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The Asian Review of Books is the only dedicated pan-Asian book review publication. Widely quoted, referenced, republished by leading publications in Asian and beyond and with an archive of more than two thousand book reviews, the ARB also features long-format essays by leading Asian writers and thinkers, excerpts from newly-published books and reviews of arts and culture. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/asian-review

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Fyodor Tertitskiy, "Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung" (Hurst UP, 2025)
Jun 12, 2025
Vappala Balachandran, "India and China at Odds in the Asian Century: A Diplomatic and Strategic History" (Hurst, 2025)
Jun 05, 2025
Chris Aslan, "Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia" (Icon Books, 2024)
May 29, 2025
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
May 22, 2025
Mayukh Sen, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star" (Norton, 2025)
May 15, 2025
Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
May 08, 2025
Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian, "The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform" (Yale UP, 2024)
May 01, 2025
Chris Stowers, "Shoot, Ask...and Run" (Earnshaw Books Ltd, 2025)
Apr 24, 2025
Richard Overy, "Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan" (Norton, 2025)
Apr 17, 2025
Bin Yang, "Discovered But Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, C. 1100-1620" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Apr 10, 2025
Kornel Chang, "A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under U.S. Occupation" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Apr 03, 2025
Robert J. Antony, "Outlaws of the Sea: Maritime Piracy in Modern China" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)
Mar 27, 2025
Ashis Ray, "The Trial That Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence" (Routledge India, 2024)
Mar 20, 2025
The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History
Mar 13, 2025
Manu Pillai, "Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity" (Allen Lane, 2025)
Mar 06, 2025
Kishore Mahbubani, "Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir" (Public Affairs, 2024)
Feb 27, 2025
Tahir Kamran, "Chequered Past, Uncertain Future: The History of Pakistan" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Feb 20, 2025
Bertil Lintner, "The Golden Land Ablaze: Coups, Insurgents and the State in Myanmar" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 13, 2025
Rosemary Wakeman, "The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Feb 06, 2025
Jorge Flores, "Empire of Contingency: How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Jan 29, 2025
Avinash Paliwal, "India's Near East: A New History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 23, 2025
Glenn Diaz, "Yñiga: A Novel" (Ateneo de Manila UP, 2022)
Jan 16, 2025
Peter Hessler, "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education" (Penguin, 2024)
Jan 09, 2025
Victor D. Cha, "The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jan 02, 2025
Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Dec 26, 2024
Paul French, "Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Dec 19, 2024
Herald van der Linde, "Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia's Greatest Empire" (Monsoon Books, 2024)
Dec 12, 2024
Caroline Alexander, "Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World" (Viking, 2024)
Dec 05, 2024
Vikas Swarup, "The Girl with the Seven Lives" (Simon & Schuster India, 2024)
Nov 28, 2024
Allen James Fromherz, "The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present" (U California Press, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024
Ruth Vanita, "A Slight Angle" (India Viking, 2024)
Nov 14, 2024
John Duffus, "Backstage in Hong Kong: A Life with the Philharmonic, Broadway Musicals and Classical Superstars" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
Nov 07, 2024
Ronald Drabkin, "Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor" (William Morrow, 2024)
Oct 31, 2024
Andrea Benvenuti, "Nehru's Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Oct 24, 2024
William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)
Oct 17, 2024
Rohit Manchanda, "The Enclave: A Sharp and Hilarious Portrait of Womanhood in India" (Fourth Estate, 2024)
Oct 10, 2024
Maaria Sayed, "From Pashas to Pokemon" (Vishwakarma Publications, 2024)
Oct 03, 2024
Kerry Brown, "The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power" (Yale UP, 2024)
Sep 26, 2024
Steven K. Bailey, "Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War" (Osprey, 2024)
Sep 19, 2024
Peter Rose, "The Good War of Consul Reeves" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
Sep 12, 2024
David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2024)
Sep 05, 2024
Marga Ortigas, "God's Ashes: Apocrypha" (Penguin, 2024)
Aug 29, 2024
Rachel Kousser, "Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great" (Mariner Books, 2024)
