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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Paperback)
by Lisa See (Goodreads author) (shelved 82 times as china)
avg rating 3.97 — 36,841 ratings — published 2005
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by Jung Chang (shelved 77 times as china)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,483 ratings — published 1991
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The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
by Pearl S. Buck (shelved 75 times as china)
avg rating 3.89 — 27,058 ratings — published 1931
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel (Paperback)
by Dai Sijie (shelved 65 times as china)
avg rating 3.56 — 10,085 ratings — published 2001
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The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by Amy Tan (shelved 54 times as china)
avg rating 3.81 — 80,887 ratings — published 1985
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present (Hardcover)
by Peter Hessler (shelved 43 times as china)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,137 ratings — published 2006
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Waiting: A Novel (Paperback)
by Ha Jin (shelved 42 times as china)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,815 ratings — published 1999
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.)
by Peter Hessler (shelved 40 times as china)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,507 ratings — published 2001
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The Bonesetter's Daughter (Paperback)
by Amy Tan (shelved 40 times as china)
avg rating 3.80 — 12,555 ratings — published 2001
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Red Azalea (Paperback)
by Anchee Min (shelved 34 times as china)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,286 ratings — published 1994
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Mao: The Unknown Story (Paperback)
by Jung Chang (shelved 32 times as china)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,244 ratings — published 2005
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Empress Orchid (Paperback)
by Anchee Min (shelved 31 times as china)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,323 ratings — published 2005
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The Kitchen God's Wife (Paperback)
by Amy Tan (shelved 30 times as china)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,891 ratings — published 1991
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Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter (Paperback)
by Adeline Yen Mah (shelved 30 times as china)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,281 ratings — published 1997
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Peony in Love (Hardcover)
by Lisa See (Goodreads author) (shelved 25 times as china)
avg rating 3.45 — 8,232 ratings — published 2007
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Soul Mountain (Paperback)
by Gao Xingjian (shelved 24 times as china)
avg rating 3.51 — 946 ratings — published 200
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The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices (Paperback)
by Xinran (shelved 24 times as china)
avg rating 4.10 — 573 ratings — published 2002
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China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power (Hardcover)
by Rob Gifford (shelved 24 times as china)
avg rating 4.00 — 644 ratings — published 2007
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Life and Death in Shanghai (Paperback)
by Nien Cheng (shelved 21 times as china)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,371 ratings — published 1986
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The Art of War (Mass Market Paperback)
by Sun Tzu (shelved 20 times as china)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,846 ratings — published 1963
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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 3.73 — 1,245 ratings — published 1998
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The Hundred Secret Senses (Mass Market Paperback)
by Amy Tan (shelved 20 times as china)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,532 ratings — published 1995
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Hardcover)
by Leslie T. Chang (shelved 19 times as china)
avg rating 3.73 — 798 ratings — published 2008
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Becoming Madame Mao (Paperback)
by Anchee Min (shelved 19 times as china)
avg rating 3.53 — 954 ratings — published 2000
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Wolf Totem (Hardcover)
by Jiang Rong (shelved 18 times as china)
avg rating 3.58 — 521 ratings — published 2005
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The Search for Modern China (Paperback)
by Jonathan D. Spence (shelved 18 times as china)
avg rating 4.11 — 287 ratings — published 1990
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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 — 2,141 ratings — published 1991
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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (Paperback)
by Xiaolu Guo (shelved 16 times as china)
avg rating 3.43 — 789 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 16 times as china)
avg rating 3.65 — 721 ratings — published 2008
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Shanghai Girls: A Novel (Hardcover)
by Lisa See (Goodreads author) (shelved 15 times as china)
avg rating 3.76 — 6,123 ratings — published 2009
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Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now (Paperback)
by Jan Wong (shelved 15 times as china)
avg rating 4.10 — 508 ratings — published 1996
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Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition (Mandarin_chinese Edition)
by Laozi (shelved 14 times as china)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,033 ratings — published 1947
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Riding the Iron Rooster (Mass Market Paperback)
by Paul Theroux (shelved 14 times as china)
avg rating 3.95 — 672 ratings — published 1988
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The Last Chinese Chef (Hardcover)
by Nicole Mones (shelved 14 times as china)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,604 ratings — published 2007
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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 13 times as china)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,238 ratings — published 2008
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The Lost Daughters of China (Paperback)
by Karin Evans (shelved 13 times as china)
avg rating 3.88 — 405 ratings — published 2000
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The Last Empress (Hardcover)
by Anchee Min (shelved 12 times as china)
avg rating 3.43 — 943 ratings — published 2005
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Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Amy Tan (shelved 12 times as china)
avg rating 3.30 — 8,721 ratings — published 2005
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Flower Net (Mass Market Paperback)
by Lisa See (Goodreads author) (shelved 12 times as china)
avg rating 3.36 — 494 ratings — published 1997
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Empress: A Novel (Hardcover)
by Shan Sa (shelved 12 times as china)
avg rating 3.33 — 633 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 12 times as china)
avg rating 3.83 — 218 ratings — published 2008
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God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Paperback)
by Jonathan D. Spence (shelved 11 times as china)
avg rating 3.97 — 154 ratings — published 1996
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Lost in Translation (Paperback)
by Nicole Mones (shelved 11 times as china)
avg rating 3.61 — 493 ratings — published 1998
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The Crazed (Paperback)
by Ha Jin (shelved 11 times as china)
avg rating 3.40 — 554 ratings — published 2002
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Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet (Hardcover)
by Xinran (shelved 11 times as china)
avg rating 3.94 — 643 ratings — published 2004
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1421: The Year China Discovered America (Paperback)
by Gavin Menzies (shelved 11 times as china)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,567 ratings — published 2002
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Death of a Red Heroine (Soho Crime)
by Qiu Xiaolong (shelved 11 times as china)
avg rating 3.79 — 369 ratings — published 2000
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War Trash (Paperback)
by Ha Jin (shelved 11 times as china)
avg rating 3.69 — 953 ratings — published 2005
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The Piano Teacher (Hardcover)
by Janice Y.K. Lee (shelved 10 times as china)
avg rating 3.39 — 2,764 ratings — published 2008
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Paperback)
by Maxine Hong Kingston (shelved 10 times as china)
avg rating 3.75 — 4,486 ratings — published 1976
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Prologue and Chapter 1 of "A Tiger's Heart: The Story of A Modern Chinese Woman"
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