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Dødens ende

av Liu Cixin

Humanity's last defense is a woman chosen for her mercy. The aliens are counting on it.

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🚀 Hard Science Fiction 🌌 Cosmic Horror 💔 Selfless Love ⚖️ Moral Compromise 🍵 Alien Diplomacy

Oppslukende

Dødens ende

Humanity's last defense is a woman chosen for her mercy. The aliens are counting on it.

av Liu Cixin 2010 604 sider

4.40

100 000+ vurderinger

🚀 Hard Science Fiction 🌌 Cosmic Horror 💔 Selfless Love ⚖️ Moral Compromise 🍵 Alien Diplomacy

Bazi - The Destiny Code

av Joey Yap • 2004

Which years are for building and which are for waiting? The code is in your birthdate.

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183

🏮 Chinese Metaphysics 🌌 Birth Chart Analysis 🔥 Five Elements Theory 🧩 Personality Typologies ⚖️ Agency And Fate

Oppslukende

Bazi - The Destiny Code

Which years are for building and which are for waiting? The code is in your birthdate.

av Joey Yap 2004 300 sider

4.23

183 vurderinger

🏮 Chinese Metaphysics 🌌 Birth Chart Analysis 🔥 Five Elements Theory 🧩 Personality Typologies ⚖️ Agency And Fate

Lord of the Mysteries Volume 1

av Ai Qianshui de Wuzei • 2021

A botched ritual, a gray fog, two strangers: suddenly a transmigrated clerk is everyone's god.

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🦑 Lovecraftian Fantasy ⬆️ Progression Fantasy 🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy 🃏 Secret Society ⚡ Reluctant God

Lord of the Mysteries Volume 1

A botched ritual, a gray fog, two strangers: suddenly a transmigrated clerk is everyone's god.

av Ai Qianshui de Wuzei 2021 1165 sider

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4 000+ vurderinger

🦑 Lovecraftian Fantasy ⬆️ Progression Fantasy 🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy 🃏 Secret Society ⚡ Reluctant God

Den mørke skogen

av Liu Cixin • 2008

Alien spies read every plan. One unwilling man is given absolute power to save the world in secrecy.

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🚀 Hard Scifi 👾 Alien Invasion 😔 Reluctant Hero 🧠 Grand Strategy 🖤 Cosmic Dread

Den mørke skogen

Alien spies read every plan. One unwilling man is given absolute power to save the world in secrecy.

av Liu Cixin 2008 512 sider

4.40

200 000+ vurderinger

🚀 Hard Scifi 👾 Alien Invasion 😔 Reluctant Hero 🧠 Grand Strategy 🖤 Cosmic Dread

Heaven Official's Blessing

av Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù • 2017

A fallen god confronts his ancient enemy, and the ghost king who loves him wagers everything.

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28 000+

🏯 Xianxia Romance 📚 Danmei 💀 Centuries-Long Devotion 🤝 Found Family 🩹 Hurt And Comfort

Heaven Official's Blessing

A fallen god confronts his ancient enemy, and the ghost king who loves him wagers everything.

av Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù 2017 466 sider

4.66

28 000+ vurderinger

🏯 Xianxia Romance 📚 Danmei 💀 Centuries-Long Devotion 🤝 Found Family 🩹 Hurt And Comfort

Trelegemeproblemet

av Liu Cixin • 2006

A ghost countdown draws a physicist into a three-sun game hiding an alien invasion already underway.

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🔬 Hard Science Fiction 🛸 First Contact 👽 Alien Invasion Looming 🎮 Virtual Reality Game 🐍 Human Collaborators

Oppslukende

Trelegemeproblemet

A ghost countdown draws a physicist into a three-sun game hiding an alien invasion already underway.

av Liu Cixin 2006 472 sider

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🔬 Hard Science Fiction 🛸 First Contact 👽 Alien Invasion Looming 🎮 Virtual Reality Game 🐍 Human Collaborators

The Great Divergence

av Kenneth Pomeranz • 2000

Europe's industrial breakthrough wasn't its own genius. It took colonial land and underground coal.

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📚 Comparative History 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🏫 California School ⛓️ Colonial Resources ⚔️ State Competition

The Great Divergence

Europe's industrial breakthrough wasn't its own genius. It took colonial land and underground coal.

av Kenneth Pomeranz 2000 392 sider

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📚 Comparative History 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🏫 California School ⛓️ Colonial Resources ⚔️ State Competition

Tao Te Ching

av Lao Tzu

Why the best leaders are invisible, the strongest bend, and the wisest do nothing at all.

