Hello, I've recently finished an audiobook edition of Jung Chang's Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China and thoroughly enjoyed it (without necessarily being to focused on its historical accuracy :P ).
I'm hoping to follow it on with something that starts from around when this book leaves off and covers figures such as Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek.
Rather than simply going for Jung Chang's Madame Sun Yat-sen. I thought I would come here and ask if anyone could recommend something. I've also had a look at Sun Yat Sen by Bergere (1998). Does anyone have an opinion on this book?
Finally, this may not please some but I'm really looking for something potentially biographical and primarily interesting rather than intensely analytical.
Thank you in advance and apologies if I've missed something in the booklist/rules.
Fairbank's China: A New History is a pretty standard introductory textbook to Chinese history as a whole. It's intended for undergraduates and has a sizeable section on early modern China.
Fenby's Penguin History of Modern China is more focused on the chaotic period of late Qing China and the development into modern China we know today.
Lee & Lee's "Sun Yat Sen, Nanyang, and the 1911 Revolution" is a book written by Singaporean Chinese historians regarding Sun Yat Sen's in the 1911 Revolution and its implications on South East Asia. Really expensive, though.