Modern China- History, Culture, Politics
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide 4.29 avg rating β 2,268 ratings
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Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
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Michael Buckley
4.01 avg rating β 73 ratings 6. 
The Deng Xiaoping Era: An Inquiry into the Fate of Chinese Socialism, 1978-1994 3.88 avg rating β 26 ratings
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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 8. 
Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China: Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner
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Catherine Lynch
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings 
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Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi
by:
Christian Sorace
3.78 avg rating β 36 ratings 14. 
The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution
by:
Mobo C.F. Gao
3.94 avg rating β 218 ratings 15. 
The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village
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Dongping Han
4.32 avg rating β 145 ratings 16. 
Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class
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Joel Andreas
4.24 avg rating β 78 ratings 17. 
The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis
by:
Yiching Wu
4.16 avg rating β 57 ratings 18. 
Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University
by:
William Hinton
3.83 avg rating β 29 ratings 
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The Art of Cloning: Creative Production During China's Cultural Revolution
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Laikwan Pang
3.92 avg rating β 40 ratings 
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Marxism in the Chinese Revolution (State & Society in East Asia) by Arif Dirlik (2005-06-07)
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Arif Dirlik
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 26. 
The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy
by:
Minqi Li
3.86 avg rating β 105 ratings 
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Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement
by:
Andrew G. Walder
3.79 avg rating β 29 ratings 34. 
Agents of Disorder: Inside Chinaβs Cultural Revolution
by:
Andrew G. Walder
4.15 avg rating β 27 ratings 35. 
Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry
by:
Andrew G. Walder
4.29 avg rating β 21 ratings 36. 
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 37. 
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
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Stephen R. Platt
4.23 avg rating β 1,989 ratings 38. 
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan 3.94 avg rating β 1,247 ratings
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Missionaries of Revolution: Soviet Advisers and Nationalist China, 1920-1927
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C. Martin Wilbur
it was ok 2.00 avg rating β 1 rating 
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History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth
by:
Paul A. Cohen
3.97 avg rating β 322 ratings 
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Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History
by:
Yangwen Zheng
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 
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Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century
by:
Giovanni Arrighi
4.14 avg rating β 307 ratings 
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Constructing China: Clashing Views of the People's Republic
by:
Mobo C.F. Gao
3.97 avg rating β 34 ratings 55. 
From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi
by:
Pu Yi
3.81 avg rating β 1,166 ratings 56. 
What Is China?: Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History
by:
Zhaoguang Ge
3.92 avg rating β 40 ratings 57. 
Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village
by:
William Hinton
4.33 avg rating β 460 ratings 
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The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity
by:
Wang Hui
3.61 avg rating β 74 ratings 60. 
China's Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat and the Road to Equality
by:
Wang Hui
3.57 avg rating β 58 ratings 
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History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought
by:
Frederic Wakeman
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 64. 
Making Revolution: The Communist Movement in Eastern and Central China, 1937-1945
by:
Yung-fa Chen
4.40 avg rating β 5 ratings 66. 
Haunted by Chaos: Chinaβs Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping 3.90 avg rating β 170 ratings
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Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History
by:
Rebecca E. Karl
3.84 avg rating β 270 ratings 68. 
Chinaβs Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History
by:
Rebecca E. Karl
3.63 avg rating β 136 ratings 69. 
Revolution and Counterrevolution in China: The Paradoxes of Chinese Struggle
by:
Lin Chun
3.88 avg rating β 32 ratings 70. 
Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture
by:
Alessandro Russo
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 16 ratings 71. 
From Commune to Capitalism: How Chinaβs Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty
by:
Zhun Xu
3.89 avg rating β 38 ratings 
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Governing the Commons in China (Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy)
by:
Yan Zhang
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 74. 
The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood-Stained Coal (Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy)
by:
Tim Wright
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 75. 
Economic and Social Transformation in China: Challenges and Opportunities (Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy)
by:
Angang Hu
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings 76. 
Globalization, Competition and Growth in China (Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy)
by:
Jian Chen
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 
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The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China
by:
Xin Zhang
3.14 avg rating β 7 ratings 83. 
Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in Chinaβs Era of High Socialism
by:
Jeremy Brown
4.24 avg rating β 17 ratings 
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Ten Crises: The Political Economy of Chinaβs Development (1949-2020) (Global University for Sustainability Book Series)
by:
Tiejun Wen
4.29 avg rating β 7 ratings 86. 
Maoist Economics & the Revolutionary Road to Communism: The Shanghai Textbook
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Various
4.21 avg rating β 28 ratings 
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The Human Tradition in Modern China (The Human Tradition around the World series) 3.20 avg rating β 5 ratings
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The Cultural Revolution in the Foreign Ministry of China: A True Story
by:
Jisen Ma
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 91. 
Mao's Children in the New China Voices From the Red Guard Generation
by:
Yarong Jiang
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 92. 
Was Mao Really a Monster?: The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story"
by:
Gregor Benton
3.65 avg rating β 40 ratings 93. 
The Great Reversal: The Privatization of China β’ 1978-1989
by:
William Hinton
4.04 avg rating β 26 ratings