중국

고대의 지혜와 현대의 변혁이 만나는 이 컬렉션에서는 중국의 철학적 유산, 경제적 부상, 그리고 지정학적 영향력을 탐구합니다. 공자와 노자의 시대를 초월한 가르침부터 중국의 경제 기적, 전략적 야망, 그리고 오늘날 세계에 미치는 문화적 영향에 대한 냉철한 분석까지 모든 것을 만나보실 수 있습니다.

중국 도서 요약

Homeseeking

저자: Karissa Chen • 2025

When war separates a Shanghai girl from the violinist next door, the silence lasts six decades.

4.20

30,000+

🏠 Generational Saga 🌏 Chinese Diaspora 💔 Separated By War 🕯️ First Love Lost 📖 Melancholy Literary

Homeseeking

When war separates a Shanghai girl from the violinist next door, the silence lasts six decades.

저자: Karissa Chen 2025 512 페이지

4.20

30,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Generational Saga 🌏 Chinese Diaspora 💔 Separated By War 🕯️ First Love Lost 📖 Melancholy Literary

Blood Money

저자: Peter Schweizer • 2024

China attacks with fentanyl, gun switches, TikTok. The silence from Washington is bought.

4.36

1,000+

🏛️ Us-China Relations 🌍 Geopolitical Conflict 💊 Opioid Crisis 🔫 State-Sponsored Crime 📱 Information Warfare

Blood Money

China attacks with fentanyl, gun switches, TikTok. The silence from Washington is bought.

저자: Peter Schweizer 2024 316 페이지

4.36

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Us-China Relations 🌍 Geopolitical Conflict 💊 Opioid Crisis 🔫 State-Sponsored Crime 📱 Information Warfare

Lost on Planet China

저자: J. Maarten Troost • 2008

No Mandarin. One backpack. A country where one city adds 150,000 cars a year.

3.77

12,000+

🧳 Travel Memoirs 🇨🇳 China Travel 😏 Wry Humor 👁️ Cultural Observation 🏗️ Rapid Urbanization

Lost on Planet China

No Mandarin. One backpack. A country where one city adds 150,000 cars a year.

저자: J. Maarten Troost 2008 304 페이지

3.77

12,000+ 개의 평점

🧳 Travel Memoirs 🇨🇳 China Travel 😏 Wry Humor 👁️ Cultural Observation 🏗️ Rapid Urbanization

Confucius from the Heart

저자: Yu Dan • 2006

The Confucian path to a steady life: less anxiety, better friends, and ambitions you don't outgrow.

3.75

500+

🏯 Eastern Philosophy 📜 Confucian Philosophy 🎭 Virtue Ethics 🌱 Self-Cultivation ⚖️ Moderation And Balance

Confucius from the Heart

The Confucian path to a steady life: less anxiety, better friends, and ambitions you don't outgrow.

저자: Yu Dan 2006 195 페이지

3.75

500+ 개의 평점

🏯 Eastern Philosophy 📜 Confucian Philosophy 🎭 Virtue Ethics 🌱 Self-Cultivation ⚖️ Moderation And Balance

alibaba

저자: Liu Shiying • 2009

A math-failing English teacher beat eBay with one rule: give everything away for free.

3.62

125

🏮 Chinese Business 🚀 Internet Startups 👤 Founder Stories 🔗 Platform Business Models ⚡ Market Disruption

alibaba

A math-failing English teacher beat eBay with one rule: give everything away for free.

저자: Liu Shiying 2009 240 페이지

3.62

125 개의 평점

🏮 Chinese Business 🚀 Internet Startups 👤 Founder Stories 🔗 Platform Business Models ⚡ Market Disruption

What We Were Promised

저자: Lucy Tan • 2018

A Shanghai expat faces the brother she loved and the buried secret that arranged her marriage.

3.54

5,000+

🏠 Family Saga ✈️ Expat Fiction ⏳ Dual Timeline 💍 Arranged Marriage 🔐 Family Secrets

What We Were Promised

A Shanghai expat faces the brother she loved and the buried secret that arranged her marriage.

