Title: Beijing Coma
Author: Ma Jian
This is a remarkable novel based on a far-fetched conceit: the narrator is a young man injured in the vicinity of Tiananmen Read more...
Title: Bound With Love
Author: Audrey Salters
Ronald Still and his wife Gwyneth were relatively young Baptist medical missionaries in Shanghai in the 1930s who found Read more...
Title: What Does China Think?
Author: Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard is Executive Director of the European Council of Foreign Relations, and his book was recently recommended as the Read more...
Title: Reconstructing Christianity in China - K. H. Ting and the Chinese Church
Author: Philip L. Wickeri
Not a quick read, but fascinating, important and extraordinarily well researched, with full glossaries, Bibliographies in Read more...
Title: A Year in Tibet
Author: Sun Shuyun
Many FCC members will remember 'Ten Thousand Miles without a Cloud' in which Sun Shuyun retraced the steps of the famous Read more...
Title: From Tortoise Hill
Author: Mary Sheaff
One of FCC's veteran members, Mary Sheaff celebrated her 80th birthday with a sponsored walk on behalf of the Amity Read more...
Title: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Author: Yiyun Lee
10 short stories written by a Chinese emigre to the USA, depicting the lives of people in modern China. Life is difficult in Read more...
Title: China Road - A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Author: Rob Gifford
Rob Gifford spoke at the FCC conference just a year ago, and now adds a constantly interesting and thought-provoking book to Read more...
Title: The Great Transformation
Author: Karen Armstrong
This is not a book specifically about China but every chapter includes a substantial section about Chinese thought. Chapter Read more...
Title: The Writing on the Wall
Author: Will Hutton
Will Hutton, a well-respected economic journalist and writer, has published two articles - in the Guardian / G2 of Monday Read more...
Title: The Long March
Author: Sun Shuyun
The author of 'TEN THOUSAND MILES WITHOUT A CLOUD' retraces the route of the Red Armies in 1934-36, meets elderly survivors Read more...
Title: Oracle Bones
Author: Peter Hessler
After the experiences recorded in his "River Town", Hessler became a freelance journalist based in Beijing. "Oracle Bones", a Read more...
Title: Growing in Partnership : The Amity Foundation, 1985-2005
Author: Katrin Fiedler and Zhang Liwei
Published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the birth of the Amity Foundation, this consists of nearly 50 articles, half Read more...
Title: China's Christian Millions - The Costly Revival
Author: Tony Lambert
Tony Lambert is the Director of China Research for the Overseas Missionary Fellowship, the body which succeeded to the Read more...
Title: The Changing Face of China - From Mao to Market
Author: John Gittings
A good long read, but not difficult, this is a much revised and enlarged version of an earlier book (China Changes Face), Read more...
Title: Vers les Chrêtiens en Chine - vus par une grenouille du fond d'un puits
Author: Cardinal Roger Etchegaray
For those who can read French - an admirably frank and personal diary of the four visits Cardinal Etchegaray was able to make Read more...
Title: Sky Burial
Author: Xinran
Another startlingly extraordinary, but deeply enlightening and hope-filled book from China, and from Xinran. A tale she Read more...
Title: China's Catholics - Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society
Author: Richard Madsen
Things will have moved on since Madsen researched this book in visits in the early and mid-90s - remember Fr Jean-Baptiste Read more...
Title: Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power
Author: David Aikman
Not a book that will sit easily with either the experience of the FCC, nor with our carefully decided policies about Read more...
Title: Gao Village: Rural Life in Modern China
Author: Mobo C. F. Gao
Deeply interesting, detailed yet also humanly fascinating study of one specific village in Jiangxi Province, where the author Read more...
Title: The Catholic Church in Modern China - Perspectives
Author: Edmond Tang & Jean-Paul Wiest
Essays by 13 unusually well-informed students of developments in China, several from Hong Kong. When published it was almost Read more...
Title: The Catholic Church in Present-Day China - Through Darkness and Light
Author: Anthony S. K. Lam
Judicious review by one of the best informed Catholics in Hong Kong, looking back to the missionaries, then 40 pages on the Read more...
Title: 1421: The Year China Discovered the World
Author: Gavin Menzies
Mind-blowingly fascinating study both of a decisive episode in Chinese history, of which the West was and is ignorant, also Read more...
Title: Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Author: Daniel H. Bays
20 Essays by scholars, mostly western, but not all, covering a wide sweep of history over 200 and more years, showing how Read more...
Title: The Jesus Sutras - Rediscovering the lost religion of Taoist Christianity
Author: Martin Palmer
Fascinating, first hand report on what can be discovered by a keen British traveller of the earliest Chritian mission to Read more...
Title: God and Caesar in China: Policy Implications of Church-State Tensions
Author: Jason Kindopp & Carol Lee Hamrin
Essays by 9 scholars, 3 of them from China, giving a deliberately up to date account of the prospects of Christian faith Read more...
Title: The Good Women of China - Hidden Voices
Author: Xinran
Wonderfully sensitive and significant personal stories of women in different parts of China, originally told to and now Read more...
Title: Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud - One woman's search for her roots
Author: Sun Shuyun
Beautiful book, telling the story of the 7th century monk Xuanzang, who travelled through Central Asia to the sites where the Read more...
Title: River Town
Author: Peter Hessler
This is a young American's account of two years as a teacher in Fuling on the Yangtze Read more...
Title: Love Never Ends
Author: Bishop K H Ting
It brings together Ting's principal writings and addresses from 1947 to 1997 Read more...
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