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message 1: by Diane , Armchair Tour Guide (new)

Diane  | 13052 comments Read a book for each Chinese province, municipality, autonomous region, and administrative region. There are 34 possible localities.

Time Limit: None
Genre: Any


Provinces (23)

Anhui (Capital: Hefei)
Fujian (Capital: Fuzhou)
Gansu (Capital: Lanzhou)
Guangdong (Capital: Guangzhou)
Guizhou (Capital: Guiyang)
Hainan (Capital: Haikou)
Hebei (Capital: Shijiazhuang)
Heilongjiang (Capital: Harbin)
Henan (Capital: Zhengzhou)
Hubei (Capital: Wuhan)
Hunan (Capital: Changsha)
Jiangsu (Capital: Nanjing)
Jiangxi (Capital: Nanchang)
Jilin (Capital: Changchun)
Liaoning (Capital: Shenyang)
Qinghai (Capital: Xining)
Shaanxi (Capital: Xi'an
Shandong (Capital: Jinan)
Shanxi (Capital: Taiyuan)
Sichuan (Capital: Chengdu)
Taiwan* (Capital: Taipei)
Yunnan (Capital: Kunming)
Zhejiang (Capital: Hangzhou)

* (although mainland China claims Taiwan as one of its provinces, Taiwan regards itself as an independent country)

Autonomous Regions (5)

Guangxi (Capital: Nanning)
Inner Mongolia (Capital: Hohhot)
Ningxia Hui (Capital: Yinchuan)
Tibet (Capital: Lhasa)
Xianjiang Uyghur (Capital: ?rümqi)

Municipalities (4)

Beijing (Capital: Beijing)
Chongqing (Capital: Chongqing)
Shanghai (Capital: Shanghai)
Tianjin (Capital: Tianjin)

Special Administrative Regions (2)
Hong Kong (Capital: Hong Kong)
Macao/Macau (Capital: Macau)


message 2: by Esther (last edited Feb 19, 2025 09:21AM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 107 comments Provinces (23)

Anhui (Capital: Hefei)
Fujian L’?vangile selon Yong Sheng
Gansu (Capital: Lanzhou)
Guangdong (Capital: Guangzhou)
Guizhou (Capital: Guiyang)
Hainan (Capital: Haikou)
Hebei (Capital: Shijiazhuang)
Heilongjiang (Capital: Harbin)
Henan (Capital: Zhengzhou)
Hubei (Capital: Wuhan)
Hunan (Capital: Changsha)
Jiangsu (Capital: Nanjing)
Jiangxi (Capital: Nanchang)
Jilin (Capital: Changchun)
Liaoning (Capital: Shenyang)
Qinghai (Capital: Xining)
Shaanxi (Capital: Xi'an
Shandong (Capital: Jinan)
Shanxi (Capital: Taiyuan)
Sichuan : Avis de décès)
Taiwan* (Capital: Taipei)
Yunnan : The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
Zhejiang (Capital: Hangzhou)

Autonomous Regions (5)

Guangxi (Capital: Nanning)
Inner Mongolia (Capital: Hohhot)
Ningxia Hui (Capital: Yinchuan)
Tibet (Capital: Lhasa)
Xianjiang Uyghur (Capital: ?rümqi)

Municipalities (4)

Beijing (Capital: Beijing)
Chongqing (Capital: Chongqing)
Shanghai : Night in Shanghai
Tianjin (Capital: Tianjin)

Special Administrative Regions (2)
Hong Kong : Nine Dragons
Macao/Macau (Capital: Macau)


message 3: by Susan (last edited Apr 05, 2020 03:42AM) (new)

Susan | 394 comments Provinces (23)

