Noël Walstra's votes on the list Best Books About China

Listopia > Noël Walstra's votes on the list Best Books About China (43 Books)

1	Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang 4.30 avg rating — 123,998 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang 4.25 avg rating — 54,048 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Search For Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence 4.21 avg rating — 3,279 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman 4.16 avg rating — 3,764 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford 4.06 avg rating — 84,153 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Travels by Marco Polo 3.57 avg rating — 8,244 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang 3.91 avg rating — 10,730 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikötter 4.07 avg rating — 5,186 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia 4.46 avg rating — 5,411 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection by John Man 3.72 avg rating — 1,778 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic by Maurice J. Meisner 4.10 avg rating — 455 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet by Peter Hopkirk 4.18 avg rating — 1,365 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	To Change China: Western Advisers in China by Jonathan D. Spence 3.95 avg rating — 173 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford 3.93 avg rating — 4,716 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China, #1) by Mark Edward Lewis 3.76 avg rating — 615 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China, #2) by Mark Edward Lewis 3.82 avg rating — 266 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (History of Imperial China, #3) by Mark Edward Lewis 3.92 avg rating — 300 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk 4.17 avg rating — 1,572 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China (History of Imperial China, #4) by Dieter Kuhn 4.08 avg rating — 209 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang 3.90 avg rating — 4,316 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 by Robert Bickers 3.51 avg rating — 150 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (History of Imperial China, #5) by Timothy Brook 3.93 avg rating — 328 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	China's Last Empire: The Great Qing (History of Imperial China, #6) by William T. Rowe 4.08 avg rating — 330 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1 of 2 (chapter 1-60) by Luo Guanzhong 4.29 avg rating — 2,274 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution by Jonathan D. Spence 4.03 avg rating — 556 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost by Jonathan Fenby 3.92 avg rating — 396 ratings Noël rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Jonathan D. Spence 3.94 avg rating — 1,277 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Kublai Khan: The Mongol King Who Remade China by John Man 3.89 avg rating — 759 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng 4.33 avg rating — 14,029 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth by Sun Shuyun 3.84 avg rating — 516 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels by Isabel Sun Chao 4.31 avg rating — 1,254 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter 4.13 avg rating — 2,287 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West by Tonio Andrade 4.12 avg rating — 199 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang 3.83 avg rating — 13,898 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	On China by Henry Kissinger 4.19 avg rating — 10,225 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited by Louisa Lim (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 1,431 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China by Philip P. Pan 4.10 avg rating — 1,587 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt (Goodreads Author) 4.22 avg rating — 2,129 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell 3.98 avg rating — 1,292 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt (Goodreads Author) 4.34 avg rating — 3,191 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary by Gao Wenqian really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 442 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 by Kevin Peraino 3.89 avg rating — 627 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel 4.46 avg rating — 4,241 ratings Noël added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars