 | Great Leap Forward: Harvard Design School Project on the City (Taschen specials)
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £10.98 Most imaginative and innovative book about modern China, from a totally new perspective - the organisation of China's urban space
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 | The Burning Forest: Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics by Simon Leys
Buy used from: £6.74 Wonderfully witty, a take on China immediately Post Mao, and still a good starting point for centering oneself now
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 | The Chinese Box (China Coast Trilogy 2) by Christopher New
Buy used from: £22.50 Perhaps the only novel about China by a foreigner to capture the experience of engaging with the challanges and paradoxes of contemporary China
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 | China Shakes The World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation by James Kynge
Buy new: £11.33 / Used from: £0.01 A good practical account of the impact of China's economic growth on Chinese, and the world. The case stufy of Lifan is particularly interesting
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 | China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy by M Pei
Buy new: £36.05 / Used from: £29.54 An account by a Chinese economist of the position China is currently in - the world's first rich-poor country
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 | China at the Crossroads by Peter Nolan
Buy new: £17.09 / Used from: £16.88 Provocative look at the challenges facing China at the opening of the 21st century, Anything by Nolan is worth looking at - one of the few writers who uses a good evidence base to write about China.
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 | Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges (East Gate Books) by Willy Wo-Lap Lam
Buy new: £76.90 / Used from: £56.11 A bang up to date account of China's new leadership, by one of the most experienced commentators on modern China
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 | Struggling Giant: China in the 21st Century by Kerry Brown
Buy new: £9.52 / Used from: £6.58 I would suggest this! But it contains a personal perspective on what are the unique contradictions of China in the modern period, and how we have to engage.
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