above: Forbidden City, Beijing
Bibliography for Asia Rising
* Indicates highly recommended
Asia general Japan China N. and S. Korea India Taiwan
Morton Abramowitz and Stephen Bosworth, Chasing the Sun: Rethinking East Asian Policy New York: Century Foundation Press, 2006
John K. Fairbank, Edwin O. Reischauer, Albert M. Craig, East Asia: The Modern Transformation Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1960
David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War New York: Hyperion, 2007
*Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Thunder From the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia New York: Knopf, 2000
Kishore Mahbubani, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistable Shift of Global Power to the East Public Affairs, 2008
Robyn Meredith, The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2007
*Rhoads Murphey, A History of Asia, 5th edition New York: Pearson-Longman, 2006
Elaine Pascoe, The Pacific Rim: East Asia at the Dawn of a New Century Brookfield, CT: Twenty-First Century Books, 1999
Conrad Schirokauer and Donald Clark, Modern East Asia: A Brief History New York: Wadsworth, 2003
Ba Jin, Family, novel pub. in 1933 Cheng and Tsui, 1979
Geremie R. Barmé, The Forbidden City. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008
Jasper Becker. City of Heavenly Tranquility: Beijing in the History of China. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008
Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine New York: The Free Press, 1997
Daniel A. Bell, China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008
Cao Zhan, Dream of the Red Chamber New York: Anchor Books, 1958
Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking New York: Basic Books, 1997
Jung Chang, Wild Swans New York: Touchstone Books, 2003
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005
*Pei-kai Cheng and Michael Lestz with Jonathan D. Spence, The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection New York: Norton, 1999
Harry Gelber, the Dragon and the Foreign Devils: China and the World, 1100 B.C. to the Present New York: Walker and Company, 2007
Rob Gifford, China Road: A Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power New York: Random House, 2007
Bates Gill, China's New Security Diplomacy Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007
Peter Hayes Gries, China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy. University of California Press, 2008
*Yasheng Huang, Capitalism With Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State. Cambridge University Press, 2008 -- This book challenges one of the reigning assessments of China: that is a rapidly expanding capitalist economy. Instead, the book argues that the post-Tiananmen Square era (since 1989) has seen a steady reversal of the capitalist trends that kicked in after the death of Mao in 1976.
*Will Hutton, The Writing on the Wall: Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy New York: Free Press, 2006
Annette L. Juliano and Judith A. Lerner eds., Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001
*James Kynge, China Shakes the World: A Titan's Breakneck Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 2006
Louise Levathes, When China Ruled the Seas New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994 -- on the voyages of Zhen He
Lu Xun Hsun, "True Story of Ah Q," "A Madman's Diary," and "My Old Home," from Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, trans. by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Young Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1960, 1972
Mao Tse-Tung, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung also known in English editions as The Little Red Book -- second edition, Beijing, 1967
Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, Mao’s Last Revolution Cambridge, MA: Belknap-Harvard, University Press, 2006
Margaret Macmillan, Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World New York: Random House, 2006
Michael Meyer, The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Streets of City Transformed, New York: Walker and Co., 2008
James Millward, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang New York: Columbia University Press, 2007
J.A.G. Roberts, A Concise History of China Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999
*Conrad Schirokauer and Miranda Brown, A Brief History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd edition Belmont, CA: Wadsworth-Thomson, 2006
Susan L. Shirk, China: Fragile Superpower New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
*Philip Short, Mao: A Life New York: Henry Holt, 1999
Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China New York: Grove Press, 1968
*Jonathan D. Spence, The Search for Modern China New York: Norton, 1990, 2001
Su Tong, "Wives and Concubines," in Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas New York: Penguin, 1996
Sun Tzu, The Art of War EText version, Project Gutenberg
Erwin Wickert ed., The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe, trans. John E. Woods New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998
Wu Cheng-en, Journey to the West classic 16th c. novel featuring the adventures of Sun Wu Kong, "the Monkey King."
