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China (traditional Chinese: 中國; simplified Chinese: 中国; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōngguó (help·info); Tongyong Pinyin: Jhongguó; Wade-Giles (Mandarin): Chung¹kuo²) is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in...
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II is a bestselling 1997 non-fiction book written by Iris Chang about the 1937–1938 Nanking Massacre, the massacre and atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after it captured...
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- Iris Chang
- x Date of first publication:
- 1997
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Seven Years in Tibet
Seven Years in Tibet is an autobiographical travel book written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer based on his real life experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during the Second World War and the interim period before the Communist Chinese...
- x Author:
- Heinrich Harrer
- x Date of first publication:
- 1953
- x Editor:
Journey to the West
Journey to the West (simplified Chinese: 西游记; traditional Chinese: 西遊記; pinyin: Xī Yóu Jì; Wade-Giles: Hsi-yu chi) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Originally published anonymously in the 1590s during the Ming Dynasty...
- x Author:
- Wu Cheng'en
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
Empire of the Sun
Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by J. G. Ballard which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Like Ballard's earlier short story, "The Dead Time" (published in the anthology Myths of the Near Future), it is essentially fiction but draws...
- x Author:
- J. G. Ballard
- x Date of first publication:
- Sep 13, 1984
- x Editor:
Tai-Pan: A Novel of Hong Kong
Tai-Pan is a novel written by James Clavell about European and American traders who move into Hong Kong in 1841 following the end of the first Opium War. It is the second book in Clavell's "Asian Saga".
The novel begins following the British victory...
- x Author:
- James Clavell
- x Date of first publication:
- 1966
- x Editor:
The Good Earth
The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. It was an influential factor in Buck winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes...
- x Author:
- Pearl S. Buck
- x Date of first publication:
- Mar 2, 1931
- x Editor:
Bridge of Birds
Bridge of Birds is a fantasy novel by Barry Hughart, first published in 1984. It is the first of three novels in the The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox series. The original draft of Bridge of Birds is included in a special slipcased...
- x Author:
- Barry Hughart
- x Date of first publication:
- 1984
- x Editor:
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio or Liaozhai Zhiyi (also Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio or Strange Tales of Liaozhai, simplified Chinese: 聊斋志异; traditional Chinese: 聊齋誌異; pinyin: Liáozhāi zhìyì) is a collection of nearly five hundred...
- x Author:
- Pu Songling
- x Date of first publication:
- 1740
- x Editor:
Noble House: The Epic Novel of Modern Hong Kong
Noble House is a novel by James Clavell, published in 1981 and set in Hong Kong in 1963. It is part of Clavell's Asian Saga.
It is a massive book, well over 1000 pages, with dozens of characters and numerous intermingling plot lines. In 1988, it was...
- x Author:
- James Clavell
- x Date of first publication:
- Apr 1981
- x Editor:
The Woman Warrior
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a memoir by Maxine Hong Kingston, published by Vintage Books in 1975. It is semi-autobiographical, incorporating many elements of fiction. The story explores ethnicity and gender roles,...
- x Author:
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- x Date of first publication:
- 1975
- x Editor:
Wild Swans
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China is an autobiographical family history by Chinese writer Jung Chang. First published in 1991, Wild Swans contains a biography of the three female generations of Chang's family: her grandmother, her mother and...
- x Author:
- Jung Chang
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
Moment in Peking
Moment in Peking (traditional Chinese: 京華煙雲; simplified Chinese: 京华烟云; pinyin: jīng huá yān yún) (also translated as traditional Chinese: 瞬息京華; simplified Chinese: 瞬息京华; pinyin: shūn xī jīng huá) is a historical novel originally written in English...
- x Author:
- Lin Yutang
- x Date of first publication:
- 1939
- x Editor:
Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation is the title of a novel written by Nicole Mones and was published by Bantam Dell in 1999, it is the story of an American woman trying to lose her past by living as a translator in China.
