http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2007/08/20#china-20th-century <P>The <a href="china-today.html">post-Mao period</a> is peculiar enough --- and interesting enough to me --- to rate its own notebook. <ul>Recommended: <li>Jasper Becker, <cite>Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine</cite> <li>Joseph R. Levenson, <cite>Confucian China and Its Modern Fate</cite> <li>Jonathan Spence <ul> <li><cite>Mao Zedong</cite> <li><cite>The Search for Modern China</cite> </ul> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Robert W. Barnett, <cite>Wandering Knights: China Legacies, Lived and Recalled</cite> <li>Rana Mitter, <cite>A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World</cite> [<a href="http://dannyreviews.com/h/Bitter_Revolution.html">Review by Danny Yee</a>] <li>Barry Naughton, <citE>The Chinese economy: Transitions and Growth</cite> [<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/0-262-64064-3">Blurb</a>] <li>Judith Shapiro, <cite>Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China</cite> <li>Vera Schwarcz, <cite>The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919</cite> <li>Jonathan Spence, <cite>The Gate of Heavenly Peace</cite> </ul>