Anhui (Capital: Hefei)
Fujian (Capital: Fuzhou)
Gansu (Capital: Lanzhou)
Guangdong (Capital: Guangzhou)
Guizhou (Capital: Guiyang)
Hainan (Capital: Haikou)
Hebei (Capital: Shijiazhuang)
Heilongjiang (Capital: Harbin)
Henan (Capital: Zhengzhou)- Dream of Ding Village
Hubei (Capital: Wuhan)
Hunan (Capital: Changsha)
Jiangsu (Capital: Nanjing)- The Rape of Nanking
Jiangxi (Capital: Nanchang)- The Peony Pavilion: Mudan ting
Jilin (Capital: Changchun)
Liaoning (Capital: Shenyang)
Qinghai (Capital: Xining)
Shaanxi (Capital: Xi'an- Monkey: The Journey to the West
Shandong (Capital: Jinan)
Shanxi (Capital: Taiyuan)
Sichuan (Capital: Chengdu)
Taiwan* (Capital: Taipei)
Yunnan (Capital: Kunming)
Zhejiang (Capital: Hangzhou)

* (although mainland China claims Taiwan as one of its provinces, Taiwan regards itself as an independent country)

Autonomous Regions (5)

Guangxi (Capital: Nanning)
Inner Mongolia (Capital: Hohhot)
Ningxia Hui (Capital: Yinchuan)
Tibet (Capital: Lhasa)
Xianjiang Uyghur (Capital: ?rümqi)

Municipalities (4)

Beijing (Capital: Beijing)- Rickshaw Boy
Chongqing (Capital: Chongqing)
Shanghai (Capital: Shanghai)
Tianjin (Capital: Tianjin)

Special Administrative Regions (2)
Hong Kong (Capital: Hong Kong)- Love in a Fallen City
Macao/Macau (Capital: Macau)

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message 4: by Hayley (new)

Hayley Shaver | 38 comments This is my China reading so far.
Provinces (23)

Anhui (Capital: Hefei):The Chinese Fairy Book-various
Fujian (Capital: Fuzhou):Chinese Folk-Lore Tales-J. Macgowan
Gansu (Capital: Lanzhou) Tun-Huang – Yasushi Inoue
Guangdong (Capital: Guangzhou) Chingland: Where Chinglish is Spoken- Gary Daly*
Guizhou (Capital: Guiyang)
Hainan (Capital: Haikou)
Hebei (Capital: Shijiazhuang): The Circus of Dr. Lao-Charles G. Finney
Heilongjiang (Capital: Harbin)The Second Mark-Joy Goodwin
Henan (Capital: Zhengzhou) The Deer in the Dream-Lieh Tzu*
Hubei (Capital: Wuhan)Before the Deluge – Deirdre Chetham
Hunan (Capital: Changsha)-Snow Flower and the Secret Fan-Lisa See
Jiangsu (Capital: Nanjing): The Distant Land of My Father- Bo Caldwell*
Jiangxi (Capital: Nanchang): The Three Daughters of Madame Liang- Pearl S. Buck*
Jilin (Capital: Changchun)
Liaoning (Capital: Shenyang)
Qinghai (Capital: Xining)
Shaanxi (Capital: Xi'an)
Shandong (Capital: Jinan): The Picture Horse- Pu Sung-Ling*
Shanxi (Capital: Taiyuan)-Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio Vol. 1
Sichuan (Capital: Chengdu):The Old Landlord, Zhou Shude-Old Wei*
Taiwan* (Capital: Taipei): The Girl of His Dreams- Sabrina Huang *
Yunnan (Capital: Kunming)Mekng-Milton Osborne or Yunnan: Southwest China’s land of Eternal Spring- Patrick R Booz
Zhejiang (Capital: Hangzhou)

* (although mainland China claims Taiwan as one of its provinces, Taiwan regards itself as an independent country)

Autonomous Regions (5)

Guangxi (Capital: Nanning)
Inner Mongolia (Capital: Hohhot): Attila The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome- John Man*
Ningxia Hui (Capital: Yinchuan):Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations- Edmund Dulac
Tibet (Capital: Lhasa)-Everest: Summit of Achievement- Stephen Venables*
Xianjiang Uyghur (Capital: ?rümqi)