- x Author:
- Nicole Mones,
- Edward Willett
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
1421: The Year China Discovered The World
1421: The Year China Discovered the World (US title: 1421: The Year China Discovered America) is a 2002 book written by retired submarine commander and amateur historian Gavin Menzies. The premise of the book is that, at the behest of the Yongle...
- x Author:
- Gavin Menzies
- x Date of first publication:
- Nov 4, 2002
- x Editor:
Life and Death in Shanghai
Life and Death in Shanghai is an autobiography published in November 1987 by Nien Cheng (Chinese: 鄭念; pinyin: Zhèng Niàn) from exile in the United States, and details her six-year arrest during the Cultural Revolution.
Cheng was arrested in late...
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Katherine
Katherine (ISBN 1-57322-005-1) is the first novel by Anchee Min. It was published by Riverside Books in 1995.
Six years after the death of Mao, the People's Republic of China opens its doors to learn how to integrate into the larger world. The title...
- x Author:
- Anchee Min
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
States and Social Revolutions
States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China is a 1979 book by political scientist and sociologist Theda Skocpol, published by Cambridge University Press and explaining the causes of revolutions through the...
- x Author:
- Theda Skocpol
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
The Mandate of Heaven
The Mandate of Heaven: Record of a Civil War; China 1945–49 is a nonfiction book published in 1968. It was written by John F. Melby and illustrated with photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson. It takes its title from the Chinese concept of the Mandate...
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Becoming Madame Mao
Becoming Madame Mao (2001, Mariner Books, ISBN 0-618-12700-3) is a historical novel by Anchee Min detailing the life of Jiang Qing. She became Madame Mao after her marriage to Mao Zedong. In this story Min tries to cast a sympathetic light on one of...
- x Author:
- Anchee Min
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
Tribulations of a Chinaman in China
Tribulations of a Chinaman in China (French: Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, first published in 1879. The story is about a rich Chinese man, Kin-Fo, who is bored with life, and after some business...
- x Author:
- Jules Verne
- x Date of first publication:
- 1879
- x Editor:
China Attacks
China Attacks is a techno-thriller co-authored by Chuck DeVore and Steven W. Mosher. Written in 1999, the novel was self-published in English in 2000 through Infinity Publishing. A Chinese translation was published in 2001.
China Attacks explores...
- x Author:
- Steven W. Mosher
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
When We Were Orphans
When We Were Orphans is a novel by the British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro, published 2000 (ISBN 0-375-72440-0).
The novel is about a British man named Christopher Banks who used to live in the Shanghai of colonial China in the early 1900s, but...
- x Author:
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- x Date of first publication:
- 2000
- x Editor:
One's Company
One's Company: A Journey to China is a travel book by Peter Fleming describing his journey day by day from London through Moscow and the Trans-Siberian Railway, then through Japanese-run Manchukuo, then on to Nanking, the capital of China in the...
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The Good Women of China
The Good Women of China (ISBN 0-701-17345-9) is a book published in 2002. The author, Xue Xinran, is a British-Chinese journalist who currently resides in London and writes for The Guardian. Esther Tyldesley translated this book from the Chinese....
- x Author:
- Xinran Xue
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
Flashman and the Dragon
Flashman and the Dragon is a 1985 novel by George MacDonald Fraser. It is the eighth of the Flashman novels.
Presented within the frame of the supposedly discovered historical Flashman Papers, this book describes the bully Flashman from Tom Brown's...
- x Author:
- George MacDonald Fraser
- x Date of first publication:
- 1985
- x Editor:
Missee Lee
Missee Lee is the tenth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1941. This is considered one of the metafictional books of the series. It is set in 1930s China. The Swallows and Amazons are on a round...
- x Author:
- Arthur Ransome
- x Date of first publication:
- 1941
- x Editor:
Chinese Cinderella
Chinese Cinderella is a novel written by author Adeline Yen Mah which describes her experiences growing up in China during the Second World War. It was published in 1999 and is a revised version of part of her autobiography, Falling Leaves.
