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Asia

Review of Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders (2023) by Isabel Huacuja Alonso

Review of Ruan Lingyu: Her Life and Career (2022)

Review of Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan (2022)

Review of Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600 by Nükhet Varlık (2017)

The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India by Mark Condos (2017)

Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under the Commune by Joshua Eisenman (2018)

Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire by Jeffrey A. Auerbach (2018)

Anxieties, Fear, and Panic in Colonial Settings: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné (2016)

Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan. By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci (2018)

Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies, by Sue Peabody (2017)

The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia by Liam Matthew Brockey (2014)

Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China, by Frank Dikötter, Lars Peter Laamann, and Zhou Xun (2004)

Book cover of By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 by Michael J. Green

Rethinking American Grand Strategy in the Asia Pacific

Book cover of De tolk van Java by Alfred Birney

Remembering Dutch Decolonization through Historical Fiction

Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, by Nick Turse (2013)

Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Soviet Central Asia, By Douglas Northrup (2003)

Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age, by Muhammad Qasim Zaman (2012)

Great Books on Women’s History: Asia

The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past, by Gail Hershatter (2011)

Must Read Books on the Vietnam War

Asian American Immigration: Read More

Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World, by Hajimu Masuda (2015)

Five Books on the End of Empire, by Wm. Roger Louis

Genghis Khan and the Making of The Modern World, by Jack Weatherford (2004)

Writing Chinese History

More to Read about Caste and South Asia

Past and Present in Modern China

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State (2008) by Yasheng Huang

A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci, 1552-1610, by R. Po-chia Hsia (2010)

On Women and Nation in India

Great Books on Siberian Voices

Honorable Mention of 2012 Undergraduate Essay Contest: Musui’s Story, The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai by Katsu Kokichi (1991)

Book cover of When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka

When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Ostuka (2003) & The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Ostuka (2012)

How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century, by Tonio Andrade (2008)

Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India, by Gauri Viswanathan (1989)

Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope by Judith M. Brown (1989)

Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey through Chinese History by Joseph W. Esherick (2011)

Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins (1975)

The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan by Ayesha Jalal (1985)

Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography (Volume I: 1889-1947) by Sarvepalli Gopal (1976)

Wavell: the Viceroy’s Journal by Archibald Percival Wavell, ed. Penderel Moon (1973)

The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor (2009)

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (1924)

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1931)

Shinohata: A Portrait of a Japanese Village by Ronald P. Dore (1994)

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John Dower (1999)

Book cover of Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (2010)

Book cover of Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld

Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India by Loseph Lelyveld (2010)

Book cover of Midnight's Children with a New Introduction by the Author by Salman Rushdie

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1980)

Book cover of Prejudice and Pride: School Histories of the Freedom Struggle in India and Pakistan by Krishna Kumar

Prejudice and Pride: School Histories of the Freedom Struggle in India and Pakistan by Krishna Kumar (2001)

Book cover of The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan

The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan (2008)

Book cover of Besieged: Voices from Delhi 1857 compiled and translated by Mahmood Farooqui

Beseiged: Voices from Delhi 1857 by Mahmood Farooqui (2010)

Book cover of The Other Side of Silence: Voices From the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia

The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia (2000)

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  • IHS Workshop: “Whose Decolonization? The Collection of Andean Ancestors and the Silences of American History” by Christopher Heaney, Pennsylvania State University
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