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🏯 Taoism 🎋 Eastern Philosophy 📜 Ancient Wisdom 🕊️ Non-Attachment 🍃 Simplicity Living

Tao Te Ching

Why the best leaders are invisible, the strongest bend, and the wisest do nothing at all.

av Lao Tzu 208 sider

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100 000+ vurderinger

🏯 Taoism 🎋 Eastern Philosophy 📜 Ancient Wisdom 🕊️ Non-Attachment 🍃 Simplicity Living

The Analects

av Confucius

Moral example, not law: the ancient guide to building the gravity of a true leader.

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🏛️ Confucianism ⚖️ Virtue Ethics 🏮 Chinese Philosophy 🌱 Moral Self-Cultivation 👴 Filial Piety

The Analects

Moral example, not law: the ancient guide to building the gravity of a true leader.

av Confucius 249 sider

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🏛️ Confucianism ⚖️ Virtue Ethics 🏮 Chinese Philosophy 🌱 Moral Self-Cultivation 👴 Filial Piety

Babel

av R.F. Kuang • 2022

Britain's empire runs on translation. A Chinese orphan masters its magic to destroy it.

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🕯️ Dark Academia 🪄 Linguistic Magic 🫂 Found Family 🗝️ Secret Society ✊ Anti-Colonial Fiction

Babel

Britain's empire runs on translation. A Chinese orphan masters its magic to destroy it.

av R.F. Kuang 2022 544 sider

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🕯️ Dark Academia 🪄 Linguistic Magic 🫂 Found Family 🗝️ Secret Society ✊ Anti-Colonial Fiction

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens

av Jack Weatherford • 2010

Genghis Khan's daughters held the Silk Road. The sons buried them; a widow rebuilt the empire.

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🏹 Mongol Empire 🐪 Silk Road 👑 Women Rulers ⚔️ Warrior Women 📜 Erased History

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens

Genghis Khan's daughters held the Silk Road. The sons buried them; a widow rebuilt the empire.

av Jack Weatherford 2010 352 sider

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🏹 Mongol Empire 🐪 Silk Road 👑 Women Rulers ⚔️ Warrior Women 📜 Erased History

If You Could See the Sun

av Ann Liang • 2022

A scholarship girl in Beijing turns invisible, sells secrets, and partners with her academic rival.

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💘 Rivals To Lovers 🏛️ Elite Boarding School 💰 Class Divide 👤 Feeling Invisible 🕯️ Slow Burn Romance

If You Could See the Sun

A scholarship girl in Beijing turns invisible, sells secrets, and partners with her academic rival.

av Ann Liang 2022 346 sider

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59 000+ vurderinger

💘 Rivals To Lovers 🏛️ Elite Boarding School 💰 Class Divide 👤 Feeling Invisible 🕯️ Slow Burn Romance

The Phoenix Pencil Company

av Allison King • 2025

A granddaughter's search for a lost cousin uncovers a magical family secret hidden in pencils.

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✨ Magical Historical Fiction ⏳ Dual Timeline 💕 Sapphic Slow Burn 🔍 Family Secrets 🌿 Inherited Magic

The Phoenix Pencil Company

A granddaughter's search for a lost cousin uncovers a magical family secret hidden in pencils.

av Allison King 2025 362 sider

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✨ Magical Historical Fiction ⏳ Dual Timeline 💕 Sapphic Slow Burn 🔍 Family Secrets 🌿 Inherited Magic

Lady Tans kvinnesirkel

av Lisa See • 2023

In Ming China, a healer's granddaughter enters a marriage that forbids her from practicing medicine.

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📜 Real Historical Figure 👩‍⚕️ Female Physician 🤝 Cross-Class Friendship 👯 Female Solidarity 🔍 Family Secrets

Lady Tans kvinnesirkel

In Ming China, a healer's granddaughter enters a marriage that forbids her from practicing medicine.

av Lisa See 2023 352 sider

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200 000+ vurderinger

📜 Real Historical Figure 👩‍⚕️ Female Physician 🤝 Cross-Class Friendship 👯 Female Solidarity 🔍 Family Secrets

The Journey to the West, Volume 1

av Wu Cheng'en • 1980

A stone-born monkey rebels against heaven, then guards a monk journeying west for sacred scriptures.

