China in Transition
Factory Girls: from Village to City in Changing China
Leslie T. Chang, Picador 2009
Portraits of migrant women workers that Ms Chang, the Wall Street Journal correspondent, met in the massive boomtown of Dongguan over several years. Her accounts are personal, honest and particularly helpful in understanding the personal and social changes accompanying China’s massive rural-urban migration. Named in Time magazine’s 10 non-fiction books of 2008.Out of Mao’s Shadow: the Struggle for the new Soul of China
Philip P. Pan, Picador, 2008
Investigative political reporting from the Washington Post’s leading China correspondent, examining the changing life of Chinese in many walks of life in the last fifteen years. Accesses areas denied to most foreign correspondents.The Changing Face of China: from Mao to Market
John Gittings, Oxford University Press, 2006
Veteran Guardian reporter, Mr Gittings offers an in-depth look at the transformations in China since Mao’s day, particularly changes in the spheres of politics, academia and poetic expression.Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of China’s Peasants
Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, Public Affairs Ltd. 2006
First appeared in Chinese in 2003 to a massive sensation, selling millions of pirated copies after it was banned by worried authorities. It helped renew top-level concern for the fate of China’s poorest farmers, and played a key role in the abolition of the agricultural land tax. The authors’ firsthand research focuses on rural Anhui province.One China, Many Paths
Chaohua Wang, ed., Verso, 2003
A compilation of interviews, articles and essays from several of China’s most prominent intellectuals belonging to both the ‘new left’ and liberal camps. Topics include the growing income disparity, rural educational provision, sexual equality and cultural trends.What Does China Think?
Mark Leonard, Public Affairs, 2008
Looks at whether China will be able to steer its own way to a modern nation state, and examines different Chinese thinkers’ views of what the ‘China model’ means.History of Christianity in China
Unfinished Encounter – China and Christianity
Robert E. Whyte, Collins, 1988
Christianity in China: from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Daniel H. Bays, Stanford University Press, 1996
Handbook of Christianity in China, volume 1: 635-1800
Nicolas Standaert, ed., Brill Academic Publishers: 2001
Protestantism in Contemporary China
Alan Hunter & Chan Kim-kwong, Cambridge University Press, 1993
Contemporary Protestant Christianity in China
God and Caesar in China – Policy Implications of Church-State Tensions
J. Kindopp & Lee Hamrin, Brooklings Institute, 2004
Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power
David Aikman, Macmillan, 2004
China’s Christian Millions
Tony Lambert, Monarch, 2006
The Heavenly Man
Brother Yun and Paul Hattaway, 2003
Seeking the Common Ground – Protestant Christianity, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement and China’s United Front
Philip L. Wickeri, Orbis, 1990
Contemporary Catholic Christianity in China
Guide to the Catholic Church in China
Jean Charbonnier (ed.), China Christian communications, 2008
China’s Catholics – Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society
Richard Madsen, University of California Press, 1998
The Chinese Catholic Church in Conflict, 1949-2001
William T. Liu, Beatrice Leung, 2004
The Catholic Church in Modern China: Perspectives
Edmond Tang, Jean-Paul Wiest, 1993
Chinese Christian Theology
God is Love
Bishop K.H. Ting, CCMI, 2004
History of Protestantism in China: the Indigenization of Christianity
Sumiko Yamamoto, 2000
A series of studies on some of the leading theological writings of twentieth century Chinese Christianity.Economy
China’s Global Reach: Markets, Multinationals and Globalization
Zhibin Gu, Fultus Corporation, rev. edn. 2006
An informed look at some of the lessons learned from multinational business, national and local Chinese business policies and the impact of the China boom. Very useful on the relations between China, Japan and India in the new business world.China Price: the True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
Alexandra Harney
Reports on the human impact of China’s low-cost, low-wage manufacturing, and deals well with the changes emerging out of China’s move of its manufacturing inland. Also addresses Western countries failure to properly audit their Chinese suppliers and pressure to keep costs low, and how demands of Western consumers for cheap products maintains the exploitation.China’s Modern History
A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World
Rana Mitter, 2004
Rebellions and Revolutions: China from the 1880’s to 2000
Jack Gray, 2003
Contemporary China
Alan Hunter & John Sexton, 1999
Biographies
Life and Death in Shanghai
Nien Cheng, Flamingo, 1995
One woman’s experiences of the Cultural Revolution.To the Edge of the Sky
Anhua Gao, Penguin, 2001
The life-story of a daughter of two revolutionary martyrs.Red Dust
Ma Jian, Vintage, 2002
A man’s three-year exploration of China in the years immediately after Mao’s death.Red Azalea
Anchee Min, Orion, 1996
Vermillion Gate: A Family Story of Communist China
Aiping Mu, Abacus, 2002
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
Xinran, Vintage, 2003
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter
Adeline Yen Mah, Penguin, 1998
Travel
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
Peter Hessler, John Murray, 2002
Two years spent as a peace corps volunteer in China.Frontiers of Heaven: Journey Beyond the Great Wall
Stanley Stewart, Flamingo, 1996
Exploration of China on the other side of the Great Wall.Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
Paul Theroux, Penguin, 1989
Fiction
Chairman Mao Would Not be Amused: Fiction from Today’s China
Howard Goldblatt (Ed.), Grove Press, 1996
Anthology of fiction from emerging Chinese writers.Brothers
Yu Hua, 2006
An explicit and provocative look at the moral breakdown of society in the post-Maoist era. Two step-brothers, orphaned during the cultural revolution, work out new ways of making money in the dog-eat-dog capitalism of the 1980s and 1990s. Yu is perhaps the most iconic and controversial writer to emerge in China during the last twenty years.Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Sijie, Virago, 2002
Explores the relationship between two city-dwellers sent to the countryside for re-education and a seamstress.Mr Muo’s Travelling Couch
Dai Sijie, Chatto & Windus, 2005
The adventures of China’s first psychoanalyst as he tries to save his first love from jail.CHILDREN / YOUNG PEOPLE
Spilled Water
Sally Grindley, Bloomsbury, 2005
Teenage. Life of a Chinese girl sold into domestic service.Wishbones: A Folk Tale From China
Barbara Ker Wilson, illustrated by Meilo So, Frances Lincoln, 1999
Picture book.The Kite Rider
Geraldine McCaughrean, OUP, 2002
8-12 years. Story of a boy flying through 13th Century China strapped to a large kite.The Nightingale
Stephen Mitchell, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline, Walker, 2003
Picture book.Ties that Bind, Ties that Break
Lensey Namiska, Walker, 2003
8-12 years. Story of a girl who refuses to have her feet bound and the impact this has upon her life.Ah Kee and the Glass Bottle
Joan Salanitri, illustrated by Di Wu, Greater Glider, 2003
Picture book.Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society
Adeline Yen Mah, Puffin, 2004
Ting-Xing Ye
Teenage. A Chinese girl adopted by a Canadian family decides to look into her ancestry following the Tian’anmen Square massacre.
