China Expat Books
3. 
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
by:
Peter Hessler
4.26 avg rating — 8,012 ratings 4. 
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
by:
Peter Hessler
4.22 avg rating — 7,536 ratings 
6. 
Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
by:
Tom Carter
3.59 avg rating — 197 ratings 7. 
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
by:
Fuchsia Dunlop
4.11 avg rating — 4,393 ratings 8. 
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
by:
Leslie T. Chang
3.93 avg rating — 9,485 ratings 
10. 
Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China
by:
Rachel DeWoskin
3.49 avg rating — 1,153 ratings 
12. 
Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language
by:
Deborah Fallows
3.63 avg rating — 2,186 ratings 
16. 
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
by:
Rob Gifford
4.04 avg rating — 3,974 ratings 
18. 
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
by:
Paul French
3.86 avg rating — 7,293 ratings 20. 
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by:
Simon Winchester
3.84 avg rating — 4,779 ratings 21. 
Double Happiness: One Man's Tale of Love, Loss, and Wonder on the Long Roads of China
by:
Tony Brasunas
3.91 avg rating — 70 ratings 22. 
Fried Eggs with Chopsticks: One Woman's Hilarious Adventure into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own
by:
Polly Evans
3.26 avg rating — 633 ratings 
24. 
The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
by:
Michael Meyer
3.96 avg rating — 1,203 ratings 25. 
Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China
by:
Aminta Arrington
3.98 avg rating — 403 ratings 
26. 
Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir
by:
Iris Hay-Edie
4.28 avg rating — 160 ratings 26. 
Why the Chicken Crossed the World: 18 Surprising Secrets from China on Success, Wealth, and Happiness 3.52 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate
by:
Annelie Rozeboom
3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings 30. 
Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
by:
Rob Schmitz
4.26 avg rating — 1,904 ratings 31. 
Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
by:
Chris Thrall
3.60 avg rating — 771 ratings 
34. 
Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
by:
Jim Yardley
3.86 avg rating — 376 ratings 35. 
Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China
by:
Emily Prager
3.67 avg rating — 166 ratings 36. 
Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game
by:
Paul Midler
4.09 avg rating — 2,415 ratings 
37. 
Healing, Romance & Revolution: Letters from an American Nurse in 1926 China 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
37. 
Dispatches from Crazytown: Two Years in the Ancient Chinese Capital of Xi'an
by:
Chris McElwain
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 37. 
Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to
by:
Wayne Deeker
4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings 
37. 
Meet Me in Venice: A Chinese Immigrant's Journey from the Far East to the Faraway West
by:
Suzanne Ma
3.82 avg rating — 84 ratings 
37. 
From Chicken Feet To Crystal Baths: An Englishman's Travels Throughout China
by:
Ian Mote
4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings 37. 
At the Teahouse Cafe: Essays from the Middle Kingdom
by:
Isham Cook
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings 37. 
Learning Mandarin for the Fish and Chips: Learning Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan and Mandarin Legal Work in London (Some Ideas Over a Cup of Tea Book 1) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
37. 
The Adventures of Doctor X in China: Five years teaching ESL in a strange land
by:
Doctor X.
2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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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 — 1,165 ratings 
37. 
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
by:
Amber Scorah
3.81 avg rating — 4,986 ratings 
37. 
Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson
by:
Paul French
3.72 avg rating — 248 ratings 62. 
The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures Of Henrietta And Her Foreign Correspondent 3.78 avg rating — 378 ratings
62. 
Right in Her Soul: The Life of Anna Louise Strong
by:
Tracey B. Strong
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 62. 
Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing
by:
Alan Paul
3.71 avg rating — 539 ratings 
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Dragons, donkeys, and dust: Memoirs from a decade in China
by:
Rudy Kong
3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings 73. 
How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit? True Stories of Expat Women in Asia
by:
Shannon Young
4.21 avg rating — 76 ratings 
76. 
A Businessman's Guide to the Wholesale Markets of Guangzhou really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
83. 
Een gouden week van gietijzer. China in columns.
by:
Alex van Egmond
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 85. 
Chinese Rules: Mao's Dog, Deng's Cat, and Five Timeless Lessons from the Front Lines in China
by:
Tim Clissold
3.87 avg rating — 367 ratings 
87. 
Business Republic of China: Tales from the Front Line of China's New Revolution
by:
Jack Leblanc
3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings 
89. 
Don't Joke on the Stairs: How I Learned to Navigate China by Breaking Most of the Rules really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
91. 
The Great Walk of China: Travels on Foot from Shanghai to Tibet
by:
Graham Earnshaw
3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings 
94. 
To the People, Food Is Heaven: Stories Of Food And Life In A Changing China
by:
Audra Ang
3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings 
98. 
Mijn straat is geel: een Hollands gezin in Shanghai
by:
Lizette Dalebout
2.56 avg rating — 9 ratings 