History

• Twenty-Five Histories (in China)
• The Cambridge History of China series
• General History of the World

System Thinking & Biology

• Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution’s Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life’s Biggest Problems by Matt Simon

Management

• The Practice of Management by Peter Drucker

Economics

• Microeconomic Theory by Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Society and Literature

• Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama
• Dream of the Red Chamber (or The Story of the Stone) by Cao Xueqin
• Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en
• Jin Yong series by Jin Yong (pen name of Louis Cha)