‘China: a century of revolution’ – a 3 part documentary, using old films, available online, includes interviews

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman – Director: Ang Lee

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Director Ang Lee

The Wandering Earth Director – Frant Gwo

The Last Emperor – Director Bernardo Bertolucci

• Jung Chang, ‘Wild Swans’ and ‘Mao: the unknown story’
• Rob Gifford, ‘China Road’
• Jan Wong, ‘Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now’
• Michael Wood, ‘The Story of China’ (- there is also a TV series)
• Xinran, ‘The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices’
• Jonathan Spence, ‘The Search for Modern China’
• Henrietta Harrison, ‘The Missionary’s Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village’
• Xu Guoqi, ‘Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War’

Podcasts and online resources

• ‘Chinese Whispers’ – specialist China podcast from The Spectator magazine
• ‘Chinese Characters’ with Rana Mitter – series of short portraits of remarkable Chinese individuals through history who have made China what it is today