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Before my recent trip to China, I read parts or all of a range of books on the country. Below is a list of
suggested reading for anyone else who’s interested. It is by no means exhaustive, and I would welcomefurther suggestions from readers and other bloggers.
Perhaps my favorite book was “Out of Mao’s Shadow,” by Philip P. Pan, the former Washington Post
correspondent in Beijing. Mr. Pan has a keen eye for detail and is fluent in Chinese. The depth andsubtlety of his stories would have been very difficult to capture through a translator. The book tellsindividual stories that, together, offer an excellent window on China from 2000 to 2007.
Strangely, there is no good English-language biography of Deng Xiaoping. In its stead, I enjoyed the
latter parts of Jonathan Fenby’s “The Penguin History of Modern China.” Mr. Fenby is the formereditor of the British paper The Observer and of The South China Morning Post. He has also worked atThe Economist, The Independent, The Guardian and Reuters.
James Fallows’s reporting from the boom towns of southern China, which originally appeared in TheAtlantic, helped persuade me to focus my time elsewhere. I didn’t want to have to compete with hiswork. That work (and then some) has been collected in the book “Postcards From Tomorrow Square.”
Deborah Fallows, who is married to Mr. Fallows, has also written a book, on learning Mandarin —
“Dreaming in Chinese” . Though I haven’t yet read it, it boasts a dream team of blurbs — from theeconomist Laura Tyson, the journalists Evan Osnos and David Ignatius and the longtime China expertOrville Schell, among others.
Jonathan Spence is the dean of Western historians of China. He has written everything from a sweepingtextbook on China’s history to detailed narratives of little-known episodes from that history. I enjoyedboth his slim biography of Mao, called simply “Mao Zedong,” and his book on the history of the West’s
relationship with China, “The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds.”
Pranab Bardhan, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley, has written a comparison of China and India called “Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay.” Some of it is likely to be too technical for a
lay reader. But just skip those parts. Most of the book is quite accessible.
Leslie Chang and Peter Hessler, who are married, have produced some wonderful reporting from Chinaover the last decade. Ms. Chang, who was a Wall Street Journal correspondent, wrote “Factory Girls,” a
book about young women working in factories. Mr. Hessler, of The New Yorker, has written threebooks about China, including “River Town.”
James Kynge, a former Financial Times correspondent, wrote “China Shakes the World,” which one
leading China expert recommended as the single best book on the country’s economy. It’s several yearsold now but remains a very good read.
Richard McGregor, also of The Financial Times, peeks inside the workings of the modern CommunistParty in “The Party.” As he notes, the party — China’s dominant organization — tends to receive less
attention than it deserves, in part because of its secretiveness.
Edgar Snow’s “Red Star Over China” is the classic and sympathetic account of the Communists’ rise topower, based in large part on interviews with Mao. Much of the book takes place in Shaanxi province,
where I spent time on my trip.
This isn’t a book (and I’m not objective), but The Times’s team of foreign correspondents continues toproduce incredible work, as they have for years. The China page on nytimes.com is a good place to
start.
Finally, I’d recommend picking up the Zagat’s guide to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. I ate several
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fabulous, cheap meals based on its recommendations. Obviously, it won’t point you to restaurants whereyou’re likely to be the only Westerner. But it will point you to places that are not tourist traps. At aHunan restaurant in Shanghai, for instance, the crowd was maybe 10 to 20 percent Western. I still miss
the cumin beef I had there.
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