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Bill's Recommended Light Reading List

• This list is posted for those interested in East Asia looking for summer reading suggestions. What follows is a list of novels, biographies, and works of history concerning East Asia that most of which I think qualify as light summer reading. The list is divided by country, era, and type:

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

• Library call numbers are provided for those materials available in Halifax through Novanet. Not all call numbers are listed, and these listings are subject to change. Check Novanet for other locations and to see if particular titles are available.
  

• Surnames, which are typically listed first in Asia, are sometimes capitalized below (e.g., LU) to avoid any confusion, and alternate spellings noted. Please feel free to send me your recommendations or to contact me to discuss any of the following.

1. China

History

Premodern

• Jacques Gernet, Daily Life in China On the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276 (London: Allen & Unwin, 1962) [SMU: DS 721 G413 1962]
• Charles Holcombe, The Genesis of East Asia: 221 BC - AD 907 (Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawai'i Press, 2001) [SMU: DS 514 H65 2001]
• Edward Schafer, The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T'ang Exotics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963) [DALKIL: HF 408 S3]
• Sally Hovey Wriggins, Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998)

The Great Wall

• Julia Lovell, The Great Wall: China Against the World (New York: Grove, 2006) [SMU: DS 793 G67 L584 2006]
• Arthur Waldron, The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) [SMU: DS 793 W25 1990]

Ming Dynasty

• Timothy Brook, The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998) [SMU: DS 753 B76 1998]
• Ray Huang, 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981) [SMU: DS 753 H798]
• Jonathan D. Spence, Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man (New York: Viking, 2007) [CBU: PL C33 Z8 2007]
• Shih Shan Henry TSAI, Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001) [SMU: e-book]
  

Qing Dynasty

• Philip A. Kuhn, Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990) [SMU: JQ 1508 K84 1990]
• Jonathan D. Spence, Ts‘ao Yin and the K‘ang-hsi Emperor: Bondservant and Master (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966) [SMU & DALKIL: DS 754.4 T72 S66 1966]
• Jonathan D. Spence, Emperor of China: Self Portrait of K‘ang Hsi (New York: Knopf, 1974) [SMU: DS 754.4 C53 A33 1974]
• Jonathan D. Spence, The Death of Woman Wang (New York: Viking Press, 1978) [SMU & DALKIL: HQ 1767 S63 1978]
• Jonathan D. Spence, God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (New York: Norton, 1996) [SMU: DS 758.23 H85 S64 1996]
  

Opium Wars

• Mary Laven, Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East (London: Farber and Farber, 2011) [KINGS: BV 3417 L384 2011]
• Hsin-pao CHANG, Commissioner Lin and the Opium War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964) [SMU & DALKIL: DS 757.5 C45]
• Peter Ward Fay, The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by hich they Forced her Gates Ajar (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975) [SMU: DS 757.5 F39]
• Frederic E. Wakeman, Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966) [DALKIL: DS 793 K7 W3]

China and the "West"

• Robert A. Bickers, Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination (London: Penguin, 2018) [SMU: DS 775.8 B53 2018]
  
• Mary Laven, Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East (London: Farber and Farber, 2011) [KINGS: BV 3417 L384 2011]
• Jonathan D. Spence, The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds (New York: Norton, 1998) [SMU: 706 S62 1998]
• Barbara W. Tuchman, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 (New York: Macmillan, 1970) [SMU: E 745 S68 T8 1971]
• Joanna Waley-Cohen, The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History (New York: Norton, 1999)

Focus on Shanghai

• Marie-Claire Bergère, Shanghai: China's Gateway to Modernity (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009) [DALKIL: 796 S257 B4713 2009]
• Robert A. Bickers, Britain in China: Community, Culture, and Colonialism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999) [SMU: DA 47.9 C6 B53 1999]
• Xiangming Chen, ed., Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity (Mineeapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009) [STFX: HT 384 C62 S437 2009]
  
