Derek Bodde, Chinese Thought, Society and Science: The Intellectual and Social Background of Science and Technology in Pre-Modern China [I can't figure out what a lot of these essays have to do with science or technology, but they make for a fascinating ramble around many aspects of pre-modern Chinese culture and society.]
Mark Elvin, The Pattern of the Chinese Past
Adeeb Khalid, Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present [i.e., from the 1700s to 2020]
Joseph R. Levenson, Confucian China and Its Modern Fate
• I: The Problem of Intellectual Continuity
• II: The Problem of Monarchical Decay
• III: The Problem of Historical Significance
Susan Naquin, Millenarian Rebellion in China: the Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813
Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China
Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy [Review: http://bactra.org/reviews/great-divergence/]
Jonathan Spence
• The Gate of Heavenly Peace
• God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan [Review]
• Mao Zedong
• The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
• The Search for Modern China
• Treason by the Book
• Nicolas Tackett, The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy
Hsien-Chun Wang, "Discovering Steam Power in China, 1840s--1860s", Technology and Culture 51 (2010): 31--54