Suggested Reading
John King Fairbank, China: A New History (history)
Jonathan Spence, Chan’s Great Continent (history/Westerners’ views of China)
Gungwu Wang, Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800 (historical/issues oriented)
Xinzhong Yao, An Introduction to Confucianism (semi-historical/thematically-oriented)
William Hintin, Fanshen
Ray Yang, Spider Eaters (memoir)
Weili Ye with Mao Xiaodong, Growing Up in the People’s Republic (memoir)
Xueping Zhong, Wang Zheng, and Bai Di eds., Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era (collection of memoirs)
Peter Hessler, Oracle Bones: A Journey between China’s Past and Present (travel/observations)
__________, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (travel/observations)