Aug 22, 2024
Juli Min, "Shanghailanders" (Spiegel & Grau, 2024)
Aug 14, 2024
Lio Mangubat, "Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period, 1565-1946" (Faction Press, 2024)
Aug 08, 2024
Roger Crowley, "Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2024)
Aug 01, 2024
Dan Morrison, "The Poisoner of Bengal: The 1930s Murder That Shocked the World" (Juggernaut, 2024)
Jul 25, 2024
Bill Lascher, "A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
Jul 18, 2024
Eric Thompson, "The Story of Southeast Asia" (NUS Press, 2024)
Jul 11, 2024
Michelle T. King, "Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food" (Norton, 2024)
Jul 04, 2024
Jin Feng, "The Transpacific Flow: Creative Writing Programs in China" (Association for Asian Studies, 2024)
Jun 27, 2024
Clare Hammond, "On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey Through Occupied Myanmar" (Allen Lane, 2024)
Jun 20, 2024
Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jun 13, 2024
Scott Crawford, "The Han-Xiongnu War, 133 BC-89 AD: The Struggle of China and a Steppe Empire Told Through Its Key Figures (Pen & Sword, 2023)
Jun 06, 2024
Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)
May 30, 2024
Peter Harmsen, "Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing" (Casemate, 2024)
May 23, 2024
Rajrishi Singhal, "Slip, Stitch and Stumble: The Untold Story of Financial Reforms in India" (Viking, 2024)
May 16, 2024
Jeremy Garlick, "Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
May 09, 2024
Katie Gee Salisbury, "Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong" (Dutton, 2024)
May 02, 2024
Mukund Padmanabhan, "The Great Flap of 1942: How the Raj Panicked over a Japanese Non-invasion (Vintage Books, 2024)
Apr 25, 2024
Jonathan Chatwin, "The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Apr 18, 2024
Robert D. Kaplan, "The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China" (Random House, 2023)
Apr 11, 2024
Kyokutei Bakin, "Eight Dogs, Or Hakkenden: Part Two--His Master's Blade" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Apr 04, 2024
David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)
Mar 28, 2024
Noo Saro-Wiwa, "Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China" (Canongate Books, 2024)
Mar 21, 2024
Julie Kalman, "The Kings of Algiers: How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean World During the Napoleonic Wars and Beyond" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 14, 2024
Ben Rothenberg, "Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice" (Dutton, 2024)
Mar 07, 2024
Thomas J. Barfield, "Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 01, 2024
Simon Partner, "Koume's World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Feb 22, 2024
Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Feb 15, 2024
Gregory Wallance, "Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
Feb 08, 2024
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Feb 01, 2024
Adrian Goldsworthy, "Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry" (Basic Books, 2023)
Jan 25, 2024
Agnes Chew, "Eternal Summer of My Homeland" (Epigram Books, 2023)
Jan 18, 2024
Lindsay Pereira, "The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao" (Vintage Books, 2023)
Jan 11, 2024
Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 04, 2024
Scott D. Seligman, "Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Dec 28, 2023
Elise Hu, "Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital" (Dutton, 2023)
Dec 21, 2023
Hugo Wong, "America's Lost Chinese: The Rise and Fall of a Migrant Family Dream" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 14, 2023
Susan Blumberg-Kason, "Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China" (Post Hill Press, 2023)
Dec 07, 2023
John Zubrzycki, "Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States" (Hurst, 2024)
Nov 30, 2023
Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Nov 23, 2023
Arupjyoti Saikia, "The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942-2000" (India Allen Lane, 2023)
Nov 16, 2023
Aarathi Prasad, "Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses" (William Collins, 2023)
Nov 09, 2023
Toby Matthiesen, "The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 02, 2023
Gabe Durham, "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask" (Boss Fight Books, 2020)
Oct 26, 2023
Chris Stowers, "Bugis Nights" (Earnshaw Books, 2023)
Oct 19, 2023
Hannah Michell, "Excavations: A Novel" (One World, 2023)
Oct 12, 2023
Alexandra Kaloyanides, "Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 05, 2023
Seema Alavi, "Sovereigns of the Sea: Omani Ambition in the Age of Empire" (India Allen Lane, 2023)
Sep 28, 2023
Kerry Brown, "China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Sep 21, 2023
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, "Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther: Achaemenid Court Culture in the Hebrew Bible" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
Sep 14, 2023
