Books about China and South and Central Asia
3. 
Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia
by:
Alexander Cooley
3.82 avg rating β 137 ratings 3. 
One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
by:
Mei Fong
3.96 avg rating β 3,257 ratings 3. 
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia
by:
Barry Cunliffe
4.25 avg rating β 373 ratings 3. 
3. 
The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
by:
Jonathan Kaufman
4.27 avg rating β 4,818 ratings 8. 
China's Superbank: Debt, Oil and Influence - How China Development Bank is Rewriting the Rules of Finance
by:
Henry Sanderson
3.77 avg rating β 111 ratings 8. 
China's One-Child Policy: The Government's Massive Crime Against Women and Unborn Babies 3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
8. 
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
by:
Peter Hopkirk
4.33 avg rating β 8,765 ratings 
11. 
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 11. 
Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?
by:
Ted Rall
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 140 ratings 
14. 
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 14. 
Black Market: Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia
by:
Ben Davies
4.47 avg rating β 15 ratings 17. 
The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority
by:
Sean R. Roberts
4.30 avg rating β 154 ratings 17. 
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 17. 
Southeast Asian Houses: Embracing Urban Context
by:
Seo Ryeung Ju
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 20. 
China's Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia
by:
Daniel Markey
3.88 avg rating β 86 ratings 20. 
Secrets and Siblings: The Vanished Lives of Chinaβs One Child Policy
by:
Mari Manninen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 48 ratings 
23. 
Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland
by:
Caroline Eden
4.29 avg rating β 243 ratings 23. 
Escape from China: The Long Journey From Tiananmen to Freedom
by:
Zhang Boli
4.18 avg rating β 60 ratings 
26. 
Love, Amy: An Accidental Memoir Told in Newsletters from China
by:
Amy Young
4.27 avg rating β 55 ratings 26. 
Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia
by:
Alexander Cooley
3.82 avg rating β 137 ratings 28. 
How China's Communist Party Made the World Sick (Broadside, 64)
by:
Bill Gertz
4.05 avg rating β 40 ratings 28. 
The Art of Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Burma, Java, Bali
by:
Philip Rawson
3.49 avg rating β 47 ratings 
30. 
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 
33. 
Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews & the Central Asiatic Expeditions 3.95 avg rating β 361 ratings
35. 
China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia
by:
James R. Lilley
3.83 avg rating β 192 ratings 37. 
We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
by:
Kai Strittmatter
4.14 avg rating β 3,425 ratings 
39. 
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
by:
Rob Gifford
4.04 avg rating β 3,974 ratings 40. 
Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China's Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 25 ratings
41. 
Drunk in China: Baijiu and the World's Oldest Drinking Culture
by:
Derek Sandhaus
4.13 avg rating β 76 ratings 42. 
The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
by:
Frank Langfitt
3.91 avg rating β 1,024 ratings 43. 
The Great Great Wall: Along the Borders of History from China to Mexico
by:
Ian Volner
3.46 avg rating β 41 ratings 44. 
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
by:
Jung Chang
3.90 avg rating β 4,095 ratings 
47. 
A Village with My Name: A Family History of China's Opening to the World
by:
Scott Tong
4.22 avg rating β 204 ratings 48. 
Drugs, Oil & War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia & Indochina
by:
Peter Scott
4.02 avg rating β 106 ratings 
50. 
Inside the Chinese Wine Industry: The Past, Present, and Future of Wine in China
by:
Loren Mayshark
3.83 avg rating β 29 ratings 
52. 
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
by:
Eric Jay Dolin
3.86 avg rating β 533 ratings 
55. 
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
by:
Stephen R. Platt
4.23 avg rating β 1,989 ratings 56. 
Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West
by:
Tonio Andrade
4.11 avg rating β 194 ratings 57. 
58. 
A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China
by:
Jenny Chio
3.14 avg rating β 7 ratings 59. 
The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China
by:
Huan Hsu
3.50 avg rating β 509 ratings 60. 
Finding Them Gone: Visiting China's Poets of the Past
by:
Bill Porter
4.24 avg rating β 75 ratings 61. 
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
by:
Jung Chang
3.91 avg rating β 10,431 ratings 
64. 
Dragon by the Tail: American, British, Japanese, and Russian Encounters with China and One Another 4.25 avg rating β 12 ratings
65. 
This Brave New World: India, China, and the United States
by:
Anja Manuel
3.93 avg rating β 283 ratings 66. 
Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom: The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850β1960
by:
Mai Na M. Lee
4.57 avg rating β 7 ratings 67. 
Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World 3.73 avg rating β 107 ratings
68. 
Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands
by:
Colin Legerton
3.62 avg rating β 89 ratings 69. 
Division to Unification in Imperial China: The Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty (220 907) (Understanding China Through Comics, 2)
by:
Jing Liu
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 118 ratings 
72. 
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
by:
Tonio Andrade
4.23 avg rating β 226 ratings 73. 
Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape Chinaβs Push for Global Power
by:
Howard W. French
3.96 avg rating β 626 ratings 74. 
A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
by:
Kevin Peraino
3.89 avg rating β 601 ratings 75. 
A Few Planes for China: The Birth of the Flying Tigers
by:
Eugenie Buchan
3.79 avg rating β 14 ratings 76. 
Song of Praise for a Flower: One Woman's Journey through China's Tumultuous 20th Century
by:
Fengxian Chu
4.54 avg rating β 215 ratings 
78. 
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
by:
Stephen R. Platt
4.34 avg rating β 2,933 ratings 79. 
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
by:
Evan Osnos
4.25 avg rating β 8,718 ratings 80. 
The Spirit of Indian Painting: Close Encounters with 101 Great Works 1100-1900
by:
B.N. Goswamy
4.56 avg rating β 54 ratings 81. 
On the Ganges: Encounters with Saints and Sinners Along India's Mythic River
by:
George Black
3.77 avg rating β 66 ratings 82. 
83. 
Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics
by:
Martin Ewans
3.51 avg rating β 363 ratings 84. 
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
by:
Steve Coll
4.21 avg rating β 4,312 ratings 
86. 
87. 
A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA 3.90 avg rating β 757 ratings
88. 
Silk Weavers of Hill Tribe Laos: Textiles, Tradition, and Well-Being 4.67 avg rating β 9 ratings
89. 
Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land
by:
Joel Brinkley
3.86 avg rating β 1,329 ratings 
92. 
Free in the Forest: Ethnohistory of the Vietnamese central Highlands, 1954-1976 4.33 avg rating β 6 ratings
93. 
Champa and the Archaeology of Mα»Ή SΖ‘n
by:
Andrew Hardy
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 
95. 
The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam
by:
Martin Windrow
4.28 avg rating β 738 ratings 96. 
Gold Rush in the Jungle: The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam's "Lost World"
by:
Dan Drollette
3.82 avg rating β 76 ratings 
98. 
Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks of Indian Painting
by:
B.N. Goswamy
4.15 avg rating β 13 ratings