8 Best china books like China: The Bubble That Never Pops by Thomas Orlik

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China: The Bubble That Never Pops

By: Thomas Orlik

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The Chinese economy appears destined for failure, the financial bubble forever in peril of popping,…

"Call it “Sinophrenia"

-Thomas Orlik, China: The Bubble That Never Pops

"Call it “Sinophrenia"

-Thomas Orlik, China: The Bubble That Never Pops

"The earlier adventures of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan provided a ready-to-go blueprint for how to manage the process. Just as China didn’t have to reinvent the wheel on technology—instead copying what already existed in more advanced economies—so also they didn’t have to reinvent the model of a developmental state, instead copying what had already worked so well for their East Asian neighbors."

-Thomas Orlik, China: The Bubble That Never Pops

"The earlier adventures of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan provided a ready-to-go blueprint for how to manage the process. Just as China didn’t have to reinvent the wheel on technology—instead copying what already existed in more advanced economies—so also they didn’t have to reinvent the model of a developmental state, instead copying what had already worked so well for their East Asian neighbors."

-Thomas Orlik, China: The Bubble That Never Pops

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Cover of How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell

1. How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region

By: Joe Studwell

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

How Asia Works( Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region) Hardcover JoeStudwell G… read more

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  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • economics
  • business

2. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

By: Dave Thomas , Andy Hunt

3.28

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

-- Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through th… read more

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3. Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

By: Charles T. Munger , None

4.42

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

EXPANDED THIRD EDITION includes Charlie's 2007 USC Law School Commencement address. Edited by Peter… read more

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  • nonfiction
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"What are the secret of success? -one word answer :"rational"

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

"The best armour of old age is a well spent life preceding it."

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

"The best armour of old age is a well spent life perfecting it."

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

"How to find a good spouse? -the best single way is to deserve a good spouse."

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

4. The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor

By: Howard Marks

3.81

Format: 75 pages, Hardcover

"This is that rarity, a useful book."--Warren Buffett Howard Marks, the chairman and cofounder of O… read more

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5. Gora

By: Rabindranath Tagore , None

3.79

Format: 223 pages,

Vast in its scope and rich in thought Gora has been acclaimed as a monumental work in the history o… read more

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6. From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society, A translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo

By: None , None , None

4.43

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and… read more

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7. What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

By: Michael J. Sandel

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for… read more

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8. The Russian Revolution: A New History

By: Sean McMeekin

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In The Russian Revolution, historian Sean McMeekin traces the origins and events of the Russian Rev… read more

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9. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • economics
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Cover of The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath by Peter Zeihan

10. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

By: Peter Zeihan

4.18

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more

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11. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

By: Javier Blas

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more

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  • history
  • politics
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  • economics
  • business
"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"

-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"

-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

Cover of Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas

12. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

By: Kim Ghattas

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

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13. Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties

By: David de Jong

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors… read more

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  • history
  • politics
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Cover of The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

14. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

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  • history
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Cover of The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin

15. The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

By: Daniel Yergin

4.20

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020 Named Energy Writer of the Yea… read more

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"У 1976 в газеті "Вечірній Ленінград" з'явилася стаття про досі невідомого дзюдоїста, що переміг у змаганнях і здобув звання чемпіона. "Люди ще почують про нього в майбутньому", передбачало видання. Т…"

-Daniel Yergin, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

Cover of The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield

16. The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

By: Anna Fifield

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant,… read more

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  • asia
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Kim Jong Chol even found a way to work the Belgian movie star into his school work. "If I had my idea world I would not allow weapons and atom bombs any more," he wrote in a school project while in B…"

-Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

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17. The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

By: Jonathan Kaufman

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Sassoons and the Kadoories--two Jewish families from Baghdad--had long been successful in busin… read more

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  • business
Cover of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick

18. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty by Peter Singer

19. The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty

By: Peter Singer

4.16

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

It is 2021 and the world has experienced unimaginable suffering, death and despair. The pandemic ha… read more

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  • politics
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"Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about."

-Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty

"Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. "

-Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty

"...moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong."

-Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty

"Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life."

-Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty

Cover of Private Equity: A Memoir by Carrie Sun

20. Private Equity: A Memoir

By: Carrie Sun

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indict… read more

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"A gift weighed down by the imposition of gratitude becomes an expectation; over time, it becomes debt."

-Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir

Cover of The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport by Joshua Robinson

21. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

By: Joshua Robinson

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more

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Cover of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle

22. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

By: Gary Gerstle

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more

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23. The World According to China

By: Elizabeth C. Economy

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world's population, China has the wherew… read more

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Cover of Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles by William Quinn

24. Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles

By: William Quinn

4.00

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and w… read more

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Cover of China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle by Dinny McMahon

25. China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle

By: Dinny McMahon

4.13

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A stunning inside look at how and why the foundations upon which China has built the world's second… read more

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Cover of The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century by Bruce J. Dickson

26. The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century

By: Bruce J. Dickson

4.05

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its people… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • china
Cover of China: The Bubble That Never Pops by Thomas Orlik

27. China: The Bubble That Never Pops

By: Thomas Orlik

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The Chinese economy appears destined for failure, the financial bubble forever in peril of popping,… read more

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"Call it “Sinophrenia"

-Thomas Orlik, China: The Bubble That Never Pops

"The earlier adventures of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan provided a ready-to-go blueprint for how to manage the process. Just as China didn’t have to reinvent the wheel on technology—instead copying …"

-Thomas Orlik, China: The Bubble That Never Pops

Cover of China's Leaders: From Mao to Now by David Shambaugh

28. China's Leaders: From Mao to Now

By: David Shambaugh

3.98

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • history
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

29. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • politics
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Cover of Leading Matters: Lessons from My Journey by John L. Hennessy

30. Leading Matters: Lessons from My Journey

By: John L. Hennessy

3.78

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

In Leading Matters , current Chairman of Alphabet (Google's parent company), former President of St… read more

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19 must-read history books like China: The Bubble That Never Pops by Thomas Orlik

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Vincent Bevins

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