Charles Hayford

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Crashback: The Power Clash Between the U.S. and China in the Pacific

Though not a policy analysis, a well-informed, readable treatment for the informed public of a current topic. [See Prepub Alert, 5/1/17.]
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Fire on the Water: China, America, and the Future of the Pacific

Haddick's nonfiction debut is not an overall survey of the field but a cogent presentation of one of the contending positions on the U.S. military stance in the Pacific.
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Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937–1945

Readers may quibble that China was not so much "forgotten" as bypassed, but this is cutting-edge history, and there's scarcely a dull page. Highly recommended.
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

A fascinating and instructive biography for anyone interested in how today's China began. [See Prepub Alert, 5/13/13.]
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Yokohama Yankee: My Family's Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan

A lovely, unsettling family story and a vivid traversal of modern Japanese history that will impress the jaded Japan scholar and inspire the curious general reader or memoir fan. Recommended.
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The Lius of Shanghai

Academics will savor the analysis of Chinese family dynamics. Readers who enjoyed Chang Jung's Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China should consider this more scholarly but engrossing volume.
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Lu Xun's Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence

General readers should start with the fiction, translated most recently by Julia Lovell, The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun, but Davies offers an accessible, absorbing, follow up.
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Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad

Recommended for readers who prefer the personal approach rather than abstract or policy analysis of North Korea.
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