Nonfiction books about Chinese peoples, our cultures, our languages, and our histories, no matter where we are in the world. Also includes books that provide useful theoretical frameworks for understanding our experiences, with a caveat that this list leans toward Chinese-American experiences.

every once in a while, I finally make my peace with firefly again, only for some white person to say they’d reboot the franchise and my soul just starts scREAMING WITH HOW I, A CHINESE-AMERICAN, WOULD REIMAGINE FIREFLY AS A SINO DIASPORA NARRATIVE, SPACE WESTERN? how about how chinese people once made up a quarter…