Beyond Beijing: China’s Past, Present And Future

All Things Considered on NPR has a segment called “Three Books”. Here is their description of it:”Three Books …” is a series in which we invite writers to recommend three great reads on a single theme.

The current “Three Books” are about China.

China’s scale is so vast, its variety so great and its rising power so apparent, it acts as an enormous magnet fixing our attention. One result is a torrent of books — political analyses, memoirs, histories, novels and short stories. Each promises a key to China, but how on earth to choose?

Listen or read the piece here.