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China Books
Books about China for our Daughter
The following are lists of books either set in or about China for adults, books about adoption, and books about both China and adoption for children. We've read and recommended all of these books and are adding to this list as fast as we can read!
Adult China Books
| Author | Title | Comments |
| Pearl Buck |
The Good Earth |
Story of farmer, wife and their hard life in early 1900s China |
| Pearl Buck | An Imperial Woman | A look at the life of the Empress Dowager, who ruled until 1908 during China's last dynasty |
| The Three Daughters of Madame Ling | The lives of a woman and her daughters during the Cultural Revolution | |
| Pearl Buck | Pavilion of Women | On her 40th birthday, Madame Wu selects a concubine for her husband |
| Jung Chang | Wild Swans | An autobiography of a Chinese woman, her mother and grandmother spanning the early 1900s to the 1970s |
| Karin Evans | Lost Daughters of China | A woman's story of adopting from China interspersed with history of cultural information |
| Madeline Yen Mah | Falling Leaves | An autobiography of one girl's tale of growing up of being a Chinese daughter during the twentieth century |
| Lensey Namioka | Ties that Bind, Ties that Break | A fictional story of the first women in a upper class Chinese family to not bind her feet and its affects on her life |
| Niu Niu | No Tears for Mao | An autobiography of one woman's experience during the Cultural Revolution |
| Dai Sijie | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | A fictional tale of two teenage boys sent to the country for reeducation during the Cultural Revolution |
| Amy Tan | The Joy Luck Club | The lives of daughters of Chinese mother's who came to America, and one woman's journey back to meet the sisters she never knew about |
| Amy Tan | The Kitchen God's Wife | Follows the emotional relationship of a Chinese American daughter and her mother |
| Amy Tan | Bonesetters Daughter | A daughters look back at her mother's life in China as she reads her diary |
| Gail Tsukiyama | Night of Many Dreams | The story of two Chinese sisters |
| Gail Tsukiyama | Women of the Silk | A story of a girl sold to a silk factory in the early 1900s and the "sisters" she finds |
| Gail Tsukiyama | Samurai Garden | Set prior to WWII and Japan's invasion of China, a young Chinese man recuperates in a small Japanese village and befriends a young woman stricken with leprosy |
| Jan Wong | Red China Blues | An autobiography of the author, a Chinese-Canadian, and her experiences living in China during the Cultural Revolution |
| Pearl Buck | Pavilion of Women | A story of a Chinese woman in the 1940s who decides that her husband should take a concubine so she can live her own life. |
| Denise Chong | The Concubine's Children | A true story, in this book the author chronicles her grandfather's life as he divides himself between his life in Canada with his concubine and his life in China with his wife. It then follows the children and their lives on both sides of the world. |
Children's China Books
| Author | Title | Comments |
| Roseanne Thong |
Red is a Dragon |
Fun, bright color book set in China |
| Roseanne Thong | Round is Mooncake | Fun, shapes books set in China |
| Jean Okimoto and Elaine Aoki | The White Swan Express | Picture book following parents traveling to China to Adopt |
| Nina Simmons and Leslie Swartz | Moon Beams, Dumplings and Dragon Boats | A treasury of Chinese holidays plus activities and recipes |
| Emily Neville | China Year | Middle grade book following an American girl's year in China prior to the Tianamen Square riots |
| Rose Lewis | I Love You Like Crazy Cakes | Loving book about a mother adopting from China |
| Paul Yee | The Jade Necklace | In this picture book, China and North America comes together as Yenyee is sent to the "New World" from China |
Adoption Books
| Author | Title | Comments |
| Cheri Register |
Are Those Kids Yours? |
Book about different aspects of raising internationally adopted children; written by mother of two adopted Korean girls |
| Amy Klatzin | Passages of the Heart | Essays by families who have adopted from China |
| Myra Alperson | Dim Sum, Bagels and Grits | Book about multicultural families and the different issues involved |
| Sherry Eldridge | Twenty Things Your Adopted Children Want You to Know | An adopted daughter herself, the author discusses some of the unique issues of being an adopted child |