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9 best books like Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China (James M. Fallows): The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance, China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China, Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale, In the American Grain, The American Language, The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980, The Ants

The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance
AuthorLarry Gonick
ISBN0393324036
An irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.

Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and...
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
AuthorRob Gifford
ISBN1400064678
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...
When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
AuthorCecilia Manguerra Brainard
ISBN0472086375
Set against the backdrop of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's brilliant novel weaves myth and legend together with the suffering and tragedies of the Filipino people. When nine-year-old Yvonne flees with her family into the jungle to join the resistance...
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
AuthorJohn Pomfret
ISBN0805076158
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...
Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale
AuthorBelle Yang
Celebrated artist and writer Belle Yang makes a stunning debut as a graphic memoirist with this story of crisis and survival.

When Belle Yang was forced to take refuge in her parents’ home after an abusive boyfriend began stalking her, her father entertained her with stories of old China....
In the American Grain
AuthorWilliam Carlos Williams
ISBN0811202305
Prose essays ranging in theme from Erik the Red and Christopher Columbus to Abraham Lincoln about what it means to be an American.

William Carlos Williams was not a historian, but he was fascinated by the texture of American history. He found in the fabric of familiar episodes new shades of meaning,...
The American Language
AuthorH.L. Mencken
ISBN0394400755
The American Language, first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the English language as spoken in the United States. Mencken was inspired by "the argot of the colored waiters" in Washington, as well as one of his favorite authors, Mark Twain, and his experiences on the streets of Baltimore....
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980
AuthorJonathan D. Spence
ISBN0140062793
 “A milestone in Western studies of China.” (John K. Fairbank)
 
In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants—the writers, historians, philosophers,...
The Ants
AuthorBert Hölldobler
ISBN3540520929
This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Hölldobler and Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology,...
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