Asia

[China] [India] [Japan] [Korea] [Nepal] [Taiwan] [Thailand] [Tibet]

   

 

CHINA

Books:

Lord, Betty Bao. Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic (Ballantine Books, 1991)

Chang, Jung. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Touchstone, 2003)

Goldman, Merle and John Fairbank. China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006)

Heng, Liang and Judith Shapiro. Son of the Revolution (Vintage, 1984)

Hessler, Peter. Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present (HarperCollins Publishers, 2006

Hu, Wengzhong and Cornelius Grove. Encountering the Chinese: A Guide for Americans (Intercultural Press, 1999)

Jin, Ha. Waiting: A Novel (Vintage, 2000)

Kristof, Nicholas and Sherul WuDunn. China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power (Vintage, 1995)

Louie, Andrea. Chineseness Across Borders: Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States (Duke University Press, 2004)

Wong, Jan. Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now (Anchor, 1997)

Films:

Ju Dou (dir. Fengliang Yang & Yimou Zhang, 1990)
To Live (dir. Wei Lu & Hua Yu, 1994)
Not One Less (dir. Yimou Zhang, 2002)
Red Sorghum (dir. Yimou Zhang, 1987)
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (dir. Yimou Zhang, 2005)
The Emperor's Shadow (dir. Xiaowen Zhou, 1996)
Together (dir. Taige Chen, 2002)

 

 

 

INDIA

Books:

Dalrymple, William. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi (Penguin, 2003)

De Bary, Theodore, ed. Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. 1 (Columbia University Press, 1958)

Forster, EM. A Passage to India (Penguin Classics, 2005)

Frater, Alexander. Chasing the Monsoon (Penguin Books, 1991)

Gandhi, M. Gandhi's Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Beacon Press, 1968)

Harvey, Peter. An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 1990)

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Heat and Dust (Counterpoint, 1999)

Kipling, Rudyard. Kim (Barnes and Nobles Classics, 2003)

Knott, Kim. Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 1998)

Luce, Edward. In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India (Anchor, 2008)

Metcalf, Thomas and Barbara. A Concise History of India (Cambridge University Press, 2001)

Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance (Vintage, 2001)

Rahula, Walpola. What the Buddha Taught (Grove Press, 1974)

Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things (Harper Perennial, 1998) and The Algebra of Infinite Justice (Penguin Books, 2002)

Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children (Penguin, 1999)

Scott, Paul The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils (Morrow & Co., 1984)

Sen, Amartya. The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity (Penguin Books, 2005)

Seth, Vikram. A Suitable Boy (Perennial, 1994)

Singh, Khushwant. Train to Pakistan (Grove Press, 1981)

Varma, Pavan K. Being Indian (Penguin Books, 2004)

Films:

Dil Chata Hai (dir. Farhan Akhtar, 2001)
Gandhi (dir. Richard Attenborough., 1982)
Heat and Dust (dir. James Ivory, 1983)
Lagaan (dir. Ashutosh Gowariker, 2001)
Matribhumi (dir. Milan Bhowmik, 1997)
Monsoon Wedding (dir. Mira Nair, 2001)
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (dir. Apama Sen, 2002)
Passage to India (dir. David Lean, 1984)
Salaam Bombay (dir. Mira Nair, 1988)

 

 

 

JAPAN

Books:

Condon, John C. With Respect to the Japanese: A Guide for Americans (Intercultural Press, 1983)

John Hersey.  Hiroshima

Matsumoto, David. The New Japan: Debunking Seven Cultural Stereotypes (Intercultural Pres, 2002)

Varley, Paul. Japanese Culture (University of Hawai'i Press; Updated and Expanded Edition 2000)

Films:

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (dir. Yimou Zhang, 2005)

 

 

 

KOREA

Books:

Diane M. Hoffman.  Lanterns on the River

L. Robert Kohls. Learning to Think Korean: A Guide to Living and Working in Korea (Intercultural Press, 2001)
 

Films:

The Way Home (dir. Jeong-Hyang Lee, 2002)

 

 

 

NEPAL

Childs, Geoff. Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004)

Hutt, Michael, ed. Nepal in the Nineties: Versions of the Past, Visions of the Future (New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1994)

Martinussen, John. Democracy, Competition, and Choice: Emerging Local Self-Government in Nepal (London: Sage Publications, 1995)

Rinpoché , Dzongsar Khyentsé . What Makes You Not a Buddhist (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2007)

Shrestha, Pushpa. Educated Women in Urban Nepal (Colombia, MO: South Asia Books, 1995)

Thapa, Manjushree. Forget Kathmandu (New Delhi: Viking, 2005)

 

 

 

TIBET

Childs, Geoff. Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004)

Rinpoché , Dzongsar Khyentsé . What Makes You Not a Buddhist (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2007)

Rinpoché , Sogyal. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (San Francisco: Harper Publications, 1992)

Schwartz, Ronald David, ed. Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising (NY: Columbia University Press, 1994)

Thapa, Manjushree. Forget Kathmandu (New Delhi: Viking, 2005)

Willis, Janice, ed. Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 1989)