Books
- Lin Yutang 林语堂: My Country and my People (THE must read on Chinese culture, society, psyche, etc - written in 1935 and still true)
- Patricia Buckley Ebrey: The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Comprehensive and unbiased course book on Chinese history)
- James Kynge: China shakes the World (very well written account on modern China undermining the economic might of the US - by one of the leading FT journalists)
- Carl Crow: 400 Million Customers (1920ies marketing experts and hobby-anthropologist Crow gives great insights into a long gone world - but sill much about the Chinese he describes almost a 100 years ago, will appear familiar)
- James McGregor: 1 Billion Customers (playing with Carl Crow's title, old China hand and entrepreneur McGregor points at the main obstacles foreign enterprises can face on this alien turf)
- Ma Jian: Red Dust (Great story of a Beijing artist escaping the 1989 Tiananmen Square tragedy, hitchhiking across China and Tibet finally ending up in London)
- Adeline Yan Mah: Watching the Tree to Catch a Hare (MUST read to get a fast understanding of the Chinese culture essentials)
- Adeline Yan Mah: Thousand Pieces of Gold (a beautifully written book on Chinese proverbs in Yan Mah's style of relating history to her own biography)
- Kai Strittmatter: Gebrauchsanweisung für China (easy and witty read on China essentials by former Sueddeutsche correspondent in Beijing)
- Zhang Rong: Wild Swans (family story of the generations of women cast on the background of China's turmoil years)
- Zhang Rong and Jon Halliday: Mao - The Unknown Story (critical but probably mostly true biography of the Chinese Hitler)
- Earnshaw Books: Publishing house focused on China
- Martin Jacques: When China Rules the World (lengthy and sometimes boring, but erudite conclusions why China will rule the world)
- Niall Ferguson: Civilization (great piece of work that claims that civilizations are made up by 6 ingredients: competition, science, property, medicine, consumption, work. In particular the last few chapters make interesting observations in regard to Far East Asian nations)
- Jonathan Fenby: The Penguin History of Modern China (well written tour de force through the nation shaping years)
- Sebastian Heilmann: Das politische System der VR China (scholarly work of a leading German political scientist)
- Lin Yutang 林语堂: My Country and my People (THE must read on Chinese culture, society, psyche, etc - written in 1935 and still true)
- Patricia Buckley Ebrey: The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Comprehensive and unbiased course book on Chinese history)
- James Kynge: China shakes the World (very well written account on modern China undermining the economic might of the US - by one of the leading FT journalists)
- Carl Crow: 400 Million Customers (1920ies marketing experts and hobby-anthropologist Crow gives great insights into a long gone world - but sill much about the Chinese he describes almost a 100 years ago, will appear familiar)
- James McGregor: 1 Billion Customers (playing with Carl Crow's title, old China hand and entrepreneur McGregor points at the main obstacles foreign enterprises can face on this alien turf)
- Ma Jian: Red Dust (Great story of a Beijing artist escaping the 1989 Tiananmen Square tragedy, hitchhiking across China and Tibet finally ending up in London)
- Adeline Yan Mah: Watching the Tree to Catch a Hare (MUST read to get a fast understanding of the Chinese culture essentials)
- Adeline Yan Mah: Thousand Pieces of Gold (a beautifully written book on Chinese proverbs in Yan Mah's style of relating history to her own biography)
- Kai Strittmatter: Gebrauchsanweisung für China (easy and witty read on China essentials by former Sueddeutsche correspondent in Beijing)
- Zhang Rong: Wild Swans (family story of the generations of women cast on the background of China's turmoil years)
- Zhang Rong and Jon Halliday: Mao - The Unknown Story (critical but probably mostly true biography of the Chinese Hitler)
- Earnshaw Books: Publishing house focused on China
- Martin Jacques: When China Rules the World (lengthy and sometimes boring, but erudite conclusions why China will rule the world)
- Niall Ferguson: Civilization (great piece of work that claims that civilizations are made up by 6 ingredients: competition, science, property, medicine, consumption, work. In particular the last few chapters make interesting observations in regard to Far East Asian nations)
- Jonathan Fenby: The Penguin History of Modern China (well written tour de force through the nation shaping years)
- Sebastian Heilmann: Das politische System der VR China (scholarly work of a leading German political scientist)