Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Written by Jake Adelstein

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-37879-8 (0-307-37879-9)

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime... Read more >

Armenian Golgotha

Written by Grigoris Balakian
Translated by Peter Balakian and Aris Sevag

Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26288-2 (0-307-26288-X)

Never before in English, Armenian Golgotha is the most dramatic and comprehensive eyewitness account of the first modern genocide.

On April 24, 1915, the priest Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other intellectuals and leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Turkish government’s systematic attempt... Read more >

The Great Wave
Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
Written by Christopher Benfey

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75455-5 (0-375-75455-5)

When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying to reinvent itself as a more cosmopolitan, modern... Read more >

Marco Polo
From Venice to Xanadu
Written by Laurence Bergreen

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7880-6 (1-4000-7880-6)

As the first European to travel extensively throughout Asia, Marco Polo was the earliest bridge between East and West. His famous journeys took him across the boundaries of the known world, along the dangerous Silk Road, and into the court of Kublai Kahn, where he won the trust of the most... Read more >

Marco Polo
From Venice to Xanadu
Written by Laurence Bergreen

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4345-3 (1-4000-4345-X)

As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. A universal icon of adventure and discovery, he has inspired six centuries of popular fascination and spurious mythology. Now, from the acclaimed author of Over the Edge of... Read more >

The Coming Conflict with China

Written by Richard Bernstein and Ross H. Munro

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 3, 1998
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77662-8 (0-679-77662-1)

From two former Beijing bureau chiefs with long experience in Asian affairs comes a clear-eyed and uncompromising look at the potentially disastrous collision course now taking shape in U.S.-China relations. Bent on dominating Asia, China has the third-largest nuclear delivery arsenal in the world and recent confrontations between Chinese and American... Read more >

The Father of All Things
A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam
Written by Tom Bissell

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7543-0 (1-4000-7543-2)

In April 1975, as Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army, John Bissell, a former Marine officer living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, was glued to his television. Struggling to save his marriage, raise his sons, and live with his memories of the war in Vietnam, Bissell found himself racked... Read more >

The Gate

Written by Francois Bizot

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72723-8 (0-375-72723-X)

“Distinguished by its intense dignity, by its unexpected attention to beauty, and by a discretion which never shades into coyness, The Gate should immediately be numbered among the great post-Second World-War memoirs of incarceration.”
—Robert MacFarlane, The Guardian (London)

“Breathtaking . . . Heartbreaking and terrifying: a superb account of the madness of... Read more >

Daisy Bates in the Desert
A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines
Written by Julia Blackburn

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 8, 1995
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74446-7 (0-679-74446-0)

In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman" (New York Times Book Review) tells a fascinating, true story in the tradition of Isak Dinesen and Barry Lopez. Read more >

The Secrets of Mariko
A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family
Written by Elisabeth Bumiller

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 29, 1996
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-77262-0 (0-679-77262-6)

Following a housewife named Mariko through the course of a year, this remarkable and revealing book offers an intimate look at the emotional, spiritual, and social lives of Japanese women and men.  Elisabeth Bumiller, a reporter for The Washington Post, somehow managed to break through Mariko's instinctive reserve and, in observing her... Read more >

Bad Elements
Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing
Written by Ian Buruma

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-78136-3 (0-679-78136-6)

Who speaks for China? Is it the old men of the politbureau or an activist like Wei Jingshsheng, who spent eighteen years in prison for writing a democratic manifesto? Is China’s future to be found amid the boisterous sleaze of an electoral campaign in Taiwan or in the maneuvers by which... Read more >

The Missionary and the Libertine
Love and War in East and West
Written by Ian Buruma

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 14, 2001
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70537-3 (0-375-70537-6)

For centuries Westerners have projected fantasies of a decadent, voluptuous East in contrast to the puritanism of their own cultures. A Japanese theatrical troupe performing in his native Holland in 1971 exposed the young Ian Buruma to these temptations, and soon he was off to Tokyo, a would-be libertine. The essays... Read more >

Wrong About Japan

Written by Peter Carey

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7836-3 (1-4000-7836-9)

Previous winner of two Booker Prizes, Peter Carey expands his extraordinary achievement with each new novel — but now gives us something entirely different.

