 avg rating — 361 ratings 
81. 
Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State
by:
Yasheng Huang
3.91 avg rating — 226 ratings 
83. 
Journey Across the Four Seas: A Chinese Woman's Search for Home
by:
Veronica Li
4.24 avg rating — 803 ratings 
85. 
The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China’s Hidden Mountains
by:
Choo WaiHong
3.29 avg rating — 275 ratings 86. 
China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
by:
Yuen Yuen Ang
4.19 avg rating — 279 ratings 87. 
This Generation: Dispatches from China's Most Popular Literary Star
by:
Han Han
3.70 avg rating — 195 ratings 88. 
Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao's China
by:
Lian Xi
3.78 avg rating — 134 ratings 89. 
Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre
by:
Liao Yiwu
4.08 avg rating — 493 ratings 
