Recommended Reading List

Reference

Hook, Brian, ed. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China (Cambridge University Press, 1991)

General Histories

Fairbank, John K., China: A New History (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1992)

Ho, Yong, China: An Illustrated History (Hippocrene Books, Inc., New York, 2000)

Spence, Jonathan D., The Search for Modern China (Norton, New York, 1990)

Personal Accounts

Chang, Jung, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (HarperCollins, London, 1991)

Cradock, Percy, Experiences of China (John Murray, London, 1994)

Zhang Xinxin and Sang Ye, eds. W. J. F. Jenner and Delia Davin Chinese lives: An Oral History of Contemporary China (Macmilan, London, 1987)

Close-of-century Overviews

Gittings, John, Real China: From Cannibalism to Karaoke (Pocket Books, London, 1997)

Hutchings, Graham, Modern China: A Guide to a Century of Change (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2001)

Kristof, Nicholas D. and WuDunn, Sheryl, China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power (Nicholas Brealey, London, 1994)

Wilson, Dick, China the Big Tiger: A Nation Awakes (Abacus, London, 1997)

Language

Ho, Yong, Chinese-English English-Chinese Dictionary and Phrasebook (Hippocrene Books, Inc., New York 2006)

____, Beginner’s Chinese (Hippocrene Books, Inc., New York, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003)

____, Intermediate Chinese (Hippocrene Books, Inc., New York, 2004)

____, Chinese-English Frequency Dictionary (Hippocrene Books, Inc., New York 2002)