 | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Buy new: £5.61 / Used from: £1.99 An absolute must read. Shocking, astonishing and stays with you for a long time.
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 | The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran
Buy new: £2.88 / Used from: £0.01 I defy anyone to read this without shedding a tear.
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 | The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past by Karin Evans
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £2.52 The story of an American family who adopt a baby from China. Brilliant book.
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 | From China with Love: A Long Road to Motherhood by Emily Buchanan
Buy new: £5.25 / Used from: £0.76 A British family who adopt 2 girls from China. Very moving.
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 | Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China by Kay Ann Johnson
Buy new: £9.25 / Used from: £8.25 A look at China's abandoned girls and the reasons why.
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 | Falling Leaves (Penguin ELT Simplified Readers: Level 4: 1700 Head Words: Intermediate) by Adeline Yen Mah
Buy new: £5.20 / Used from: £0.85 A very moving true story of an unwanted daughter in a wealthy chinese family.
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 | Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 sGreat story set in the Forbiden City about the last Chinese Empress.
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 | The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £0.01 Fiction about 4 Chinese immigrants to the USA and their daughters. A great story.
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 | The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.30 A shocking, outregeous and horrifying look at China's holocuast.
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 | Red Dust by Ma Jian
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £1.65 An interesting and thought provoking trip through China by a Chinese photographer.
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 | The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian
Buy used from: £0.46 Anyone with a dark sense of humour will appreciate this. Bizarre.
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 | River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
Buy new: £4.82 / Used from: £3.44 An American spends 2 years living in a small town on the Yangtze. Absolutely brilliant and hightly recommended.
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 | China (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
Buy new: £8.30 / Used from: £8.50 Beautiful and informative for anyone interested in China. The pictures alone are stunning.
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 | Teach Yourself World Cultures: China (Teach Yourself Languages) by Kenneth Wilkinson
Great book about China for beginners. Lots of bite sized chunks. Gives further reading and web addresses too.
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 | The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Buy used from: £2.39 Beautiful book, written by a western woman who grew up in China. A classic and for a good reason.
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 | The Story of the Stone: a Chinese Novel: Vol 1, The Golden Days (Penguin Classics) by Xueqin Cao
Buy new: £4.58 / Used from: £0.33 This is the first of 5 volumes in this family saga. It takes us back to a long ago time in China and much better than reading a reference book.
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 | Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China by Paul Theroux
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Theroux travels by train all round China back in the 80's, He tells it in such an engaging way that we are on the journey with him.
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 | Behind the Wall by Colin Thubron
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £1.99 Another travel book from the 80's (when westeners could finally get back in to China), this time by Thubron.
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