저자: Lucy Tan 2018 328 페이지

3.54

5,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Family Saga ✈️ Expat Fiction ⏳ Dual Timeline 💍 Arranged Marriage 🔐 Family Secrets

Rabbit Moon

저자: Jennifer Haigh • 2025

A hit-and-run in Shanghai forces divorced parents to confront the daughter they never knew.

3.74

6,000+

🎭 Literary Family Drama 👨‍👩‍👧 Transracial Adoption 🏙️ Contemporary Shanghai 🔍 Hidden Identity 👯 Sisterly Bond

Rabbit Moon

A hit-and-run in Shanghai forces divorced parents to confront the daughter they never knew.

저자: Jennifer Haigh 2025 288 페이지

3.74

6,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Literary Family Drama 👨‍👩‍👧 Transracial Adoption 🏙️ Contemporary Shanghai 🔍 Hidden Identity 👯 Sisterly Bond

Battlefield Cyber

저자: William J. Holstein • 2023

America is being hollowed out in a cyber war that stops just short of bombs.

4.01

🛡️ Cyber Warfare 🇺🇸 National Security 🌫️ Gray Zone Conflict 🕵️ Cyber Espionage 🗣️ Disinformation

Battlefield Cyber

America is being hollowed out in a cyber war that stops just short of bombs.

저자: William J. Holstein 2023 300 페이지

4.01

94 개의 평점

🛡️ Cyber Warfare 🇺🇸 National Security 🌫️ Gray Zone Conflict 🕵️ Cyber Espionage 🗣️ Disinformation

Dreaming in Chinese

저자: Deborah Fallows • 2010

Tones, compounds, missing pronouns: how Mandarin encodes a worldview no guidebook can offer.

3.63

2,000+

📖 Language Memoirs 🏮 Chinese Culture 🧠 Linguistic Relativity 🗣️ Everyday Linguistics 🎓 Language Acquisition

Dreaming in Chinese

Tones, compounds, missing pronouns: how Mandarin encodes a worldview no guidebook can offer.

저자: Deborah Fallows 2010 208 페이지

3.63

2,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Language Memoirs 🏮 Chinese Culture 🧠 Linguistic Relativity 🗣️ Everyday Linguistics 🎓 Language Acquisition

The Barefoot Lawyer

저자: Chen Guangcheng • 2013

Blind and under house arrest, he crawled seven hours through Chinese fields to escape.

4.29

450

🏛️ Chinese Politics ✊ Dissident Memoirs ⚖️ Human Rights In China 🌱 Grassroots Activism 🔒 Authoritarian Regimes

The Barefoot Lawyer

Blind and under house arrest, he crawled seven hours through Chinese fields to escape.

저자: Chen Guangcheng 2013 352 페이지

4.29

450 개의 평점

🏛️ Chinese Politics ✊ Dissident Memoirs ⚖️ Human Rights In China 🌱 Grassroots Activism 🔒 Authoritarian Regimes

Heaven Official's Blessing

저자: Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù • 2022

A fallen god enters Ghost City, where a ghost king's devotion has smoldered for eight centuries.

4.63

36,000+

🔥 Xianxia Fantasy 💕 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🏯 Ancient China 🤕 Hurt Comfort

Heaven Official's Blessing

A fallen god enters Ghost City, where a ghost king's devotion has smoldered for eight centuries.

저자: Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù 2022 438 페이지

4.63

36,000+ 개의 평점

🔥 Xianxia Fantasy 💕 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🏯 Ancient China 🤕 Hurt Comfort

The Elephant and the Dragon

저자: Robyn Meredith • 2007

China built factories, India ran the back office, and together they redrew the global economic map.

3.73

1,000+

🏙️ Emerging Markets 🐉 Asian Economic Rise 🔗 Global Supply Chains 🏛️ State Capitalism 💻 Offshoring

The Elephant and the Dragon

China built factories, India ran the back office, and together they redrew the global economic map.

저자: Robyn Meredith 2007 256 페이지

3.73

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Emerging Markets 🐉 Asian Economic Rise 🔗 Global Supply Chains 🏛️ State Capitalism 💻 Offshoring

Red Capitalism

저자: Carl E. Walter • 2010

China's state banks near collapse every decade. The bailout is the system, not an exception.

