China Recommended Reading
Mobile libraries are carried in the minibus when the group is at least seven people in size. Libraries include guide books, books about local history, and fiction written by local authors. Feel free to use these books at any time during the tour.
Books worth reading include those outlined below. Please refer to our website for a wider list of suggested reading.
Guide Books
Lonely Planet Guide to China
The Rough Guide to China
Odyssey Guide to The Silk Road: Xi’an to Kashgar
Lonely Planet Guide to Tibet
General Resources for China
Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah
Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Chang
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
China Wakes by Nicholas D Kristof & Sheryl Wudunn
Red China Blues by Jan Wong
Jan Wong’s China by Jan Wong
From Rice to Riches: A Personal Journey through a Changing China by Jane Hutcheon
The Good Women of China by Xinran
Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
A Leaf in the Bitter Wind by Ting-Xing Ye
Colours of the Mountain by Da Chen
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
The River at the Centre of the World by Simon Winchester
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk
Prisoner 13498: A True Story of Love, Drugs and Prison in Modern China by Robert H. Davies
Life along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield
The Search for Shangri-La: A Journey into Tibetan History by Charles Allen
The Soong Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave
General Resources for Tibet
Sky Burial by Xinran
Tibet Tibet: A Personal History of a Land Lost by Patrick French
Heartlands: Travels in the Tibetan Land by Michael Buckley
Duel in the Snows by Charles Allen