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The River of Lost Footsteps
A Personal History of Burma
Thant Myint-U
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"[B]rilliant . . .
The River of Lost Footsteps
is a balanced, thorough, and serious history, but it is also a polemic, firm in its view that the current international campaign—pursuing 'this policy of isolating one of the most isolated countries in the world'—is moving in the wrong direction."—
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River of Smoke
A Novel
Amitav Ghosh
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A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011 The Ibis, loaded to its gunwales with a cargo of indentured servants, is in the grip of a cyclone in the Bay...
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The Ruling Caste
Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj
David Gilmour
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"Gilmour captures the spirit of life in the sharply defined spheres of Queen Victoria's court and the government in London, the viceroy's circle in South Asia, and the district offices where British civil servants met Indian subjects on a daily basis. He skillfully depicts the peculiar mixture of proper manners and gentlemanly practices and the legal and bureaucratic standards of one of the world's great civil services . . . The title of the book succinctly captures his idea that the British colonizers operated as though they were a part of the Indian caste system—thus garnering the mystique of authority without having to rely unduly on force."—
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A Rumor of War
Philip Caputo
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The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang...
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The Samurai's Garden
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Gail Tsukiyama
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The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her...
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Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh
Picador
"Ghosh's best and most ambitious work yet is an adventure story set in nineteenth-century Calcutta against the backdrop of the Opium Wars. On the
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Shenzhen
A Travelogue from China
Guy Delisle
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The follow-up graphic novel to the acclaimed Pyongyang: A Journey to North Korea Shenzhen is entertainingly compact, with Guy Delisle’s observations of life...
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The Sly Company of People Who Care
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Rahul Bhattacharya
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In flight from the tame familiarity of home in Bombay, a twenty-six-year-old cricket journalist chucks his job and arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial...
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Snow Falling in Spring
Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution
Moying Li
Melanie Kroupa Books
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joins other important books about the Cultural Revolution . . . as childhood testimonies to national trauma, cautionary tales for our own time, and appreciations for homes, old and new."
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The Sorrows of Empire
Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
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Chalmers Johnson
Metropolitan Books
From the author of
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comes this bestselling and timely critique of American-style militarism.
"[An] enormously useful study."—
Ronald Steel,
The Nation
"Impressive . . . A powerful indictment of U.S. military and foreign policy."—
Los Angeles Times Book Review
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South Wind Changing
Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh
Graywolf Press Paper
A Time magazine "Best Book" of 1994 This is the compelling personal narrative of Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh, who was born in South Vietnam in 1958. He survived...
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Anne Fadiman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"This is a captivating, riveting book—a must-read not only for medical professionals, anthropologists, and journalists, but for anyone interested in how to negotiate cultural difference in a shrinking world. Fadiman's ability to empathize with the resolutely independent Hmong as well as with the remarkable doctors, caseworkers, and officials of Merced County makes her narrative both richly textured and deeply illuminating. Sometimes the stakes here are multicultural harmony and understanding; sometimes they're literally life and death—whether in wartime Laos or in American emergency rooms. But whatever the stakes and wherever the setting, Fadiman's reporting is meticulous, and her prose is a delight. From start to finish, a truly impressive achievement."—
Michael Bérubé, author of
Life As We Know It
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L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner - Current Interest
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Stick Out Your Tongue
Stories
Ma Jian; Translated by Flora Drew; Afterword by the Author
Picador
"As a whole [these stories] create an imaginative and disturbing vision of life at its most oppressive."—
Rodney Welch,
Freetimes
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The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
Gail Tsukiyama
St. Martin's Griffin
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has epic ambitions—considerable scope, encompassing the years 1939-66; a multitude of significant characters; and recurring moments of tragedy and redemption. But it's written in the reassuringly small-scale style of a folk tale, characterized by short anecdotes and a heavy dose of morals . . . Tsukiyama's prose is simple and slow, at times seeming to strive for the kind of eloquence found in a Noh play, whose centuries-old art depends on stylized action to create tension and drama."—
Louisa Thomas,
The New York Times
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Surviving the Dragon
A Tibetan Lama's Account of 40 Years under Chinese Rule
Arjia Rinpoche, Forward by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Rodale Books
On a peaceful summer day in 1952, ten monks on horseback arrived at a traditional nomad tent in northeastern Tibet where they offered the parents of a...
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The Swordless Samurai
Leadership Wisdom of Japan's Sixteenth-Century Legend---Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Kitami Masao; Edited and with an Introduction by Tim Clark
St. Martin's Griffin
In a time of endless chaos and bloodshed, when the only law was the law of the sword, a peasant boy named Hideyoshi dreamed of becoming a samurai. Despite his...
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Tears in the Darkness
The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
Picador
"Ben Steele, a young cowboy on his home range in Montana who had enlisted as a soldier in World War II, was caught up in the battle for Bataan in the Philippines, then in the ensuing death march as a prisoner of the Japanese, which he barely survived. Beginning with harrowing sketches of that experience, and in the course of various adventures and misadventures, he continued to draw and paint, and has since become a truly distinguished artist of the West.
Tears in the Darkness
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Peter Matthiessen, author of
Shadow Country
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Temptations of the West
How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond
Pankaj Mishra
Picador
"[A] fascinating, angry book about the impact of modernity on India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan and Tibet.
Temptations of the West
tells of the complex, often violent struggle of ancient societies to define themselves in the face of cultural, political and religious intrusions from outside . . . Mishra has a talent for discovering such extraordinary, even lurid characters to illuminate his account of dashed dreams, clashing religions, huge wealth, crushing poverty, corruption, oppression and, almost unbelievably, hope . . . This is not a gentle book, but it is a brave one—and, for anyone in the West able to look beyond clichés and rhetoric, an essential one."—
Ben MacIntyre,
The New York Times Book Review
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Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader
North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
Bradley K. Martin
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
"As useful a set of insights into life in North Korea as can be found anywhere . . . Accumulates persuasive evidence about the indoctrination of children, the brutality of the gulags, and the persistent famine that began in the 1990s . . . [Kim Jong Il] may be a brutal despot presiding over a corrupt regime, but Martin is convinced that serious negotiations are possible."—
Warren I. Cohen,
Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Understanding China [3rd Edition]
A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture
John Bryan Starr; 3rd Edition
Hill and Wang
"An excellent introduction to China for anyone in search of solid but concise information about that complicated country. Packed with facts and figures, but enlivened with firsthand observations."—
Lucian W. Pye,
The New York Times
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A War of Frontier and Empire
The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
David J. Silbey
Hill and Wang
"Mr. Silbey tells this little-known story in exemplary fashion.
A War of Frontier and Empire
is a short, fast-paced book, which offers a good summary of the military history while making room for fascinating excursions into economic, social, and cultural issues."—
Adam Kirsch,
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We Should Never Meet
Stories
Aimee Phan
Picador
"Phan charts [these] journeys with acuity, sensitivity, [and] wisdom."—
Los Angeles Times
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What We All Long For
Dionne Brand
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Dionne Brand powerfully delves into uncharted aspects of urban life, the bittersweetness of youth, and secrets families try to hide. Tuyen is an aspiring...
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Where China Meets India
Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia
Thant Myint-U
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Thant Myint-U’s Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, and timely book about a remote region that is suddenly becoming a geopolitical center of the...
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