BIOGRAPHY
An American Son by Naomi Hirohara
Mikasa and Kenwood founder George Aratani
HISTORY
A Borrowed Place by Frank Welsh
Scholarly history of Hong Kong
Chinatown USA by Calvin Lee
A history and guide to early Chinese settlements
Eldest Son by Han Suyin
Zhou Enlai and the Making of Modern China, 1898-1976
Even the Women Must Fight by Karen Gottschang Turner with Phan Thanh Hao
The role North Vietnamese women played in winning the war.
Good Deeds & Gunboats by Hugh Deane
Two centuries of American Chinese encounters.
In Mortal Combat by John Toland
An engaging military history of the Korean War based on firsthand
accounts of American and Korean fighting men.
Letters from the End of the World by Toyofumi Ogura
A firsthand account of the bombing of Hiroshima
The Mongols by Jeremiah Curtin
The classic history of the Mongol tribes by one of America's great
scholars.
On Gold Mountain by Lisa See
Chinese American family history
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
A study of the Japanese atrocities in Nanking from the perspective of the
soldiers who committed them, their Chinese victims and the westerners who
intervened to save lives.
The Soong Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave
An intimate portrait of patriarch Charlie Soong and the Soong sisters who
so skillfully manipulated U.S. policy toward China and Taiwan.
The Yamato Dynasty by Sterling Seagrove and Peggy Seagrave
The secret history of Japan's Imperial family from the beginning to modern times.