Charles Hayford
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Though not a policy analysis, a well-informed, readable treatment for the informed public of a current topic. [See Prepub Alert, 5/1/17.]
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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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.
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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A fascinating and instructive biography for anyone interested in how today's China began. [See Prepub Alert, 5/13/13.]
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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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.
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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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.
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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