Category Archives: China Books

Dreaming in Chinese by Deb Fallows

Deb Fallows has lived and travelled in China for four years. She studied at Harvard and has a Ph.D. in linguistics, and is author of A Mother’s Work. She and her husband, writer James Fallows, have two sons.

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Tales of Old Hong Kong

The new Tales of Old Hong Kong compiled by Derek Sandhaus is available at Earnshaw Books.

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Diamond Hill by Feng Chi-shun

Feng’s memoir Diamond Hill describes an era of gambling and gangsters, Suzie Wong and squatter villages, fires and food stalls, and the Kowloon Walled City and its white powder. “A time when people were poor, but life was rich,” he says. The world that he grew up in no longer exists, but his book – the first ever on the Diamond Hill refugee settlement, in either Chinese or English – offers a candid picture of what life was like for most Hong Kong residents in the 1950s.

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William A. Callahan’s China: The Pessoptimist Nation

China: The Pessoptimist Nation shows how the heart of Chinese foreign policy is not a security dilemma, but an identity dilemma. Through a careful analysis of how Chinese people understand their new place in the world, the book charts how Chinese identity emerges through the interplay of positive and negative feelings in a dynamic that intertwines China’s domestic and international politics.

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The WTO ruling: a half victory at best

In August 2009, a World Trade Organization panel ruled against China’s system of monopoly control over entertainment products. Was this the victory supporters hailed as the dawn of a new day for American and global entertainment companies in the China market?

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Urban China: Work in Progress

Urban China: Work in Progress published by Timezone 8 is a collection of works based on Urban China magazine. Below, its editor Brendan McGetrick gives us permission for an extract as well as a section from his own introduction to the book.

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Liliane Willens’ Stateless in Shanghai

Stateless in Shanghai is the true story of Dr. Liliane Willens’ experiences growing up as a “stateless person” in cosmopolitan Shanghai from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. Willens was born to Russian Jewish parents, both denationalized by the Soviet Union after fleeing the Bolshevik revolution, hence her “stateless” status refers to her families inability to flee elsewhere

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Duncan Hewitt’s Getting Rich First

Just released in the US as a paperback by Pegasus Books, with a new foreword, under the title China - Getting Rich First: A modern social history, the book draws on Hewitt’s experience as a student in China in the 1980s, and as a journalist in Beijing and Shanghai for the BBC and Newsweek since the 1990s.

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Lawrence L. Allen’s Chocolate Fortunes

Lawrence L. Allen, who for seven years was an executive with Hershey in China, and later Nestlé, has written Chocolate Fortunes, published by Amacom Books.

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The Inmost Shrine: A Photographic Odyssey of China, 1873

One of the first photojournalists in the world, John Thomson, traveled to China and took photographs of Chinese people in the late 19th century. His photographs have been widely circulated, collected by the Wellcome Gallery in England and by National Library of Scotland.

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