What was China Reading in 2011?
The year 2011 marked the centenary of China's 1911 Republican Revolution and also the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Commemorations across China were too numerous to count, and literature on related topics captured the attention of readers country-wide. Two works, both written by researchers at the Institute of Modern History in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, were critically acclaimed: Yang Tianshi's The End of Monarchy, and Ma Yong's 1911 - China's Great Revolution. Last year also saw the mainland publication of Taiwanese historian Chang Yu-Fa's Revolutionary Bodies in the Last Years of the Qing Dynasty. Books associated with the Chinese Communist Party's 90th anniversary have sold very well. The first and second volumes of A History of the Chinese Communist Party, edited by the Party Historical Research Office, sold a total of 1.88 million copies last year. Authorized by the Party Central Committee, this tome