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🐒 Trickster Hero 🌩️ Celestial Rebellion 🛕 Buddhist Pilgrimage 🦋 Transformation Magic 🏯 Ancient China

The Journey to the West, Volume 1

A stone-born monkey rebels against heaven, then guards a monk journeying west for sacred scriptures.

av Wu Cheng'en 1980 544 sider

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🐒 Trickster Hero 🌩️ Celestial Rebellion 🛕 Buddhist Pilgrimage 🦋 Transformation Magic 🏯 Ancient China

Red Scarf Girl

av Ji-li Jiang • 1997

A Shanghai schoolgirl's life shatters when she discovers her family is branded a class enemy.

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🇨🇳 Chinese History 🏮 Cultural Revolution 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir ⚖️ Political Persecution 🕊️ Loss Of Innocence

Red Scarf Girl

A Shanghai schoolgirl's life shatters when she discovers her family is branded a class enemy.

av Ji-li Jiang 1997 285 sider

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🇨🇳 Chinese History 🏮 Cultural Revolution 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir ⚖️ Political Persecution 🕊️ Loss Of Innocence

The Night Ends with Fire

av K.X. Song • 2024

To flee an arranged marriage, she becomes a soldier. A dragon waits in her blood.

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🗡️ Mulan Retelling 🎭 Disguised As A Boy 💔 Enemies To Lovers ✨ Hidden Powers 🐉 Chinese Mythology

The Night Ends with Fire

To flee an arranged marriage, she becomes a soldier. A dragon waits in her blood.

av K.X. Song 2024 432 sider

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🗡️ Mulan Retelling 🎭 Disguised As A Boy 💔 Enemies To Lovers ✨ Hidden Powers 🐉 Chinese Mythology

House of Huawei

av Eva Dou • 2025

A Shenzhen startup built a surveillance empire and defied sanctions: inside Huawei.

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🏢 Corporate Histories 🏭 Chinese Capitalism 🌏 Us-China Rivalry 👁️ Surveillance State ⚠️ Geopolitical Risk

House of Huawei

A Shenzhen startup built a surveillance empire and defied sanctions: inside Huawei.

av Eva Dou 2025 448 sider

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🏢 Corporate Histories 🏭 Chinese Capitalism 🌏 Us-China Rivalry 👁️ Surveillance State ⚠️ Geopolitical Risk

Chinese Cinderella

av Adeline Yen Mah • 1999

Blamed from birth for her mother's death, a girl in 1940s China discovers her one way out.

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🏮 Chinese Family 💔 Childhood Abuse 🥀 Emotional Neglect 📚 Academic Refuge 👧 Motherless Daughters

Chinese Cinderella

Blamed from birth for her mother's death, a girl in 1940s China discovers her one way out.

av Adeline Yen Mah 1999 205 sider

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🏮 Chinese Family 💔 Childhood Abuse 🥀 Emotional Neglect 📚 Academic Refuge 👧 Motherless Daughters

The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish

av Xue Shan Fei Hu • 2024

Reborn a pet carp, he must win his mute prince's heart. The quest system demands it.

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🏳️‍🌈 Danmei Romance 🔄 Transmigration Fantasy 👑 Palace Intrigue 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🐟 Shapeshifter Romance

The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish

Reborn a pet carp, he must win his mute prince's heart. The quest system demands it.

av Xue Shan Fei Hu 2024 436 sider

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5 000+ vurderinger

🏳️‍🌈 Danmei Romance 🔄 Transmigration Fantasy 👑 Palace Intrigue 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🐟 Shapeshifter Romance

TikTok Boom

av Chris Stokel-Walker • 2021

China built the world's most addictive app. The algorithm knows you better than your friends do.

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🏛️ Tech Geopolitics 💰 Creator Economy 🤖 Algorithmic Curation 👀 Attention Economy 🔒 Data Privacy

TikTok Boom

China built the world's most addictive app. The algorithm knows you better than your friends do.

av Chris Stokel-Walker 2021 282 sider

3.72

191 vurderinger

🏛️ Tech Geopolitics 💰 Creator Economy 🤖 Algorithmic Curation 👀 Attention Economy 🔒 Data Privacy

The Long Game

av Rush Doshi • 2021

A playbook for replacing America as the world's leader, drawn from China's own strategic documents.

