The Search for Modern China

“It gives you a really great understanding of how political and social developments in the Qing Dynasty and the Republican period to 1949 shaped the way China works. The book covers the reform efforts in the late Qing, the contending schools of thought during the Republic, through to the Communist period up to 1989. It gives you a sense of the way China thinks, and also the way there have been so many hopes raised and dashed within China, by people who believe that they can partake in opening and new opportunity, and then everything closes down again. So that’s a really good one to read.” Read more...

Books to Change the Way You Think About China

Anne Stevenson-Yang, Entrepreneurs & Business People