China Summer Reading…or at Least Some Reading Ideas from China Folk

Time Out Beijing asked a bunch of China related people what they thought you should be reading this summer. I was one of them admittedly. Refreshingly nobody really “log rolled” (publishing industry term for writers who recommend books from their mates or from their publishers to curry favour rather than offer a proper recommendation) and most chose books with either no, or only a passing, reference to China thankfully rather than doing the ‘look how well read I am’ thing that can be a tad vomit inducing.

Here’s the list from me, Robert Bickers, Isabel Hilton, Jean Kwok, Sheng Keyi and Wang Xiaofang – click here

Interestingly Isabel picked Julia Lovell’s forthcoming book on the Opium Wars – Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China. I only just got a copy and travel has meant I’ve only had the briefest of flicks through it so far, but it looks like a winner. I expect I’ll be blogging repeatedly on the book as I find time to get stuck into it.