Jonathan Fenby

First Leap Forward

Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination

By Robert Bickers

Jonathan Mirsky

Communist Poster Boy

No Wall Too High

By Xu Hongci (Translated by Erling Hoh)

Andrew Simmons

Tibetan Travels

Tulku

By Peter Dickinson

Jonathan Mirsky

Flow Country

The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China

By Philip Ball

Timothy Brook

Making a Bang

The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History

By Tonio Andrade

Jonathan Mirsky

Girls Allowed

China’s Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy

By Kay Ann Johnson

One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment

By Mei Fong

William Hamilton-Dalrymple

Pass the Sikh Back, Sarah

Chinese Characters

By Sarah Lloyd

Paul Theroux

Slow Boat to China

China – Land of Discovery

By Robert K G Temple

The New Chinese Revolution

By Lynn Pan

Waves

By Bei Dao

Paul Theroux

Chuang Shang Wen-Xue

Life and Death in Shanghai

By Nien Cheng

Jonathan Mirsky

A Sorority of Character

Four Sisters of Hofei

By Annping Chin

Jonathan Mirsky

Stealing the Crown’s Jewel

The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China and the Japanese Occupation

By Philip Snow

Jonathan Mirsky

The Shanghai Beat

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift In Shanghai

By Robert Bickers

Jonathan Mirsky

Rebel Province

Wild West China: The Taming of Xinjiang

By Christian Tyler

Jonathan Mirsky

China’s God Squad

Jesus In Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power

By David Aikman

Jonathan Mirsky

Elephants, Never Forget

The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China

By Mark Elwin

Nick Holdstock

In Search of the Willow Palisade

In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China

By Michael Meyer

Jonathan Mirsky

He Fought the Law

The Barefoot Lawyer: The Remarkable Memoir of China’s Bravest Political Activist

By Chen Guangcheng (Translated by Danica Mills)

Jonathan Mirsky

The Going Strikes

Falun Gong: The End of Days

By Maria Hsia Chang