Postcards from Tomorrow Square
Reports from China
Written by James Fallows

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-45624-3 (0-307-45624-2)

“Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider... Read more >

North Korea/South Korea
U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis
Written by John Feffer

Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: September 20, 2003
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-603-2 (1-58322-603-6)

The Korean peninsula, divided for more than fifty years, is stuck in a time warp. Millions of troops face one another along the Demilitarized Zone separating communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea. In the early 1990s and again in 2002-2003, the United States and its allies have gone to the... Read more >

In the Realm of a Dying Emperor

Written by Norma Field

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 9, 1993
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74189-3 (0-679-74189-5)

Offering a provocative and powerful look at Japan's uneasy relationship with its past, the relations between religion and state, and the role of dissent in a conformist society, Field examines the impact of these forces on the lives of three individuals driven to become extraordinary resisters in the year the last... Read more >

India
A Portrait
Written by Patrick French

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47348-6 (0-307-47348-1)

A monumental biography of the Indian subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.

Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing... Read more >

Tibet, Tibet

Written by Patrick French

Format: Trade Paperback, 348 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3417-8 (1-4000-3417-5)

When Patrick French was a teenager, the Dalai Lama visited his school in northern England. Fascinated by this exotic apparition, French began what was to become a lifelong quest to understand Tibet, the myth and the fact. He would immerse himself in the history, travel as the guest of ordinary Tibetans—nuns... Read more >

Short Cuts: Artists in China
Artists in China Vol. 1
Edited by Rosa Maria Falvo
Contribution by Lorenz Helbling, Shen Qilan and Jean Loh
Photographed by Thomas Fuesser

Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Publisher: Skira
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 978-88-572-1486-3 (88-572-1486-9)

The first intimate visual documentation of artists who have influenced and transformed the Chinese art scene over the last two decades. Since 1993, photographer Thomas Fuesser has developed close and enduring professional relationships with the artistic community in China. His striking portraits tell their stories by depicting their work and personalities... Read more >

The Essential Gandhi
An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
Written by Mahatma Gandhi
Edited by Louis Fischer

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3050-7 (1-4000-3050-1)

A Vintage Spiritual Classic

Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma (“great soul”), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent and is as important today as it was in the first part of the twentieth century and during this nation’s own civil rights movement. Taken from... Read more >

An Autobiography
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Written by Mohandas K. Gandhi

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 1, 1993
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-5909-8 (0-8070-5909-9)

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the twentieth century.

In a... Read more >

The River's Tale
A Year on the Mekong
Written by Edward Gargan

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70559-5 (0-375-70559-7)

Along the Mekong, from northern Tibet to Lijiang, from Luang Prabang to Phnom Penh to Can Lo, I moved from one world to another, among cultural islands often ignorant of each other’s presence. Yet each island, as if built on shifting sands and eroded and reshaped by a universal sea, was... Read more >

China Road
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Written by Rob Gifford

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7524-6 (0-8129-7524-3)

Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of... Read more >

China Road
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Written by Rob Gifford

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6467-0 (1-4000-6467-8)

Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of... Read more >

Beating the Cloth Drum
Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
Written by Haukin
Translated by Norman Waddell

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-948-3 (1-59030-948-0)

Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1769) is one of the most influential figures in Zen Buddhism. He revitalized the Rinzai Zen tradition (which emphasizes the use of koans, or unanswerable questions, in meditation practice), and all masters of that school today trace their lineage back through him. He is responsible for the most famous... Read more >

Hidden Differences
Doing Business with the Japanese
Written by Edward T. Hall and Mildred Reed Hall

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 18, 1990
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-23884-7 (0-385-23884-3)

An analysis and explanation of the unstated rules of Japanese-American business relations. By drawing Western readers into the world in which they must function, the Halls simplify the process of adapting Western ways to a new environment.