Maximillian Mørch, "Plains of Discontent: A Political History of Nepal’s Tarai (1743-2019)" (FinePrint, 2023)
Sep 07, 2023
Nishanth Injam, "The Best Possible Experience: Stories" (Pantheon, 2023)
Aug 31, 2023
Samrat Choudhury, "Northeast India: A Political History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 24, 2023
Nicholas Hoover Wilson, "Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Aug 17, 2023
Vaudine England, "Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong" (Scribner, 2023)
Aug 10, 2023
Rudi Matthee, "Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 03, 2023
Michael J. Seth, "Korea at War: Conflicts That Shaped the World" (Tuttle Publishing, 2023)
Jul 27, 2023
Robert Hillenbrand, "The Great Mongol Shahnameh" (Hali Publications et al., 2022)
Jul 20, 2023
Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo, "Korea: A New History of South and North" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jul 13, 2023
Marco Caboara, "Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735" (Brill, 2022)
Jul 06, 2023
Fiona Sze-Lorrain, "Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories" (Scribner, 2023)
Jun 29, 2023
Sofia Samatar, "The White Mosque: A Memoir" (Catapult, 2022)
Jun 22, 2023
Tanvi Srivastava, trans., "The War Diary of Asha-san: From Tokyo to Netaji's Indian National Army" (Harper Collins, 2022)
Jun 15, 2023
Peter Thilly, "The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jun 08, 2023
Monica Macias, "Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity" (Duckworth, 2023)
Jun 01, 2023
Baba Padmanji, "Yamuna's Journey" (Speaking Tiger Books, 2022)
May 25, 2023
Philip Snow, "China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord" (Yale UP, 2023)
May 18, 2023
James M. Zimmerman, "The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
May 11, 2023
Amitav Acharya, "Tragic Nation: Burma--Why and How Democracy Failed" (Penguin Random House, 2023)
May 04, 2023
Kaamil Ahmed, "I Feel No Peace: Rohingya Fleeing Over Seas and Rivers" (Hurst, 2023)
Apr 27, 2023
Mai Nardone, "Welcome Me to the Kingdom: Stories" (Random House, 2023)
Apr 20, 2023
Nikhil Menon, "Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 13, 2023
Oliver Slow, "Return of the Junta: Why Myanmar’s Military Must Go Back to the Barracks" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 06, 2023
Zeno Sworder, "My Strange Shrinking Parents" (Thames & Hudson, 2023)
Mar 30, 2023
Weijian Shan, "Money Machine: A Trailblazing American Venture in China" (Wiley, 2023)
Mar 23, 2023
Lawrence Osborne, "On Java Road: A Novel" (Hogarth Press, 2022)
Mar 16, 2023
Xin Wen, "The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 09, 2023
Steve Kemper, "Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" (Mariner Books, 2022)
Mar 02, 2023
Kyla Zhao, "The Fraud Squad" (Berkley Books, 2023)
Feb 23, 2023
John D. Hosler, "Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace" (Yale UP, 2022)
Feb 16, 2023
Mark Eveleigh, "Kopi Dulu: Caffeine-Fuelled Island-Hopping Through Indonesia" (Penguin Southeast Asia, 2022)
Feb 09, 2023
Angela Hui, "Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter" (Trapeze, 2022)
Feb 02, 2023
Uther Charlton-Stevens, "Anglo-India and the End of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jan 26, 2023
Jeff Fearnside, "Ships in the Desert" (Santa Fe Writer's Project, 2022)
Jan 19, 2023
Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jan 12, 2023
Ronald H. Spector, "A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955" (Norton, 2023)
Jan 05, 2023
Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi, "Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 29, 2022
John D. Wong, "Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s-1998" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Dec 22, 2022
Michael X. Wang, "Lost in the Long March" (Overlook Press, 2022)
Dec 15, 2022
Jamil Jan Kochai, "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories" (Viking, 2022)
Dec 08, 2022
Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
Dec 01, 2022
John Keay, "Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 24, 2022
Eric Tagliocozzo, "In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 17, 2022
Hua Hsu, "Stay True: A Memoir" (Doubleday, 2022)
Nov 10, 2022
Mark Vanhoenacker, "Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World" (Knopf, 2022)
Nov 03, 2022
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Oct 27, 2022
Mansi Choksi, "The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India" (Atria Books, 2022)
Oct 20, 2022
Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022
John Saeki, "The Last Tigers of Hong Kong: True Stories of Big Cats That Stalked the Hills Beyond the City" (Blacksmith Books, 2021)
Oct 06, 2022
Rahul Sagar, "To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022
Hannah Kirshner, "Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town" (Penguin, 2022)
Sep 22, 2022
Manoj Joshi, "Understanding the India-China Border: The Enduring Threat of War in High Himalaya" (Hurst, 2022)
Sep 13, 2022
William C. Kirby, "Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 08, 2022
Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press, 2022)
Sep 01, 2022
Lan Samantha Chang, "The Family Chao: A Novel" (Norton, 2022)
Aug 25, 2022
Annah Lake Zhu, "Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Aug 18, 2022
Helen Pfeifer, "Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Aug 11, 2022
Ramon Pacheco Pardo, "Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 04, 2022
Lachlan Fleetwood, "Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jul 28, 2022
The Kushnameh: The Persian Epic of Kush the Tusked
Jul 21, 2022
Jennifer Lin, "Beethoven in Beijing: Stories from the Philadelphia Orchestra's Historic Journey to China" (Temple UP, 2022)
Jul 14, 2022
Gish Jen, "Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories" (Knopf, 2022)
Jul 07, 2022
Vauhini Vara, "The Immortal King Rao: A Novel" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Jun 30, 2022
Mick Conefrey, "Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World's Highest Mountain" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
Jun 23, 2022
James Uden, "Worlds of Knowledge in Women's Travel Writing" (Ilex Foundation, 2022)
Jun 16, 2022
Shiv Kunal Verma, "1965: A Western Sunrise--India's War with Pakistan" (Aleph Book Company, 2021)
Jun 09, 2022
Erin Murphy, "Burmese Haze: US Policy and Myanmar's Opening--And Closing" (Association for Asian Studies, 2022)
Jun 02, 2022
Kerry Brown and Gemma Chenger Deng, "China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter" (World Scientific, 2022)
May 26, 2022
Glynne Walley, "Eight Dogs, or 'Hakkenden': Part One―An Ill-Considered Jest" (Cornell UP, 2021)
May 19, 2022
Abby Seiff, "Troubling the Water: A Dying Lake and a Vanishing World in Cambodia" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
May 12, 2022
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, "Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan" (U California Press, 2022)
May 05, 2022
Bede Scott, "Too Far from Antibes" (Penguin, 2022)
Apr 28, 2022
Harry Verhoeven and Anatol Lieven, "Beyond Liberal Order: States, Societies and Markets in the Global Indian Ocean" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 21, 2022
Karen Cheung, "The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir" (Random House, 2022)
Apr 14, 2022
Manu Pillai, "False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma" (Juggernaut, 2021)
Apr 07, 2022
Sherzod Muminov, "Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Mar 31, 2022
Jing Tsu, "Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
Mar 24, 2022
Sandy Gall, "Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud" (Haus Publishing, 2021)
Mar 17, 2022
Arup K. Chatterjee, "Indians in London: From the Birth of the East India Company to Independent India" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Mar 10, 2022
Ira Mukhoty, "Song of Draupadi" (Aleph Book Company, 2021)
Mar 03, 2022
Claudio Sopranzetti and Sara Fabbri, "King of Bangkok" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Feb 24, 2022
Marc David Baer, "The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs" (Basic Books, 2021)
Feb 17, 2022
Paul French, "Bloody Saturday: Shanghai's Darkest Day" (Penguin, 2018)
Feb 10, 2022
Colin Thubron, "The Amur River: Between Russia and China" (Harper, 2021)
Feb 03, 2022
Catherine S. Chan, "Macanese Diaspora in British Hong: A Century of Transimperial Drifting" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Jan 27, 2022
Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, "On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jan 20, 2022
Sumantra Bose, "Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a 21st-Century Conflict" (Yale UP, 2021)
Jan 13, 2022
Cheng Li, "Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement" (Brookings Institution Press, 2021)
Jan 06, 2022
Saumya Roy, "Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings" (Profile Books, 2021)
Dec 30, 2021
Albert Samaha, "Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes" (Penguin, 2021)
Dec 23, 2021
James Kelly Morningstar, "War and Resistance in the Philippines 1942-1944" (US Naval Institute Press, 2021)
Dec 16, 2021
Amish Raj Mulmi, "All Roads Lead North: China, Nepal and the Contest for the Himalayas" (Context, 2021)
Dec 09, 2021
Thane Gustafson, "Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Dec 03, 2021
Melissa Macauley, "Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nov 24, 2021
Xavier Naville, "The Lettuce Diaries: How A Frenchman Found Gold Growing Vegetables In China" (Earnshaw Books, 2021)
Nov 18, 2021
Gershom Gorenberg, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East" (PublicAffairs: 2021)
Nov 11, 2021
Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp, "Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Nov 04, 2021
Tim Hannigan, "The Travel Writing Tribe" (Hurst Publishing, 2021)
Oct 28, 2021
Halimah Marcus, "Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond" (Harper Perennial, 2021)
Oct 21, 2021
