Twenty Most Shocking Books About China
China’s history is so vast, its geography so massive, its politics so controversial, and its customs so perplexing, that there was just no way to contain this list to ten books. Even twenty is cutting it short. The country’s long, abysmal record of human rights abuses, rampant government corruption, heartless property confiscation and categorical censorship of news, knowledge and information make China fertile grounds for fiction and non-fiction alike. Some of these books are shocking, some scholarly, some simply entertaining, but each reveal a different facet of Chinese culture that, when read all together, should give readers a complete and well-rounded portrait of a nation that just might become the next world superpower.
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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962by Frank Dikötter
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Created by Zhengyi Mei Mei on Nov 20, 2011.
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