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Kings of Shanghai

By Jonathan Kaufman

The First Emperor of China

By Jonathan Clements

My China Eye: Memoirs of a Jew and a Journalist

By Israel Epstein

From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet

By Vikram Seth

China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle

By Dinny McMahon

China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle

By Dinny McMahon

A Brief History of Khubilai Khan: Lord of Xanadu, Founder of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor of China

By Jonathan Clements

Two Gun Cohen

By Daniel S. Levy

Surviving the Killing Fields: Cambodian Odyssey

By Haing S. Ngor, Roger Warner

A Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Memoir of China's Past Through its Proverbs

By Adeline Yen Mah

God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

By Jonathan D. Spence

The Arcanum

By Gleeson, Janet

Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

By Timothy F. Geithner

Diplomacy

By Kissinger, Henry

Transgender China

By H. Chiang

CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping

By Professor Kerry Brown (Lau China Institute, King's College London, UK)

South Col: One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953

By Wilfrid Noyce

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

By Mark Leonard

From Emperor to Citizen: Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi

By Henry Pu Yi

The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

By Lee Kuan Yew

The Soong Dynasty

By Sterling Seagrave

God's Smuggler to China

By Brother David, etc., Dan Wooding, Sara Bruce

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

By Tahir Hamut Izgil, Joshua L. Freeman

China

By Han Suyin

Risotto With Nettles: A Memoir with Food

By Del Conte, Anna

The Hong Kong Diaries

By Chris Patten

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

By Jung Chang

Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-Hsi: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi

By Jonathan D. Spence

Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost

By Jonathan Fenby