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Chinese History Books
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The Search For Modern China (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,204 ratings — published 1990
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 121,278 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 — 51,596 ratings — published 1997
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 4.22 — 2,032 ratings — published 2012
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,623 ratings — published 2013
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,040 ratings — published 2010
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,991 ratings — published 2016
Mao: The Unknown Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 13,679 ratings — published 2002
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,001 ratings — published 2018
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 10,544 ratings — published 2013
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,253 ratings — published 1996
China: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,349 ratings — published 2008
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 597 ratings — published 2007
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 556,490 ratings — published -500
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,075 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 — 2,208 ratings — published 2020
China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (History of Imperial China, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 291 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 — 13,926 ratings — published 1986
China: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 963 ratings — published 1992
Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,013 ratings — published 2008
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,207 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 4.11 — 1,494 ratings — published 1937
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 711 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 — 1,531 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 4.08 — 199 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 3.91 — 312 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 — 756 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 — 315 ratings — published 2009
Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,720 ratings — published 2003
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 258,680 ratings — published 1931
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 578 ratings — published 1996
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,218 ratings — published 2010
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 — 21,503 ratings — published 2010
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,564 ratings — published 2011
Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 547 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 — 77 ratings — published 1986
Mao's Last Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 478 ratings — published 2006
Imperial China, 900–1800 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.43 — 188 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 — 4,152 ratings — published 2019
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 178,797 ratings — published -350
Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 439 ratings — published 1977
On China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,996 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 — 81,884 ratings — published 2004
Falling Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,007 ratings — published 1997
1421: The Year China Discovered America (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.61 — 15,104 ratings — published 2002
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 — 728 ratings — published 1999
The Death of Woman Wang (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 3.46 — 968 ratings — published 1978
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as chinese-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 190,980 ratings — published 2023
“People are more predictable than they care to admit.”
― Strike the Zither
― Strike the Zither
“What's wrong with China?" Dr. Frene demanded of me almost immediately, after Nym introduced us. "Why were the Chinese able to invent everything and develop nothing? Why did Chinese civilization undergo a menopause? What happened to China's creative power?"
"Maybe China atrophied because of lack of competition," I suggested weakly.
"Nonsense!" he screamed mildly. "China is a case of stability achieved at the expense of stifling the individual. The society lives but the creative personality dies. Taoistic passivism and fatalism on the one hand, bastard-Confucianism on the other: ancestor-worship, adoration of the male offspring, worship of the phallus! Regimentation of the mind by the classics on the one hand, dissipation of sense power and early and constant cohabitation on the other hand. The mind becomes a perfect mechanical instrument but remains a blank because the senses are dead which should serve and simulate it!”
― Journey to the Beginning
"Maybe China atrophied because of lack of competition," I suggested weakly.
"Nonsense!" he screamed mildly. "China is a case of stability achieved at the expense of stifling the individual. The society lives but the creative personality dies. Taoistic passivism and fatalism on the one hand, bastard-Confucianism on the other: ancestor-worship, adoration of the male offspring, worship of the phallus! Regimentation of the mind by the classics on the one hand, dissipation of sense power and early and constant cohabitation on the other hand. The mind becomes a perfect mechanical instrument but remains a blank because the senses are dead which should serve and simulate it!”
― Journey to the Beginning
