The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
7 best books like The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed (Michael Meyer): Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory, Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China, Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now, China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power, Rickshaw Boy, A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel: Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China, Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from 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...
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
| Author | Paul French |
| ISBN | 0143121006 |
Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of Pamela Werner's body sends a shiver through already nervous Peking. Is it the work of a madman? One of the ruthless Japanese soldiers now...
Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
| Author | Jan Wong |
| ISBN | 0385482329 |
Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool...
| 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 | Lao She |
| ISBN | 0061436925 |
A beautiful new translation of beloved Chinese author Lao She's masterpiece of social realism, about the misadventures of a poor Beijing rickshaw driver
First published in China in 1937, Rickshaw Boy is the story of Xiangzi, an honest and serious country boy who works as a rickshaw puller...
A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel: Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China
| Author | Pin Ho |
| ISBN | 1610392736 |
The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China's new president Xi Jinping.
The scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai family—the...
| 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,...
