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Asian history Lists by Experts All Time Best Trending New By Book DNA List by Experts

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  • Martin Petersen The best books that capture the amazing complexity and drama of life in Shanghai in 1932 at the start of the Sino-Japanese War Book cover of City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir Book cover of China's Trial by Fire: The Shanghai War of 1932 Book cover of Old Shanghai: Gangsters in Paradise Book cover of Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World Book cover of The Jacquinot Safe Zone: Wartime Refugees in Shanghai
  • Bret Hinsch The best books about Chinese history that will surprise you Book cover of The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention Book cover of Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi Book cover of The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China Book cover of Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 Book cover of Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan
  • Cees Heere The best books about East Asia in the age of empire Book cover of The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan Book cover of The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China Book cover of From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia Book cover of The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932 Book cover of War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
  • Sayeed Ferdous The best books on South Asian history and culture that draw upon the ordinary lives and unheard perspectives Book cover of Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India Book cover of The Bengal Borderland: Beyond State and Nation in South Asia Book cover of Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947 Book cover of 1971: A People's History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India Book cover of Boundaries Undermined: the Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh/India Border
  • Jeremy A. Yellen The best books on the Japanese Empire Book cover of Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism Book cover of Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945 Book cover of Race for Empire Book cover of The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932 Book cover of Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies
  • Nick Holdstock The best books on the concentration camps in Xinjiang Book cover of Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang Book cover of Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China Book cover of Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang Book cover of The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority Book cover of In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony
  • David G. Atwill The best books to make sense of 19th-century China’s rebellions, uprisings, and wars Book cover of The White Lotus War: Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China Book cover of The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China Book cover of Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War Book cover of What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China Book cover of The Origins of the Boxer Uprising
  • Henrietta Harrison The best books on Qing Dynasty China from an Oxford historian Book cover of The Talented Women of the Zhang Family Book cover of China's Last Empire Book cover of The World of a Tiny Insect: A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and Its Aftermath Book cover of Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet Book cover of The Death of Woman Wang
  • Zhang-Yue Zhou The best books to understand China’s great famine (1958-1962) Book cover of Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 Book cover of Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962: An Oral History Book cover of The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years Book cover of Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine Book cover of Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962
  • Bill Hayton The best books on the emergence of modern China Book cover of Great State: China and the World Book cover of Mr. Smith Goes to China: Three Scots in the Making of Britain's Global Empire Book cover of The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China Book cover of Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-First Century Book cover of Yuan Shikai: A Reappraisal
  • Antony Cummins The best books on a hidden Japan and the real samurai Book cover of They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640 Book cover of Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan Book cover of The Book of Corrections: Reflections on the National Crisis During the Japanese Invasion of Korea, 1592-1598 Book cover of Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide Book cover of Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
  • Andrew G. Walder The best books about China from the Mao years through Tiananmen Book cover of June Fourth Book cover of Mao's Last Revolution Book cover of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China Book cover of Tibet in Agony: Lhasa 1959 Book cover of Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
  • Constantine Nomikos Vaporis The best books to excite your imagination about Tokugawa (early modern) Japan Book cover of Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai Book cover of Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed Book cover of China in the Tokugawa World Book cover of Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability Book cover of Partners in Print: Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-E Market
  • Sören Urbansky The best books about Russia in Asia Book cover of The Russian Far East: A History Book cover of On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border Book cover of Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power Book cover of We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin Book cover of To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914
  • Bruce L. Batten The best books on early Japan in world history Book cover of Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada Book cover of They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640 Book cover of Ennin's Travels in T'ang China Book cover of A Maritime History of East Asia Book cover of Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People
  • Sheridan Prasso The best books about Asian women Book cover of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China Book cover of Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China Book cover of Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha Book cover of The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices Book cover of Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China
  • Kenneth M. Swope The best books on the Great East Asian War of 1592-1598 Book cover of The Book of Corrections: Reflections on the National Crisis During the Japanese Invasion of Korea, 1592-1598 Book cover of The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation Book cover of Samurai Invasion: Japan's Korean War 1592 -1598 Book cover of China, Korea & Japan at War, 1592-1598: Eyewitness Accounts Book cover of The East Asian War, 1592-1598: International Relations, Violence and Memory
  • Shouhua Qi The best books about the Pacific Theater in WW2 Book cover of Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945 Book cover of The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Book cover of Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze Book cover of Red Star over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism Book cover of Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
  • Michael Schuman The best Asian history books for a Sunday afternoon Book cover of The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 Book cover of The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 Book cover of The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia Book cover of Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or, the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History Book cover of Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
  • Viren Murthy The best books to profoundly understand modern East Asian thought Book cover of Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan Book cover of China from Empire to Nation-State Book cover of The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation Book cover of The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future Book cover of The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan
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