What to Read After China
Readers who loved China by John King Fairbank keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where China is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after China
The search for modern China
God's Chinese Son
Mao's Great Famine
China
Penguin History of Modern China
Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China
The Great Divergence
Mao's China and the Cold War (The New Cold War History)
Understanding China
Foreign Babes in Beijing
The memory palace of Matteo Ricci
Fanshen
The Genius of China
The Boxer Rebellion
The Question of Hu
Chinese Civilization
Sources of Chinese Tradition (Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies and Introduction to Oriental Classics Series)
history of Cambodia
Korea, old and new
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
The Open Empire
Red Star Over China - The Rise Of The Red Army
The River at the Center of the World, Revised
Chinese Lessons