• Poshek Fu, Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945 (Stanford: Stanfod University Press, 1993) [SMU: DS 796 S257 F8 1993]
• Bei Gao, Shanghai Sanctuary: Chinese and Japanese Policy toward European Jewish Refugees during World War II (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) [SMU: DS 135 C5 G36 2013]
  
• Peter Harmsen, Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze (Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2013) [SMU: DS 777.5316 S52 H37 2013]
• Christian Henriot and Wen-hsin Yeh, eds., In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai under Japanese Occupation (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004) [SMU: DS 796 S257 I56 2004]
• Gail Hershatter, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997) [SMU: HQ 250 S52 H47 1997]
  
• Emily Honig
• Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986) [SMU: HD 6073 T42 C64 1986]
• Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850-1980 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992) [SMU: DS 796 S29 H66 1992]
  
• Emily Honig and Gail Hershatter, Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980s (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988) [SMU: HQ 1767 H65 1988]
• Linda Cooke Johnson, Shanghai: From Market Town to Treaty Port, 1074-1858 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995) [SMU: DS 796 S257 J614 1995]
  
• Seung Kuan and Peter G. Rowe, eds., Shanghai: Architecture and Urbanism for Modern China (Munich: Prestel, 2004) [DAL SEXTON: NA 1545 S53 2004]
  
• Leo Ou-fan Lee, Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999) [Acadia: DS 796 S25 L43 1999]
• Jie Li, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015) [SMU: e-book]
• Hanchao Lu, Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999) [SMU: DS 796 S25 L8 1999]
  
• Brian G. Martin, The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996) [SMU: DS 796 S257 M36 1996]
• John David Meehan, Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai: Canada's Early Relations with China, 1858-1952 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011) [SMU: FC 251.C5 M43 2011]
  
• Elizabeth J. Perry: Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993) [SMU: e-book]
• Elizabeth J. Perry and Xun Li, Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997) [SMU: HD 8738 P47 1997]
  
• Frederic E. Wakeman:
• Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) [SMU: DS 796 S2 W4 1995]
• The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) [SMU: HV 7120 S57 W35 1996]
• Frederic Wakeman, Jr. and Wen-hsin Yeh, eds., Shanghai Sojourners (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992) [SMU: DS 796 S257 S57 1992]
• Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom:
• Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991) [SMU: LA 1134 S4 W37 1991]
  
• Global Shanghai, 1850-2010: A History in Fragments (London and New York: Routledge, 2009) [SMU: DS 796 S257 2009]
  
• Betty Peh-T'i Wei, Shanghai: Crucible of Modern China (Hong Kong & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987) [SMU: DS 796 S257 W45 1987]
  
• Frances Wood, No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China, 1843-1943 (London: John Murray, 1998) [SMU: DS 709 W66 1998]
• Wen-hsin Yeh, Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007) [DALKIL: HF 3836 Y44 2007]
  
• Wen-hsin Yeh, ed., Wartime Shanghai (London and New York: Routledge, 1998) [SMU: DS 777.5316 S52 W37 1998]
  

Twentieth Century Wars

• Rana Mitter, Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 (Boston: Houghlin Mifflin Harcourt, 2013); or his China's War with Japan, 1937-1945 (Penguin, 2014)
• S.C.M. Paine, The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Recent History

• Timothy Cheek, Living with Reform: China since 1989 (New York: Zed Books, 2006) [SMU: DS 779.2 C4418 2006]
• Roderick MacFarquhar, Mao's Last Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006) [SMU: DS 778.7 M33 2006]
• Wang Gungwu, Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2013) [SMU: DS 774 W36 2013]
  

Biography

• Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (New York: Anchor, 1992) [SMU: CT 1828 CA478 A3 1992]
• Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai (London: Grafton, 1987) [SMU: DS 778.7 C445 1987]
• CHIN Ann-ping:
• Children of China: Voices from Recent Years (New York: Knopf, ,1988) [DALKIL: HQ 792 C5 C46 1988]
  
