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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 1549 times as china)
avg rating 4.30 — 123,356 ratings — published 1991
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 1114 times as china)
avg rating 4.08 — 489,784 ratings — published 2006
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 1065 times as china)
avg rating 4.01 — 260,384 ratings — published 1931
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1063 times as china)
avg rating 4.09 — 387,171 ratings — published 2005
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 838 times as china)
avg rating 3.97 — 708,979 ratings — published 1989
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 835 times as china)
avg rating 3.95 — 568,820 ratings — published -500
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Paperback)
by (shelved 719 times as china)
avg rating 3.64 — 67,951 ratings — published 2000
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 676 times as china)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,417 ratings — published 1997
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (Paperback)
by (shelved 665 times as china)
avg rating 4.28 — 13,888 ratings — published 2001
China in Ten Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 647 times as china)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,731 ratings — published 2011
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 644 times as china)
avg rating 4.29 — 181,831 ratings — published -350
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 643 times as china)
avg rating 4.25 — 8,826 ratings — published 2014
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 627 times as china)
avg rating 3.92 — 162,528 ratings — published 2009
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 590 times as china)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,600 ratings — published 2008
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 587 times as china)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,632 ratings — published 2006
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 542 times as china)
avg rating 4.26 — 8,093 ratings — published 2009
The Search For Modern China (Paperback)
by (shelved 530 times as china)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,266 ratings — published 1990
On China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 505 times as china)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,169 ratings — published 2011
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices (Paperback)
by (shelved 504 times as china)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,260 ratings — published 2002
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 502 times as china)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,203 ratings — published 2011
Mao: The Unknown Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 475 times as china)
avg rating 3.83 — 13,835 ratings — published 2002
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 466 times as china)
avg rating 4.29 — 125,672 ratings — published 2017
To Live (Paperback)
by (shelved 463 times as china)
avg rating 4.33 — 25,279 ratings — published 1992
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 454 times as china)
avg rating 4.35 — 202,002 ratings — published 2023
The Bonesetter's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 444 times as china)
avg rating 4.00 — 132,821 ratings — published 2001
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 433 times as china)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,156 ratings — published 2010
Waiting (Paperback)
by (shelved 418 times as china)
avg rating 3.55 — 23,615 ratings — published 1999
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 409 times as china)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,245 ratings — published 2010
Life and Death in Shanghai (Paperback)
by (shelved 401 times as china)
avg rating 4.33 — 14,000 ratings — published 1986
Red Sorghum (Paperback)
by (shelved 385 times as china)
avg rating 3.80 — 8,794 ratings — published 1987
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 381 times as china)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,975 ratings — published -475
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 381 times as china)
avg rating 4.40 — 218,156 ratings — published 2008
The Kitchen God's Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 352 times as china)
avg rating 4.04 — 87,938 ratings — published 1991
Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid, #1)
by (shelved 346 times as china)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,871 ratings — published 2003
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 340 times as china)
avg rating 3.91 — 10,695 ratings — published 2013
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 337 times as china)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,125 ratings — published 2003
Peony in Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 311 times as china)
avg rating 3.64 — 50,514 ratings — published 2007
Dreams of Joy (Shanghai Girls, #2)
by (shelved 309 times as china)
avg rating 4.11 — 68,570 ratings — published 2011
Three Kingdoms (4-Volume Boxed Set)
by (shelved 301 times as china)
avg rating 4.37 — 6,648 ratings — published 1301
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 293 times as china)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,726 ratings — published 2013
Falling Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 287 times as china)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,158 ratings — published 1997
Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 286 times as china)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,163 ratings — published 2016
Soul Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 286 times as china)
avg rating 3.60 — 5,848 ratings — published 1990
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 285 times as china)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,105 ratings — published 2012
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 279 times as china)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,152 ratings — published 2018
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 278 times as china)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,066 ratings — published 2016
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 275 times as china)
avg rating 4.41 — 170,645 ratings — published 2010
Red Azalea: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as china)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,737 ratings — published 1993
China: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as china)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,400 ratings — published 2008
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as china)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,653 ratings — published 2018
“And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.”
― The Joy Luck Club
― The Joy Luck Club
“Every once in a while, I get the urge. You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? The urge for destruction. The urge to hurt, maim, kill.
It’s quite a thing, to experience that urge, to let it wash over you, to give in to it. It’s addictive. It’s all-consuming. You lose yourself to it. It’s quite, quite wonderful. I can feel it, even as I speak, tapping around the edges of my mind, trying to prise me open, slip its fingers in. And it would be so easy to let it happen.
But we’re all like that, aren’t we? We’re all barbarians at our core. We’re all savage, murderous beasts. I know I am. I’m sure you are. The only difference between us, Mr Prave, is how loudly we roar. I know I roar very loudly indeed. How about you? Do you think you can match me?”
―
It’s quite a thing, to experience that urge, to let it wash over you, to give in to it. It’s addictive. It’s all-consuming. You lose yourself to it. It’s quite, quite wonderful. I can feel it, even as I speak, tapping around the edges of my mind, trying to prise me open, slip its fingers in. And it would be so easy to let it happen.
But we’re all like that, aren’t we? We’re all barbarians at our core. We’re all savage, murderous beasts. I know I am. I’m sure you are. The only difference between us, Mr Prave, is how loudly we roar. I know I roar very loudly indeed. How about you? Do you think you can match me?”
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