Municipalities (4)

Beijing formerly Peking (Capital: Beijing): Peking Dust
Chongqing (Capital: Chongqing)
Shanghai (Capital: Shanghai): The Valley of Amazement- Amy Tan
Tianjin (Capital: Tianjin):Chinese Cinderella-Adeline Yen Mah*

Special Administrative Regions (2)
Hong Kong (Capital: Hong Kong)
Macao/Macau (Capital: Macau) : Night Flowers A Vampire Novel-James Duvalier (kindle)
* is done


message 5: by Susan (new)

Susan | 394 comments Shaanxi (Xi'an)- Monkey: The Journey to the West

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message 6: by Hayley (new)

Hayley Shaver | 38 comments Susan wrote: "Shaanxi (Xi'an)- Monkey: The Journey to the West

2/34"


Thanks for the idea.


message 8: by Rowizyx (new)

Rowizyx | 423 comments Xianjiang Uyghur - A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar

1/34


message 9: by Wayne (last edited Jan 26, 2020 03:41AM) (new)

Wayne Jordaan | 615 comments Wayne saying (你好) Nǐ hǎo

Provinces (0/23)

1. Anhui (Capital: Hefei)
2. Fujian (Capital: Fuzhou)
3. Gansu (Capital: Lanzhou)
4. Guangdong (Capital: Guangzhou)
5. Guizhou (Capital: Guiyang)
6. Hainan (Capital: Haikou)
7. Hebei (Capital: Shijiazhuang)
8. Heilongjiang (Capital: Harbin)
9. Henan (Capital: Zhengzhou)
10. Hubei (Capital: Wuhan)
11. Hunan (Capital: Changsha)
12. Jiangsu (Capital: Nanjing)
13. Jiangxi (Capital: Nanchang)
14. Jilin (Capital: Changchun)
15. Liaoning (Capital: Shenyang)
16. Qinghai (Capital: Xining)
17. Shaanxi (Capital: Xi'an
18. Shandong (Capital: Jinan)
19. Shanxi (Capital: Taiyuan)
20. Sichuan (Capital: Chengdu)
21. Taiwan* (Capital: Taipei)
22. Yunnan (Capital: Kunming)
23. Zhejiang (Capital: Hangzhou)

* (although mainland China claims Taiwan as one of its provinces, Taiwan regards itself as an independent country (Diane's Note))

Autonomous Regions (1/5)

24. Guangxi (Capital: Nanning)
25. Inner Mongolia (Capital: Hohhot): In Search of Nomads: An English Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin
26. Ningxia Hui (Capital: Yinchuan)
27. Tibet (Capital: Lhasa)
28. Xianjiang Uyghur (Capital: ?rümqi)

Municipalities (0/4)

29. Beijing (Capital: Beijing)
30. Chongqing (Capital: Chongqing)
31. Shanghai (Capital: Shanghai)
32. Tianjin (Capital: Tianjin)

Special Administrative Regions (0/2)
34. Hong Kong (Capital: Hong Kong)
35. Macao/Macau (Capital: Macau)


message 10: by Susan (new)


message 11: by Wayne (last edited Aug 27, 2020 12:05AM) (new)

Wayne Jordaan | 615 comments Wayne saying (你好) Nǐ hǎo

Provinces (2/23)

1. Anhui (Capital: Hefei)
2. Fujian (Capital: Fuzhou)
3. Gansu (Capital: Lanzhou)
4. Guangdong (Capital: Guangzhou): Hawaii
5. Guizhou (Capital: Guiyang)
6. Hainan (Capital: Haikou)
7. Hebei (Capital: Shijiazhuang)
8. Heilongjiang (Capital: Harbin)
9. Henan (Capital: Zhengzhou)
10. Hubei (Capital: Wuhan)
11. Hunan (Capital: Changsha)
12. Jiangsu (Capital: Nanjing)
13. Jiangxi (Capital: Nanchang)
14. Jilin (Capital: Changchun)
15. Liaoning (Capital: Shenyang)
16. Qinghai (Capital: Xining)
17. Shaanxi (Capital: Xi'an
18. Shandong (Capital: Jinan): Red Sorghum
19. Shanxi (Capital: Taiyuan)
20. Sichuan (Capital: Chengdu)
21. Taiwan* (Capital: Taipei)
22. Yunnan (Capital: Kunming)
23. Zhejiang (Capital: Hangzhou)

