To understand or know more about the Middle Kingdom, where cultures, social circumstances, and collective and regional memories all significantly differ, literature is a great medium. These 10 novels on modern China, along with many other well-known works, provide great widows into the society of contemporary China. In addition to the list, some others worth mentioning include; “River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze”, “Beijing Coma”, “A Time of Ghosts”, “How to Cook a Dragon: Living, Loving, and Eating in China”, “Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China”, “Beijing for Beginners: An Irishman in the People’s Republic”, “Fortress Besieged”, “A Dictionary of Maqiao”, “Dream of the Walled City”, and “Border Town”.

We hope you enjoy reading your way through these modern literary delights.

Via China Whisper.

Also check out Kaitlin Solimine’s “The China Expat in Exile“, a sophisticated and frank piece on being an expat in the Middle Kingdom.