My House Has Two Doors

Han Suyin

Non-fiction

In this fourth volume of her autobiography and history of China, covering the years from 1949 to 1979, Han Suyi

autobigrophy, china, history

The Silk Roads

A New History of the World

Peter Frankopan

History

The New Silk Roads takes a fresh look at the relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the anc

arabia, china, commerce, india, persia

Hidden Hand

How The Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World

Mareike Ohlberg

History

The Chinese Communist Party is determined to reshape the world in its image. The party is not interested in dem

alarmism, australia, china, communism

Kublai Khan

From Xanadu to Superpower

John Man

Biography

Kublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true

asia, china, history, mongolia

Red Star Over China

Edgar Snow

Non-fiction

The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with t

asia, china, civilwar, longmarch, mao, marxism

Everyday Life in Early Imperial China

During the Han Period 202 BC – AD 220

Michael Loewe

History

In this lively and accessible account, with illustrations on nearly every page, Michael Loewe gives us a vivid

china

The Middle Kingdom

Inside China Today

Erwin Wickert

Non-fiction

Here, chosen by Erwin Wickert from his own diaries, is a marvellous collection of anecdotes, encounters and obs

autobigrophy, china

The Last Emperor

Edward Behr

History

The Last Emperor is a 1987 biopic about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China.

china, film

The Crippled Tree

Han Suyin

Non-fiction

In The Crippled Tree Han Suyin evokes, through the life of her two families (eastern and western), a panorama o

autobigrophy, china

Hungry Ghosts

Chinas Secret Famine

Jasper Becker

History

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history.

china, famine, mao

The Art of War

Complete Texts and Commentaries

Sun Tzu

Philosophy

Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare an

asia, china, chinese, commentary, daoist

Mao: A Life

Philip Short

Biography

When the Nationalists routed a ragtag Red Army on the Xiang River during the Long March, an earthy Chinese peas

china, communism, mao

My Country and My People

Lin Yutang

History

In this atmosphere of change, the present intellectual youth of China has grown up. Where the fathers imbibed t

china, xenophobia

Return to Dragon Mountain

Memories of a Late Ming Man

Jonathan D Spence

History

Zhang Dai is recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of Chinas Ming dynasty. When he was born

china, memoir