China: Book recommendations?

[chilango]

For someone who's reading the likes of "Seven Years in Tibet" as background reading BC for a forthcoming trip.

So accessible, easy reading, stuff that gives an insight into modern China and that I can pick up a second hand paperback of for her suitcase.

Titles about the revolution and cultural revolution or non r/w accounts of Tibetan/Uigher/Mongolian resistance to China particularly sought as I'd read them too

 

[ska invita]

Scattered Sand is excellent but depressing on migration to cities and working conditions. Really well written though, accessible, and definitely paints a picture of modern China and some of the dynamics at play

 

[seventh bullet]

Do they have to be dead trees? Or easily/quickly gotten hold of for 'holiday' reading?

 

[JimW]

Two Kinds of Time by Graham Peck is a great first-hand account by a foreigner of the anti-Japanese war and civil war.

 

[Pickman's model]

Mao's last revolution

 

[seventh bullet]

Here.

 

[october_lost]

Chuangcn.org have a resources page that is worth checking out.

 

[chilango]

Do they have to be dead trees? Or easily/quickly gotten hold of for 'holiday' reading?

Both of those, yeah.

 

[chilango]

Here.

Thanks, I might read that, but need hard copies too. Will have a look for 2nd hand copy.

 

[seventh bullet]

Do read it. I had a hardback I could've sent to you but gave it to my local Age charity shop last year. The volunteers must have had an interesting time sorting through the bags of old books on COMMUNISM I handed them.

I have more pdfs if you want.

 

[hash tag]

Ive only just caught this thread as news of further human rights abuses and the hands of the Chinese reach me again.
I can remember Palden Gyatso giving a talk when this book was released; what a compassionate man he was as are the
majority of Tibetans

Fire Under the Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner by palden-gyatso-tsering-shakya-dalai-lama-xiv: Very Good Paperback (1998) | ThriftBooks-Dallas

ISBN: 9781860465093 - Paperback - Vintage Books - 1998 - Condition: Very Good - No Jacket - May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.47 - Fire Under the Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner

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On a totally different note and more memorable for mocking American tourists

Running a Hotel on the Roof of the World: Five Years in Tibet by Alec Le Sueur: Very Good (1998) | Bahamut Media

Free Shipping - ISBN: 9781873475935 - Soft cover - Peerage Books 01/01/1998 - 1998 - Condition: Very Good - Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are...

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I struggling to remember the other books I have read in connection with teh occupation.