Chinese...
- x Author:
- Adeline Yen Mah
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze is a book by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1932. The story revolves around Fu Yuin-fah, the son of a widow from the countryside of western China,...
- x Author:
- Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
- x Date of first publication:
- 1932
- x Editor:
History of Ming
The History of Ming (Chinese: 明史; Pinyin: Míng Shǐ) is one of the official Chinese historical works known as the Twenty-Four Histories of China. It consists of 332 volumes and covers the history of Ming Dynasty from 1368 to 1644, which was written...
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Safely Home
Safely Home is a Christian novel by Randy Alcorn. It takes place in present-day China, and follows the story of two Harvard roommates, one American and one Chinese, who reunite decades after they graduate. The novel won the Gold Medallion Book Award...
- x Author:
- Randy Alcorn
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
Peony
Peony is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1948. It is a story of China's Kaifeng Jews.
Peony is set in the 1850s in the city of Kaifeng, in the province of Henan, which was historically a center for Jews. The novel follows Peony, a...
- x Author:
- Pearl S. Buck
- x Date of first publication:
- 1948
- x Editor:
Imperial Woman
Imperial Woman is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1956.
Imperial Woman is a fictionalized biography of Ci-xi (Tz'u Hsi in Wade-Giles), who was a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing...
- x Author:
- Pearl S. Buck
- x Date of first publication:
- 1956
- x Editor:
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China is a psychology non-fiction book on brainwashing and mind control, by Robert Jay Lifton, M.D.. The book was published in multiple editions, in 1956 (Hardcover), 1961,...
- x Author:
- Robert Jay Lifton,
- Doctor of Medicine
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
The Shark Mutiny
The Shark Mutiny is a novel written by Patrick Robinson and was published in 2001. Four years later the second edition was published with a new cover picture painted by Larry Rostant. The book is a sequel to USS Seawolf.
The plot of "Shark Mutiny"...
- x Author:
- Patrick Robinson
- x Date of first publication:
- 2001
- x Editor:
The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life".
Biographer Richard Cordell notes that the book was influenced...
- x Author:
- W. Somerset Maugham
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
The Secrets of Jin-Shei
The Secrets of Jin-Shei is a novel written by Alma A. Hromic (as Alma Alexander), published by HarperCollins in May 2004 in the U.S., and also published in several other countries in a total of eleven languages.
A tale of bonding sisterhood, this...
- x Author:
- Alma Alexander
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
In the Pond
In the Pond is a 2000 novel by Ha Jin, who has also written Under the Red Flag, Ocean of Winds, and Waiting. He has been praised for his works relating to Chinese life and culture.
The novel centers around the character Shao Bin, a Chinese man...
- x Date of first publication:
- Mar 21, 2000
- x Editor:
Journey to a War
Journey to a War is a travel book in prose and verse by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, published in 1939.
The book is in three parts: a series of poems by Auden describing his and Isherwood's journey to China in 1938 ; a "Travel-Diary" by...
- x Author:
- W. H. Auden
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
Mei Li
Mei Li is a book by Thomas Handforth. Released by Doubleday, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1939.
- x Author:
- Thomas Handforth
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
Sons
Sons is the sequel to the novel The Good Earth, and the second book in the The House of Earth trilogy by renowned author Pearl S. Buck. It was first published in 1932.
The story tackles the issue of Wang Lung's sons and how they handle their father...
- x Author:
- Pearl S. Buck
- x Date of first publication:
- 1933
- x Editor:
In Xanadu: A Quest
In Xanadu is a 1989 travel book by William Dalrymple.
Unlike typical travel books, In Xanadu traces the path taken by Marco Polo from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to the site of Shangdu, famed as Xanadu in English literature, in...
- x Author:
- William Dalrymple
- x Date of first publication:
- 1989
- x Editor:
Music on the Bamboo Radio
Music on the Bamboo Radio is a novel written by Martin Booth that was first published in 1997. The story revolves around Nicholas Holford, the main character and minor relations can be made to Martin Booth's life during the Second World War.