* (although mainland China claims Taiwan as one of its provinces, Taiwan regards itself as an independent country (Diane's Note))

Autonomous Regions (1/5)

24. Guangxi (Capital: Nanning)
25. Inner Mongolia (Capital: Hohhot): In Search of Nomads: An English Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin
26. Ningxia Hui (Capital: Yinchuan)
27. Tibet (Capital: Lhasa)
28. Xianjiang Uyghur (Capital: ?rümqi)

Municipalities (0/4)

29. Beijing (Capital: Beijing)
30. Chongqing (Capital: Chongqing)
31. Shanghai (Capital: Shanghai)
32. Tianjin (Capital: Tianjin)

Special Administrative Regions (0/2)
34. Hong Kong (Capital: Hong Kong)
35. Macao/Macau (Capital: Macau)


message 12: by Wayne (last edited Aug 27, 2020 12:06AM) (new)

Wayne Jordaan | 615 comments Wayne saying (你好) Nǐ hǎo

Provinces (2/23)

1. Anhui (Capital: Hefei)
2. Fujian (Capital: Fuzhou)
3. Gansu (Capital: Lanzhou)
4. Guangdong (Capital: Guangzhou): Hawaii
5. Guizhou (Capital: Guiyang)
6. Hainan (Capital: Haikou)
7. Hebei (Capital: Shijiazhuang)
8. Heilongjiang (Capital: Harbin)
9. Henan (Capital: Zhengzhou)
10. Hubei (Capital: Wuhan)
11. Hunan (Capital: Changsha)
12. Jiangsu (Capital: Nanjing)
13. Jiangxi (Capital: Nanchang)
14. Jilin (Capital: Changchun)
15. Liaoning (Capital: Shenyang)
16. Qinghai (Capital: Xining)
17. Shaanxi (Capital: Xi'an
18. Shandong (Capital: Jinan): Red Sorghum
19. Shanxi (Capital: Taiyuan)
20. Sichuan (Capital: Chengdu)
21. Taiwan* (Capital: Taipei)
22. Yunnan (Capital: Kunming)
23. Zhejiang (Capital: Hangzhou)

* (although mainland China claims Taiwan as one of its provinces, Taiwan regards itself as an independent country (Diane's Note))

Autonomous Regions (1/5)

24. Guangxi (Capital: Nanning)
25. Inner Mongolia (Capital: Hohhot): In Search of Nomads: An English Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin
26. Ningxia Hui (Capital: Yinchuan)
27. Tibet (Capital: Lhasa)
28. Xianjiang Uyghur (Capital: ?rümqi)

Municipalities (1/4)

29. Beijing (Capital: Beijing): The Gift of Rain
30. Chongqing (Capital: Chongqing)
31. Shanghai (Capital: Shanghai)
32. Tianjin (Capital: Tianjin)

Special Administrative Regions (0/2)
34. Hong Kong (Capital: Hong Kong)
35. Macao/Macau (Capital: Macau)


message 13: by Sanne (last edited Jul 28, 2020 12:57PM) (new)

Sanne (sanneennas) | 73 comments Oh fun! I've been meaning to do more deep diving in Chinese language literature! Here's what I read so far:

China
Provinces (23)

