Books about Chinese Contemporary History

Late 19th to the 20th century onward. Modern or near modern times.

China at Work - An Illustrated Record of the Primitive Industries of China's Masses, Whose Life is Toil, and Thus an Account of Chinese Civilization

Blood Red Sunset: A Memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Shanghai : The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949

Imperial China, 900–1800

Suzhou: Where the Goods of All the Provinces Converge

China's Porcelain Capital: The Rise, Fall and Reinvention of Ceramics in Jingdezhen

Shanghai: Art of the City

Travels in a Vanishing Empire: China 1915 to 1918: The Journals of James Archibald Mitchell

The Dragon and the Eagle: American Traders in China, A Century of Trade from 1784 to 1900

Bosshard in China: Documenting Social Change in the 1930s

Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; With an Account of the ... Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc

The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures (Silk Roads)