The Hexbear bulletins has a reading list with books on the history of various countries and lists these for China
These books mostly focus on the post-Mao period up to the present day:
- China’s Socialist Economy by Xue Muqiao (1981).
- The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought by Wang Hui (2004).
- Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the 21st Century by Giovanni Arrighi (2007).
- The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity by Wang Hui (2009).
- Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel (2011).
- China’s Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat, and the Road to Equality by Wang Hui (2016).
- Marxism and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Jin Huiming (2017).
- Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi by Christian Sorace (2019).
- I’ll Ruin Everything You Are: Ending Western Propaganda on Red China by Ramin Mazaheri (2019).
- Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners by Roland Boer (2021).
- China’s Great Road: Lessons for Marxist Theory and Socialist Practices by John Ross (2021).
- Ten Crises: The Political Economy of China’s Development by Tiejun Wen (2021).
- The East is Still Red - Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century by Carlos Martinez (2023).
- China and the American Lake by Mark Tseng Putterman - an article (2021).