Anhui (Capital: Hefei)
Fujian (Capital: Fuzhou)
Gansu (Capital: Lanzhou)
Guangdong (Capital: Guangzhou)
Guizhou (Capital: Guiyang)
Hainan (Capital: Haikou)
Hebei (Capital: Shijiazhuang)
Heilongjiang (Capital: Harbin)
Henan (Capital: Zhengzhou) Judge Bao Volume 1: Judge Bao and the Jade Phoenix by Patrick Marty and Chongrui Nie
Hubei (Capital: Wuhan)
Hunan (Capital: Changsha) Border Town by Shen Congwen
Jiangsu (Capital: Nanjing)
Jiangxi (Capital: Nanchang)
Jilin (Capital: Changchun)
Liaoning (Capital: Shenyang)
Qinghai (Capital: Xining)
Shaanxi (Capital: Xi'an The Chinese Maze Murders by Robert van Gulik
Shandong (Capital: Jinan) Red Sorghum by Mo Yan, Wailing Ghosts by Pu Songling
Shanxi (Capital: Taiyuan)
Sichuan (Capital: Chengdu)
Yunnan (Capital: Kunming)
Zhejiang (Capital: Hangzhou) China in Ten Words by Yu Hua

Autonomous Regions (5)

Guangxi (Capital: Nanning)
Inner Mongolia (Capital: Hohhot)
Ningxia Hui (Capital: Yinchuan)
Tibet (Capital: Lhasa) Old Demons, New Deities edited by Tenzin Dickie
Xianjiang Uyghur (Capital: ?rümqi)

Municipalities (4)

Beijing (Capital: Beijing) Smaragd by Zhang Jie
Chongqing (Capital: Chongqing)
Shanghai (Capital: Shanghai) Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong, Normal People by Shen Shanzeng, Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
Tianjin (Capital: Tianjin)

Special Administrative Regions (2)
Hong Kong (Capital: Hong Kong)A Girl Like Me, and Other Stories by 西西(齿颈虫颈), Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang, The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kei, A Hero Born by Jin Yong
Macao/Macau (Capital: Macau)

Other Chinese language-majority countries:
Taiwan (Capital: Taipei) The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi, Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin, Wedding in Autumn and Other Stories by Chiung-Yu Shih
Singapore The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew, Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (yes I could do with some Chinese language lit from Singapore! recommendations welcome :) )


message 14: by Esther (new)

Esther Patrobers (estherpatrobers) | 3 comments am not boarding!!


message 15: by Stendhie (last edited Aug 20, 2020 04:46AM) (new)

Stendhie | 10 comments That's the perfect challenge for me! I'm learning Chinese and trying to read more in Mandarin, so I'm excited to try and complete the challenge at the same time - though this will probably take me some time :)

I've added some options and read books.

Provinces (23)

Anhui (Capital: Hefei)
Fujian (Capital: Fuzhou)
Gansu (Capital: Lanzhou)
Guangdong (Capital: Guangzhou)
Guizhou (Capital: Guiyang)
Hainan (Capital: Haikou)
Hebei (Capital: Shijiazhuang)
Heilongjiang (Capital: Harbin) - Neige et corbeaux
Henan (Capital: Zhengzhou)
Hubei (Capital: Wuhan) - currently reading Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from the Original Epicenter
Hunan (Capital: Changsha)
A Dictionary of Maqiao
Jiangsu (Capital: Nanjing)
Vie et passion d'un gastronome chinois or 小巷人物志 by the same author
《城市表情》, by 范小青
Jiangxi (Capital: Nanchang)
Jilin (Capital: Changchun)
Liaoning (Capital: Shenyang)
Qinghai (Capital: Xining)
Shaanxi (Capital: Xi'an
Hoping to read something by Jia Pingwa贾平凹
Shandong (Capital: Jinan)
Shanxi (Capital: Taiyuan)
Sichuan (Capital: Chengdu)
Yunnan (Capital: Kunming)
Zhejiang (Capital: Hangzhou)
街道江湖

Autonomous Regions (5)

