Book List

You can try to find these books anywhere, from any library; but be flexible in case you can't find the one you first choose! Most of you already have a book anyway, but if you don't have one yet, or you change your mind and want to switch books, here is a list already checked out with me:
(It is listed title author - (and maybe a brief description)
Fiction
The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck - (ancient china)
Brothers: a novel Da Chen -(cultural revolution)
Knife Edge Douglas Reeman - (Hong Kong and Britain)
Bound Donna Jo Napoli
Chu Ju's House Gloria Whelan
Sons of Heaven: a novel Terrence Cheng - (Tiananmen Square)
The Kite Rider: a novel Geraldine McCaughrean - (13th century china)
The Master of Rain Tom Bradby
Lili: a novel of Tiananmen Annie Wang
Ties that bind, ties that break: a novel Lensey Namioka
The excluded wife Yuen-fong Woon
Mei Fuh: memories from China Edith Schaeffer
The middle heart Bette Lord
The plum in the golden vase, or, Chin P'ing Mei Hsiao-hsiao-sheng
Flashman and the dragon George MacDonald Fraser
Noble house: a novel of contemporary Hong Kong James Clavell
Snowflakes Shuo Yang
Three kingdoms: China's epic drama Guanzhong Luo
The Time of the Dragon Dorothy Eden
Tai-Pan: a novel of Hong Kong James Clavell
The Bonesetter's daughter Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
The Hundred Secret Senses Amy Tan
The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan

Non-Fiction
Wild Swans: three daughters of China Jung Chang
Mao: the unknown story Jung Chang
Struggling giant: China in the 21st Century Kerry Brown
Dragon rising: an inside look at China today Jasper Becker
One China, many paths Chaohua Wang - (collection of essays)
China: empire and civilization Edward Shaughnessy
Understanding contemporary China Robert E. Gamer
The Subject of gender: daughters and mothers in urban China Harriet Evans
Qian zi wen yu Gui xun qian zi wen / Master essays in a thousand characters trans. Herbert Allen Giles
Gentlemen's prescriptions for women's lives: a thousand years of biographies of Chinese women Sherry J. Mou

So there you go! Have fun; these books are meant to broaden your minds, improve your reading (because if you can read well, you will write and remember things better), and help you get a little different taste of China. Happy reading!