📚 China

Books with china on their catalogue record, first published between 1550 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 26 works carrying the subject china in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 71,073 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Shi ji	Sima Qian	1550	151
	The Problem of China	Bertrand Russell	1922	61
	Seven Years in Tibet (Sieben Jahre in Tibet)	Heinrich Harrer	1952	37
	Luo ye gui gen (Falling Leaves)	Adeline Yen Mah	1997	34
	Han shu	Ban, Gu	1888	33
	My country and my people	Lin, Yutang	1935	30
	Science and civilisation in China	Joseph Needham	1954	22
	Sources of Chinese Tradition (Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies and Introduction to Oriental Classics Series)	William Theodore De Bary	1960	22
	China	C. P. Fitzgerald	1935	21
	Die Vergewaltigung von Nanking	Iris Chang	1997	21
	Fanshen	William Hinton	1966	17
	China	John King Fairbank	1978	14
	From Heaven Lake	Vikram Seth	1983	13
	The United States and China	John King Fairbank	1948	12
	Hong Kong	Jan Morris	1988	12
	Mao's great famine	Frank Dikötter	2010	10
	The tragedy of liberation	Frank Dikötter	2013	10
	The Rise of Modern China	Immanuel Chung-yueh Hsü	1970	8
	The Opium Wars	W. Travis; Sanello, Frank Hanes	2002	7
	A single tear	Wu, Ningkun.	1993	6
	Ombres chinoises	Simon Leys	1975	5
	China at work	Rudolf P. Hommel	1937	4
	The hundred-year marathon	Michael Pillsbury	2015	4
	Blockchain Chicken Farm	Xiaowei Wang	2020	2
	The Great Wall Of China	Leonard Everett Fisher	1995	1
	The Cambridge illustrated history of China	Ebrey, Patricia Buckley	—	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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