The...
- x Author:
- Martin Booth
- x Date of first publication:
- 1997
- x Editor:
Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now
Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now is a 1996 book by Chinese-Canadian journalist Jan Wong. Wong describes how the youthful passion for left-wing and socialist politics drew her to participate in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Speaking...
- x Date of first publication:
- 1996
- x Editor:
Empress Orchid
Empress Orchid (2004) is a novel by Anchee Min which was first published in Great Britain in 2004. It is written in first person and is a sympathetic account of the life of Empress Dowager Cixi - from her humble beginnings to her rise as the Empress...
- x Author:
- Anchee Min
- x Date of first publication:
- 2004
- x Editor:
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China (ISBN 0805086641) recounts John Pomfret's experiences and perspectives about the then opening China during his attendance of Nanjing University in 1980, during one of the first student...
- x Author:
- John Pomfret
- x Date of first publication:
- Aug 2006
- x Editor:
The Adventures of Mao on the Long March
The Adventures of Mao on the Long March is Frederic Tuten's first published novel. The novel is a fictionalized account of Chairman Mao's rise to power, and is highly experimental in nature, including extensive use of parody and collage.
The novel...
- x Author:
- Frederic Tuten
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
The River at the Center of the World
The River At The Center Of The World : A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time (ISBN 0-312-42337-3) is a book by Simon Winchester. It details his travels up the Yangtze river in China and was first published in 1996.
Viewing an ancient...
- x Author:
- Simon Winchester
- x Date of first publication:
- 1996
- x Editor:
Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society
Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society is a historical novel by Adeline Yen Mah, published in 2005. It is the fictional sequel to her autobiography for children, Chinese Cinderella.
The main character is a twelve year old girl called CC...
- x Author:
- Adeline Yen Mah
- x Date of first publication:
- Aug 5, 2004
- x Editor:
Never Enough
The 2007 book Never Enough was a true-crime tale by Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision, Blind Faith and others in this genre.
McGinniss tells the story of Robert Kissel, an investment banker who lived in Hong Kong, where he worked as a first...
- x Author:
- Joe McGinniss
- x Date of first publication:
- Oct 2007
- x Editor:
Waiting: A Novel
Waiting: a Novel is a novel by award-winning author Ha Jin. It received the 1999 National Book Award. Lin Kong (the protagonist), a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, finds himself waiting 18 years to divorce his wife for another woman all the while...
- x Date of first publication:
- Oct 1, 1999
- x Editor:
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 written by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman and published in 1971 by Macmillan Publishers it won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book was republished in 2001 by Grove Press Also...
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Challenging the Mandate of Heaven
- x Author:
- Elizabeth J. Perry
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
Flower Net
Flower Net (1997) by Lisa See is the first of the Red Princess mysteries. The other two novels in the series are The Interior (1999) and Dragon Bones (2003). Flower Net explores the state of US-China relations in the early months of 1997, especially...
- x Date of first publication:
- 1997
- x Editor:
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, a novel by Lisa See (2005), is set in China in the 1800s. In her introduction to the novel, See writes that Lily, the narrator, was born in 1823 -- "the third year of Emperor Daoguangs reign". The novel begins in 1903...
- x Date of first publication:
- 2005
- x Editor:
Dragon Bones
Dragon Bones by Lisa See (2003) is the third of the Red Princess mysteries, preceded by Flower Net and The Interior. Once again the protagonists Inspector Liu Hulan and Attorney David Stark return -- but this time as husband and wife.
At the start...
- x Date of first publication:
- 2004
- x Editor:
The Hundred Secret Senses
The Hundred Secret Senses is a 1995 novel by Amy Tan, focusing on the relationship between Chinese-born Kwan and her younger, Chinese American sister Olivia, who serves as the book's primary narrator. It was shortlisted for the 1996 Orange Prize for...
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