 | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 This is a wonderful book that anyone interested in the lives of China's women should read. The setting is the Mid to Late 1800's in the province of Hunan.
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 | Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $1.92 If you are trying to wrap your arms around China's history this is the absolute best way to do it. This book teaches over 100 years of China's history buy allowing you to live it though the reality of the lives of 4 generations of Chinese Women. This book above all other make the events you find in history books finally come together for me. It is a long book but worth the effort.
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 | River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.) by Peter Hessler
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $3.20 This book is written by an American young single man, Peter Hessler who spend two years in Fuling on the upper Yangtze in the early 1990's. I enjoyed this book and is a must read especially if you are adopting a child from Fuling or Chongqing.
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 | The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 This is just a fun book to read to your children.
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 | The Lost Daughters of China by Karin Evans
Buy used from: $0.01 The meathods of adoption oulined in this book are a bit outdated by now but it is full of statistics that are useful. I have a bit of problem with the authors theology but if you can read this as just her journey it is a great book. The is probably the all time most read book on the subject of Chinese Adoption.
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 | When You Were Born in China: A Memory Book for Children Adopted from China by Sara Dorow
Buy used from: $54.11 I have this book, it is a good one but is written more for the 4-10 year old Chinese Adoptee.
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 | The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran Xinran
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $1.41 This is a cool book. It was written by a woman who had a call in talk show. She writes the stories of many different women. It is different but informative and heartbreaking all at the same time.
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 | Ruby's Wish by Shirin Yim
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $1.99 Fun kids book
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 | Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 I'm just begining to read this but a friend of mine said.."it is a little rough (meaning language and graphic use of words) but it was fun to finally read about someone exactly my own age and what their perspective was in living though the cultrual revolution" I believe the person the book is written about was born in the mid 1960's.
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 | A Passage to the Heart: Writings from Families with Children from China by unknown
Buy new: $17.21 / Used from: $0.30 I have not read this book but many people reccomend it.
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 | Kids Like Me in China by Ying Ying Fry
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $5.76 This is a great book for the Chinese adoptee ages 4-10
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 | The Seven Chinese Sisters by Kathy Tucker
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $0.10 Fun book for kids, beautiful illistrations
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 | Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman by Gladys Aylward
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.47 I have not read this particular book but anything about the life of Gladys Aylward is bound to be wonderful. What an amazing woman!
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 | D Is for Dancing Dragon: A China Alphabet (Discover the World) by Carol Crane
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $3.88 This book has great illistrations
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 | Shaoey and Dot: Bug Meets Bundle (Shaoey & Dot) by Mary Beth Chapman
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.75 I love books that rhyme and this one does a great job. It has the cutest illistrations and is a must have for any little girl adopted from China.
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 | Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetime (Christian Heroes: Then & Now) (Christian Heroes, Then & Now) by Janet Benge
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 WOW! A book that everyone should read. This woman was amazing.
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 | China ABCs: A Book About the People and Places of China (Country Abcs) by Holly Schroeder
Buy new: $23.93 / Used from: $3.22 I have not read this but I want to.
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 | Hudson Taylor: Deep in the Heart of China (Christian Heroes: Then & Now) (Christian Heroes, Then & Now) by Geoff Benge
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.76 Also a good read if you are interested in the lives of missionaries.
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 | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
Buy used from: $0.01 This is a book that could be enjoyed by a pre-teen, teen or adult. I would guess it to be about 5th or 6th grade reading level. It is about the life of a 12 year old boy who becomes an apprentice in order to support himself and his widow mother. The setting is Chongqing.
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 | I Love You Like Crazy Cakes by Rose A. Lewis
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.44 Sweet book to read to your child.
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 | The Waiting Child: How the Faith and Love of One Orphan Saved the Life of Another by Cindy Champnella
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.97 A tearful reminder that every child has a name, a story, and a dream. This is a wonderful story about how the choice to love one child became a love for two.
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