China

1984

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist

Government / national · 1985

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Government / national · 1931 · lifted

Beijing Coma

Ma Jian

Government / national · 2008

Capital and Ideology

Thomas Piketty

"Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system. Our economy, Piketty observes, is not a natural fact. Markets, pr

Government / national · 2019

Dream of Ding Village

Yan Lianke

Government / national · 2006

Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution

Tsering Woeser

Government / national · 2006

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

"Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school."--Back jacket.

Government / national · 1966 · lifted

Life and Death in Shanghai

Nien Cheng

In August 1966 a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an obvious target for the fanatics of the Cultural Revolution: educated in London, the widow of an official of Chiang Kai-shek's regime, and an employee of Shell Oil, Nien Cheng enjoyed comforts that few of her compatriots could afford. When she refused to confess that any of this made her an enemy of the state, she was placed in solitary confinement, where she would remain for more than six years.

Government / national · 1987

Mao: The Unknown Story

Jung Chang

A biography of of Mao Zedong taken from the perspective of his relationship to women. The normal biographical elements make up the majority of the text but when there is an interesting aspect regarding Mao's attitude toward women, Jung Chang (a woman) goes for it. For example... any normal biography of Mao, would take account of the movements of Mao's army as he took control of China but it is interesting that his army camped outside the town where his wife and son lived (had been abandoned, fra

Government / national · 2005

Prisoner of the State

Zhao Ziyang

Government / national · 2009

Prisoners of the State: The Inside Story of China's Secret System

Xu Zhiyong

Government / national · 2009

Red Sorghum

Mo Yan

This file is missing one or two pages near the end of the book--the second- and maybe third-to-last page. Couldn't find anywhere else to make this note.

Government / national · 1993 · lifted

Shanghai Baby

Wei Hui

"Publicly burned in China for its sensual nature and irreverent style, this novel is the semi-autobiographical story of Coco, a cafe waitress, who is full of enthusiasm and impatience for life. She meets a young man, Tian Tian, for whom she feels tenderness and love, but he is reclusive, impotent and an increasing user of drugs. Despite parental objections, Coco moves in with him, leaves her job and throws herself into writing.". "Shortly afterwards she meets Mark, a married Westerner. The two

Government / national · 2000 · lifted

Soul Mountain

Gao Xingjian

Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of internment on a prison farm, Chinese playwright, critic, novelist, and painter Gao fled Beijing and journeyed into the remote mountains and ancient forests of Sichuan. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is Soul Mountain.

Government / national · 1989

The Corpse Walker

Liao Yiwu

Government / national · 2008

The Private Life of Chairman Mao

Li Zhisui

From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in almost daily - and increasingly intimate - contact with Mao and his inner circle. For most of these years, Mao's health was excellent; thus he and the doctor had time to discuss political and personal matters. Dr. Li recorded many of these conversations in his diaries as well as in his memory. In The Private Life of Chairman Mao he vividly reconstructs his extr

Government / national · 1994

To Live

Yu Hua

Ben shu shi wo guo si da gu dian ming zhu zhi yi, yi jia bao yu, lin dai yu, xue bao chai de ai qing jiu ge wei xian suo, yi jia, shi, wang, xue si da jia zu wei zhong xin, yi qing chao feng jian she hui wei bei jing, xie chu le feng jian da jia zu de xing shuai, tong shi ye zhe she chu wo guo feng jian she hui xing shuai de li shi.

Government / national · 1994 · lifted

Tombstone

Yang Jisheng

An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.

Government / national · 2008

Unfree Speech

Joshua Wong

"An urgent manifesto for global democracy from Joshua Wong, the twenty-three-year-old phenomenon leading Hong Kong's protests, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee"--

Government / national · 2020

We Uyghurs Have No Say

Ilham Tohti

Government / national · 2014

Wild Swans

Jung Chang

"Jung Chang vividly evokes China's sights, sounds, and smells to create what must be one of the grimmest, yet most perceptive accounts of growing up middle-class in the maelstrom that has swept China since the 1920s." - Back cover.

Government / national · 1991

Will the Boat Sink the Water

Chen Guidi

This unique work of investigative literary journalism is translated into English for the first time. The Chinese prize-winning original sold more than 250,000 copies before it was banned and went on to sell close to ten million copies illegally in China. Subsequently, the authors have been harassed in the courts, forced to terminate their employment, and have had their home stoned by a mob - all because they dared to paint a true portrait of the life of China's peasants." "Chinese journalists Ch

Government / national · 2004 · lifted

Zhuan Falun

Li Hongzhi

Handbook on how to be a true person, a good person and how to live well, solve problems with others, attain solidly good health and a clean mind. Based off one of the eight phases of Buddha's existence, known as Turning the Law Wheel.

Government / national · 1999