“The authors believe that by better understanding Japanese culture, American business people will become... Read more >

Mighty Silence Images of Destruction
The Great Earthquake and Tsunami of East Japan
Photographed by Yasushi Handa

Format: Hardcover, 262 pages
Publisher: Skira
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 978-88-572-1557-0 (88-572-1557-1)

An acclaimed fashion photographer provides a personal, luminous, and moving account of post-tsunami Japan.
This volume is an extraordinary photographic report by the famous Japanese fashion photographer Yasushi Handa, taken a few weeks after the terrible earthquake and tsunami that battered the eastern coastline of Japan in March 2010. It includes... Read more >

Soldiers of the Sun
The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army
Written by Meirion Harries

Format: Trade Paperback, 604 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: July 5, 1994
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75303-2 (0-679-75303-6)

Soldiers of the Sun traces the origins of the Imperial Japanese Army back to its samurai roots in the nineteenth century to tell the story of the rise and fall of this extraordinary military force. Meirion and Susie Harries have written the first full Western account of the Imperial Japanese Army... Read more >

Retribution
The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
Written by Max Hastings

Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27536-3 (0-307-27536-1)

By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japan's defeat was inevitable, but how the drive to victory would be achieved remained unclear. The ensuing drama—that ended in Japan's utter devastation—was acted out across the vast theater of Asia in massive clashes between army, air, and naval forces.

In recounting these... Read more >

The Night is Still Young

Text by Eric C. Shiner and Simone Fukayuki
Photographed by Tomoaki Hata

Format: Trade Paperback, 104 pages
Publisher: powerHouse Books
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-57687-552-0 (1-57687-552-0)

With The Night Is Still Young, Los Angeles-based, Japanese photographer Tomoaki Hata returns to his roots–the underground club scene of Osaka’s gay, nightlife district. Filled with intimate images of the radically-creative drag queens who performed at various venues in the city from the late 1990s through the present, this book is... Read more >

Black Virgin Mountain
A Return to Vietnam
Written by Larry Heinemann

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7689-5 (1-4000-7689-7)

In 1967 Larry Heinemann was sent to Vietnam as an ordinary soldier. It was the most horrific year of his life, truly altering him—and his family—forever. In his powerful memoir, Heinemann returns to Vietnam, riding the train from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh city and confronting the memories of his war... Read more >

Son of the Revolution

Written by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 1984
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-72274-0 (0-394-72274-4)

Liang Heng was born in 1954 in Changsha, a large city in Central China. This is Liang Heng's own story of growing up in the turmoil of the Great Cultural Revolution. His story is unique, but at the same time it is in many ways typical of those millions of young... Read more >

Dispatches

Written by Michael Herr

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 6, 1991
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73525-0 (0-679-73525-9)

No book about Vietnam has portrayed so powerfully the personal realities of that war as Michael Herr’s Dispatches. Only a writer possessing Herr’s brilliance and daring could have invented a language adequate to the hallucinatory quality of the lives American soldiers led there. These pieces, which caused a sensation when they... Read more >

Hiroshima

Written by John Hersey

Format: Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 4, 1989
Price: $7.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72103-1 (0-679-72103-7)

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity"... Read more >

China in Ten Words

Written by Yu Hua
Translated by Allan H. Barr

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-73979-7 (0-307-73979-1)

From one of China’s most acclaimed writers: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades.

Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words uses personal stories and astute analysis to reveal as never before the world’s most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation... Read more >

The Guest
A Novel
Written by Hwang Sok-Yong
Translated by Kyung-Ja Chun and Maya West

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-751-0 (1-58322-751-2)

Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation’s search for reconciliation.

During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in North Korea was the setting of a gruesome fifty-two day massacre. In an act of collective amnesia the atrocities were... Read more >

Pacific War, 1931-1945

Written by Saburo Ienaga

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: July 12, 1979
Price: $11.96
ISBN: 978-0-394-73496-5 (0-394-73496-3)

One of Japan's leading intellectuals brings us this deeply moving and memorable portrayal of how and why Japan waged war from 1931-1945, and what life was like for the Japanese people in a society engaged in total war.

"The Pacific War provides knowledge of what went on in Japan and in... Read more >

Genghis: Birth of an Empire

Written by Conn Iggulden

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33951-3 (0-385-33951-8)

"...[B]rilliantly imagined and addictive historical fiction....Building on the fragment of Genghis's life, Iggulden weaves a spellbinding story of an exotic and 'unforgiving land' and the enigmatic young man—charismatic, a brilliant tactician and capable of 'utter ruthlessness'—who sets out to tame it. This is historical fiction of the first order."—Publishers Weekly, starred... Read more >