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🏦 Chinese Foreign Policy ♟️ Grand Strategy ⚖️ Hegemonic Transition 🧿 Offensive Realism 📊 Economic Statecraft

The Long Game

A playbook for replacing America as the world's leader, drawn from China's own strategic documents.

av Rush Doshi 2021 432 sider

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1 000+ vurderinger

🏦 Chinese Foreign Policy ♟️ Grand Strategy ⚖️ Hegemonic Transition 🧿 Offensive Realism 📊 Economic Statecraft

The Dream of the Red Chamber

av Cao Xueqin • 1791

A jade-born youth drifts through poetry and passion while his noble family slides toward ruin.

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🏯 Family Saga 🏚️ Declining Aristocracy 💔 Love Triangle 💭 Unspoken Love 🌧️ Melancholic

The Dream of the Red Chamber

A jade-born youth drifts through poetry and passion while his noble family slides toward ruin.

av Cao Xueqin 1791 966 sider

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220 vurderinger

🏯 Family Saga 🏚️ Declining Aristocracy 💔 Love Triangle 💭 Unspoken Love 🌧️ Melancholic

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

av Jack Weatherford • 2004

Genghis Khan's horde didn't just raze cities; it stitched Eurasia into a single connected world.

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🗺️ Eurasian History ⚔️ Military History 🔄 Revisionist History 🐫 Silk Road 🏇 Nomadic Empires

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Genghis Khan's horde didn't just raze cities; it stitched Eurasia into a single connected world.

av Jack Weatherford 2004 352 sider

4.07

85 000+ vurderinger

🗺️ Eurasian History ⚔️ Military History 🔄 Revisionist History 🐫 Silk Road 🏇 Nomadic Empires

The Hundred-Year Marathon

av Michael Pillsbury • 2014

China's long game to dethrone America, and how Washington became its unwitting partner.

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🌏 Geopolitics 🥊 China-Us Rivalry ♟️ Grand Strategy 🚀 Asymmetric Warfare 🏦 State Capitalism

The Hundred-Year Marathon

China's long game to dethrone America, and how Washington became its unwitting partner.

av Michael Pillsbury 2014 336 sider

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5 000+ vurderinger

🌏 Geopolitics 🥊 China-Us Rivalry ♟️ Grand Strategy 🚀 Asymmetric Warfare 🏦 State Capitalism

Chip War

av Chris Miller100 • 2022

One island makes nearly every advanced computer chip. Everything else is up for grabs.

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💻 Computing History 🌐 Geopolitics Of Tech 🔗 Global Supply Chains 🏭 Industrial Policy 💰 Economic Statecraft

Chip War

One island makes nearly every advanced computer chip. Everything else is up for grabs.

av Chris Miller100 2022 431 sider

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💻 Computing History 🌐 Geopolitics Of Tech 🔗 Global Supply Chains 🏭 Industrial Policy 💰 Economic Statecraft

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun

av Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou • 2022

His master slept five years; Mo Ran's atonement forged a love neither can deny.

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📖 Danmei ⚔️ Xianxia 💕 Master-Disciple 🔁 Reincarnation 🕯️ Slow Burn

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun

His master slept five years; Mo Ran's atonement forged a love neither can deny.

av Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou 2022 444 sider

4.58

7 000+ vurderinger

📖 Danmei ⚔️ Xianxia 💕 Master-Disciple 🔁 Reincarnation 🕯️ Slow Burn

To Live

av Yu Hua

A Chinese heir loses the family fortune to crooked dice, then outlives everyone he loves.

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📜 Modern Chinese History 🌾 Rural China 💔 Quiet Devastation 📚 Family Saga 👴 Old Man Narrator

Oppslukende

To Live

A Chinese heir loses the family fortune to crooked dice, then outlives everyone he loves.

av Yu Hua 1992 250 sider

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26 000+ vurderinger

📜 Modern Chinese History 🌾 Rural China 💔 Quiet Devastation 📚 Family Saga 👴 Old Man Narrator

Trying Not to Try

av Edward Slingerland • 2014

Four paths to spontaneous mastery, debated in ancient China and now confirmed by cognitive science.

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🏮 Chinese Philosophy 🍃 Effortless Action 🧠 Cognitive Science 📚 Comparative Philosophy ⚖️ Dual Process Theory

Trying Not to Try

Four paths to spontaneous mastery, debated in ancient China and now confirmed by cognitive science.

av Edward Slingerland 2014 304 sider

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1 000+ vurderinger

🏮 Chinese Philosophy 🍃 Effortless Action 🧠 Cognitive Science 📚 Comparative Philosophy ⚖️ Dual Process Theory

The Return of Great Powers

av Jim Sciutto • 2024

One invasion buried the post-Cold War. Now three nuclear giants duel in a world without rules.