Wu Han, "The Dismissal of Hai Rui From Office, " play first staged in Beijing in 1961, excerpts and analysis in Clive Ansley, The Heresy of Wu Han: His Play "Hai Rui's Dismissal" and Its Role in China's Cultural Revolution Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971
David Gilmour, Curzon New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2003
Ramachandra Guha, India After Gan-dhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy New York: Ecco, 2007,
Mira Kamdar, Planet India: How the Fastest-Growing Democracy is Transforming America and the World New York: Scribner, 2007
Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007
*Edward Luce, In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India New York: Doubleday, 2007
Pankaj Mishra, Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2006
Martha C. Nussbaum, The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2007
*Peter Robb, A History of India New York: Palgrave, 2002
*Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan new York: Harper Collins, 2000
*Ian Buruma, Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 New York: Random House, 2003
John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Aftermath of World War II New York: Norton, 1999
George Feifer, Breaking Open Japan:Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853 New York: Collins, 2006
Carol Gluck, Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985
Mikiso Hane, Peasants, Rebels, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan New York: Pantheon, 1982
*Marius B. Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2000
Kokutai no Hongi "Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan", tract published in 1937 by the Japanese Ministry of Education, trans. by John Owen Gauntlett, edited by Robert King Hall Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949 - see Buruma, p. 77.
James L. McClain, Japan: A Modern History New York: Norton, 2002
Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask New York: New Directions, 1958
*Kenneth B. Pyle, Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose Public Affairs, 2007
Edwin Reischauer and Marius Jansen, The Japanese Today Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995
Natsume Soseki, Kokoro a novel orig. published 1914; Regnery Gateway edition, 1957
Conrad Totman, Japan Before Perry: A Short History Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1981
Charles K. Armstrong, The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003
Jasper Becker, Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea New York: Oxford University Press, 2006
Michael Breen, The Koreans: Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999
Adrian Buzo, The Making of Modern Korea London: Routledge, 2002
Gordon D. Chang, Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World New York: Random House, 2006
Gordon Cucullu, Separated at Birth: How North Korea Became the Evil Twin Guilford: Lyons, 2004
*Bruce Cumings, North Korea: Another Country New York: New Press, 2003
Bruce Cumings, The Origins of the Korean War, two vols., Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981, 1991
M. Deuchler, The Confucian Transformation of Korea Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993
Bruce and Ju Chan Fulton trans., Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers Seattle: The Seal Press, 1989
Roy Andrew Grinker, Korea and Its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998
David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War New York: Hyperion, 2007
Helen-Louise Hunter, Kim Il-song's North Korea New York: Praeger, 1999
Chol-hwan Kang and Pierre Rigoulot, The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in a North Korean Gulag, trans. by Yair Reiner New York: Basic Books, 2001
Laurel Kendall and Mark Peterson eds., Korean Women: View from the Inner Room New Haven, CT: East Rock Press, 1983
Hyejin Kim, Jia: A Novel of North Korea. Midnight, 2008
Mike Kim, Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country. Rowman and Littlefield, 2008
S. Kim, Korea's Democratization Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2003
Andrei Lankov, From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960 London: Hurst, 2002
Andrei Lankov, North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea. McFarland, 2008
Peter H. Lee ed., Anthology of Korean Literature: From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1981
Peter H. Lee ed., Modern Korean Literature Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1990
Peter H. Lee and William Theodore deBary, Sources of Korean Tradition, 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996
*Donald Stone Macdonald, The Koreans, Third Edition, edited and revised by Donald N. Clark Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, 2001
Evelyn McCune, The Arts of Korea: An Illustrated History Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1962
Don Oberdorfer, The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History New York: Addison-Wesley, 1997
Han S. Park, North Korea: Ideology, Politics, Economy Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996
Andrew Scobell, "Notional North Korea," Parameters, Spr., 2007 a bibliographical review of recent books about North Korea - via ProQuest on NMH Virtual Desktop
Dae-sook Suh, Kim IlSung: The North Korean Leader New York: Columbia University Press, 1988
Sung Chul Yang, The North and South Korean Political Systems: A Comparative Analysis Seoul: Hollym, 1999
O Yongsu, Bird of Passage short story pub. 1958, in P. H. Lee ed., Flowers of Fire: Twentieth Century Korean Stories Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986
Ann C. Carver, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang eds., Bamboo Shoots After the Rain: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan New York: Feminist Press of the City University of New York, 1990
Joseph Y.S. Cheng, "Ensuring Interests: Dynamics of Taiwan-China Relations and Southeast Asia," Contemporary Southeast Asia, Apr., 2007 a book review - via ProQuest and NMH Virtual Desktop
Chinese Art Treasures: A Selected Group of Objects from the Chinese National Palace Museum and the Chinese National Central Museum Taichung, Taiwan Geneva: Skira, 1961
S. Long, Taiwan: China's Last Frontier New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991
Johanna M. Meskill, A Chinese Pioneer Family: The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990
Murray A. Rubinstein ed., Taiwan: A New History M.E. Sharpe, 1999
R. G. Sutter, Taiwan: Entering the Twenty-first Century New York: University Press of America, 1989
