The Best Books on Beijing

A Listmania! list by Paul French
 
Rickshaw: The Novel
1.  Rickshaw: The Novel by Lao She
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  "Early twentieth century Beijing novelised"
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Sounds of the River: A Young Man's University Days in Beijing
2.  Sounds of the River: A Young Man's University Days in Beijing by Da Chen
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  "Life at Beijing University"
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Bad Elements: Chinese rebels from LA to Beijing
3.  Bad Elements: Chinese rebels from LA to Beijing by Ian Buruma
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  "Rebels in the capital"
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Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China's Predicament
4.  Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China's Predicament by Perry Link
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  "Beijing: the intellectuals capital too"
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Beijing Odyssey: Based on the Life and Times of Liang Shiyi, a Mandarin in China's Transition from Monarchy to Republic
5.  Beijing Odyssey: Based on the Life and Times of Liang Shiyi, a Mandarin in China's Transition from Monarchy to Republic by Steven T. Au
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  "Inside the Forbidden City in its last years"
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Playing for Thrills
6.  Playing for Thrills by Wang Shuo
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  "Still the best example of Beijing's 'Hooligan' literature"
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Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now
7.  Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now by Jan Wong
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  "Journalists account of Beijing"
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Old Madam Yin: Memoir of Peking Life
8.  Old Madam Yin: Memoir of Peking Life by Ida Pruitt
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  "Beijing in the 1920s and 1930s"
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The Tiananmen Papers
9.  The Tiananmen Papers by Andrew J. Nathan
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  "Tiananmen Square detailed"
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Hand-grenade Practice in Peking: My Influence on the Cultural Revolution
10.  Hand-grenade Practice in Peking: My Influence on the Cultural Revolution by Frances Wood
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  "Foreign students memoir from the 1970s"
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Last updated: 26/01/2003
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