3.85

463

🧧 Chinese Economy 🏦 State Banking 💰 Crony Capitalism 🫧 Financial Fragility 🏭 State Capitalism

Red Capitalism

China's state banks near collapse every decade. The bailout is the system, not an exception.

저자: Carl E. Walter 2010 256 페이지

3.85

463 개의 평점

🧧 Chinese Economy 🏦 State Banking 💰 Crony Capitalism 🫧 Financial Fragility 🏭 State Capitalism

资治通鉴

저자: 司马光 • 2012

1,300 years of Chinese history conceal a master class in power, trust, and statecraft.

4.44

🏛️ Chinese Statecraft 📜 Ancient Wisdom ⚖️ Distributive Justice 🧭 Moral Leadership 🤝 Trust And Institutions

资治通鉴

1,300 years of Chinese history conceal a master class in power, trust, and statecraft.

저자: 司马光 2012 168 페이지

4.44

77 개의 평점

🏛️ Chinese Statecraft 📜 Ancient Wisdom ⚖️ Distributive Justice 🧭 Moral Leadership 🤝 Trust And Institutions

Thief of Souls

저자: Brian Klingborg • 2021

A disgraced inspector in rural China hunts a killer who mutilates women for ritual burial.

3.77

1,000+

🚔 Police Procedural 🔪 Serial Killer Hunt 🕯️ Ritual Killings 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🕵️ Outsider Detective

Thief of Souls

A disgraced inspector in rural China hunts a killer who mutilates women for ritual burial.

저자: Brian Klingborg 2021 304 페이지

3.77

1,000+ 개의 평점

🚔 Police Procedural 🔪 Serial Killer Hunt 🕯️ Ritual Killings 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🕵️ Outsider Detective

The Emperor's Tomb

저자: Steve Berry • 2010

His friend is kidnapped. The ransom: a lamp whose oil could fuel the world forever.

3.97

21,000+

🏛️ Political Thriller 📜 Historical Conspiracy 🕯️ Ancient Secret Society 🏺 Artifact Chase 🌏 Geopolitical Intrigue

The Emperor's Tomb

His friend is kidnapped. The ransom: a lamp whose oil could fuel the world forever.

저자: Steve Berry 2010 436 페이지

3.97

21,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Political Thriller 📜 Historical Conspiracy 🕯️ Ancient Secret Society 🏺 Artifact Chase 🌏 Geopolitical Intrigue

Empress Orchid

저자: Anchee Min • 2003

A poor Manchu consort enters the Forbidden City; survival will cost her everything she loves.

3.90

25,000+

🏯 Imperial Court Drama 👘 Concubine Protagonist 💔 Forbidden Love ⚔️ Palace Rivalry 🤱 Imperial Motherhood

Empress Orchid

A poor Manchu consort enters the Forbidden City; survival will cost her everything she loves.

저자: Anchee Min 2003 368 페이지

3.90

25,000+ 개의 평점

🏯 Imperial Court Drama 👘 Concubine Protagonist 💔 Forbidden Love ⚔️ Palace Rivalry 🤱 Imperial Motherhood

States and Social Revolutions

저자: Theda Skocpol • 1979

Revolution is a structural event: foreign pressure breaks the state, and the peasants rise.

3.85

500+

🕰️ Historical Sociology 🏛️ State Autonomy 🌾 Peasant Revolutions ⚔️ War And State Formation 🧱 State Building

States and Social Revolutions

Revolution is a structural event: foreign pressure breaks the state, and the peasants rise.

저자: Theda Skocpol 1979 426 페이지

3.85

500+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Historical Sociology 🏛️ State Autonomy 🌾 Peasant Revolutions ⚔️ War And State Formation 🧱 State Building

Grave New World

저자: Stephen D. King • 2017

Globalization collapsed once. History shows it is collapsing again.

3.66

227

🌐 Globalization 🌍 Geopolitics 📢 Populism 📜 Economic History 📊 Inequality

Grave New World

Globalization collapsed once. History shows it is collapsing again.

