Armenian Golgotha

Written by Grigoris Balakian
Translated by Peter Balakian

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9677-0 (1-4000-9677-4)

On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey—a campaign that continued through World War I and the fall of the empire. Over the next... 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: $18.00
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 >

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 Gate

Written by Francois Bizot

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $16.00
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 >

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997

Written by Piers Brendon

Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38841-4 (0-307-38841-7)

After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependencies and a contested legacy: at best a sporting spirit... Read more >

Inventing Japan
1853-1964
Written by Ian Buruma

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7286-3 (0-8129-7286-4)

Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm... 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 >

Akbar
The Great Emperor of India 1542-1605
Written by Gian Carlo Calza

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Skira
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 978-88-572-1525-9 (88-572-1525-3)

An amazing catalogue showing the splendors of one of the greatest rulers of the world, India’s Emperor Akbar (1542—1605). Akbar the Great is considered one of the most splendid sovereigns of humankind. Though he never learned to read or write, he was a great protector of poetry and literature, the builder... 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: $17.00
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 >

Mao
The Unknown Story
Written by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

Format: Trade Paperback, 864 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $20.00
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 >

Brothers
A Novel
Written by Da Chen

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Broadway
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 >

Egg on Mao
A Story of Love, Hope and Defiance
Written by Denise Chong

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage Canada
On Sale: August 30, 2011
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-35580-5 (0-307-35580-2)

The eagerly-awaited new book by Denise Chong, author of the award-winning bestseller, The Concubine’s Children.

In her first book in a decade, Chong tells the story of a man who humiliated a repressive regime in front of the entire world, and whose daring gesture informs our view of human rights to this... Read more >

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh
A Woman in World History
Written by Linda Colley

Format: Trade Paperback, 420 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72149-3 (0-385-72149-8)

In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman's extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of Elizabeth Marsh, one of the most distinctive travelers of her time, but also opens a window onto a radically transforming world.

Marsh was conceived in Jamaica, lived in London, Gibraltar, and... 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: $17.95
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 >

India Unbound
The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
Written by Gurcharan Das

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72074-8 (0-385-72074-2)

India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation’s rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history of India from... Read more >

Looking at the Sun
The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political System
Written by James Fallows

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 24, 1995
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76162-4 (0-679-76162-4)

Fallows reveals how political goals and historical experience have shaped Japan's economic rise and placed it at the heart of the Asian system. He shows how the explosive growth of Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore has been fueled by Japanese investment; why Burma, the Philippines, and Vietnam have been largely isolated from... 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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

The Fatal Shore
The epic of Australia's founding
Written by Robert Hughes

Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 1988
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-75366-9 (0-394-75366-6)

Winner of the 1987 Duff Cooper Prize

The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffereing and brutality of England’s infamous convict transportation system. With 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps.

"A brilliant and enduring achievement...history of the highest order combining thorough research with vivid narrative and thoughtful... Read more >

Edge of Empire
Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850
Written by Maya Jasanoff

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7546-1 (1-4000-7546-7)

Winner of the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize

A Palladian villa filled with Western artifacts in the middle of Calcutta's central banana depot, the Mughal Emperor's letters uncovered in the back room of an archive in the French Alps, the name of a long-dead English diplomat feebly scratched into the stone of an... Read more >