China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
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Chinese Tales: or, The Wonderful Adventures of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam, Related by Himself to Divert the Sultana, Upon the Celebration of Her Nuptials (second edition, with some added thoughts on transmigration; London: Printed for J. Osborn, 1740), by Thomas-Simon Gueullette, trans. by Thomas Stackhouse, contrib. by Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)- Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (2 volumes; London: T. De la Rue and Co., 1880), by Songling Pu, ed. by Herbert Allen Giles
- Strange Stories From the Lodge of Leisures (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by Songling Pu, trans. by G. Soulié de Morant
- Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, by Lu Xun, trans. by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang (illustrated HTML at ibiblio.org)
- The Vermilion Gate: A Novel of a Far Land (New York: The John Day Company, c1953), by Lin Yutang (page images at HathiTrust)
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Filed under: China -- Social life and customs- China: Promise or Threat? A Comparison of Cultures (Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2017), by Horst Jürgen Helle (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
- Tides From the West: A Chinese Autobiography (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: G. Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1947), by Chiang Monlin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ways That are Dark: The Truth About China (1934), by Ralph Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
- Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1990), by Ann Beth Waltner (PDF and EPub at Hawaii)
- Among the Sons of Han: Notes of a Six Year's Residence in Various Parts of China and Formosa (London: Tinsley brothers, 1881), by Mrs. Thomas Francis Hughes (page images at Google; US access only)
- Chinese Sketches, by Herbert Allen Giles (Gutenberg text)
- Letters of a Shanghai Griffin, by Jay Denby (illustrated HTML at talesofoldchina.com)
- My Chinese Days (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1918), by Gulielma Fell Alsop
- Peking Dust (New York: The Century Co., 1919), by Ellen N. La Motte (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Beyond the Bund (New York: Payson and Clarke, c1927), by Philip Kerby (page images at HathiTrust)
- Letters From China and Japan (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1920), by John Dewey and Alice Chipman Dewey, ed. by Evelyn Dewey (Gutenberg text)
- Why and How: Why the Chinese Emigrate, and the Means they Adopt for the Purpose of Reaching America, by Russell H. Conwell (page images at MOA)
- China and the Chinese, by Herbert Allen Giles (Gutenberg text)
- A Diplomatist's Wife in Many Lands (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1910), by Mrs. Hugh Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pagoda Shadows: Studies From Life in China (third edition; Boston: W. G. Corthell, 1885), by Adele M. Fielde (multiple formats at archive.org)
- When I Was a Boy in China (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1887), by Yan Phou Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1918), by Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews
- Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China (unillustrated; 1918), by Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews (Gutenberg text)
- Shen of the Sea: A Book for Children (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1925), by Arthur Bowie Chrisman, illust. by Else Hasselriis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Country Life in South China, the Sociology of Familism: Volume I, Phenix Village, Kwantung, China (only volume published; New York: Teachers college, Columbia University, 1925), by Daniel Harrison Kulp (page images at HathiTrust)
- Games Hong Kong People Play: A Social Psychology of the Hong Kong Chinese, by George Adams (HTML in Hong Kong)
- Three Years in Tibet: With the Original Japanese Illustrations (1909), by Ekai Kawaguchi (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Story of the Miao (London: H. Hooks, 1919), by Samuel Pollard, contrib. by F. J. Dymond (page images at HathiTrust)
- Stories of the East (Richmond, UK: L. and V. Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1921), by Leonard Woolf, illust. by Dora de Houghton Carrington
- Tales of The East: Comprising The Most Popular Romances of Oriental Origin, and The Best Imitations By European Authors; With New Translations, and Additioal Tales, Never Before Published (3 volumes; Edinburgh: J. Ballantyne and Co., 1812), ed. by Henry Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Races and Countries of Central Asia: Being the Exploits and Experiences of Claudius Bombarnac of "The Twentieth Century" (Akron, OH: MacLellan-N-Y-Company, n.d.), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text)
- The Special Correspondent: or, The Adventures of Claudius Bombarnac (New York: Lovell, Coryell and Co., c1894), by Jules Verne
- The Pool in the Desert, by Sara Jeannette Duncan (Gutenberg text)
- Love and Life Behind the Purdah (London: Freemantle and Co., 1901), by Cornelia Sorabji, contrib. by Harriot Georgina Blackwood Dufferin and Ava and Baron Arthur Hobhouse (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Broken Ties and Other Stories (c1925), by Rabindranath Tagore (text at Gutenberg Australia)
- Desmond's Daughter (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1916), by Maud Diver (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Siddhartha: An Indian Tale, by Hermann Hesse, trans. by Gunther Olesch, Anke Dreher, Amy Coulter, Stefan Langer, and Semyon Chaichenets (Gutenberg text)
- The Story of the Gadsbys: A Tale Without a Plot, by Rudyard Kipling (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Bustan of Sadi (London: John Murray, 1911), by Sa'di, trans. by A. Hart Edwards (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Gulistan, by Sa'di (HTML at Internet Classics)
- The Gulistan, by Sa'di, trans. by James Ross (HTML at Fordham)
- The Gulistan of Sa'di, by Sa'di, trans. by Edward Rehatsek (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- The Cannery Boat, by Takiji Kobayashi, and Other Japanese Short Stories (New York: International Publishers, c1933), contrib. by Takiji Kobayashi, Seikichi Fujimori, Takiji Kobayashi, Denji Kuroshima, Sanji Kishi, Teppei Kataoka, Naoshi Tokunaga, and Fusao Hayashi (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)
- Genji Monogatari (From "Japanese Literature"; New York: Colonial Press, 1900), by Lady Shikibu Murasaki, trans. by Suematsu Kencho (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Tale of Genji, by Lady Shikibu Murasaki, trans. by Edward Seidensticker (text at Oxford)
- All Men are Brothers (Shui Hu Chan) (2 volumes; New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948), by Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong, trans. by Pearl S. Buck, contrib. by Lin Yutang, illust. by Miguel Covarrubias (both volumes: page images at CMU)
- Peter the Brazen: A Mystery Story of Modern China (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1919), by George F. Worts, illust. by Gayle Hoskins (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Painted Veil (c1925), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- The Metal Monster, by Abraham Merritt (Gutenberg text)
- The Mystery of the Ravenspurs: A Romance and Detective Story of Thibet and England (New York: J. S. Ogilvie Pub.Co., c1911), by Fred M. White, illust. by André C. De Takacs (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Devil's Guard (1926), by Talbot Mundy
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