Asian Studies


Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Orientalism
Tao Te Ching
The Art of War
The Tale of Genji
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
The Analects
Pachinko
In Praise of Shadows
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Hiroshima
The Joy Luck Club
China in Ten Words
The Chiang Mai Chronicle by David K. WyattThe Acid Diary by Daniel S. William FletcherInconvenient Memories by Anna Wang YuanNight Owl by Anna Mae Yu LamentilloNuclear North Korea’s War Scenarios by Hwee-rhak Park
The Great Books of Southeast Asia
11 books — 5 voters
Kitchen by Banana YoshimotoConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka MurataOut by Natsuo KirinoThe Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko OgawaA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Literature by Japanese Women
165 books — 163 voters

Ulaş Başar Gezgin
Time has come to tell this: Vietnam is not a war, it is a country. Long time passed after the (pro)American movies and sympathetic documentaries. Vietnam is now known as a country of transition more or less resembling Asia in general. That was why -we were told by Dr. Gezgin who poses both as an academic and a journalist- this book is called as ‘Vietnam & Asia in Flux’. This flow is not auspicious for researchers however: “Since Vietnamese economy is a transition economy, the parameters have cha ...more
Ulaş Başar Gezgin, Vietnam & Asia in Flux, 2008