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