Restless Empire
by Odd Arne Westad | 
Red Star over China
by Edgar Snow |
China
by John King Fairbank | 
The Gate of Heavenly Peace
by Jonathan D. Spence |
The Long March
by Sun Shuyun | 
Treason by the Book
by Jonathan D. Spence | 
Mao's Great Famine
by Frank Dikotter |
Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
by Yang Jisheng |
The Tragedy of Liberation
by Frank Dikotter | 
The Cultural Revolution
by Frank Dikotter | 
On China
by Henry Kissinger |
The Search for Modern China
by Jonathan D. Spence | 
China
by John Keay | 
The Opium War
by Julia Lovell | 
The Terracotta Army
by John Man | 
The Boys In The Boat
by Daniel James Brown | 
Unbroken
by Laura Hillenbrand | 
How Not to Die
by Michael Greger |
The Body Keeps the Score
by Bessel A. van der Kolk | 
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls |
In the summer of 1976, Mao lay dying, and China was struck by a great natural disaster. This title recreates the tensions of that fateful summer, when the fate of China and the world were in the balance - as injured and starving people crawled among the ruins of a stricken city.