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Book	Author	Dewey Number	Description
Watching the Tree	Adeline Yeh Mah	181 MAH	Author explores centuries-old Chinese traditions in essays on Buddhism, the I Ching, Chinese food and medicine, Zen, feng shui, among others.
Falling Leaves	Adeline Yen Mah	92 MAH	Memoir of wealthy young Chinese girl born in China in 1937, who despite her privilege, suffers a difficult upbringing.
Eighth Moon	Sansan, as told to Bette Lord	92 SAN	The story of a young girl’s childhood and departure from Communist China.
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven	Susan Jane Gilman	915.104	Inexperienced young backpackers begin travel in the People’s Republic of China and are unprepared for what they find.
Colors of the Mountain	Da Chen	92 CHE	Memoir of a young boy growing up during the Cultural Revolution.
On Gold Mountain	Lisa See	92 See	See’s account of her family’s history in China and immigration to the U.S.
Mao Zedong	Jonathan Spence	92 Mao	Biography of Chairman Mao.
Sounds of the River	Da Chen	951.05 CHE	Biography of a young man attending college in Beijing, hoping to earn a chance to study in the US.
The Rape of Nanking	Iris Chang	951.04 CHA	History of the Japanese invasion of Nanking during WWII
Oracle Bones	Peter Hessler	951 HES	Author describes modern China through the lives of several ordinary people.
Pearl Buck in China	Hilary Spurling	92 BUC	Biography of Pearl Buck, author and daughter of missionaries who grew up in Imperial China.
Cloud Mountain	Aimee Liu	FIC Liu	A love story that spans time and place from China to US.
The Vagrants	Yiyun Li	FIC LI	Set during the anti-Communist Democratic Wall Movement.
Breaking the Tongue	Vyvyane Loh	FIC LOH	Story chronicles the fall of Singapore to Japan in WWII, teeming with expats, spies and nationalists.
The Middle Heart	Bette Bao Lord	FIC LOR	Three friends form an alliance that lasts from 1930s China through the Cultural Revolution.
The Valley of Amazement	Amy Tan	FIC TAN	A tale from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesan to the mountains of a remote Chinese village.
The Kitchen God’s Wife	Amy Tan	FIC TAN	Secrets from tumultuous pasts in China are revealed by two immigrants who have remained friends and kept the past hidden.
Shanghai Girls	Lisa See	FIC SEE	1937 Shanghai is the Paris of Asia and two wealthy young Chinese women enjoy the life until they find their bankrupt father has sold them as brides.
Pearl of China	Anchee Min	FIC MIN	Story of friendship between author Pearl Buck and a young Chinese girl.
Bittersweet	Leslie Li	FIC LI	An epic story of a resourceful woman whose life spans from the time of the warlords to Tiananmen Square.
The Piano Teacher	Janice Y. K. Lee	FIC LEE	A love affair set in Hong Kong during the Japanese invasion.
Waiting	Ha Jin	FIC JIN	Jin won the National Book Award for his tale of a life where the demands of human longing must contend with the weight of custom.
When We Were Orphans	Kazuo Ishiguro	FIC ISH	A young British man born in Shanghai returns during the Sino-Japanese War to solve an old mystery.
Soul Mountain	Gao Xingjian	FIC GAO	Nobel prize winning author pens a wide ranging tale of a geographical and spiritual journey through China.
9 Dragons	Michael Connelly	FIC CON	Mystery about Hong Kong triad.