- Jennifer Cody Epstein – The Painter from Shanghai
- Alexandra Harney – The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
- Peter Hessler – Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present
- Ma Jian – Beijing Coma
- Margaret MacMillan – Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World
- Gavin Menzies – 1421: The Year China Discovered America
- Jiang Rong – Wolf Totem
- Lisa See – Peony in Love
- Simon Winchester – The Man Who Loved China
- Qiu Xiaolong – Death of a Red Heroine









