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“Yuan Yang looks at four women born around the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s. These women tell the story of a very different China to the one we are used to hearing. It’s the other side of the economic miracle. These are women who have dreams that might appear modest, but are quietly revolutionary—like going to university rather than raising pigs, or escaping the village to work on a factory floor.” Read more...
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
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Our most recommended books
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Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics
by Yasheng Huang -
The Story of the Stone (also called Dream of the Red Chamber)
by Cao Xueqin -
To Change China
by Jonathan Spence -
Neither Gods nor Emperors
by Craig Calhoun -
The Water Margin
by Shi Naian & translated by J M Jackson -
Monkey King: Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en, translated by Julia Lovell
