Asian category: 13860 books
Letters from Vietnam
Voices of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“No heroes, everyone did their part, and everyone was scared to death.”
They are the words of soldier Mark W. Harms in 1968, summing up his combat experience during the Vietnam War. His stunning letter home is just one of hundreds featured in this unforgettable collection, Letters from...
Three months in Mao's China
between the great leap forward and the cultural revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher traveled for the first time to China, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar,...
Wave of Destruction
The Stories of Four Families and History's Deadliest Tsunami
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
This exquisitely written book puts a human face on the tragedy of 2004's Southeast Asian tsunami through the heartbreaking and heroic stories of four who survived this cataclysmic natural disaster.
Erich Krauss arrived in the Thai village of Nam Keam on a relief truck 12 days after an underwater...
Burma in Revolt
Opium and Insurgency since 1948
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
In 1948, Burma was a promising young democracy with a bustling free market economy and a standard of living that surpassed nearly all of its other Asian neighbours. Fifty years later, Burma is one of the poorest nations in the world, with a military dictatorship in Rangoon and 50,000 armed rebels...
Cold War Monks
Buddhism and America's Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The groundbreaking account of U.S. clandestine efforts to use Southeast Asian Buddhism to advance Washington’s anticommunist goals during the Cold War
How did the U.S. government make use of a “Buddhist policy” in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that...
The Ruling Caste
Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
A sparkling, provocative history of the English in South Asia during Queen Victoria's reign
Between 1837 and 1901, less than 100,000 Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma. How was this...
The People between the Rivers
The Rise and Fall of a Bronze Drum Culture, 200–750 CE
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This fundamental study provides the first comprehensive history in any language of the lands between the Red and Pearl Rivers in southern China and the people who resided there over a span of a thousand years. Bringing to life the mysterious early people known as Li and Lao who inhabited the area,...
Modern South Asia
History, Culture, Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Drawing on the newest historical research and scholarship in the field, Modern South Asia provides challenging insights into the history of this fascinating region over the past three centuries. Jointly authored by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, it offers a rare depth of historical understanding...
A Winter in India
Light Impressions of its Cities, Peoples and Customs
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
A charming travelogue set in the British Raj, A Winter in India presents a fascinating journey across people, customs, languages, cities, monuments, and landscapes. Spens’ thrilling and amusing anecdotes and multifarious experiences — of the rugged Khyber Pass and its tribes, the military history...
Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India
Moonset on Sunrise Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
In this compelling new study, Whitney Cox presents a fundamental re-imagining of the politics of pre-modern India through the reinterpretation of the contested accession of Kulottunga I (r.1070–1120) as the ruler of the imperial Chola dynasty. By focusing on this complex event and its ramifications...
The Impossible State
North Korea, Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
“A meaty, fast-paced portrait of North Korean society, economy, politics and foreign policy.” -Foreign Affairs
The definitive account of North Korea, its veiled past and uncertain future, from the former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council
In The Impossible...
The Last Samurai
The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a rebel leader, has captivated generations of Japanese readers and now Americans as well - his life is the inspiration for a major Hollywood film, The Last Samurai, starring...
Where China Meets India
Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Thant Myint-U's Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world.
From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of the Himalayas, by a vast and impenetrable...
by Jim Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
While China rises to challenge the United States for world supremacy, Americans suffer from a seriously flawed perspective on past U.S.- China relations. America's view of the critical period when Mao Zedong rose to power is based on a fairytale. In that fable, the hero leads a popular revolution...