Books by Yuan Yang
“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
Kavita Puri, Journalist
Interviews where books by Yuan Yang were recommended
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A Thousand Threads: A Memoir
by Neneh Cherry -
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The Story of a Heart
by Rachel Clarke -
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Raising Hare
by Chloe Dalton -
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Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter
by Clare Mulley -
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What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean
by Helen Scales -
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Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China
by Yuan Yang
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, recommended by Kavita Puri
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, recommended by Kavita Puri
Now in its second year, the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction aims to highlight the very best new nonfiction books written by women. We asked Kavita Puri, the journalist and chair of this year’s judging panel, to talk us through the shortlist: from a gentle lockdown animal memoir to a thrilling true story of a WW2 secret agent.
