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Q: What's the best book you've read about China?
I'm currently working my way through Peter Hessler's trilogy of China books and am enjoying them thoroughly. Any other suggestions? I'm looking at non-fiction books here.
Red Dust by Ma Jian is good. Don't know if you'll get it in China though......
I started reading a book about the Tiananmen incident. But to me so far it's no good. The only thing I got from it was that the author or whoever it was, was pretty much an undisciplined kid growing up who got into a lot of trouble stole things from the local people and claimed he had the most amazing stories so the adults would gather around him and let him into the movie theater for free.
I stopped reading at this moment.....it's a hard read.
I rather stick with the educational books such as my chinese phrase book. It does have a time line of history events that happened in china. Not the kind I would not be interested in but some really important history.
I haven't really read any books on China but I am reading China Witness by Xin Ran, I found it really interesting talking about different stories of people's life growing up in China.