저자: Stephen D. King 2017 304 페이지

3.66

227 개의 평점

🌐 Globalization 🌍 Geopolitics 📢 Populism 📜 Economic History 📊 Inequality

These Memories Do Not Belong to Us

저자: Yiming Ma • 2025

A son inherits his mother's forbidden memories in an empire where remembering is a crime.

3.43

3,000+

🧠 Memory Dystopia 🇨🇳 Chinese Dystopia 🚫 Forbidden Memories ⚠️ Dangerous Inheritance 👁️ Surveillance State

These Memories Do Not Belong to Us

A son inherits his mother's forbidden memories in an empire where remembering is a crime.

저자: Yiming Ma 2025 214 페이지

3.43

3,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Memory Dystopia 🇨🇳 Chinese Dystopia 🚫 Forbidden Memories ⚠️ Dangerous Inheritance 👁️ Surveillance State

The Willow Pattern

저자: Robert van Gulik • 1965

Plague empties the capital. Judge Dee must solve three murders linked by a blue-and-white vase.

4.07

1,000+

🏮 Tang Dynasty China 🧩 Interlocking Mysteries 🦠 Plague And Murder 🏚️ Decadent Aristocracy ⚔️ Vengeance Quest

The Willow Pattern

Plague empties the capital. Judge Dee must solve three murders linked by a blue-and-white vase.

저자: Robert van Gulik 1965 192 페이지

4.07

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏮 Tang Dynasty China 🧩 Interlocking Mysteries 🦠 Plague And Murder 🏚️ Decadent Aristocracy ⚔️ Vengeance Quest

The Samurai's Garden[SAMURAIS GARDEN][Paperback]

저자: GailTsukiyama • 1996

A Chinese painter, exiled to a Japanese coast with TB, finds healing in a stranger's garden.

3.93

🏞️ Rural Japan 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 💔 Wartime Romance 🩺 Illness And Recovery 🏘️ Leprosy Community

The Samurai's Garden[SAMURAIS GARDEN][Paperback]

A Chinese painter, exiled to a Japanese coast with TB, finds healing in a stranger's garden.

저자: GailTsukiyama 1996

3.93

15 개의 평점

🏞️ Rural Japan 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 💔 Wartime Romance 🩺 Illness And Recovery 🏘️ Leprosy Community

Typical American

저자: Gish Jen • 1991

An immigrant family stakes its future on a con man's fried chicken empire.

3.43

1,000+

🧧 Immigrant Family Saga 🥀 Broken American Dream 🃏 Charismatic Con Man 💔 Marital Infidelity 🎭 Ironic Tragicomedy

Typical American

An immigrant family stakes its future on a con man's fried chicken empire.

저자: Gish Jen 1991 304 페이지

3.43

1,000+ 개의 평점

🧧 Immigrant Family Saga 🥀 Broken American Dream 🃏 Charismatic Con Man 💔 Marital Infidelity 🎭 Ironic Tragicomedy

The Buried World

저자: Jeff Wheeler • 2020

A girl who scents truth is the chosen sacrifice to end a dragon emperor's conquest.

4.33

4,000+

🐉 Chinese Mythology ⚔️ Epic Fantasy Quest 🏮 Ancient China 🐣 Reluctant Chosen One 💔 Love Triangle

The Buried World

A girl who scents truth is the chosen sacrifice to end a dragon emperor's conquest.

저자: Jeff Wheeler 2020 336 페이지

4.33

4,000+ 개의 평점

🐉 Chinese Mythology ⚔️ Epic Fantasy Quest 🏮 Ancient China 🐣 Reluctant Chosen One 💔 Love Triangle

Smoke and Ashes

저자: Amitav Ghosh • 2024

Tea made Britain rich. Opium kept it that way. The flower never stopped collecting.

4.04

1,000+

🧭 Global Trade History 🇬🇧 British Empire 💊 Drug History 🌺 Opium Trade ⚠️ Addiction Crisis

Smoke and Ashes

Tea made Britain rich. Opium kept it that way. The flower never stopped collecting.

