China Books of The Year 📚 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Chinese Photography: Twentieth Century and Beyond
RongrongChina Books of The Year 📚CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY A comprehensive review of photography in China since the beginning of the 20th century. Curated by a leading contemporary photographer, with lavish illustrations and essays by ten top scholars. October 2022 https://t.co/6uw68R5i47 https://t.co/MExhgzjQyR
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Cocoon
Zhang YueranChina Books of The Year 📚COCOON "With exquisite, precise, and lyrical language, Zhang Yueran's novel sets the benchmark for younger authors seeking to write about history and individuals" -- Yan Lianke October 2022 @WorldEdBooks @JeremyTiang https://t.co/WVvVsICH6B https://t.co/rntt9T3UZA
Paperback, 2022
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Forbidden City
Vanessa HuaChina Books of The Year 📚FORBIDDEN CITY A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong’s protégée and lover—and a heroine of the Cultural Revolution—in this “grand, cinematic, and captivating novel” May 2022 @vanessa_hua @penguinrandom https://t.co/ZWwjjRUItY https://t.co/tXo1jTpSPc
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Jin Yucheng: Stories and Scenes
Jin YuchengChina Books of The Year 📚STORIES AND SCENES A collection of 100 paintings by Jin Yucheng -- one of China's great modern novelists -- that together form a love poem to his home: #Shanghai "Steeped in the city's rhythms and quirks". December 2022 @ACCArtBooks #China #ChinaBooks https://t.co/Trgd3fdxSp https://t.co/ceYZ2j6Bkl
Hardcover, 2023
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia
Haun SaussyChina Books of The Year 📚#ChinaBooks2022 THE MAKING OF BARBARIANS by University of Chicago literary scholar Haun Saussy. A "beautiful book" that examines how Sinophone culture defined itself against a regional periphery -- long before substantial contact with the West and with nation-states. 5/15 https://t.co/Iby6gNHSjh
Hardcover, 2022
$39.00$19.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters
Megan WalshChina Books of The Year 📚April's Top Four* 1368 by Ali Humayan Akhtar THE SUBPLOT by Megan Walsh INFLUENCE EMPIRE by @luluyilun CARBON TECHNOCRACY by @EastAsiaSciTech https://t.co/uEvGFtmMFx
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Adventures of Ma Suzhen: 'An Heroic Woman Takes Revenge in Shanghai'
Paul BevanChina Books of The Year 📚THE ADVENTURES OF MA SUZHEN "Part newspaper shocker, part fact, part invention... the sort of story people loved to read in early-20th-century China" The first English translation of an all-action novel from 1920s Shanghai. @sinobevan @Palgrave https://t.co/dBiKjHct0j https://t.co/Q0SVb80xNg
Paperback, 2022
$54.99$29.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Coalitions of the Weak
Victor C. ShihChina Books of The Year 📚COALITIONS OF THE WEAK How did Xi consolidate his power in the Party so quickly? Victor Shih seeks an explanation in the strategies deployed by Mao to dominate elite politics in China. May 2022 @vshih2 @CambridgeUP https://t.co/NFZwcDZjjU https://t.co/SCizqSIThk
Paperback, 2022
$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nowhere to Arrive: Poems
Jenny XieChina Books of The Year 📚THE RUPTURE TENSE “These poems brilliantly capture the discomfort and wonder of returning home to a country shorn of memory, where the soiled corners of the past remain all too evident" -- @sallywenmao By Jenny Xie September 2022 @GraywolfPress https://t.co/0ukgWt76xw https://t.co/1agmZiIYWe
Paperback, 2017
$9.95$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Political Regulation Wave
Shiran Victoria ShenChina Books of The Year 📚THE POLITICAL REGULATION WAVE "How China implements environmental policy is one of the critical questions of our times... Shen's book breaks new ground in our understanding" March 2022 @SVictoriaShen @CambridgeUP https://t.co/msL82HzomP https://t.co/1EDp2R1rte
Paperback, 2022
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book