Asia

Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun

Rhoda Blumberg

The Story of Buddhism

Donald S. Lopez Jr.

The Sewing Circles of Herat

Christina Lamb

My Journey to Lhasa

Alexandra David-Neel

The Dancing Girls of Lahore

Louise Brown

Mr. China

Tim Clissold

Red Scarf Girl

Ji-li Jiang

Istanbul

John Freely

Vietnam

Stanley Karnow

Umbrella

Taro Yashima

Downfall

Richard B. Frank

One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each

Peter Macmillan

Lost Japan

Alex Kerr, Bodhi Fishman

The Japanese

Christopher Harding

City of Djinns

William Dalrymple

Dragon Dance

Joan Holub

Nagasaki

Susan Southard, Traci Kato-Kiriyama

The China Price

Alexandra Harney, Karen White

On the Grand Trunk Road

Steve Coll

The Hindus

Wendy Doniger, Amy Landon

Stones Into Schools

Greg Mortenson

On China

Henry Kissinger

Song of the Buffalo Boy

Sherry Garland

The Places in Between

Rory Stewart

Revolutionary Iran

Michael Axworthy, Derek Perkins

Shinto

Helen Hardacre

Buddhism: a Very Short Introduction

Damien Keown

China Goes Global

David Shambaugh

The Beauty of Everyday Things

Soetsu Yanagi

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

Chingiz Aitmatov, John French