Recs if you like The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices...

here’s how the women of china lived and made a space for themselves in their own patriarchal society.

— “the eighteen changes of a girl between childhood and adulthood.”

a working list of history, memoirs, and scientific communication from authors based in or who had significant life experience in what's considered the global south. the goal of this list was to read more nonfiction from alternate global perspectives, open to edits or suggestions!

All the books I could find where either the title or author's name (or surname) starts with a letter X!

Nonfiction to deepen your understanding of Asia (primarily China, for now)