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Dödens slut

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

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Dödens slut

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

av Liu Cixin 2010 604 sidor

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

Immersiv

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 sidor

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🏮 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 sidor

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

Den mörka 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 mörka skogen

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

av Liu Cixin 2008 512 sidor

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

Heaven Official's Blessing

av Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù • 2022

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

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🏯 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 2022 466 sidor

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

Trekropparsproblemet

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

Immersiv

Trekropparsproblemet

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

av Liu Cixin 2006 472 sidor

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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 sidor

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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 sidor

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🏯 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 sidor

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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 sidor

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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 sidor

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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 sidor

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💘 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 sidor

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

Lady Tans kvinnocirkel

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 kvinnocirkel

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

av Lisa See 2023 352 sidor

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📜 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 sidor

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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 sidor

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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 sidor

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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 sidor

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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 sidor

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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 sidor

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

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 sidor

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

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 sidor

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191 betyg

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

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 sidor

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🏯 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 sidor

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🗺️ 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 sidor

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🌏 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 sidor

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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 sidor

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📖 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

Immersiv

To Live

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

av Yu Hua 1992 250 sidor

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📜 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 sidor

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🏮 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 sidor

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🌍 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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🧱 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 sidor

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

Lyckoklubben

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

Lyckoklubben

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

av Amy Tan 1989 288 sidor

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🧳 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 sidor

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🏯 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 sidor

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🧘 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 sidor

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📊 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 sidor

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🀄 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.

3.60

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 sidor

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290 betyg

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

Den goda jorden

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 goda jorden

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

av Pearl S. Buck 1931 418 sidor

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🏮 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 sidor

3.76

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🖥️ 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 sidor

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🏹 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 sidor

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🗺️ 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 sidor

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

Snöblomma och den hemliga solfjädern

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

Snöblomma och den hemliga solfjädern

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

av Lisa See 2005 288 sidor

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

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 sidor

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

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 sidor

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

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

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📜 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 sidor

3.91

1 000+ betyg

📜 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 sidor

3.79

500+ betyg

🗺️ 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 sidor

4.27

5 000+ betyg

🌆 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 sidor

3.32

2 000+ betyg

♻️ 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 sidor

4.20

500+ betyg

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

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