Alexander from China Books Review joins us to talk about evolutions in the Chinese book space, upcoming works by notable authors, and his favourite China books you may not have heard of before. He also gives tips on how to read more, what not to read, and how to create a good book club list!

Read more from Alexander and the team at Chinabooksreview.com and don’t forget to find out more about the Sinobabble bookclub here!

Books mentioned

The Shanghai Agents: The Soviet Plot to Start a Revolution in Interwar China by Heather Salter

Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity by Frank Dikötter

Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy by Liu Cixin

The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China by Ruixue Jia, Hongbin Li, Claire Cousineau

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan

Adrift in the South by Xiao Hai

Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang

Song of Praise for a Flower: One Woman’s Journey through China’s Tumultuous 20th Century by Fengxian Chu and Charlene Chu

Fly, Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Crazy Rich Asians Series by Kevin Kwan

Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zi

To Live 活着 by Yu Hua

Hunter by Shuang Xuetao

To Rule All under Heaven: A History of Classical China, from Confucius to the First Emperor by Andrew Seth Meyer

Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History Edited by Emily Baum and Albert Wu

Why China Needs Democracy by Dongxian Jiang

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism by Rongbin Han

Anyuan: Mining China’s Revolutionary Tradition by Elizabeth J. Perry

On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China by Margaret Hillenbrand

Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China by Margaret Hillenbrand

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