Asia

1. The Eaves of Heaven

   A searing memoir by the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala offers a portrait of his father's experiences over the course of three wars--the French occupation of Indochina, the World War II Japanese invasion, and the Vietnam War--as he captures... (read more)

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2. The Khaarijee

   Explores the relationship between six orphans; a dog; a Muslim man; and the author, an inexperienced American journalist, thrust together in post-9/11 Afghanistan, in book that shows how profoundly the country changed the author.... (read more)

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3. When China Rules the World

   Making predictions that China will supplant the west as an economic superpower, a cautionary analysis makes predictions about cultural, political, and ethnic changes facing the near future while evaluating China's anti-globalization stance and dubious... (read more)

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4. Vietnam, past and Present

   Recent U.S. military interventions in Kosovo and Iraq have stirred public memories of the long and costly Vietnam conflict. Scholars and strategists, military leaders and media continue to raise questions such as what motivated the Vietnamese to wage a... (read more)

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5. Red China Blues

   Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a... (read more)

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6. The Japan That Never Was

   In this book the authors address Japan's economic crisis of the 1990s.They argue that most attempts to reconcile Japan's past success with its current problems have been inadequate, primarily because scholars fail to fully understand how Japan's... (read more)

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7. External Trade Bulletin of the Escwa Region

   The Bulletin includes statistical data and indicators on the international trade in goods of ESCWA member countries, based primarily on national sources, with additional material provided by secondary sources. Data presented includes summary tables on... (read more)

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8. Dogs and Demons

   The crises--and failures--of modernization in Japan, as seen up close by a resident expert Japan is a nation in crisis, and the crisis goes far beyond its well-known economic plight. In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the crisis on a broad scale... (read more)

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9. Uneasy Warriors

   Following World War II, Japan's postwar constitution forbade the country to wage war or create an army. However, with the emergence of the cold war in the 1950s, Japan was urged to establish the Self-Defense Forces as a way to bolster Western defenses... (read more)

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10. A Bed of Red Flowers

    Written with compassion, intelligence and insight, " A Bed of Red Flowers" is a profoundly moving portrait of life under occupation and the unforgettable story of a family, a people and a country. "The picnic of the red flower" is a traditional time of... (read more)

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11. Planet India

    A cutting-edge exploration of America's stake in India's ongoing efforts to become a global power depicts the region as the world's fastest-growing center of technology, global economics, and democracy, outlining the challenges facing the country to... (read more)

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12. Life and Death in Shanghai

    A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966... (read more)

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13. China's Great Train

    A vivid account of China’s unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and its obsession to transform its land and its people In the summer of 2006, the Chinese government fulfilled a fifty-year plan to build a railway into Tibet. Since Mao Zedong... (read more)

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14. Losing the Golden Hour

    In emergency medicine, the golden hour is the first hour after injury during which treatment greatly increases survivability. In post-conflict transition terminology, it is the first year after hostilities end. Without steadily improving conditions then,... (read more)

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15. Survey of Economic and Social Developments in the Escwa Region 2004-2005

    This annual Survey reviews economic and social trends in the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) region. It evaluates the region's performance in areas such as economic development, population growth, health conditions, education and... (read more)

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16. Things Japanese

    An engaging collection about everything from the abacus to zoology in Japan, designed to preserve knowledge about a society that was modernizing beyond recognition. This book remains an erudite source of information about culture, history, art, religion,... (read more)

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17. Domestic Goddesses

    Based on extensive fieldwork in Calcutta, this book provides the first ethnography of how middleclass women in India understand and experience economic change through transformations of family life. It explores their ideas, practices and experiences of... (read more)

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18. Freeing Tibet

    Freeing Tibet is the incredible, heroic story of Tibet's arduous struggle to keep freedom alive. Timely, impeccably researched and including a 16-page black&white photo insert, it will change the way we understand Tibet.In March of 1959, a 23-year-old... (read more)

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19. Spaces of Colonialism

    Drawing upon the theories and methodologies of governmentality as presented in Michel Foucault’s translated lecture courses, Spaces of Colonialism provides an analysis of the attempts made by the Government of India to secure and order Delhi, the... (read more)

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20. Beijing's Games

    Click here to see an article on Beijing's Games and Susan Brownell in the Wall Street Journal. Why is hosting the Olympic Games so important to China? What is the significance of a quintessential symbol of Western civilization taking place in the heart... (read more)

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