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🌍 Geopolitics ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence 💻 Hybrid Warfare 🐉 China-Russia Alignment

The Return of Great Powers

One invasion buried the post-Cold War. Now three nuclear giants duel in a world without rules.

av Jim Sciutto 2024 368 sider

3.85

1 000+ vurderinger

🌍 Geopolitics ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence 💻 Hybrid Warfare 🐉 China-Russia Alignment

Censored

av Margaret E. Roberts • 2018

China's censorship is easy to get around, and that's exactly how it works.

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123

🧱 Digital Authoritarianism 🇨🇳 Chinese Politics 🚫 Internet Censorship 👁️ Attention Economics 📰 Media Manipulation

Censored

China's censorship is easy to get around, and that's exactly how it works.

av Margaret E. Roberts 2018 280 sider

4.18

123 vurderinger

🧱 Digital Authoritarianism 🇨🇳 Chinese Politics 🚫 Internet Censorship 👁️ Attention Economics 📰 Media Manipulation

Lykkeklubben

av Amy Tan • 1989

Four Chinese mothers and their American daughters tell stories they could never tell each other.

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🧳 Immigrant Fiction 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🪪 Dual Identities 🤫 Family Secrets 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma

Lykkeklubben

Four Chinese mothers and their American daughters tell stories they could never tell each other.

av Amy Tan 1989 288 sider

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700 000+ vurderinger

🧳 Immigrant Fiction 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🪪 Dual Identities 🤫 Family Secrets 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma

The Shortest History of China

av Linda Jaivin • 2021

Twelve chapters, four millennia: the recurring patterns that explain China's rise to superpower.

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🏯 Imperial China 🔄 Dynastic History ☯️ Chinese Philosophy ⚓ Opium Wars 📈 Chinese Economic Rise

The Shortest History of China

Twelve chapters, four millennia: the recurring patterns that explain China's rise to superpower.

av Linda Jaivin 2021 263 sider

3.94

3 000+ vurderinger

🏯 Imperial China 🔄 Dynastic History ☯️ Chinese Philosophy ⚓ Opium Wars 📈 Chinese Economic Rise

The Essential Tao

av Lao Tzu • 1991

Why the best leaders barely act, and other paradoxes from the world's most translated wisdom text.

4.11

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🧘 Taoism 🌊 Effortless Action 🪶 Simple Living ☯️ Harmony Of Opposites 🏛️ Wise Governance

The Essential Tao

Why the best leaders barely act, and other paradoxes from the world's most translated wisdom text.

av Lao Tzu 1991 168 sider

4.11

500+ vurderinger

🧘 Taoism 🌊 Effortless Action 🪶 Simple Living ☯️ Harmony Of Opposites 🏛️ Wise Governance

How Asia Works

av Joe Studwell • 2013

Some Asian economies boomed while others stalled. The difference wasn't free markets.

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📊 Development Economics 📜 Economic History 🌏 Asian Economies 🌾 Land Reform 🏭 Export-Led Growth

How Asia Works

Some Asian economies boomed while others stalled. The difference wasn't free markets.

av Joe Studwell 2013 288 sider

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5 000+ vurderinger

📊 Development Economics 📜 Economic History 🌏 Asian Economies 🌾 Land Reform 🏭 Export-Led Growth

Alibaba

av Duncan Clark • 2016

China's e-commerce didn't follow Amazon's script. Alibaba wrote its own from an apartment.

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🀄 Chinese Business 🛒 E-Commerce Platforms 🚀 Startup Founding Stories 🌏 Local Market Adaptation 📚 Business Biography

Alibaba

China's e-commerce didn't follow Amazon's script. Alibaba wrote its own from an apartment.

av Duncan Clark 2016 304 sider

3.87

16 000+ vurderinger

🀄 Chinese Business 🛒 E-Commerce Platforms 🚀 Startup Founding Stories 🌏 Local Market Adaptation 📚 Business Biography

The China Model

av Daniel A. Bell • 2015

Voters are ignorant, money corrupts, and the future gets no vote. China's alternative explained.

