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Bill's Recommended Light Reading List

  1. China
  2. Japan
  3. Korea
  4. Vietnam
  5. Other

1. China

History

Premodern
The Great Wall
Ming Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
Opium Wars
China and the "West"

Focus on Shanghai

Twentieth Century Wars

Recent History

Biography

Fiction

Prior to the Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century

2. Japan

History

Premodern

Early Modern Era

Japan's Opening and the Meiji Restoration

Late Nineteenth to the early Twenty-First Centuries

Fiction
Premodern and Early Modern

Modern

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3. Korea

History (survey textbooks)

Fiction and Biography

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4. Vietnam

History (survey textbooks and other views)

Fiction and Biography

Vietnam and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge

5. Other

Relevant and interesting works of history