The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Ho...
Iris ChangThe New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal -- and forgotten -- massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War II In December 1937, one of the most horrific atrociti...
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the...
Julia LovellAn engaging, highly readable, character-driven account of the war that transformed China, and which continues to loom large over modern Chinese history. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War aga...
Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwi...
Derek Pua"Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Holocaust by Derek Pua, is not for the faint of heart. It is, however, for anyone wanting to more clearly understand the extent of Imperial Japanese war crimes. This brief, dispassionate, and factua...
Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revoluti...
Gao WenqianWhen Gao Wenqian first published this groundbreaking, provocative biography in Hong Kong, it was immediately banned in the People's Republic. Using classified documents spirited out of the China, he offers an objective human portrait ...
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Tru...
Evan OsnosWinner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction.An Economist Best Book of 2014.A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformationFrom abroad, we often see China as a caricature: ...
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and ...
Steve R. PlattAs China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turni...
Wealth and Power: China's Long March ...
Orville SchellThrough a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today's foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country's rise to preeminence that is at once analyti...
Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic S...
Helen ZiaThe dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution—a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. "A true page-tu...
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine W...
Jung ChangA New York Times Notable Book In 1852, at age sixteen, Cixi was chosen as one of Emperor Xianfeng's numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a coup against her s...
The China Mirage: The Hidden History ...
James Bradley"Bradley is sharp and rueful, and a voice for a more seasoned, constructive vision of our international relations with East Asia." --Christian Science MonitorJames Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans--includi...
The Cultural Revolution: A People's H...
Frank DikotterThe concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China.After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that cla...
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History ...
Frank DikotterA groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China, by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize–winning Mao's Great Famine. "The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'lib...
When America First Met China: An Exot...
Eric Jay DolinAncient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships.Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay D...
The Silver Way: China, Spanish Americ...
Peter GordonLong before London and New York rose to international prominence, a trading route was discovered between Spanish America and China that ushered in a new era of globalization. The Ruta de la Plata or "Silver Way" catalyzed ec...
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gen...
Leta Hong-FincherIn the early years of the People's Republic of China, the Communist Party sought to transform gender relations, but those gains have been steadily eroded in recent decades during China's transition to a post-socialist era. In fact, wo...
The Shortest History of China: From t...
Linda JaivinJourney across China's epic history—through millennia of early innovation to modern dominance As we enter the “Asian century,” China demands our attention for being an economic powerhouse, a beacon of rapid...
The Souls of China: The Return of Rel...
Ian JohnsonOne of the Best Books of the Year: The Economist, The Christian Science MonitorChina is in the midst of one of the world's great spiritual awakenings: some 300 million Chinese currently practice a faith, while tens of millions more fo...
A Short History of China: From Ancien...
Gordon KerrFrom the beginnings of Chinese prehistory right through to internet censorship, a comprehensive introduction to the sprawling history of this enormous countryAn absorbing introduction to more than 4,000 years of Chinese history, this...
"Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesIn this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book...
The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story o...
Sam KleinerThe thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation’s desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific. ...
The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tia...
Louisa LimFinalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world on Foreign AffairsAn Economist Book of the Year, 2014A New York Times Book ...
Foundations of Chinese Civilization: ...
Jing LiuWho founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The accessible and fun Understanding China Through Comics series answers those questions and more.For all ages, Foundations of ...
History of Tea: The Life and Times of...
Laura C. MartinAs the world's most popular beverage, tea has fascinated us, awakened us, motivated us, and calmed us for well over two thousand years.A History of Tea tells the compelling story of the rise of tea in Asia and its eventual spread to t...
The Party: The Secret World of China'...
Richard McGregor"Few outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives, rivalries, and fears of the Chinese Communist leadership. But we all know much more than before, thanks to Richard McGregor's illuminating and richly-textured look ...
Modern China: A Very Short Introducti...
Rana MitterChina today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a pe...
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China...
Stephen R. PlattWinner of the 2012 Cundill Prize in HistoryA gripping account of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-c...
John Shors reimagined one of the world's greatest love stories--the romance that inspired the Taj Mahal--in his critically acclaimed, international bestseller Beneath a Marble Sky. Now, with Unbound, Shors recreates an ancient and cel...
A Village with My Name: A Family Hist...
Scott TongWhen journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start the first full-time China bureau for "Marketplace," the daily business and economics program on public radio stations across the United States. But fo...
"A passionate, important study of the current affairs of a volatile region."-- Kirkus Reviews starred reviewThe rise of Hong Kong is the story of a miraculous post-War boom, when Chinese refugees flocked to a small British c...