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royceH
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Q: Best book written about china that you've ever read?

The one I've just about finished reading is really great.  The author's ability to explain, matter-of-factly, the reality of chinese life is brilliant.

It's titled 'From the Dragon's Mouth' and was written by Ana Fuentes and published by Penguin.

I recommend you try to get your hands on a copy but would advise against getting a copy sent here in the mail.  I've tried that several times before and anything from the West with a china connection has been stolen/confiscated by the powers that be.

 

NB;  I bought it on a recent trip to Australia and would wager London to a brick it will never be available on the mainland.

 

What do you recommend?

 

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The Emperor's New Clothes - Hans Christian Andersen.

 

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http://m.alibris.com/Spider-Eaters-A-Memoir-Rae-Yang/book/9009121.   

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1984 - George Orwell.

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The Emperor's New Clothes - Hans Christian Andersen.

 

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Peking.  Can't remember the author, but it is a novel about English missionaries caught up in the Long March and the period following it.  Based on a true story.

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Edit - Author was Anthony Grey, he also wrote Saigon

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Shanghai Girls - Lisa See

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Said it once in another post this week but, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck.

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You probably would also enjoy China as I See It. One of her last books, it was published in 1971,  40 years after The Good Earth and two years before her death, this non-fiction probably has a lot more insights. I don't think someone like her would stop growing and 40 years is a long time.

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Animal farm

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The lonely Planet

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Anything by Jonathan Spence.

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I finally understand what 'double post' means...

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The books by Peter Hessler give a better idea about China and Chinese people of today than anything else

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I am no peasant, what are the people at echinacities thinking!?

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I am a peasant, and they made me a governor !

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Hahahaha.... I'm definitely a peasant and they reckon I'm a shifu.  

I know my wife calls black taxi drivers "shifu" so that sits well enough with me.  You know...just getting by on the periphery of the norm...

 

 

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Ezra Vogel's Deng biography.

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