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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Paperback)
by Lisa See (Goodreads author) (shelved 91 times as china)
avg rating 3.97 — 37,581 ratings — published 2005
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by Jung Chang (shelved 84 times as china)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,760 ratings — published 1991
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The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
by Pearl S. Buck (shelved 79 times as china)
avg rating 3.89 — 28,073 ratings — published 1931
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel (Paperback)
by Dai Sijie (shelved 68 times as china)
avg rating 3.56 — 10,406 ratings — published 2001
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The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by Amy Tan (shelved 58 times as china)
avg rating 3.80 — 86,660 ratings — published 1985
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present (Hardcover)
by Peter Hessler (shelved 48 times as china)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,160 ratings — published 2006
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.)
by Peter Hessler (shelved 43 times as china)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,555 ratings — published 2001
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The Bonesetter's Daughter (Paperback)
by Amy Tan (shelved 43 times as china)
avg rating 3.80 — 12,899 ratings — published 2001
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Waiting: A Novel (Paperback)
by Ha Jin (shelved 43 times as china)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,968 ratings — published 1999
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The Kitchen God's Wife (Paperback)
by Amy Tan (shelved 35 times as china)
avg rating 3.83 — 12,214 ratings — published 1991
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Red Azalea (Paperback)
by Anchee Min (shelved 35 times as china)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,320 ratings — published 1994
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Mao: The Unknown Story (Paperback)
by Jung Chang (shelved 33 times as china)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,280 ratings — published 2005
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Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter (Paperback)
by Adeline Yen Mah (shelved 31 times as china)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,383 ratings — published 1997
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Empress Orchid (Paperback)
by Anchee Min (shelved 29 times as china)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,382 ratings — published 2005
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Peony in Love (Hardcover)
by Lisa See (Goodreads author) (shelved 28 times as china)
avg rating 3.45 — 8,503 ratings — published 2007
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Soul Mountain (Paperback)
by Gao Xingjian (shelved 26 times as china)
avg rating 3.51 — 981 ratings — published 200
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The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices (Paperback)
by Xinran (shelved 25 times as china)
avg rating 4.10 — 591 ratings — published 2002
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China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power (Hardcover)
by Rob Gifford (shelved 25 times as china)
avg rating 4.00 — 661 ratings — published 2007
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The Hundred Secret Senses (Mass Market Paperback)
by Amy Tan (shelved 24 times as china)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,717 ratings — published 1995
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Hardcover)
by Leslie T. Chang (shelved 22 times as china)
avg rating 3.73 — 798 ratings — published 2008
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The Art of War (Mass Market Paperback)
by Sun Tzu (shelved 22 times as china)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,147 ratings — published 1963
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Life and Death in Shanghai (Paperback)
by Nien Cheng (shelved 21 times as china)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,413 ratings — published 1986
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Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution (trade paperback)
by Ji-li Jiang (shelved 20 times as china)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,293 ratings — published 1998
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Wolf Totem (Hardcover)
by Jiang Rong (shelved 20 times as china)
avg rating 3.57 — 540 ratings — published 2005
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The Search for Modern China (Paperback)
by Jonathan D. Spence (shelved 19 times as china)
avg rating 4.13 — 294 ratings — published 1990
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Becoming Madame Mao (Paperback)
by Anchee Min (shelved 19 times as china)
avg rating 3.52 — 985 ratings — published 2000
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Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now (Paperback)
by Jan Wong (shelved 18 times as china)
avg rating 4.10 — 529 ratings — published 1996
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Shanghai Girls: A Novel (Hardcover)
by Lisa See (Goodreads author) (shelved 17 times as china)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,781 ratings — published 2009
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by Iris Chang (shelved 17 times as china)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,236 ratings — published 1991
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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (Paperback)
by Xiaolu Guo (shelved 17 times as china)
avg rating 3.42 — 811 ratings — published 2007
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The Man Who Loved China: Joseph Needham and the Making of a Masterpiece (Hardcover)
by Simon Winchester (shelved 17 times as china)
avg rating 3.65 — 746 ratings — published 2008
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Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid (Hardcover)
by J. Maarten Troost (shelved 16 times as china)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,298 ratings — published 2008
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Riding the Iron Rooster (Mass Market Paperback)
by Paul Theroux (shelved 15 times as china)
avg rating 3.95 — 692 ratings — published 1988
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The Last Chinese Chef (Hardcover)
by Nicole Mones (shelved 14 times as china)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,675 ratings — published 2007
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God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Paperback)
by Jonathan D. Spence (shelved 13 times as china)
avg rating 3.95 — 161 ratings — published 1996
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Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Amy Tan (shelved 13 times as china)
avg rating 3.30 — 8,923 ratings — published 1997
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The Lost Daughters of China (Paperback)
by Karin Evans (shelved 13 times as china)
avg rating 3.88 — 413 ratings — published 2000
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Empress: A Novel (Hardcover)
by Shan Sa (shelved 13 times as china)
avg rating 3.35 — 670 ratings — published 2003
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The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed (Hardcover)
by Michael Meyer (shelved 13 times as china)
avg rating 3.85 — 222 ratings — published 2008
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The Last Empress (Hardcover)
by Anchee Min (shelved 12 times as china)
avg rating 3.44 — 982 ratings — published 2005
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Tao Te Ching (Hardcover)
by Laozi (shelved 12 times as china)
avg rating 4.38 — 11 ratings — published 1947
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Paperback)
by Maxine Hong Kingston (shelved 12 times as china)
avg rating 3.75 — 4,600 ratings — published 1976
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Flower Net (Mass Market Paperback)
by Lisa See (Goodreads author) (shelved 12 times as china)
avg rating 3.36 — 520 ratings — published 1997
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The Crazed (Paperback)
by Ha Jin (shelved 12 times as china)
avg rating 3.41 — 566 ratings — published 2002
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Empire of the Sun (Paperback)
by J.G. Ballard (shelved 12 times as china)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,770 ratings — published 1984
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Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China (Paperback)
by Rachel DeWoskin (shelved 12 times as china)
avg rating 3.55 — 306 ratings — published 2005
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1421: The Year China Discovered America (Paperback)
by Gavin Menzies (shelved 12 times as china)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,602 ratings — published 2002
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War Trash (Paperback)
by Ha Jin (shelved 12 times as china)
avg rating 3.70 — 988 ratings — published 2005
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The Piano Teacher (Hardcover)
by Janice Y.K. Lee (shelved 11 times as china)
avg rating 3.38 — 3,067 ratings — published 2008
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Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by Li Cunxin (shelved 11 times as china)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,111 ratings — published 2003
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"Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics "
— Barry Hughart (Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was)
— Barry Hughart (Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was)
"Our heads were jars of Maoist pork marinating in five-thousand-year-old feudalist soy sauce."
— Anchee Min (Katherine)
— Anchee Min (Katherine)
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