To Understand Contemporary China
1. 
Journey to the West: A Long March from Eastern Dream to Western Reality
by:
Biao Wang
4.27 avg rating — 142 ratings 2. 
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
by:
Kai-Fu Lee
4.09 avg rating — 16,269 ratings 2. 
Beijing for Beginners: An Irishman in the People's Republic
by:
Gary Finnegan
4.19 avg rating — 37 ratings 2. 
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 2. 
A Businessman's Guide to the Wholesale Markets of Guangzhou really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
2. 
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. A Guide for Foreigners
by:
Roland Boer
4.43 avg rating — 90 ratings 
9. 
Walking Home From Mongolia: Ten Million Steps Through China, From the Gobi Desert to the South China Sea
by:
Rob Lilwall
3.80 avg rating — 321 ratings 9. 
The East is Still Red - Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century
by:
Carlos MartĂnez
4.52 avg rating — 180 ratings 12. 
China's New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong
by:
Jude Blanchette
3.91 avg rating — 182 ratings 12. 
Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
by:
Michael Buckley
4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings 12. 
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: Marketization of the Chinese Economy
by:
Harpal Brar
4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings 15. 
Big Tech - A ascensĂŁo dos dados e a morte da polĂtica
by:
Evgeny Morozov
4.07 avg rating — 214 ratings 15. 
The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri-La
by:
Alec Le Sueur
3.92 avg rating — 1,226 ratings 15. 
Behind The Smokescreen: An Analysis of the West’s Destructive China Cold War Agenda and Why It Must Stop
by:
Gordon Dumoulin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 18. 
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
by:
Iris Chang
4.24 avg rating — 50,763 ratings 
18. 
The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism
by:
Michael Hudson
4.49 avg rating — 86 ratings 
22. 
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China
by:
Julia Lovell
3.89 avg rating — 1,545 ratings 
25. 
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
by:
Evan Osnos
4.25 avg rating — 8,718 ratings 
29. 
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
by:
Peter Hessler
4.26 avg rating — 8,012 ratings 
32. 
Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China
by:
Julian Gewirtz
4.04 avg rating — 68 ratings