Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
By: Jing Tsu
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world…
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1. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
By: Evan Osnos
3.38
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction … read more
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2. China in Ten Words
By: Yu Hua , Allan H. Barr
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
From one of China's most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a un… read more
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3. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
By: Dennis Duncan
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. Bu… read more
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"[Citing "Alice in Wonderland"] the White Knight insists on singing Alice a song which he introduces as follows: 'The name of the song is called "Haddocks' Eyes".' 'Oh, that's the name of the song, is…"-Dennis Duncan, Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
4. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
By: Jacob Mikanowski
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more
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5. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
By: Gary J. Bass
4.29
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more
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6. Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy
By: Erich Schwartzel
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening and deeply reported narrative that details the surprising role of the movie business… read more
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7. Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
By: Louisa Lim
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths: to Britain, a ‘barren rock’ with … read more
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8. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
By: Fuchsia Dunlop
4.26
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thir… read more
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"In cooking as with love, it's not easy to ensure that both ingredients reach their climaxes of perfection simultaneously."-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"Appetite for food and sex is human nature, shi se xing ye ,' as the philosopher Gaozi said. Or, as the popular saying derived from the Book of Rites puts it: 'Eat, drink, man, woman' ( yin shi nan nü…"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"A successful dish, as my cooking school teachers always used to say, must hit all the targets of se, xiang, wei, xing – colour, fragrance, flavour and form. It should first delight the eyes with its …"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"Trying to categorize Chinese regional cuisines makes me dizzy. You can travel and travel and travel around China and taste new foods every single day, which is pretty much what I have been doing for …"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
9. Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
By: Ian Johnson
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Using history to challenge Communist Party rule. China's Underground Historians and their Battl… read more
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10. Jumpnauts
By: Hao Jingfang
3.33
Format: 368 pages, ebook
From the Hugo Award–winning author of Folding Beijing comes a gripping science fiction thriller in… read more
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"Ren."-Hao Jingfang, Jumpnauts
"I reject aspects of Confucianism that emphasize hierarchy in relations, obedience to authority, and all the rites and restrictive rules of propriety,"-Hao Jingfang, Jumpnauts
"Chang Tian chuckled. “When I was in the kitchen, I heard the three of you debate ‘good relationships.’ My goodness, you’re all theory with no practical knowledge at all. What do you know about health…"-Hao Jingfang, Jumpnauts
11. The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
By: Keyu Jin
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy China's… read more
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12. Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
By: Chun Han Wong
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and po… read more
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13. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
By: Brian Merchant
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more
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"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
14. The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
By: Silvia Ferrara
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Silvia Ferrara's The Greatest Invention is a code-cracking tour around the globe, sifting through o… read more
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15. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
By: Jing Tsu
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world… read more
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- nonfiction
- china
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16. Maoism
By: Julia Lovell
3.98
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
Since the heyday of Mao Zedong, there has never been a more crucial time to understand Maosim. A… read more
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17. Rebel Island: The Incredible Story of Taiwan
By: Jonathan Clements
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger econom… read more
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18. The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters
By: Megan Walsh
3.97
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the rela… read more
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19. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
By: Nicola Twilley
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more
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20. Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers
By: Paulina Rowińska
3.98
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote… read more
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