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Theroux, Paul "Riding the Iron Rooster" - 1988 The name Theroux is well known in the United Kingdom. Though not with the first nam...

  Buck, Pearl S. " Love and the Morning Calm " - 1951 Like many of Pearl S. Buck's books, I read this many years ago. Althoug...

Buck, Pearl S. "The Patriot" - 1939 Pearl S. Buck was always a great writer of historical fiction. Here, she talks about the probl...

Buck, Pearl S. "Kinfolk" - 1949 A story that tells us about the question everyone who has lived in a different country asks themse...

Buck, Pearl S. "My several worlds: A Personal Exile" - 1954 I read this book ages ago and don't know why I never reviewed it. ...

Engberding, Hans; Thöns, Bodo (Ed.) " Transsib-Lesebuch: Reiseerlebnisse auf der längsten Bahnstrecke der Welt " [ Transsib Reader...

Rutherfurd, Edward "China" - 2021 I was really looking forward to this book that I received for Christmas (thanks, Zach) because I...

Frankopan, Peter "The Silk Roads. A New History of the World" - 2015 I love books about the part of the world where the silk roads...

Sendker, Jan-Philipp "Dragon Games" aka "The Language of Solitude" (The Rising Dragon #2) ( German: Drachenspiele ) - 2...

Orth, Stephan "Couchsurfing in China: Encounters and Escapades Beyond the Great Wall" aka "High Tech and Hot Pot: Revealing E...

See, Lisa "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" - 2005 Lily and her friend Snow Flower were both born on " the fifth day of the si...

Brecht, Bertolt "The Good Person of Szechwan" ( German: Der gute Mensch von Sezuan ) - 1938-40 A story about good and bad people....

Fatland, Erika "The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine,...

Yu, Hua (余華/Yú Huá) "China in Ten Words" ( Chinese: 十個詞彙裡的中國/Shi ge cihui li de Zhongguo ) - 2012 Our latest book club su...

Sendker, Jan-Philipp "The Far Side of the Night" ( German: Am anderen Ende der Nacht ) (The Rising Dragon #3) - 2016 Jan...

Guo, Xiaolu (郭小橹) "Language" - 2017 The story of a Chinese girl who moves to England. I found this little book at the till...

Xueqin, Cao ( Cáo Xuěqín ) "Dream of the Red Chamber" ( Chinese: 红楼梦/Hung lou meng/aka The Story of the Stone ) - ca. 1717-17...

Ghosh, Amitav "Flood of Fire" (Ibis Trilogy #3) - 2015 After reading " Sea of Poppies " two years ago, I was happy ...

Sendker, Jan-Philipp "Whispering Shadows" ( German: Das Flüstern der Schatten ) - 2007   So far, I had only read the non-fic...

Buck, Pearl S. "The First Wife and Other Stories" - 1933 Some wonderfully described stories about Chinese life up until the b...