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Asia

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)

Rethinking American Grand Strategy in the Asia Pacific

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)

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)

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

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

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1980)

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

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

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

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

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