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Depending on how far back you want to go you could add https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/the-small-woman/author/alan-burgess/ https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/the-small-woman... Which is the story of Gladys Aylward, a missionary in China mostly in the first half of the century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Aylward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Aylward It was made into a film "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" featuring Ingrid Bergman. It of course took liberties with the story but I remember it being a good movie.