Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion
10 best books like Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion (Michael Levy): Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory, China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power, The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed, Sounds of the River: A Young Man's University Days in Beijing, Iron and Silk, Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China, China Underground, Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China, Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
| Author | Peter Hessler |
| ISBN | 0061804096 |
From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China. In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For...
| Author | Rob Gifford |
| ISBN | 1400064678 |
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution...
| Author | Michael Meyer |
| ISBN | 0802716520 |
A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes.
Soon we will be able to say about old Beijing that what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn’t...
| Author | Da Chen |
| ISBN | 0060958723 |
In this "equally beguiling sequel to his acclaimed memoir, Colors of the Mountain" (Kirkus Reviews), teenager Da Chen takes his first train ride away from the farm he was raised on to his new university life in Beijing. He soon faces a host of ghastly challenges, including poor living conditions, lack...
| Author | Mark Salzman |
| ISBN | 0394755111 |
Salzman is a sweet guy, there's no doubt about it. his tales of his time in china are direct, cleanly written, and rooted in a clear love of the world around him and the people in it. he manages to effortlessly sidestep any potential landmines in terms of race, culture, or class simply by being himself - a...
Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language
| Author | Deborah Fallows |
| ISBN | 0802779131 |
Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs...
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
| Author | John Pomfret |
| ISBN | 0805076158 |
As one the first American students admitted to China after the communist revolution, John Pomfret was exposed to a country still emerging from the twin tragedies of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Crammed into a dorm room with seven Chinese men, Pomfret contended with all manner...
| Author | Zachary Mexico |
| ISBN | 1593762232 |
China is often in the news, but our knowledge of this massive country is cursory at best. Carefully controlled by the Chinese government, little escapes the scrutiny of those who monitor the media. With such a large land mass, a mix of cultures, and one of the world's oldest civilizations, it's surprisingly...
| Author | Jen Lin-Liu |
| ISBN | 0151012911 |
A memorable and mouthwatering cook’s tour of today’s China
As a freelance journalist and food writer living in Beijing, Jen Lin-Liu already had a ringside seat for China’s exploding food scene. When she decided to enroll in a local cooking school—held in an unheated classroom with...
Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China
| Author | Rachel DeWoskin |
| ISBN | 0393328597 |
Determined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a “fiery” life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a plane to Beijing to work for an American PR firm based in the busy capital. Before she knows it, she is not just exploring Chinese culture but also creating it as the sexy, aggressive,...
| Author | James M. Fallows |
| ISBN | 0307456242 |
“Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider the economic,...
| Author | Susan Conley |
| ISBN | 0307594068 |
“The Foremost Good Fortune is a beautiful story of womanhood, motherhood, travel and loss, written by an author of rare and radiant grace.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love.) In 2007, American writer Susan Conley moves to Beijing with her husband and two young sons. Six months later,...
| Author | Alan Paul |
| ISBN | 0061993158 |
Alan Paul, award–winning author of the Wall Street Journal’s online column “The Expat Life,” gives his engaging, inspiring, and unforgettable memoir of blues and new beginnings in Beijing. Paul’s three-and-a-half-year journey reinventing himself as an American expat—while raising...
| Author | Bill Holm |
| ISBN | 1571312501 |
Arranged by letter of the alphabet, with at least one entry per letter, these short pieces capture the variety of daily life in contemporary China. Writing about traditions that endure in rural areas as well as the bureaucratic absurdities an American teacher and traveler experiences in the 1980s,...
Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China
| Author | Colin Thubron |
| ISBN | 0099459329 |
Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron sets off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to Tibet, starting from a tropical paradise near the Burmese border to the windswept wastes of the Gobi desert and the far end of the Great Wall. What Thubron reveals...
| Author | Miranda Kennedy |
| ISBN | 1400067863 |
When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns in Delhi about renting an apartment as a single woman—it’s...
| Author | Mei-Ling Hopgood |
| ISBN | 1565126009 |
In a true story of family ties, journalist Mei-Ling Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, comes face to face with her past when her Chinese birth family suddenly requests a reunion after more than two decades.
In 1974, a baby girl from Taiwan arrived in America,...
| Author | Wenguang Huang |
| ISBN | 1594488290 |
Three generations of a family living under one roof reflect the dramatic transformations of an entire society in this memoir of life in 20th century China
When Wenguang Huang was nine years old, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing cremation, she extracted from her...
| Author | Linda Leaming |
| ISBN | 1401928463 |
Tucked away in the eastern end of the Himalayas lies Bhutan—a tiny, landlocked country bordering China and India. Impossibly remote and nearly inaccessible, Bhutan is rich in natural beauty, exotic plants and animals, and crazy wisdom. It is a place where people are genuinely content...
| Author | Salma Abdelnour |
| ISBN | 0307885941 |
As Beirut exploded with the bombs and violence of a ruthless civil war in the ’80s, a nine-year-old Salma Abdelnour and her family fled Lebanon to start a new life in the States. Ever since then— even as she built a thriving career as a food and travel writer in New York City—Salma has had a hunch that...
| Author | Liel Leibovitz |
| ISBN | 0393070042 |
At the twilight of the nineteenth century, China sent a detachment of boys to America in order to learn the ways of the West, modernize the antiquated empire, and defend it from foreigners invading its shores. After spending a decade in New England’s finest schools, the boys re-turned home, driven...
| Author | Mark Leonard |
| ISBN | 1586484842 |
We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai need to be redrawn every two weeks. We know that China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backwardness into modernity in just thirty years, and that its impact on the global economy...
A search for shipwrecked ancestors, forgotten histories, and a sense of home
Fascinating and intimate, The Girl from Foreign is one woman's search for ancient family secrets that leads to an adventure in far-off lands. Sadia Shepard, the daughter of a white Protestant from Colorado and a...
| Author | Victoria Abbott Riccardi |
Two years out of college and with a degree from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Victoria Riccardi left a boyfriend, a rent-controlled New York City apartment, and a plum job in advertising to move to Kyoto to study kaiseki, the exquisitely refined form of cooking that accompanies the formal Japanese tea ceremony....