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290

🌍 Comparative Politics 🏛️ Chinese Governance 🎓 Meritocracy Critique 📊 Public Choice Theory ☯️ Modern Confucianism

The China Model

Voters are ignorant, money corrupts, and the future gets no vote. China's alternative explained.

av Daniel A. Bell 2015 336 sider

3.60

290 vurderinger

🌍 Comparative Politics 🏛️ Chinese Governance 🎓 Meritocracy Critique 📊 Public Choice Theory ☯️ Modern Confucianism

Den gode jord

av Pearl S. Buck • 1931

Famine drives a farmer to the city, where a courtesan threatens his bond with the land.

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🏮 Pre-Communist China 🌾 Farming Life 💰 Rags To Riches 🏞️ Land As Legacy 🌆 Country Vs City

Den gode jord

Famine drives a farmer to the city, where a courtesan threatens his bond with the land.

av Pearl S. Buck 1931 418 sider

4.01

200 000+ vurderinger

🏮 Pre-Communist China 🌾 Farming Life 💰 Rags To Riches 🏞️ Land As Legacy 🌆 Country Vs City

Ghost Fleet

av P.W. Singer • 2015

China sinks America's Pacific Fleet. A mothballed armada of warships must sail to retake Hawaii.

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🖥️ Techno-Thriller 🌏 Near-Future War 💻 Cyber Warfare ⚓ Naval Combat 🌊 Pacific Theater

Ghost Fleet

China sinks America's Pacific Fleet. A mothballed armada of warships must sail to retake Hawaii.

av P.W. Singer 2015 404 sider

3.76

12 000+ vurderinger

🖥️ Techno-Thriller 🌏 Near-Future War 💻 Cyber Warfare ⚓ Naval Combat 🌊 Pacific Theater

Genghis Khan

av John Man • 2004

16 million men share his chromosome. His empire reshaped Eurasia. His grave has never been found.

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🏹 Mongol Empire 🌏 Eurasian History 🐎 Steppe Nomads 🧬 Genetic History 🪦 Lost Tombs

Genghis Khan

16 million men share his chromosome. His empire reshaped Eurasia. His grave has never been found.

av John Man 2004 400 sider

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1 000+ vurderinger

🏹 Mongol Empire 🌏 Eurasian History 🐎 Steppe Nomads 🧬 Genetic History 🪦 Lost Tombs

The Future Is Asian

av Parag Khanna • 2019

The West's two-century dominance was a blip. Asia reclaims the center, with new rules.

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🗺️ Asian Geopolitics 🏛️ Technocratic Governance 🌐 Multipolar World Order 💰 Economic Regionalism 📜 Eurasian History

The Future Is Asian

The West's two-century dominance was a blip. Asia reclaims the center, with new rules.

av Parag Khanna 2019 448 sider

3.70

1 000+ vurderinger

🗺️ Asian Geopolitics 🏛️ Technocratic Governance 🌐 Multipolar World Order 💰 Economic Regionalism 📜 Eurasian History

The Avoidable War

av Kevin Rudd • 2022

Xi has a plan from staying in power to rewriting the world. Washington hasn't read it.

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🌍 Us-China Relations ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry ♟️ Strategic Competition 🛑 Crisis Management 🔀 Power Transitions

The Avoidable War

Xi has a plan from staying in power to rewriting the world. Washington hasn't read it.

av Kevin Rudd 2022 432 sider

4.23

1 000+ vurderinger

🌍 Us-China Relations ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry ♟️ Strategic Competition 🛑 Crisis Management 🔀 Power Transitions

Snøblomst og den hemmelige viften

av Lisa See • 2005

A Chinese widow rereads a lifetime of secret messages from the friend she loved and wronged.

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👯 Sworn Sisterhood 🖋️ Secret Women's Script 👣 Footbinding ⚖️ Friends Across Class 🕯️ Elegiac Reflection

Snøblomst og den hemmelige viften

A Chinese widow rereads a lifetime of secret messages from the friend she loved and wronged.

av Lisa See 2005 288 sider

4.09

300 000+ vurderinger

👯 Sworn Sisterhood 🖋️ Secret Women's Script 👣 Footbinding ⚖️ Friends Across Class 🕯️ Elegiac Reflection

The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China, including The Art of War

av Ralph D. Sawyer • 1993

Seven Chinese classics teach that war, statecraft, and virtue are a single skill.