Guangxi (Capital: Nanning)
Inner Mongolia (Capital: Hohhot)
Ningxia Hui (Capital: Yinchuan)
Tibet (Capital: Lhasa)
Old Demons, New Deities
Xianjiang Uyghur (Capital: ?rümqi)
Wang Meng (王蒙), Contes de l’ouest lointain 《新疆下放故事》, trois nouvelles du Xinjiang, Bleu de Chine 2002, 183 p. and Ma philosophie de la vie《我的人生哲学》

Municipalities (4)

Beijing (Capital: Beijing)
Currently reading The Invisibility Cloak
? Nouvelle jeunesse
? Les sentinelles des blés
? René Leys
Chongqing (Capital: Chongqing)
Shanghai (Capital: Shanghai)
Tianjin (Capital: Tianjin)

Special Administrative Regions (2)
Hong Kong (Capital: Hong Kong)
Macao/Macau (Capital: Macau)

Other Chinese language-majority countries:
Taiwan -
? Jentayu: Hors-série n°1 - Ta?wan - if you can read French, Jentayu is an absolute treasure trove. It's a literary review dedicated to presenting previously untranslated fiction and poetry from Asia. Some issues are thematic (most recently: epidemics in Asia, other themes include Cities and violence, Woks and kettles, Love(s) and sensuality), others focus on a single country. This one is a pretty great introduction to contemporary Taiwanese fiction, with some amazing short stories.
? Taipei, Histoires au coin de la rue


message 16: by Wayne (last edited Aug 27, 2020 12:07AM) (new)

Wayne Jordaan | 615 comments Wayne saying (你好) Nǐ hǎo

Provinces (2/23)

1. Anhui (Capital: Hefei)
2. Fujian (Capital: Fuzhou)
3. Gansu (Capital: Lanzhou)
4. Guangdong (Capital: Guangzhou): Hawaii
5. Guizhou (Capital: Guiyang)
6. Hainan (Capital: Haikou)
7. Hebei (Capital: Shijiazhuang)
8. Heilongjiang (Capital: Harbin)
9. Henan (Capital: Zhengzhou)
10. Hubei (Capital: Wuhan)
11. Hunan (Capital: Changsha)
12. Jiangsu (Capital: Nanjing)
13. Jiangxi (Capital: Nanchang)
14. Jilin (Capital: Changchun)
15. Liaoning (Capital: Shenyang)
16. Qinghai (Capital: Xining)
17. Shaanxi (Capital: Xi'an
18. Shandong (Capital: Jinan): Red Sorghum
19. Shanxi (Capital: Taiyuan)
20. Sichuan (Capital: Chengdu)
21. Taiwan* (Capital: Taipei)
22. Yunnan (Capital: Kunming)
23. Zhejiang (Capital: Hangzhou)

* (although mainland China claims Taiwan as one of its provinces, Taiwan regards itself as an independent country (Diane's Note))

Autonomous Regions (1/5)

24. Guangxi (Capital: Nanning)
25. Inner Mongolia (Capital: Hohhot): In Search of Nomads: An English Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin
26. Ningxia Hui (Capital: Yinchuan)
27. Tibet (Capital: Lhasa)
28. Xianjiang Uyghur (Capital: ?rümqi)

Municipalities (1/4)

29. Beijing (Capital: Beijing): The Gift of Rain
30. Chongqing (Capital: Chongqing)
31. Shanghai (Capital: Shanghai)
32. Tianjin (Capital: Tianjin)

Special Administrative Regions (1/2)
34. Hong Kong (Capital: Hong Kong): Avenue of Mysteries
35. Macao/Macau (Capital: Macau)


message 17: by Wayne (last edited Feb 21, 2021 07:59AM) (new)

Wayne Jordaan | 615 comments Wayne saying (你好) Nǐ hǎo

Provinces (7/23)

