Treason by the Book
by Jonathan D. Spence | 
The Gate of Heavenly Peace
by Jonathan D. Spence | 
Restless Empire
by Odd Arne Westad | 
China
by John King Fairbank | 
The Opium War
by Julia Lovell |
The Search for Modern China
by Jonathan D. Spence |
Hungry Ghosts
by Jasper Becker |
The Long March
by Sun Shuyun |
God's Chinese Son
by Jonathan D. Spence | 
China
by John Keay |
The Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985
by John King Fairbank |
Red Star over China
by Edgar Snow |
Out of Mao's Shadow
by Philip P. Pan |
The Boxer Rebellion
by Diana Preston | 
The Terracotta Army
by John Man | 
Japan at War
by Haruko Taya Cook | 
Ethnic America
by Thomas Sowell | 
In Our Image
by Stanley Karnow | 
Medieval Chinese Warfare 300-900
by David A. Graff | 
Secret History of the Mongols
by Paul Kahn |
Drawing on local Chinese histories, the memoirs of scholars, and other contemporary writings, Chinese historian Jonathan Spence reconstructs an extraordinary tale of rural tragedy in a remote corner of Shantung province in 17th-century China. Life in the county of T'an-ch'eng emerges as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy wife act out a poignant drama at whose climax the wife, having run away from her husband, returns to him, only to die at his hands.