• Four Sisters of Hofei: A History (New York: Scribner, 2002) [SMU: CT 3710 C485 2002]
• Gail Copeland, Spring Winds of Beijing (Lakewood, CO: Glenbridge, 1993) [SMU: DS 779.32 C67 1993]
  
• Wilma Fairbank and Jonathan Spence, Liang and Lin: Partners in Exploring China's Architectural Past (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994) DAL SEXTON: NA 1549 L53 F35 1994]
• Diane Wei Liang, Lake with No Name (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009) [DALKIL: DS 779.32 L52 2009]
  
• LIANG Heng and Judith Shapiro, Son of the Revolution (New York: Knopf, 1983) [SMU: DS 778 L4534 A37 1983]
• Adeline Yen Mah, Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter (New York: Wiley, 1998) [MSVU: CT 275 M45115 A3 1998]
• Michael J. Meyer, In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China (New York: Bloomsbury, 2015) [SMU: DS 782.3 M47 2014]
• Anchee Min, Red Azalea (New York: Pantheon, 1994) [DALKIL: DS 778.7 M56 1994]
• NING Lao T'ai-t'ai, A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman (Stanford: Stanford University Press 1967 [1945]) [SMU & DALKIL: CT 1828 N5 A3 1967]
• Peter Rand, China Hands: The Adventures and Ordeals of the American Journalists Who Joined Forces with the Great Chinese Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995) [SMU: PN 4871 R36 1995]
• Tong SHEN, Almost a Revolution (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998) [Acadia: DS 779.32 S47 1998]
  
• Joanthan D. Spence:
• To Change China: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960 (Boston: Little & Brown, 1969) [SMU: 740.4 S62]
• The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci (New York: Viking Penguin, 1984) [DALKIL: BV 3427 R46 S66 1984]
• The Question of Hu (New York: Knopf, 1988) [SMU: BX 4668 H82 S66]
• Mao Zedong (New York: Viking, 1999) [KINGS: DS 778 M3 S685 1999]
• Jan Wong, Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now (Toronto: Doubleday, 1996) [SMU: DS 779.2 W5 1996]
• Ting-xing Ye, My Name is Number 4: A True Story from the Cultural Revolution (New York: Thomas Dunne, 2007) [STFX: HN 733.5 Y42 2008]
• YE Ting-xing, A Leaf in the Bitter Wind: A Memoir (Toronto: Doubleday, 1997)
• ZHANG Xinxin (CHANG Hsin-hsin), Chinese Lives: An Oral History of Contemporary China (New York: Pantheon, 1987) [SMU: DS 777.55 Z45 1987]

Fiction

Prior to the Twentieth Century

• Robert Hans van Gulik (1910-1967), Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (New York: Dover, 1976) [SMU: PL 2699 W8 E5 1976]
  