When famously shy Charley Carey becomes obsessed with Japanese manga and anime, Peter is not only delighted for his son, but entranced himself. Thus, with a father... Read more >

The Devil Soldier
The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China
Written by Caleb Carr

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: April 11, 1995
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76128-0 (0-679-76128-4)

With the same flair for history and narrative that distinguishes his best fiction, Caleb Carr tells the incredible story of Frederick Townsend Ward, the American mercenary who fought for the emperor of China in the Taiping rebellion, history's bloodiest war. The Devil Soldier is a thrilling, masterfully researched biography of the... Read more >

Thank You and Ok!
An American Zen Failure in Japan
Written by David Chadwick

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-470-9 (1-59030-470-5)

David Chadwick began his Zen study under the legendary Japanese master Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. Much later, Suzuki Roshi’s successor said of Chadwick: “Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste.”

In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial education. In THANK YOU... Read more >

Mao
The Unknown Story
Written by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

Format: Trade Paperback, 864 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74632-4 (0-679-74632-3)

The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before — and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him. It... Read more >

Factory Girls
From Village to City in a Changing China
Written by Leslie T. Chang

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52018-8 (0-385-52018-2)

Winner of the 2009 Asian American Literary Award For Nonfiction, given by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction
A New York Times Notable Book of 2008
One of the Washington Post’s best books of 2008
A Seattle Times best nonfiction book of 2008
One of the Christian... Read more >

English, August
An Indian Story
Written by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Introduction by Akhil Sharma

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-179-0 (1-59017-179-9)

Agastya Sen, the hero of English, August, is a child of the Indian elite. His father is the governor of Bengal. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. He himself has secured a position in the most prestigious and exclusive of Indian government agencies, the IAS.

Agastya’s first assignment is to the... Read more >

Brothers
A Novel
Written by Da Chen

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9729-6 (1-4000-9729-0)

At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general’s wife and into a life of comfort and luxury. His half brother, Shento, was born to the general’s mistress, who threw herself off a cliff in the mountains of Balan only moments... Read more >

Colors of the Mountain

Written by Da Chen

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 16, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72060-1 (0-385-72060-2)

"I was born in southern China in 1962, in the tiny town of Yellow Stone. They called it the Year of Great Starvation."

In 1962, as millions of Chinese citizens were gripped by Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution and the Red Guards enforced a brutal regime of communism, a boy was born to... Read more >

Dalai Lama: Man, Monk, Mystic

Written by Mayank Chhaya

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Religion
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-51945-8 (0-385-51945-1)

Written with the full cooperation of the Dalai Lama, this fascinating, up-to-date biography at once captures the public persona and enduring mystery behind one of the world’s most important spiritual leaders.

In 1997, the Indian journalist Mayank Chhaya was authorized by the Dalai Lama to write about his life and times. The... Read more >

The Art of War
Complete Text and Commentaries
Written by Thomas Cleary

Format: Trade Paperback, 474 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-054-1 (1-59030-054-8)

This Shambhala paperback edition of The Art of War collects the essential versions of the Art of War, complete with illuminating commentaries written by Sun Tzu's successors. This volume includes:

•The Art of War, by Sun Tzu;
Compiled over two-thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps... Read more >

Geisha
The Life, the Voices, the Art
Written by Jodi Cobb

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 27, 1998
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70180-1 (0-375-70180-X)

Here, brought vividly to life, is an icon of Japanese culture and custom—the geisha in her role as human work of art and perfect woman.

A hundred years ago geisha numbered eighty thousand; today there are a thousand at most. Happily, Jodi Cobb is able to show us—before they vanish—both the ceremonial... Read more >

The Last Mughal
The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
Written by William Dalrymple

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7833-2 (1-4000-7833-4)


Winner of the 2007 Duff Cooper Prize

On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the British Commissioner in charge insisted, “No vestige will remain to distinguish where the last of... Read more >

The Last Mughal
The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
Written by William Dalrymple

Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4310-1 (1-4000-4310-7)

Winner of the 2007 Duff Cooper Prize

On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the British Commissioner in charge insisted, “No vestige will remain to distinguish where the last of... Read more >