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Top-130 Books on China
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John Rabe: The Good Man of Nanking. 2000 (Vintage)

The German businessman John Rabe was an eye witness of what happened at Nanking. |
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Kenneth Lieberthal: Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform. 2nd Ed. 2003 (W. W. Norton)

Scholarly. |
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Nien Cheng: Life and Death in Shanghai. 1988 (Penguin)

Personal account of suffering under Cultural Revolution |
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Barbara W. Tuchman: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45. 2001 (Grove Press)

Argues that the US should have supported Mao. |
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Deirdre Chetham: Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges. 2004 (Palgrave Macmillan)

Describes an ancient world that had been lost. |
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Ross Terrill: Madam Mao. (Rev. Ed.) 2000 (Stanford University Press)

Impressive biography. Back-stabbing in power circles during later Mao era. |
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Maurice Meisner: The Deng Xiaoping Era: An Inquiry into the Fate of Chinese Socialism, 1978-94. 1996 (Hill & Wang)

Highlights achievements and failures of the Deng era. |
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Roderick MacFarquhar (Ed.): The Politics of China: The Eras of Mao and Deng. 1997 (Cambridge Univ. Press)

Scholarly. |
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David L. Shambaugh: Power Shift: China and Asia's New Dynamics. 2006 (Cambridge Univ. Press)

Analyzes the changing political balance in Asia. |
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Scott Kennedy: China Cross Talk: The American Debate Over China Policy ... 2003 (Rowman & Littlefield)

Broad spectrum of opinions. |
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