저자: Amitav Ghosh 2024 417 페이지

4.04

1,000+ 개의 평점

🧭 Global Trade History 🇬🇧 British Empire 💊 Drug History 🌺 Opium Trade ⚠️ Addiction Crisis

Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy

저자: Kishore Mahbubani • 2020

A rivalry so intense it feels inevitable, yet so self-defeating it remains avoidable.

4.07

2,000+

🌏 Us-China Relations ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry 💵 Reserve Currency 📊 Trade Wars ⬇️ Declinism

Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy

A rivalry so intense it feels inevitable, yet so self-defeating it remains avoidable.

저자: Kishore Mahbubani 2020 320 페이지

4.07

2,000+ 개의 평점

🌏 Us-China Relations ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry 💵 Reserve Currency 📊 Trade Wars ⬇️ Declinism

The Shadow Market

저자: Eric J. Weiner • 2011

State-run investment funds now control trillions and steer the global economy from the shadows.

4.00

🏛️ Sovereign Wealth Funds 🌐 Global Finance ⚖️ Economic Power Shifts 🏭 State Capitalism 🛢️ Petrodollar Politics

The Shadow Market

State-run investment funds now control trillions and steer the global economy from the shadows.

저자: Eric J. Weiner 2011 311 페이지

4.00

2 개의 평점

🏛️ Sovereign Wealth Funds 🌐 Global Finance ⚖️ Economic Power Shifts 🏭 State Capitalism 🛢️ Petrodollar Politics

벌새 골목의 차 소녀

저자: 리사 시 • 2017

To survive her people's law, an Akha girl abandons her baby with only a tea cake.

4.29

100,000+

🏡 Multi Generational Saga 🌏 Chinese Diaspora 💔 Mother Daughter Separation 🌍 Transnational Adoption 🌄 Rural China

벌새 골목의 차 소녀

To survive her people's law, an Akha girl abandons her baby with only a tea cake.

저자: 리사 시 2017 384 페이지

4.29

100,000+ 개의 평점

🏡 Multi Generational Saga 🌏 Chinese Diaspora 💔 Mother Daughter Separation 🌍 Transnational Adoption 🌄 Rural China

Wilful Blindness

저자: Sam Cooper • 2021

How narcos, tycoons, and CCP agents turned a Canadian casino into a global money-laundering machine.

4.15

500+

🕵️ Transnational Crime 💰 Money Laundering 🏛️ State-Sponsored Crime 💊 Fentanyl Crisis 🐉 Foreign Influence

Wilful Blindness

How narcos, tycoons, and CCP agents turned a Canadian casino into a global money-laundering machine.

저자: Sam Cooper 2021

4.15

500+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Transnational Crime 💰 Money Laundering 🏛️ State-Sponsored Crime 💊 Fentanyl Crisis 🐉 Foreign Influence

Destined for War

저자: Graham Allison • 2017

Three out of four great-power transitions end in war. America and China are mid-transition.

4.19

7,000+

🏛️ International Relations 🌍 Geopolitics 🤝 Us-China Relations ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence

Destined for War

Three out of four great-power transitions end in war. America and China are mid-transition.

저자: Graham Allison 2017 364 페이지

4.19

7,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ International Relations 🌍 Geopolitics 🤝 Us-China Relations ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence

曾国藩传

저자: 张宏杰 • 2018

A slow, clumsy scholar who failed the imperial exam twice became his era's greatest statesman.

4.59

112

🏯 Imperial China 🌱 Self-Cultivation ⚔️ Military Strategy 🏛️ Historical Leadership ☯️ Chinese Philosophy

曾国藩传

A slow, clumsy scholar who failed the imperial exam twice became his era's greatest statesman.

저자: 张宏杰 2018 388 페이지

4.59

112 개의 평점

🏯 Imperial China 🌱 Self-Cultivation ⚔️ Military Strategy 🏛️ Historical Leadership ☯️ Chinese Philosophy

From Rebel to Ruler

저자: Tony Saich • 2021

Its ideology should have killed it, but the party survived by stealing ancient imperial habits.

