China.

Resources for all ages:
Eyewitness Books: Ancient China - Arthur Cotterell S
Living in Hong Kong; Living in Famous Cities Series B
Living in Peking; Living in Famous Cities Series B

1-3 Specific events
Marco Polo: A Journey Through China - Fiona MacDonald (Expeditions series, 3rd grade reading level) G
Biography
Marco Polo - Charles P. Graves (1300-24 World Explorer series, 3rd- 4th grade) S
My Book About Hudson - Sheila Miller (Hudson Taylor, missionary to China) S
Between Two Worlds - Barbara Mitchell (Pearl S. Buck 1892-1973 winner Pulitzer and Nobel prizes)
Historical fiction
Story About Ping - Marjorie Flack (duck herding on the Yangtzee River) H
Granny Han’s Breakfast - Sheila Groves (God’s provision in China) S
Mei Li - Thomas Handforth
Culture
Growing Up in Ancient China - Ken Teague G

4-6 Overview of the region
Magical East - P. Wilkinson, M. Pollard (India, China, Near East, Japan)
Specific events
Ancient China - Judith Simpson (the Nature Company Discoveries series) G
Great Wall - Leonard Fisher (Emporer Huang Ti and Mongol raiders) G
Great Wall - Elizabeth Mann (7th century BC, China and the Mongol Empire, Wonders of the World series)
Genghis Kahn and the Mongol Horde - Harold Lamb (Asia and Mongolia: 1166-1227) L
Silk Route - John S. Major (700 AD from China to Constantinople) G
Adventures and Discoveries of Marco Polo - Richard J. Walsh (Italy, China 1254-1324) L
First Book of the China Clippers - Louise Dickinson Rich
God’s Adventurer: Hudson Taylor - Phyllis Thompson (missionary to China 1832-1905) S
Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat-Sen - Pearl S. Buck L
First Book of Communist China - William Kinmond
Biography
Genghis Khan: Mongol Emperor - Judy Humphrey (Asia and Mongolia, 1166-1227) S
Marco Polo - Gian Paolo Ceserani (Italy, China 1254-1324) B
Eric Liddell - Catherine M. Swift (1924 olympic champion, missionary to China) S
Historical fiction
Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Warrior of the South, Southern China, A.D. 531 - Laurence Yep (Royal Diaries series)
Shanghaied to China - Dave and Neta Jackson (Trailblazers, Hudson Taylor 1832-1905)
Mission to Cathay - Madeleine A. Polland (Matteo Ricci - Catholic ambassador to China) S
Little Pear - Eleanor Frances Lattimore (pre-Communist life in China) S
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze - Elizabeth Lewis (China 1920’s coppersmith’s apprentice) N
Flight of the Fugitives - Dave and Neta Jackson (Trailblazers, Gladys Aylward, missionary 1937-1945) S
House of Sixty Fathers - Meindert de Jong (set in China during World War II) NH
Li Lun, Lad of Courage - Carolyn Treffinger (China) NH
Literature
Shen of the Sea - Arthur Chrisman (China: fairy tales) N
Culture
See Inside an Ancient Chinese Town - Penelope Hughes-Stanton B
Art of China - Shirley Glubok

7-9 Specific events
Science in Ancient China - George Beshore
China’s Long March: 6,000 Miles of Danger - Jean Fritz (Mao Tse-Tung, Communist vs Nationalist forces, 1934-35) S
Biography
Messer Marco Polo - Donn Byrne (Italy to China in 13th century) A
Story of Marco Polo - Noah Brooks (Italy, China 1254-1324) A
Hudson Taylor, Founder, China Inland Mission - Vance Christie (1832-1905, Heroes of the Faith series, 6th-7th grade)
My Several Worlds - Pearl S. Buck (China: autobiography) A
Flying Scotsman - Sally Magnusson (Eric Lidell, olympic champion, missionary to China) A
Eric Liddell - Ellen W. Caughey (Olympic champion, missionary to China killed in WWII, Heroes of the Faith series)
Nothing Daunted - Gloria Repp (Isobel Kuhn, missionary to Lisu tribe of southwestern China) S
Homesick - Jean Fritz (autobiography, Mrs. Fritz was raised in China) S
Gladys Alyward, Missionary in China - Sam Wellman (1904-70, English parlormaid, pre-Communist China)
Gladys Alyward, the Little Woman - Gladys Alyward, Christine Hunter (extraordinary story, extraordinary woman)
Small Woman - Alan Burgess (story of Gladys Alyward, missionary to China, 30’s-40’s) B
Mao Tse-Tung and His China - Albert Marrin G
Watchman Nee, Man of Suffering - Bob Laurent (1903-72, Chinese Christian, author; imprisoned for his faith)
Historical fiction
Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom - Katherine Paterson (set in China in 1851) A
Boy’s War - David J. Michell (American boy in China during World War II) S
Dragon Seed - Pearl S. Buck (China: WW II, effect on peasants) A
Little Tiger in the Chinese Night - Song Nan Zhang (story of the Cultural Revolution, 1966-76) G
Culture
China Homecoming - Jean Fritz (1976 description and travel)

10-12 Specific events
Travels of Marco Polo - Marco Polo (dictated upon his return from China) A
Hungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine - Jasper Becker (Great Leap Forward, 1958-62) A
Life and Death in Shanghai - Nien Cheng (ordeal surviving Cultural Revolution 1966-72)
Across China - Peter Jenkins (late 70’s trip across China by Walk Across America author)
God’s Smuggler to China - Brother David (smuggling Bibles into communist China)
Biography
Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret - Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor (founder of China Inland Mission, life of trust in God)
Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission: The Growth of a Work of God - Howard Taylor (1860-1905) E
Historical fiction
Lieh Kuo Chih - Feng Meng-lung (set during the times of China’s feudal lords, 770-220 BC) A
All Men Are Brothers - Pearl S. Buck (set in 12th century China) A
Dream of the Red Chamber - Tsao Heueh-Chin (set in Peking 1729-37, family history) A
Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck (early 1900’s struggle for survival) P
Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom - Feng Jicai (Chinese Cultural Revolution) S
Culture
Journey Into China - National Geographic Society (description and travel in the late 20th century)

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