Anita Desai

Land of Women

The Woman Warrior

By Maxine Hong Kingston

China Men

By Maxine Hong Kingston

Rana Mitter

From Beijing with Love

Great State: China and the World

By Timothy Brook

Vaudine England

From Shanghai to Surrey

The Chinese in Britain: A History of Visitors and Settlers

By Barclay Price

Percy Cradock

Where Real Penetration is Impossible

The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds

By Jonathan Spence

Jonathan Mirsky

Case Closed?

A Death in Peking: Who Really Killed Pamela Werner?

By Graeme Sheppard

Kyril FitzLyon

Spectator Sport

Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba 1928-1978

By Paul Hollander

Christopher Coker

Will China Rule the Waves?

Asian Waters: The Struggle over the Asia-Pacific and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion

By Humphrey Hawksley

John Keay

Poppy Power

Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age

By Stephen R Platt

Joe Jenkins

Beyond The Pancakes

Mona in the Promised Land

By Gish Jen

Michael Burleigh

The Eagle & the Dragon

The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present

By John Pomfret

Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power

By Howard W French

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

By Graham Allison

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