3.83

119

🏯 Modern China 🛡️ Authoritarian Resilience 🏛️ One-Party Rule ✊ Revolutionary Politics 🧱 State Building

From Rebel to Ruler

Its ideology should have killed it, but the party survived by stealing ancient imperial habits.

저자: Tony Saich 2021 560 페이지

3.83

119 개의 평점

🏯 Modern China 🛡️ Authoritarian Resilience 🏛️ One-Party Rule ✊ Revolutionary Politics 🧱 State Building

Unrestricted Warfare

저자: Qiao Liang • 1999

Two Chinese colonels explain how to beat a superpower by weaponizing trade, media, and hackers.

3.64

500+

⚖️ Asymmetric Warfare ⚔️ Hybrid Warfare 💰 Economic Warfare 🌫️ Gray Zone Conflict 4️⃣ Fourth Generation Warfare

Unrestricted Warfare

Two Chinese colonels explain how to beat a superpower by weaponizing trade, media, and hackers.

저자: Qiao Liang 1999 208 페이지

3.64

500+ 개의 평점

⚖️ Asymmetric Warfare ⚔️ Hybrid Warfare 💰 Economic Warfare 🌫️ Gray Zone Conflict 4️⃣ Fourth Generation Warfare

War Without Rules

저자: Robert Spalding • 2022

China's 1999 war manual mapped global victory without battle. Every move since has followed it.

4.04

318

🌍 Great Power Competition 🇨🇳 Chinese Strategy 🎯 Asymmetric Warfare 🧬 Hybrid Warfare 💻 Cyber Warfare

War Without Rules

China's 1999 war manual mapped global victory without battle. Every move since has followed it.

저자: Robert Spalding 2022 256 페이지

4.04

318 개의 평점

🌍 Great Power Competition 🇨🇳 Chinese Strategy 🎯 Asymmetric Warfare 🧬 Hybrid Warfare 💻 Cyber Warfare

Ill Winds

저자: Larry Diamond • 2019

Democracy is being dismantled not by tanks but through courts, captured media, and laundered money.

3.99

274

🏚️ Democratic Backsliding 🏦 Kleptocracy And Corruption 🗳️ Electoral Reform 🐻 Russian Interference 🇨🇳 Chinese Influence

Ill Winds

Democracy is being dismantled not by tanks but through courts, captured media, and laundered money.

저자: Larry Diamond 2019 368 페이지

3.99

274 개의 평점

🏚️ Democratic Backsliding 🏦 Kleptocracy And Corruption 🗳️ Electoral Reform 🐻 Russian Interference 🇨🇳 Chinese Influence

Satori

저자: Don Winslow • 2011

A stateless assassin trades his cell for a kill order: one Soviet spymaster, inside Mao's Beijing.

3.95

5,000+

🕵️ Cold War Espionage 😬 Reluctant Spy 🗡️ Master Assassin 💔 Betrayal Romance 💋 Femme Fatale

Satori

A stateless assassin trades his cell for a kill order: one Soviet spymaster, inside Mao's Beijing.

저자: Don Winslow 2011 504 페이지

3.95

5,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Cold War Espionage 😬 Reluctant Spy 🗡️ Master Assassin 💔 Betrayal Romance 💋 Femme Fatale

A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

저자: Alice Evelyn Yang • 2026

Her father returns after eleven years, carrying wartime horrors and a monster in their blood.

4.13

3,000+

🏠 Generational Saga 🦊 Magical Realism 🔐 Family Secrets 🩸 Inherited Trauma 🥀 Comfort Women

A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

Her father returns after eleven years, carrying wartime horrors and a monster in their blood.

저자: Alice Evelyn Yang 2026 360 페이지

4.13

3,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Generational Saga 🦊 Magical Realism 🔐 Family Secrets 🩸 Inherited Trauma 🥀 Comfort Women

Red Dawn Over China

저자: Frank Dikötter • 2026

China never wanted communism. A marginal Soviet proxy conquered it through terror and deceit.

3.81

183

🀄 Chinese Communism ☭ Maoist China 🇷🇺 Soviet Influence ⚔️ Chinese Civil War 🩸 Political Violence

Red Dawn Over China

China never wanted communism. A marginal Soviet proxy conquered it through terror and deceit.

