Alexander from China Books Review joins us to talk about evolutions in the Chinese book space, upcoming works by notable authors, and his favourite China books you may not have heard of before. He also gives tips on how to read more, what not to read, and how to create a good book club list!
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Books mentioned
The Shanghai Agents: The Soviet Plot to Start a Revolution in Interwar China by Heather Salter
Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity by Frank Dikötter
Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy by Liu Cixin
The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China by Ruixue Jia, Hongbin Li, Claire Cousineau
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan
Adrift in the South by Xiao Hai
Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang
Song of Praise for a Flower: One Woman’s Journey through China’s Tumultuous 20th Century by Fengxian Chu and Charlene Chu
Fly, Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Crazy Rich Asians Series by Kevin Kwan
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zi
To Live 活着 by Yu Hua
Hunter by Shuang Xuetao
To Rule All under Heaven: A History of Classical China, from Confucius to the First Emperor by Andrew Seth Meyer
Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History Edited by Emily Baum and Albert Wu
Why China Needs Democracy by Dongxian Jiang
Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism by Rongbin Han
Anyuan: Mining China’s Revolutionary Tradition by Elizabeth J. Perry
On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China by Margaret Hillenbrand
Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China by Margaret Hillenbrand
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