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Chinese History Books
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The Search For Modern China (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,226 ratings — published 1990
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 122,199 ratings — published 1991
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,337 ratings — published 1997
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,674 ratings — published 2013
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,066 ratings — published 2012
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,091 ratings — published 2010
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,035 ratings — published 2016
Mao: The Unknown Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 13,748 ratings — published 2002
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,065 ratings — published 2018
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 10,615 ratings — published 2013
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 605 ratings — published 2007
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,260 ratings — published 1996
China: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,375 ratings — published 2008
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 561,350 ratings — published -500
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,124 ratings — published 2011
The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,281 ratings — published 2020
China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (History of Imperial China, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 294 ratings — published 2009
China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 262 ratings — published 2008
Life and Death in Shanghai (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,957 ratings — published 1986
China: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 965 ratings — published 1992
Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,025 ratings — published 2008
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,242 ratings — published 2013
Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,521 ratings — published 1937
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 716 ratings — published 1990
1587: A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,553 ratings — published 1982
The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China (History of Imperial China, #4)
by (shelved 15 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 202 ratings — published 2009
The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (History of Imperial China, #5)
by (shelved 15 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 318 ratings — published 2010
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850-2008 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 759 ratings — published 2008
China's Last Empire: The Great Qing (History of Imperial China, #6)
by (shelved 14 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 318 ratings — published 2009
Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,796 ratings — published 2003
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 259,388 ratings — published 1931
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 581 ratings — published 1996
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,588 ratings — published 2011
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,229 ratings — published 2010
Mao's Last Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 483 ratings — published 2006
China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 244 ratings — published 2005
The Emperor's Tomb (Cotton Malone, #6)
by (shelved 12 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 21,577 ratings — published 2010
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 180,236 ratings — published -350
Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 550 ratings — published 2012
The Cambridge History of China, Volume 1: The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 B.C.-A.D. 220 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 79 ratings — published 1986
1421: The Year China Discovered America (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.61 — 15,141 ratings — published 2002
Imperial China, 900–1800 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.42 — 194 ratings — published 2000
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,209 ratings — published 2019
The Private Life of Chairman Mao (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,751 ratings — published 1988
Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 445 ratings — published 1977
On China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,064 ratings — published 2011
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 82,657 ratings — published 2004
Falling Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,072 ratings — published 1997
The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 731 ratings — published 1999
The Death of Woman Wang (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.46 — 974 ratings — published 1978
“You wound me
I remove his hand and meet him in the eye. "No worse than I already have.”
― Strike the Zither
I remove his hand and meet him in the eye. "No worse than I already have.”
― Strike the Zither
“Official historians have long depicted wu zetian as a sort of chinese version of the Red Queen from The Alice and Wonderland, by focusing on her secret police and fondness by bumping off enemies. "And she slept her way to the top".
An interesting angle given that her brief dynasty was one of the most prosperious periods in many respects (in terms of peace, arts, and social progress.)
On the other hand, what is always pointed out (and emphasized as fact) is that she was fearsome, ambitious, and ruthless. Common (and valued)character traits in just about every emperor...but clearly not easy to digest in an empress”
― Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
An interesting angle given that her brief dynasty was one of the most prosperious periods in many respects (in terms of peace, arts, and social progress.)
On the other hand, what is always pointed out (and emphasized as fact) is that she was fearsome, ambitious, and ruthless. Common (and valued)character traits in just about every emperor...but clearly not easy to digest in an empress”
― Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