저자: Frank Dikötter 2026 384 페이지

3.81

183 개의 평점

🀄 Chinese Communism ☭ Maoist China 🇷🇺 Soviet Influence ⚔️ Chinese Civil War 🩸 Political Violence

Taoism for Dummies

저자: Jonathan Herman • 2013

A 2,000-year tradition of alchemists, rebels, and monks that the West mistook for a single book.

3.55

118

🧠 Taoist Philosophy 🇨🇳 Chinese Religion 🪷 Wu-Wei ⏳ Religious History 🎋 Eastern Philosophy

Taoism for Dummies

A 2,000-year tradition of alchemists, rebels, and monks that the West mistook for a single book.

저자: Jonathan Herman 2013 384 페이지

3.55

118 개의 평점

🧠 Taoist Philosophy 🇨🇳 Chinese Religion 🪷 Wu-Wei ⏳ Religious History 🎋 Eastern Philosophy

War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe

저자: Victoria Tin-bor Hui • 2005

Ancient China unified; Europe stayed divided. The hinge: how states chose to fund their wars.

4.02

🏛️ Comparative History 🏗️ State Formation 🌐 International Relations Theory 🗺️ Geopolitics 💪 State Capacity

War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe

Ancient China unified; Europe stayed divided. The hinge: how states chose to fund their wars.

저자: Victoria Tin-bor Hui 2005 310 페이지

4.02

46 개의 평점

🏛️ Comparative History 🏗️ State Formation 🌐 International Relations Theory 🗺️ Geopolitics 💪 State Capacity

If We Ever Meet Again

저자: Ana Huang • 2020

She believes in love; he swears it's a myth. A year in Shanghai will test them.

3.54

71,000+

📚 Study Abroad Romance 🎓 College Romance 🫂 Friends To Lovers 🔥 Slow Burn 🌸 Virgin Heroine

If We Ever Meet Again

She believes in love; he swears it's a myth. A year in Shanghai will test them.

저자: Ana Huang 2020 294 페이지

3.54

71,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Study Abroad Romance 🎓 College Romance 🫂 Friends To Lovers 🔥 Slow Burn 🌸 Virgin Heroine

Monkey

저자: Wu Cheng'en • 1592

After toppling heaven, a monkey king guards a monk through demon-filled China to earn his freedom.

4.04

8,000+

🪷 Buddhist Allegory 🐒 Trickster Hero ❤️ Found Family 🔄 Redemption Arc 😈 Irreverent Mythology

Monkey

After toppling heaven, a monkey king guards a monk through demon-filled China to earn his freedom.

저자: Wu Cheng'en 1592 306 페이지

4.04

8,000+ 개의 평점

🪷 Buddhist Allegory 🐒 Trickster Hero ❤️ Found Family 🔄 Redemption Arc 😈 Irreverent Mythology

The Painted Veil

저자: W. Somerset Maugham • 1925

An unfaithful colonial wife follows her betrayed husband into a cholera epidemic in rural China.

3.98

52,000+

🏛️ Colonial Expat Life 💔 Loveless Marriage 📖 Literary Infidelity 🌅 Moral Awakening 🦠 Epidemic Journey

The Painted Veil

An unfaithful colonial wife follows her betrayed husband into a cholera epidemic in rural China.

저자: W. Somerset Maugham 1925 190 페이지

3.98

52,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Colonial Expat Life 💔 Loveless Marriage 📖 Literary Infidelity 🌅 Moral Awakening 🦠 Epidemic Journey

Chinese Thinkers Through the Ages

저자: Philosophical Library • 2018

The Chinese sages had one message across twenty-five centuries: stop forcing, start flowing.

4.50

🏔️ Taoist Philosophy 📜 Chinese Wisdom 🏛️ Ancient Philosophy ☯️ Nonduality 🌊 Effortless Action

Chinese Thinkers Through the Ages

The Chinese sages had one message across twenty-five centuries: stop forcing, start flowing.