1. Anhui (Capital: Hefei)
2. Fujian (Capital: Fuzhou)
3. Gansu (Capital: Lanzhou)
4. Guangdong (Capital: Guangzhou): Hawaii
5. Guizhou (Capital: Guiyang)
6. Hainan (Capital: Haikou)
7. Hebei (Capital: Shijiazhuang)
8. Heilongjiang (Capital: Harbin)
9. Henan (Capital: Zhengzhou)
10. Hubei (Capital: Wuhan)
11. Hunan (Capital: Changsha)
12. Jiangsu (Capital: Nanjing): The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs
13. Jiangxi (Capital: Nanchang)
14. Jilin (Capital: Changchun)
15. Liaoning (Capital: Shenyang)
16. Qinghai (Capital: Xining)
17. Shaanxi (Capital: Xi'an
18. Shandong (Capital: Jinan): Red Sorghum
19. Shanxi (Capital: Taiyuan)
20. Sichuan (Capital: Chengdu): The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume the Fourth
21. Taiwan* (Capital: Taipei)
22. Yunnan (Capital: Kunming)
23. Zhejiang (Capital: Hangzhou)

* (although mainland China claims Taiwan as one of its provinces, Taiwan regards itself as an independent country (Diane's Note))

Autonomous Regions (1/5)

24. Guangxi (Capital: Nanning)
25. Inner Mongolia (Capital: Hohhot): In Search of Nomads: An English Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin
26. Ningxia Hui (Capital: Yinchuan)
27. Tibet (Capital: Lhasa)
28. Xianjiang Uyghur (Capital: ?rümqi)

Municipalities (1/4)

29. Beijing (Capital: Beijing): The Gift of Rain
30. Chongqing (Capital: Chongqing)
31. Shanghai (Capital: Shanghai)
32. Tianjin (Capital: Tianjin)

Special Administrative Regions (1/2)
34. Hong Kong (Capital: Hong Kong): Avenue of Mysteries
35. Macao/Macau (Capital: Macau)


message 18: by Erin (last edited Aug 14, 2021 02:02PM) (new)

Erin (erinm31) | 36 comments Potential reading for literary travels of China:

PROVINCES (2/22)

1. Anhui (Capital: Hefei)

2. Fujian (Capital: Fuzhou)

3. Gansu (Capital: Lanzhou)
Tun-Huang by Yasushi Inoue (1959)

4. Guangdong (Capital: Guangzhou)
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang (2007)

5. Guizhou (Capital: Guiyang)

6. Hainan (Capital: Haikou)

7. Hebei (Capital: Shijiazhuang)
The Jehol Diary by Pak Chiwoon (18th century)

8. Heilongjiang (Capital: Harbin)
The Field of Life and Death & Tales of Hulan River by Xiao Hong (1979)

9. Henan (Capital: Zhengzhou)
General Yue Fei by Cai Qian (1684)
Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke (2005)
Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke (2009)

10. Hubei (Capital: Wuhan)
Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine (2007)
Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from the Original Epicenter by Fang Fang (2020)

11. Hunan (Capital: Changsha)
Border Town by Shen Congwen (1936)
A Dictionary of Maqiao by Han Shaogong (1996)
Song of Praise for a Flower: One Woman's Journey through China's Tumultuous 20th Century by Fengxian Chu (2017)

12. Jiangsu (Capital: Nanjing)
??Six Records of a Floating Life by Shěn Fù (1809)
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang (1997)
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran (2002)
Miss Chopsticks by Xinran (2007)
Tales of Ming Courtesans by Alice Poon (2020)

13. Jiangxi (Capital: Nanchang)

14. Jilin (Capital: Changchun)

15. Liaoning (Capital: Shenyang)

16. Qinghai (Capital: Xining)

17. Shaanxi (Capital: Xi'an)
Flowers in the Mirror by Li Ruzhen (1818)
Life by Lu Yao (1982)
Ruined City: A Novel by Jia Pingwa (1993)
Empress by Shan Sa (2003)
??My Fair Concubine by Jeannie Lin (2012)
Mountain Stories by Ye Guangqin (2017)

