Anyone have any recommendations for a good China book? Doesn't have to be anything in particular, I just miss reading about the country in general.
Been thinking about it because earlier tonight I was trying to remember the name of a book I read once and wanted to do a reread but had given away to a Chinese person. It was
Out of Mao's Shadow, which was a great read, but I have always wondered what the person I gave it to thought of it, because it's pretty damning of China's internal situation.
Funny thing is, I gave that book to one person and
Lost on Planet China to her friend and said, "I'm warning you ahead of time, Out of Mao's Shadow is gonna be pretty rough. Lost of Planet China is a fun book about a foreigner doing stupid shit in China though." Of course, I had forgotten that Lost on Planet China starts with the story about the
Banqiao Dam failures that killed ~170,000 people but no one in China knows about it because the government hushed it up. So she starts reading it while I'm still there:
"Did this really happen?"
"Uh... yeah. I'm pretty sure that happened."
"...I don't want to read this anymore."
Awkward.