ChinaSource Senior Vice President Joann Pittman invites two friends, colleagues, and voracious readers—Andrew Kaiser, author of Voices from the Past: Historical Reflections on Christian Missions in China, and Amy Young, author of Looming Transitions: Starting and Finishing Well in Cross-Cultural Service—to join her in a discussion of why it is important to read books about China and which books they find to be most helpful.
Books Mentioned
- Imperial Women: The Story of the Last Empress of China, by Pearl S. Buck
- City of Tranquil Light: A Novel, by Bo Caldwell
- Snowflower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See
- China’s Millions (Studies in the History of Christian Missions), by Alvyn Austin
- Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China, by Lian Xi
- Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China’s Predicament, by Perry Link
- China’s Future, by David Shambaugh
- The Art of Crossing Cultures, by Craig Storti
- Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christ-like Humility, by Duane Elmer
- Sharing the Truth in Love: How to Relate to People of Other Faiths, by Ajith Fernando
- Barbarians, by Robert Carter
- God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan, by Jonathan Spence
- Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, by Evan Osnos
- Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962, by Yang Jisheng
- In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China, Michael Meyer
- The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City, by Michael Meyer
- Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road, by Rob Schmitz
- Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China, by Adam Chau
- One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment, by Mei Fong
- China’s Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy, by Kay Ann Johnson
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, by Jung Chang
- Son of the Revolution, by Liang Heng & Judith Shapiro
- China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
- China Can Say No – The Post-Cold War Era of Political and Emotional Choices, by Song Qiang, et.al. (In Chinese)
- Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure, by Langdon Gilkey
- The Ugly American, by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
- Life Together, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- God Is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China, by Liao Yiwu
- China’s Urban Christians: A Light that Cannot Be Hidden, by Brent Fulton
- The Chinese Puzzle, by Michael Falkenstine
- The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices, by Xinran
- Looming Transitions: Starting and Finishing Well in Cross-Cultural Service, by Amy Young
- Voices from the Past: Historical Reflections on Christian Missions in China, by Andrew Kaiser
- Survival Chinese Lessons, by Joann Pittman