저자: Philosophical Library 2018 1295 페이지

4.50

2 개의 평점

🏔️ Taoist Philosophy 📜 Chinese Wisdom 🏛️ Ancient Philosophy ☯️ Nonduality 🌊 Effortless Action

City Like Water

저자: Dorothy Tse • 2026

When his sister is erased, a man navigates a dissolving city where remembering becomes defiance.

3.82

374

🏙️ Surrealist Dystopia 🇭🇰 Contemporary Hong Kong 📚 Political Allegory 🔎 Missing Sister 🗂️ Cultural Erasure

City Like Water

When his sister is erased, a man navigates a dissolving city where remembering becomes defiance.

저자: Dorothy Tse 2026 112 페이지

3.82

374 개의 평점

🏙️ Surrealist Dystopia 🇭🇰 Contemporary Hong Kong 📚 Political Allegory 🔎 Missing Sister 🗂️ Cultural Erasure

Rome and China

저자: Walter Scheidel • 2008

Why Rome's fall was permanent, and China's was not: a comparative history of ancient empires.

3.47

🌍 Comparative History 🏛️ Ancient Empires 🏗️ State Formation ⚔️ Military Organization ⚖️ Legal Systems

Rome and China

Why Rome's fall was permanent, and China's was not: a comparative history of ancient empires.

저자: Walter Scheidel 2008 256 페이지

3.47

47 개의 평점

🌍 Comparative History 🏛️ Ancient Empires 🏗️ State Formation ⚔️ Military Organization ⚖️ Legal Systems

Starting from Scrap

저자: Stephen H. Greer • 2010

From jobless in Hong Kong to scrap metal millions. The price: fraud, burnout, and a near-drowning.

4.14

🌍 Global Trade 🌏 Cross-Cultural Business 💪 Founder Resilience 📈 Emerging Markets 🥾 Bootstrapping

Starting from Scrap

From jobless in Hong Kong to scrap metal millions. The price: fraud, burnout, and a near-drowning.

저자: Stephen H. Greer 2010 256 페이지

4.14

72 개의 평점

🌍 Global Trade 🌏 Cross-Cultural Business 💪 Founder Resilience 📈 Emerging Markets 🥾 Bootstrapping

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism

저자: Robert Jay Lifton • 1963

How an ideology dismantles the self: eight psychological levers mapped from Maoist China.

4.16

333

🧠 Mind Control 🔮 Cult Psychology ⛓️ Totalitarian Control 🗳️ Political Psychology 🇨🇳 Maoist China

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism

How an ideology dismantles the self: eight psychological levers mapped from Maoist China.

저자: Robert Jay Lifton 1963 524 페이지

4.16

333 개의 평점

🧠 Mind Control 🔮 Cult Psychology ⛓️ Totalitarian Control 🗳️ Political Psychology 🇨🇳 Maoist China

State Power in Ancient China and Rome

저자: Walter Scheidel • 2014

Rome fell for good; China resurrected for two millennia. The difference: bureaucracy.

3.31

🏛️ Comparative Empires 🏗️ State Formation 📋 State Bureaucracies 💰 Fiscal Sociology 🏙️ Cities And State Power

State Power in Ancient China and Rome

Rome fell for good; China resurrected for two millennia. The difference: bureaucracy.

저자: Walter Scheidel 2014 324 페이지

3.31

13 개의 평점

🏛️ Comparative Empires 🏗️ State Formation 📋 State Bureaucracies 💰 Fiscal Sociology 🏙️ Cities And State Power

The Borrowed

저자: Chan Ho-Kei • 2017

A dying detective answers only yes or no. His protege must solve a tycoon's murder.

4.36

5,000+

🔄 Reverse Chronology 👮 Police Procedural 🔍 Master Detective 🤝 Mentor And Protege 🔐 Family Secrets

The Borrowed

A dying detective answers only yes or no. His protege must solve a tycoon's murder.

저자: Chan Ho-Kei 2017 496 페이지

4.36

5,000+ 개의 평점

🔄 Reverse Chronology 👮 Police Procedural 🔍 Master Detective 🤝 Mentor And Protege 🔐 Family Secrets

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