Our Books on China, Taiwan and Tibet

A select list of some of the books about China, Taiwan and Tibet and authors from these countries.

Deng Xiaoping by Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine

Deng Xiaoping by Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine

Deng Xiaoping | A Revolutionary Life by Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine provides a look into the entire life of influential Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. Based on newly discovered documents, the book covers his entire life, from his childhood and student years to the post-Tiananmen era.
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The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong by Gyalo Thondup and Anne Thurston

The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong by Gyalo Thondup and Anne F. Thurston

The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong | The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet by Gyalo Thondup and Anne F. Thurston tells the story of the Dalai Lama's exiled family from their sacred homeland of Tibet. For the last sixty years, Gyalo Thondup has been at the at the heart of the epic struggle to protect and advance Tibet in the face of unreliable allies, overwhelming odds, and devious rivals.
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Tombstone | The Great Chinese Famine 1958-1962 by Yang Jisheng

Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine 1958-1962 by Yang Jisheng

Tombstone | The Great Chinese Famine 1958-1962 by Yang Jisheng looks deeper into the devistating famine during China's Great Leap Forward. The author pieced together the events that led to mass starvation, and attributes responsibility for the deaths to the totalitarian system and refusal of officials to value human life over ideology and self-interest.
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In the Shadow of the Rising Dragon

In the Shadow of the Rising Dragon, edited by Xu Youyu and Hua Ze

In the Shadow of the Rising Dragon | Stories of Repression in the New China, edited by Xu Youyu and Hua Ze is a collection of personal accounts of Chinese citizens and the inhumanity they regularly face. Edited by two Chinese scholars, both of whom have experienced surveillance, control, abduction, and detention, this is a probing and revealing look at life under the police state of the world's most populous country.
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Mao The Real Story by Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine

Mao: The Real Story by Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine

Mao | The Real Story by Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine provides a comprehensive account of Mao Zedong’s rise to power as the leader of China and his ruthless regime. The book traces how he created a totalitarian government even more destructive and extreme than Stalin’s, while transforming China from an impoverished nation to a leading world power. The authors draw upon extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to reveal surprising details about Mao’s rise to power and his leadership in China.
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The Dongdong Dancer and the Sichuan Cook

Die Dongdong-Tänzerin und der Sichuan-Koch by Liao Yiwu (published in German)

Die Dongdong-Tänzerin und der Sichuan-Koch: Geschichten aus der chinesischen Wirklichkeit by Liao Yiwu | The Dongdong Dancer and the Sichuan Cook: Stories from Chinese Reality is an exciting and direct insight into the real China of today. Peace Prize winner Liao Yiwu has made it his life's work to give the small, oppressed people in China a voice.
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The Little Red Guard by Wenguang Huang

The Little Red Guard by Wenguang Huang

The Little Red Guard | A Family Memoir by Wenguang Huang tells story of devotion to traditional Chinese practices during a time of political change. After his grandmother became obsessed with having a proper burial, Huang's father built her a coffin. Huang was appointed as coffin keeper, a distinction that included sleeping next to the coffin at night.
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God Is Red by Liao Yiwu

God Is Red by Liao Yiwu

In God is Red by Liao Yiwu, a Chinese dissident journalist and poet — once lauded, later imprisoned, and now celebrated author of For a Song and a Hundred Songs and The Corpse Walker — profiles the extraordinary lives of dozens of Chinese Christians, providing a rare glimpse into the underground world of belief that is taking hold within the officially atheistic state of Communist China.
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June Fourth Elegies by Liu Xiaobo

June Fourth Elegies by Liu Xiaobo

June Fourth Elegies by Liu Xiaobo is a collection of the author's poems about the protests in Tiananmen Square. The collection presents Liu’s poems written across twenty years in memory of fellow protestors at Tiananmen Square, as well as poems addressed to his wife, Liu Xia.
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The Woman from Shanghai by Xianhui Yang

Woman from Shanghai by Xianhui Yang

Woman from Shanghai | Tales of Survival from a Chinese Labor Camp by Xianhui Yang explores the horrific experiences of Chinese citizens in a re-education labor camp. He tells the tales of ordinary people facing extraordinary tribulations, time and again securing their humanity against those who were intent on taking it away.
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The Corpse Walker by Liao Yiwu

The Corpse Walker by Liao Yiwu

The Corpse Walker by Liao Yiwu introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner, among others. By asking challenging questions with respect and empathy, Liao Yiwu managed to get his subjects to talk openly and sometimes hilariously about their lives, desires, and vulnerabilities.
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Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China by Kang Zhengguo

Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China by Kang Zhengguo

Confessions | An Innocent Life in Communist China by Kang Zhengguo tells the author's story during a difficult part of China's history. With clear vision this intimate memoir draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of "Liberation" in 1949 through the Tiananmen Square protests and after.
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