Books on China
by Mark KramerCulture
Holm, Bill
Coming Home Crazy
Milkweed Editions; April 1990, 256 Pages
ISBN: 0915943425
Hsu, Francis L.K.
Americans and Chinese : Passages to Differences
University of Hawaii Press, Third Edition; December 1981
ISBN: 0-824-80757X
A classic work comparing Chinese and American culture; a mix of anthropology and sociology.
Hu Wenzhong and Cornelius L. Grove
Encountering the Chinese, A Guide for Americans
(This book is out of print but well worth searching for; try Harvest Book Company)
Intercultural Press, Inc., Yarmouth, Maine; 1991, 192 Pages
ISBN 0-933662-95-5
It is difficult enough to fathom China's complex culture, and even more challenging to identify the cross-cultural factors that often lead to embarrassing faux-pas and misunderstandings when Americans and other Westerners encounter the Chinese. Hu Wenzhong and Neal Grove meet this challenge by combining Hu's innate knowledge of Chinese culture with Grove's American perspective to create a solidly grounded and sensitive cross-cultural analysis that will guide Westerners toward more rewarding relationships with the Chinese, in the People's Republic of China and elsewhere.
Kipnis, Andrew B.
Producing Guanxi: Sentiment, Self, and Subculture in a North China Village
Duke University Press; 1997, 264 Pages
ISBN: 0-822-31873-3
Salzman, Mark
Iron & Silk
Vintage Books, a division of Random House, New York; 1986, 211 Pages
ISBN: 0-394-75511-1
The much-acclaimed adventures of a young martial arts master in China "take the form of a series of lightly sketched-in episodes; almost without exception, they produce the gulp of feeling you might get from an unusually fine short story, and they reverberate long after you have put them down." (The New York Times)
Tan, Amy
The Joy Luck Club (Fiction)
Ballantine Books; 1989, 332 pages
ISBN: 0-8041-0630-4
Religion
Anderson, Ken
Bold as a Lamb
Zondervan; 1991
Biography of Samuel Lamb, house church pastor in Guangzhou
Covell, Ralph
The Liberating Gospel in China: Christian Faith among China's Minority Peoples
Baker Books, Grand Rapids; 1995
Jones, Francis Price
Documents of the Three Self Movement
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, New York; 1963
Kinnear, Angus
Against the Tide: The Story of Watchman Nee
Victory Press, 1976
Lambert, Tony
China's Christian Millions: The Costly Revival
Monarch Books; 1999
ISBN: 1-854-24431-0
Churches are growing all over China. Under Mao, Christianity virtually disappeared from sight, but was never stamped out. Now we are seeing what is probably the biggest revival in world history. Statistics from the Communist Party itself show exponential church growth. The author suggests reasons, and outlines sobering truths that Western Christians need to hear. His book is full of gripping accounts of courage, vision and faith. Includes a province-by-province guide, maps, photographs, and timeline.
Lopez, Donald S., ed.
Religions of China in Practice
Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey; 1996
ISBN: 0-691-02143-0
Moule, A.C.
Christians in China before 1500
Macmillan, New York; 1930
Ronan, C. & Oh, B., ed.
The Jesuits in China 1582-1773
Loyola University Press; Chicago 1988
Spence, Jonathan
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
Viking Press, Reprint edition; June 1994, 350 pages
ISBN: 0-140-08098-8
Steer, Roger
J. Hudson Taylor : A Man in Christ (An OMF Book)
OMF Books; October 1993, 375 pages
ISBN: 0877883777
Yeo Khiok-Khng
"The Rise of the Three Self Patriotic Movement"
Asian Journal of Theology 6:1; 1992
History
Fairbank, J.K.
China: A New History
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; 1992
Hucker, Charles O.
China to 1850 : A Short History
Stanford University Press; 1978
Spence, Jonathan
The Gate of Heavenly Peace : The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980
Viking Press; October 1982
ISBN: 0140062793
Spence, Jonathan
The Search for Modern China
W W Norton & Co, 2nd edition; January 1999
ISBN: 0393973514
POLITICS
Lord, Bette Bao
LEGACIES: A Chinese Mosaic
Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, New York, 1990; 242 Pages
ISBN: 0-449-90620-5
Lord interweaves her own story, and that of her clansmen, with the voices of men and women who recall the tumultuous experience of the last fifty years, and the legacy of the Cultural Revolution.
Schell, Orville
Mandate of Heaven : The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China's Leaders
Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks, Reprint edition; September 1995, 464 Pages
ISBN: 0-684-80447-6
Asian American Issues
Lin, Tom
Losing Face and Finding Grace (Bible Studies)
InterVarity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois; 1997
Takaki, Ronald
Strangers from a Distant Shore: A History of Asian Americans
Little, Brown and Company, New York; 1989
ISBN: 0-31683130-1
Various Authors
Following Jesus without Dishonoring your Parents
InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois; 1998
ISBN: 0-8308-1358-6
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