Elizabeth Lacouture, "Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860-1960" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Oct 14, 2021
Timon Screech, "The Shogun's Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 07, 2021
Jeevan Vasagar, "Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
Sep 30, 2021
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Sep 23, 2021
Yashaswini Chandra, "The Tale of the Horse: A History of India on Horseback" (Picador India, 2021)
Sep 16, 2021
Edmund Richardson, "Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City Beneath the Mountains" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Sep 09, 2021
Lindsey Miller, "North Korea: Like Nowhere Else" (September, 2021)
Sep 02, 2021
Jagjeet Lally, "India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Aug 26, 2021
Jason M. Kelly, "Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 19, 2021
Pornsak Pichetshote, "The Good Asian, Volume 1" (Image Comics, 2021)
Aug 12, 2021
Tom Lin, "The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
Aug 05, 2021
Chris Miller, "We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jul 29, 2021
Tonio Andrade, "The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jul 22, 2021
Suchitra Vijayan, "Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India" (Melville House, 2021)
Jul 15, 2021
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jul 08, 2021
Larry Feign, "The Flower Boat Girl: A Novel Based on a True Story" (Top Floor Books, 2021)
Jul 01, 2021
Namit Arora, "Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization" (Viking, 2021)
Jun 24, 2021
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, "Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jun 17, 2021
Samira Shackle, "Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City" (Melville House, 2021)
Jun 10, 2021
Catherine Menon, "Fragile Monsters" (Viking, 2021)
Jun 03, 2021
Emei Burell, "We Served the People: My Mother's Stories" (Archaia, 2020)
May 27, 2021
Mehr Afshan Farooqi, "Ghalib: a Wilderness at My Doorstep: A Critical Biography" (Allen Lane, 2021)
May 20, 2021
Jenny White, "Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence" (Princeton UP, 2021)
May 13, 2021
Amit Chaudhuri, "Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music" (NYRB, 2021)
May 06, 2021
Razeen Sally, "Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Island" (Juggernaut, 2019)
Apr 29, 2021
Raza Mir, "Murder at the Mushaira: A Novel" (Aleph Book, 2021)
Apr 22, 2021
Jonathan Chatwin, "Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China" (Manchester UP, 2019)
Apr 15, 2021
Timon Screech, "Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Apr 08, 2021
Eugenia Cheng, "x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender" (Basic Book, 2020)
Apr 01, 2021
Janet M. Hartley, "The Volga: A History" (Yale UP, 2021)
Mar 25, 2021
Te-Ping Chen, "Land of Big Numbers: Stories" (Mariner Books, 2021)
Mar 18, 2021
Wu Cheng'en, "Monkey King: Journey to the West," trans. Julia Lovell (Penguin, 2021)
Mar 11, 2021
Priya Basil, "Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community, and the Meaning of Generosity" (Knopf, 2020)
Mar 04, 2021
Debashree Mukherjee, "Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2021
Dexter Roberts, "The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World" (St. Martin’s Press, 2020)
Feb 18, 2021
Oliver Craske, "Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar" (Hachette, 2020)
Feb 11, 2021
Ethan Lou, "Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey Through a World Suspended" (Signal, 2020)
Feb 04, 2021
Ed Caesar, "The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest" (Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Jan 28, 2021
Chloe Gong, "These Violent Delights" (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020)
Jan 21, 2021
David Chaffetz, "Three Asian Divas: Women, Art and Culture In Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou" (Abbreviated Press, 2019)
Jan 14, 2021
Devadas Krishnadas, "Confronting Covid-19: A Strategic Playbook for Leaders and Decision Makers" (MCIA, 2020)
Jan 07, 2021
Sophia Chang, "The Baddest Bitch in the Room" (Catapult, 2020)
Dec 31, 2020
Jonathan C. Slaght, "Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl" (FSG, 2020)
Dec 24, 2020
Susie Yang, "White Ivy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Dec 17, 2020
Sunisa Manning, "A Good True Thai" (Epigram Books, 2020)
Dec 10, 2020
Diana Darke, "Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe" (Hurst, 2020)
Dec 03, 2020
Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)
Nov 25, 2020
Aubrey Menard, "Young Mongols: Forging Democracy in the Wild, Wild East" (PRH SEA, 2020)
Nov 19, 2020
Amy Stanley, "Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World" (Scribner, 2020)
Nov 12, 2020
Lawrence Osborne, "The Glass Kingdom" (Hogarth, 2020)
Nov 05, 2020
Kishore Mahbubani, "Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy" (PublicAffairs, 2020)
Oct 28, 2020
M. Pettis and M. C. Klein, "Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace" (Yale UP, 2020)
Oct 21, 2020