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10 best books like Family (Ba Jin): YELL-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American, Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi, Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai, The Dragon's Village: An Autobiographical Novel of Revolutionary China, A Dictionary of Maqiao, Half of Man Is Woman, Selected Stories, China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power

YELL-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American
AuthorVickie Nam
ISBN0060959444
In this groundbreaking collection of personal writings, young Asian American girls come together for the first time and engage in a dynamic converstions about the unique challenges they face in their lives. Promoted by a variety of pressing questions from editor Vickie Nam and culled from hundreds...
Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi
AuthorKangxi
Manchu Monarch’s Memorable Moments and More

Jonathan Spence has not written any bad books. If you want readable, interesting books about China which take unusual angles, choose any of his. This one, which focuses on the life of the Qing (Manchu) emperor Kang-hsi (now spelled Kangxi) who...
Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276
AuthorJacques Gernet
ISBN0804707200
This is one of my earliest and most valuable finds, an excellent resource for the study and/or reenactment of the period. The first several chapters detail city life, social classes, housing, cooking and personal grooming. The later chapters cover the broader subjects of life cycle (birth, marriage...
The Chinese in America: A Narrative History
AuthorIris Chang
ISBN0142004170
In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, often against great obstacles, to find success. She chronicles the many accomplishments...
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
AuthorWang Anyi
ISBN0231143427
Set in post-World War II Shanghai, "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow" follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the "longtong," the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods.

Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks...
The Dragon's Village: An Autobiographical Novel of Revolutionary China
AuthorYuan-tsung Chen
ISBN0140058117
Persevere! The first few chapters of this novel may put you off as the writing is somewhat stilted and formulaic. However, once Ling Ling, the book’s heroine, arrives in Longxiang far away from the comforts of Shanghai, this becomes a whole other book and a compelling one at that.

It is 1949...
A Dictionary of Maqiao
AuthorHan Shaogong
ISBN0385339356
From the daring imagination of one of China’s greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality–the story of a young man “displaced” to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries,...
Half of Man Is Woman
AuthorZhang Xianliang
ISBN0393025861
Poet Zhang Yonglin is sentenced to a labor camp he ironically describes as a haven amidst the hysteria of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. After he marries a woman he had seen eight years earlier, the story becomes, on one level, an analogy between his temporary sexual impotence and the position of intellectuals....
Selected Stories
AuthorXun Lu
ISBN0393008487
"When I was young I, too, had many dreams. Most of them came to be forgotten, but I see nothing in this to regret. For although recalling the past may make you happy, it may sometimes also make you lonely, and there is no point in clinging in spirit to lonely bygone days. However, my trouble is that I cannot...
China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
AuthorNicholas D. Kristof
ISBN1857881583
The author , who married to an Chinese American girl is extremely knowledgeable about China from his formal as well as informal education about the land and its people.He has the advantage that other do not have , the knowledge he can obtain from his wife.
In general he is very objective about many...
The Debt of Tears
AuthorXueqin Cao
ISBN0140443711
"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760), also known by the title of "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into five volumes, of which "The Debt of Tears" is the fourth, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story which closely accords...
Five t'Ang Poets
AuthorWang Wei
"Todo lo que amas de la literatura japonesa es en realidad chino"... ¿Cuántos años me llevará entender lo que él dijo al pasar?
Vengan aquí, lectores de Murasaki, Kawabata, Yosano... y tal vez la última: Kawakami. Vengan y lean a estos poetas que escribieron hace 1300 años y que también...
The Rice Sprout Song
AuthorEileen Chang
The first of Eileen Chang's novels to be written in English, The Rice-Sprout Song portrays the horror and absurdity that the land-reform movement brings to a southern village in China during the early 1950s. Contrary to the hopes of the peasants in this story, the redistribution of land does not mean...
Five Spice Street
AuthorCan Xue
ISBN0300122276
Five Spice Street tells the story of a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. Some think X is 50 years old; others that she is 22. Some...
The King of Trees: Three Novellas: The King of Trees, The King of Chess, The King of Children
AuthorAh Cheng
When the three novellas in The King of Trees were published separately in China in the 1980s, “Ah Cheng fever” spread across the country. Never before had a fiction writer dealt with the Cultural Revolution in such Daoist-Confucian terms, discarding Mao-speak, and mixing both traditional and...
Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty I
AuthorSima Qian
ISBN0231081650
WHAT EVERY EDUCATED CITIZEN OF THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE GREAT HISTORIANS OF WORLD HISTORY--HERODOTUS, THUCYDIDES, SIMA QIAN, IBN KHALDUN, THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS, JULIUS CAESAR, PLUTARCH, LIVY, POLYBIUS, TACITUS, GIBBON, MARX, SPENGLER & TOYNBEE----FROM...
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature
AuthorJoseph S.M. Lau
ISBN0231138415
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature has long been a definitive resource for Chinese literature in translation, offering a complete overview of twentieth-century writing from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and making inroads into the twenty-first century as well. In this new edition...
Teahouse
AuthorLao She
ISBN9629961253
Set in an old teahouse in Beijing, the play is typical of Lao She's art that seeks to provide a panoramic view of Chinese history and culture in their transformation from tradition to modernity. Teahouse spans fifty years in modern Chinese history from the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the Republican...
The Scholars
AuthorWu Jingzi
ISBN7119012134
A masterpiece from the Ming dynasty, Wu Ching-tzu's The Scholars ranks with Dream of the Red Chamber, Journey to the West, and the Water Margin as one of the greatest classic novels of China. The Scholars is the first Chinese novel of its scope not to borrow any characters from history or legend and it is...
Border Town
AuthorShen Congwen
ISBN0061436917
New in the Harper Perennial Modern Chinese Classics series, Border Town　　is a classic Chinese novel—banned by Mao’s regime—that captures the ideals of rural China through the moving story of a young woman and her grandfather. Originally published in 1934 by author Shen Congwen, this...
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
AuthorJonathan D. Spence
ISBN0393315568
Whether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of a great historian at his best, God's Chinese Son must be read. At the center of this history of China's...
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