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⚔️ Military Strategy 🀄 Chinese Philosophy 🏛️ Statecraft 🧠 Psychological Warfare ☯️ Hard And Soft Power

The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China, including The Art of War

Seven Chinese classics teach that war, statecraft, and virtue are a single skill.

av Ralph D. Sawyer 1993 586 sider

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500+ vurderinger

⚔️ Military Strategy 🀄 Chinese Philosophy 🏛️ Statecraft 🧠 Psychological Warfare ☯️ Hard And Soft Power

China's Economy

av Arthur R. Kroeber • 2016

China's economy isn't a miracle: it's a hybrid of one-party rule and market forces at scale.

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🇨🇳 Chinese Economy 🌏 Emerging Markets 🏛️ Political Economy 📦 Export Led Growth 🏭 State Capitalism

China's Economy

China's economy isn't a miracle: it's a hybrid of one-party rule and market forces at scale.

av Arthur R. Kroeber 2016 336 sider

4.26

1 000+ vurderinger

🇨🇳 Chinese Economy 🌏 Emerging Markets 🏛️ Political Economy 📦 Export Led Growth 🏭 State Capitalism

China After Mao

av Frank Dikötter • 2022

Deng's reforms weren't a path to democracy; they were the same dictatorship with a market face.

3.91

1 000+

📜 Modern Chinese History 💰 State Capitalism ⛓️ Authoritarian Rule 📹 Surveillance State 🌫️ Environmental Damage

China After Mao

Deng's reforms weren't a path to democracy; they were the same dictatorship with a market face.

av Frank Dikötter 2022 416 sider

3.91

1 000+ vurderinger

📜 Modern Chinese History 💰 State Capitalism ⛓️ Authoritarian Rule 📹 Surveillance State 🌫️ Environmental Damage

The Return of Marco Polo's World

av Robert D. Kaplan • 2018

Liberal order collapsed. Eurasia fused into one war-prone corridor, and America is an island.

3.79

500+

🗺️ Geopolitics 🌏 Eurasian Politics ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry 🏛️ Offensive Realism 🇨🇳 Chinese Foreign Policy

The Return of Marco Polo's World

Liberal order collapsed. Eurasia fused into one war-prone corridor, and America is an island.

av Robert D. Kaplan 2018 304 sider

3.79

500+ vurderinger

🗺️ Geopolitics 🌏 Eurasian Politics ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry 🏛️ Offensive Realism 🇨🇳 Chinese Foreign Policy

The Last Kings of Shanghai

av Jonathan Kaufman • 2020

Opium, war, and revolution: how two Jewish families built modern China, then lost it.

4.27

5 000+

🌆 Colonial Shanghai 📈 Chinese Economic History 💊 Opium Trade ✡️ Jewish Diaspora 🏛️ Business Dynasties

The Last Kings of Shanghai

Opium, war, and revolution: how two Jewish families built modern China, then lost it.

av Jonathan Kaufman 2020 384 sider

4.27

5 000+ vurderinger

🌆 Colonial Shanghai 📈 Chinese Economic History 💊 Opium Trade ✡️ Jewish Diaspora 🏛️ Business Dynasties

Waste Tide

av Chen Qiufan • 2013

On an island of Chinese e-waste, a virus turns a migrant worker into a living network.

3.32

2 000+

♻️ Eco-Cyberpunk 🧠 Networked Consciousness ✊ Class Uprising 🦠 Viral Transformation 🌃 Dark Near-Future

Waste Tide

On an island of Chinese e-waste, a virus turns a migrant worker into a living network.

av Chen Qiufan 2013 352 sider

3.32

2 000+ vurderinger

♻️ Eco-Cyberpunk 🧠 Networked Consciousness ✊ Class Uprising 🦠 Viral Transformation 🌃 Dark Near-Future

World on the Brink

av Dmitri Alperovitch • 2024

The playbook to deter China: focus on Taiwan, control chips, and lock in every alliance.

4.20

500+

🇨🇳 Us-China Relations ♟️ Great Power Competition 💵 Economic Statecraft 🛡️ Deterrence Theory 🏝️ Taiwan Strait

World on the Brink

The playbook to deter China: focus on Taiwan, control chips, and lock in every alliance.

av Dmitri Alperovitch 2024 400 sider

4.20

500+ vurderinger

🇨🇳 Us-China Relations ♟️ Great Power Competition 💵 Economic Statecraft 🛡️ Deterrence Theory 🏝️ Taiwan Strait

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