China Reading List
1. 
Journey to the West: A Long March from Eastern Dream to Western Reality
by:
Biao Wang
4.27 avg rating β 142 ratings 2. 
One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
by:
Mei Fong
3.96 avg rating β 3,257 ratings 3. 
Chinaβs Grand Strategy: Contradictory Foreign Policy?
by:
Lukas K Danner
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings 3. 
Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
by:
Roseann Lake
3.81 avg rating β 676 ratings 
3. 
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. A Guide for Foreigners
by:
Roland Boer
4.43 avg rating β 90 ratings 
7. 
For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
by:
Sarah Rose
3.78 avg rating β 4,227 ratings 7. 
The East is Still Red - Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century
by:
Carlos MartΓnez
4.52 avg rating β 180 ratings 11. 
Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game
by:
Paul Midler
4.09 avg rating β 2,415 ratings 
11. 
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 β 73 ratings 11. 
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: Marketization of the Chinese Economy
by:
Harpal Brar
4.27 avg rating β 15 ratings 15. 
THE $10 TRILLION PRIZE: Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India
by:
David Michael
3.84 avg rating β 142 ratings 15. 
Love, Amy: An Accidental Memoir Told in Newsletters from China
by:
Amy Young
4.27 avg rating β 55 ratings 15. 
Growling Tiger, Roaring Dragon: India, China, and the New World Order
by:
David Smith
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 11 ratings 15. 
The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism
by:
Michael Hudson
4.49 avg rating β 86 ratings 19. 
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
by:
Evan Osnos
4.25 avg rating β 8,718 ratings 19. 
Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China And Changing the Global Balance of Power
by:
David Aikman
3.89 avg rating β 300 ratings 19. 
Beijing for Beginners: An Irishman in the People's Republic
by:
Gary Finnegan
4.19 avg rating β 37 ratings 19. 
Has China Turned to Capitalism?-Reflections on the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
by:
Domenico Losurdo
4.37 avg rating β 19 ratings 
23. 
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 β 321 ratings 23.
Behind The Smokescreen: An Analysis of the Westβs Destructive China Cold War Agenda and Why It Must Stop
by:
Gordon Dumoulin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 27. 
The Tao of Deception: Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China
by:
Ralph D. Sawyer
4.02 avg rating β 41 ratings 
30. 
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
by:
Richard McGregor
4.01 avg rating β 3,203 ratings 30. 
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 β 1,081 ratings 30. 
The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri-La
by:
Alec Le Sueur
3.92 avg rating β 1,226 ratings 33. 
Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
by:
Orville Schell
4.23 avg rating β 1,086 ratings 
36. 
The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900
by:
Diana Preston
3.79 avg rating β 727 ratings 36. 
Escape from China: The Long Journey From Tiananmen to Freedom
by:
Zhang Boli
4.18 avg rating β 60 ratings 
39. 
China's One-Child Policy: The Government's Massive Crime Against Women and Unborn Babies 3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
39. 
The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
by:
David S. Abraham
4.07 avg rating β 249 ratings 42. 
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China
by:
Julia Lovell
3.89 avg rating β 1,545 ratings 42. 
China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy
by:
Kay Ann Johnson
3.85 avg rating β 203 ratings 44. 
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
by:
Ian Johnson
4.08 avg rating β 608 ratings 44. 
A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One-Child Policy
by:
Steven W. Mosher
4.33 avg rating β 392 ratings 
48. 
China's New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong
by:
Jude Blanchette
3.91 avg rating β 182 ratings 49. 
Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China
by:
Julian Gewirtz
4.04 avg rating β 68 ratings 
51. 
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up
by:
Liao Yiwu
4.22 avg rating β 3,055 ratings 52. 
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
by:
Kai-Fu Lee
4.09 avg rating β 16,269 ratings 
54. 
In Line Behind a Billion People: How Scarcity Will Define China's Ascent in the Next Decade
by:
Damien Ma
3.96 avg rating β 71 ratings 55. 
China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle
by:
Dinny McMahon
4.13 avg rating β 1,165 ratings 
57. 
The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
by:
Michael Meyer
3.96 avg rating β 1,203 ratings