18. Shandong (Capital: Jinan)
Red Sorghum by Mo Yan (1987)

19. Shanxi (Capital: Taiyuan)
The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man’s Life in a North China Village, 1857-1942 by Henrietta Harrison (2005)

20. Sichuan (Capital: Chengdu)
Family by Ba Jin (1933)
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian (1989)
Death Notice by Zhou Haohui (2005)

21. Yunnan (Capital: Kunming)
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (2017)

22. Zhejiang (Capital: Hangzhou)
The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain by Hanshan (8th century)


AUTONOMOUS REGIONS (0/5)

1. Guangxi (Capital: Nanning)

2. Inner Mongolia (Capital: Hohhot)
Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong (2004)
The Last Quarter of the Moon by Zijian Chi (2005)

3. Ningxia Hui (Capital: Yinchuan)

4. Tibet (Capital: Lhasa)
Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran (2004)
The Handsome Monk and Other Stories by Tsering D?ndrup (2019)

5. Xianjiang Uyghur (Capital: ?rümqi)
The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang by Perhat Tursun (2022)


MUNICIPALITIES (2/4)

1. Beijing
Moment in Peking by Lin Yutang (1939)
Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck (1956)
Teahouse by Lao She (1957)
Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China by David Kidd (1960)
??Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo (2000)
The Invisibility Cloak by Ge Fei (2012)

2. Chongqing
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (1932)
Red Crag by Lo Kuang-Pin (1961)

3. Shanghai
The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing (1892)
Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang (1948)
Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang (1978)
Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng (1986)
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai by Wang Anyi (1991)
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong (2000)
??When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (2000)

4. Tianjin
Griever: An American Monkey King in China by Gerald Vizenor (1986)


SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGIONS (0/2)

1. Hong Kong
Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang (1943)
The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kei (2014)
Fated and Fateless by Alice Poon (2014)

2. Macau


Other Chinese Majority Countries (1/2)

1. Singapore (Capital: Singapore)

2. Taiwan (Capital: Taipei)
Crystal Boys by Pai Hsien-yung (1983)
??Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin (1994)


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Provinces (23)
1. Anhui (Capital: Hefei)
2. Fujian (Capital: Fuzhou)
3. Gansu (Capital: Lanzhou)
4. Guangdong (Capital: Guangzhou)
5. Guizhou (Capital: Guiyang)
6. Hainan (Capital: Haikou)
7. Hebei (Capital: Shijiazhuang)
8. Heilongjiang (Capital: Harbin)
9. Henan (Capital: Zhengzhou)
10. Hubei (Capital: Wuhan)
11. Hunan (Capital: Changsha)
12. Jiangsu (Capital: Nanjing)
13. Jiangxi (Capital: Nanchang)
14. Jilin (Capital: Changchun)
15. Liaoning (Capital: Shenyang)
16. Qinghai (Capital: Xining)
17. Shaanxi (Capital: Xi'an
18. Shandong (Capital: Jinan)
19. Shanxi (Capital: Taiyuan)
20. Sichuan (Capital: Chengdu)
21. Taiwan* (Capital: Taipei)
22. Yunnan (Capital: Kunming)
23. Zhejiang (Capital: Hangzhou)

* (although mainland China claims Taiwan as one of its provinces, Taiwan regards itself as an independent country)

Autonomous Regions (5)
24. Guangxi (Capital: Nanning)
25. Inner Mongolia (Capital: Hohhot)
26. Ningxia Hui (Capital: Yinchuan)
27. Tibet (Capital: Lhasa)
28. Xianjiang Uyghur (Capital: ?rümqi)

Municipalities (4)
29. Beijing (Capital: Beijing)
20. Chongqing (Capital: Chongqing)
31. Shanghai (Capital: Shanghai)
32. Tianjin (Capital: Tianjin)

Special Administrative Regions (2)
33. Hong Kong (Capital: Hong Kong)
34. Macao/Macau (Capital: Macau)


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