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Matched genres: Memoir, China

Title Year Ratings Rating
God's Double Agent: The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom
Christian , Biography , Nonfiction , China , Memoir , Autobiography , Religion
Bob Fu
2013 1.3K 4.53
Life and Death in Shanghai
China , Nonfiction , History , Memoir , Biography , Asia , Biography Memoir
Nien Cheng
1986 13.8K 4.32
Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
China , Memoir , Nonfiction , History , Asia , Biography Memoir , Audiobook
Isabel Sun Chao
2018 1.2K 4.31
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
Nonfiction , Memoir , China , History , Politics , Biography , Biography Memoir
Tahir Hamut Izgil
2023 2.1K 4.30
The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun
Christian , Biography , Nonfiction , Christianity , China , Faith , Memoir
Brother Yun
2002 21.6K 4.29
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Nonfiction , History , China , Biography , Memoir , Asia , Historical
Jung Chang
2003 118.2K 4.29
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
China , Nonfiction , Travel , Memoir , Asia , History , Biography
Peter Hessler
2006 13.5K 4.28
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
China , Nonfiction , Travel , Asia , History , Memoir , Cultural
Peter Hessler
2010 7.9K 4.26
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China
China , Nonfiction , History , Travel , Asia , Memoir , Politics
Peter Hessler
2006 7.5K 4.22
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
China , Nonfiction , History , Travel , Asia , Memoir , Politics
Peter Hessler
2006 7.5K 4.22
Wish You Happy Forever: What China's Orphans Taught Me About Moving Mountains
Nonfiction , Memoir , Adoption , China , Biography , Asia , Biography Memoir
Jenny Bowen
2014 1.3K 4.20
I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action
Biography , Nonfiction , Autobiography , Memoir , Film , Martial Arts , China
Jackie Chan
1999 2.0K 4.20
Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
Memoir , Nonfiction , China , Biography , Asia , Travel , History
Martin Booth
2004 2.1K 4.18
Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
Memoir , Nonfiction , China , Biography , Asia , Travel , History
Martin Booth
2004 2.1K 4.18
Beautiful Country
Memoir , Nonfiction , Audiobook , Biography , China , Biography Memoir , Asia
Qian Julie Wang
2021 36.8K 4.17
The Private Life of Chairman Mao
China , History , Biography , Nonfiction , Politics , Asia , Memoir
Li Zhisui
1996 2.7K 4.16
How I Survived a Chinese "Reeducation" Camp: A Uyghur Woman's Story
Nonfiction , China , Memoir , Biography , Asia , Politics , History
Gulbahar Haitiwaji
2021 1.6K 4.14
Mao's Last Dancer
Nonfiction , Biography , China , Memoir , History , Autobiography , Asia
Li Cunxin
2005 31.8K 4.14
Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up
Nonfiction , China , Memoir , Biography , Asia , Biography Memoir , Autobiography
Xiaolu Guo
2017 1.9K 4.13
Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China
Nonfiction , China , Memoir , Biography , Asia , Biography Memoir , Autobiography
Xiaolu Guo
2017 1.9K 4.13
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love
Nonfiction , China , Adoption , Asia , History , Biography , Memoir
Xinran
2010 3.0K 4.12
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
Food , Nonfiction , China , Memoir , Travel , Cooking , Cookbooks
Fuchsia Dunlop
2008 4.3K 4.11
Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , China , School , Autobiography , Historical
Adeline Yen Mah
1999 40.2K 4.08
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , China , School , Autobiography , Historical
Adeline Yen Mah
2009 40.2K 4.08
China in Ten Words
China , Nonfiction , History , Essays , Asia , Memoir , Politics
Yu Hua
2011 8.0K 4.05
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Nonfiction , Memoir , Martial Arts , China , Biography , Travel , Adventure
Matthew Polly
2007 3.2K 4.03
Mr. China
China , Business , Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , History , Economics
Tim Clissold
2006 1.6K 3.97
Iron & Silk
China , Nonfiction , Travel , Memoir , Martial Arts , Asia , Biography
Mark Salzman
1987 3.5K 3.97
The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
China , Nonfiction , History , Travel , Asia , Memoir , Politics
Michael Meyer
2008 1.2K 3.96
On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
Nonfiction , History , China , Memoir , Biography , Asia , Historical
Lisa See
1996 10.9K 3.95
The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
Nonfiction , Memoir , Writing , Biography , Essays , Biography Memoir , China
Amy Tan
2003 8.6K 3.94
Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World
Nonfiction , Memoir , China , History , Asia , Biography , Biography Memoir
Yang Erche Namu
2004 2.1K 3.93
The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze & Back in Chinese Time
Travel , China , Nonfiction , History , Asia , Geography , Memoir
Simon Winchester
2004 1.8K 3.92
Bound Feet and Western Dress
China , Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Biography , Asia , Asian Literature
Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
1996 2.2K 3.92
The Concubine's Children
Nonfiction , Biography , China , History , Memoir , Canada , Asian Literature
Denise Chong
1996 2.2K 3.92
Falling Leaves Return To Their Roots
Nonfiction , Memoir , China , Biography , History , Asia , Autobiography
Adeline Yen Mah
1997 28.7K 3.91
Falling Leaves
Nonfiction , Memoir , China , Biography , History , Asia , Autobiography
Adeline Yen Mah
1999 28.7K 3.91
Fifth Chinese Daughter
Memoir , Nonfiction , China , Biography , History , Literature , Historical
Jade Snow Wong
1989 1.3K 3.90
Homesick: My Own Story
Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , China , History , Childrens , Middle Grade
Jean Fritz
2007 2.9K 3.87
Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
Memoir , Nonfiction , China , Biography , Audiobook , Biography Memoir , Family
Anna Qu
2021 2.5K 3.85
Paper Daughter
Memoir , Nonfiction , China , Biography , Autobiography , Asian Literature , History
M. Elaine Mar
2000 1.1K 3.85
Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion
China , Nonfiction , Travel , Memoir , Asia , Jewish , Biography
Michael Levy
2011 1.2K 3.85
Red Azalea: A Memoir
China , Memoir , Nonfiction , Biography , Asia , History , Biography Memoir
Anchee Min
2006 10.6K 3.84
Six Records of a Floating Life
China , Nonfiction , Classics , History , Chinese Literature , Biography , Memoir
Shěn Fù
2004 1.7K 3.83
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth
Biography , China , Nonfiction , History , Asia , Biography Memoir , Memoir
Hilary Spurling
2010 1.2K 3.82
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
Nonfiction , Travel , Memoir , China , Asia , Biography , Adventure
Susan Jane Gilman
2009 8.7K 3.82
Red Scarf Girl
Nonfiction , History , Memoir , China , Biography , School , Historical
Ji-li Jiang
1999 16.6K 3.79
Lucky Girl: A Memoir
Memoir , Adoption , Nonfiction , China , Biography , Asia , Biography Memoir
Mei-Ling Hopgood
2009 1.3K 3.78
The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
Memoir , Nonfiction , China , Biography , Biography Memoir , Autobiography , Asia
Anchee Min
2013 2.3K 3.78
Lost on Planet China
Travel , Nonfiction , China , Humor , Memoir , Asia , Audiobook
J. Maarten Troost
2008 11.9K 3.77