(all books read from 2013)

On the Tang dynasty and Yu Xuanji:

• The Moon in the Palace by Weina Dai Randel (AD 631 - 648)
• The Empress of Bright Moon by Weina Dai Randel (AD 648 - 655)
• Passing under Heaven by Justin Hill

On Chinese Society in 1930s and beyond:

• All the Flowers in Shanghai by Duncan Jepson
• Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

On the anti-Japanese movement in 1939 and subsequent decades:

• Red Sorghum by Mo Yan

On The Hundred Flowers Campaign 1956, Antiq-Rightist Campaign 1957-1959, The Great Leap Forward 1958-1962, Cultural Revolution 1966-1976:

• A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama
• Woman From Shanghai: Tales of Survival from a Chinese Labor Camp by Xianhui Yang
• Dreams of Joy by Lisa See

On Chinese Communist society and Era of Restructuring 1976 onwards, Tiananmen Protests 1989:

• Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
• The Crazed by Ha Jin
• The Bridegroom by Ha Jin

On social and political life in China from the 1990s onwards:

• Miss Chopsticks by Xinran
• The Seventh Day by Yu Hua
• Northern Girls by Sheng Keyi

On Chinese immigrants in America:

• A Good Fall by Ha Jin (1980s to 1990s?)
• A Thread of Sky by Deanna Fei (modern)
• Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (1937 to 1957)
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok (1980s or 1990s onwards?)
• Kinder than Solitude by Li Yiyun

On Taiwanese history and society, and anti-Communism:

• The Lost Garden by Li Ang

On Indian society and family life:

• Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph
• Home by Manju Kapur
• The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama
• The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Indian short stories (mostly about Indian immigrants):

• Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

On the Naxalite movement in India:

• The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

On the Indian youth educational system and corruption:

• Revolution 2020 by Chetan Bhagat