China

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir

Ai Weiwei

The "intimate and expansive" (Time) memoir of "one of the most important artists working in the world today" (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last...

September 13, 2022

Paperback

Crown Publishing Group (NY)

$18.99

Mirage

Anonymous ; Hanan, Patrick

First published anonymously in 1804--its author remains unknown--Mirage is set in Guangzhou (Canton), some decades before the city was overwhelmed by the opium trade and the Opium War. Su...

June 14, 2016

Paperback

New York Review of Books

$19.95

Empire of the Sun

Ballard, J G

The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China.

Jim is separated from his parents in a world at...

March 7, 2005

Paperback

Simon & Schuster

288 Pages

$17.00

The Emperors Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City

Berliner, Nancy

An extraordinary glimpse into imperial art from the Qianlong Garden, one of China's most stunning historical sites, located deep within the Forbidden City

For centuries, China's...

November 9, 2010

Hardcover

Yale University Press

254 Pages

$75.00

Across Many Mountains

Brauen, Yangzom

A powerful, emotional memoir and an extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending...

October 30, 2012

Paperback

St. Martin's Griffin

$18.99

Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai

Carter, James

It is November 12, 1941, and the world is at war. In Shanghai, just weeks before Pearl Harbor, thousands celebrate the birthday of China's founding father, Sun Yat-sen, in a new city center built...

June 16, 2020

Hardcover

W. W. Norton & Company

352 Pages

$28.95

Shanghai, 1930s. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin...

March 8, 2016

Paperback

Anchor Books

$17.00

Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Chang, Jung

A New York Times Notable Book
An NPR Best Book of the Year

In 1852, at age sixteen, Cixi was chosen as one of Emperor Xianfeng's numerous concubines. When he died...

September 9, 2014

Paperback

Anchor Books

$18.95

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Chang, Jung

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history--a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more...

August 12, 2003

Paperback

Simon & Schuster

$22.00

Mao: The Unknown Story

Chang, Jung ; Halliday, Jon

The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who...

November 14, 2006

Paperback

Anchor Books

$22.00