• LO Kuan-chung (Luo Guanzhong, c 1330 - c 1400), Three Kingdoms: China's Epic Drama (New York: Pantheon Books, 1976) [DALKIL: PL 2690 S3 E53 1976]
• P‘U Sung-ling (Pu Songling, ,1640 - 1715), Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1916) [SMU: PL 2998 P7 L4 1916]
• Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel (New York: Random House, 2006) [NSCC Truro: PS 3569 E3334 S66 2006]
• SHEN Fu (c 1763 - 1808), Six Records of a Floating Life (Harmondsworth, Middlesex & Markham, Ont: Penguin Books, 1983) [SMU: PL 2724 H4 F413 1983]
• SHIH Nai-an (Shi Nai'an, c 13th century), Water Margin (New York: Paragon, 1968), also published as All Men are Brothers (New York: Day, 1968 [1937) [SMU: PL 2694 S5 E52 1968 v 1-2]; also published as Outlaws of the Marsh (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1980) [SMU: PL 2694 S5 E5 1980 v 1-3]
• Dorothy Blair Shimer, ed., Rice Bowl Women: Writings by and about the Women of China and Japan (New York: New American Library, 1982) [SMU: PL 2658 E8 R52 1982]
• T‘ANG, Hsien-tsu (Tang Xianzu, 1550-1616), The Peony Pavilion (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980) [SMU: PL 2695 M8 E5]
• TS'AO Hsüeh-ch‘in (Cao Xueqin, ca. 1717-1763), The Story of the Stone: A Chinese Novel in Five Volumes (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973-1980) [SMU: PL 2727 S2 S76 v.1-2]; also published as TS'AO Hsüeh-ch‘in, Dream of the Red Chamber (Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1958, abridged) [SMU & MSVU: PL 2998 T7 H812 1958]; also published as TS'AO Hsüeh-ch‘in, A Dream of Red Mansions (Boston: Cheng & Tsui, 1996)
• WU Ch'eng-en (Wu Cheng'en, 1500-1582), Monkey: Folk Novel of China (New York: Grove Press, 1970); also published as Journey to the West (Peking: Foreign Language Press, various dates); also published as Monkey: A Journey to the West (New York: Random House, 2000); also published under various titles for younger readers

Twentieth Century

• BAI Hua, The Remote Country of Women (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994) [SMU: e-book]
  
• Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth (New York: Day, 1965 [1949]) [SMU: PS 3503 U198 G6 1965]
• CHEN Jo-hsi, The Execution of Mayor Yin, and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978) [SMU: PL 2840 J6Y513 & DALKIL: PL 2840 J6 E95]
• FENG Chi-tsai (Jicai), The Three-Inch Golden Lotus (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994) [SMU: e-book]
  
• GAO Xingjian (b. 1940):
  
• Soul Mountain (New York: Harper Collins, 2000 [1990]) (2000 Nobel Prize for Literature)
• One Man's Bible (New York: Harper Collins, 2002 [1999])
• JIN Ha (b. 1956)
  
• In the Pond: A Novel (Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, 1998) [DALKIL: PS 3560 I6 I6 1998]
  
• Waiting (New York: Pantheon, 2000) [SMU: PS 3560 I6 W34 2000]
  
• The Crazed (New York: Pantheon, 2002) [DALKIL: PS 3560 I6 C73 2002]
  
• LU Hsün (Lu Xun, 1881-1936):
• The True Story of Ah Q (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972) [SMU: PL 3000 C5 T7 1972]
• Ah Q and Others: Selected Stories (New York: Columbia University Press, 1941) [SMU: PL 832.5 L82]
• Andre Malraux, Man's Fate (La condition humaine; New York: Vintage, 1969) [SMU: PQ 2625 A716 C52 1969]
• Madeleine Thien (b. 1974):
  
• Certainty (Toronto: Emblem, 2007) [SMU: PS 8589 H449 C4 2007]
  
• Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Toronto: Vintage, 2017)
  
• PA Chin (BA Jin), Family (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1972) [DALKIL: PL 2780 F4 F3]
• MAO Tun (Mao Dun, 1896-1981):
• Rainbow (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992) [SMU: PL 2801 N2 H813]
• Midnight (Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1979; also published by Boston: Cheng & Tsui, 2000)
• MO Yan (b. 1955):
• Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh (New York: Arcade, 2001) [DALKIL: PL 2886 O1684 S513 2001]
• Big Breasts and Wide Hips: A Novel (New York: Arcade, 2004) [SMU: PL O1684 F3813 2004]
  
• Change (London: Seagull, 2010) [DALKIL: PL 2886 O1684 B5313 2010]
• Life and Death are Wearing Me Out: A Novel (New York: Arcade, 2012) [DALKIL: PL 2886 O1684 S5413 2012]
• Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter (New York: Ballantine, 2002) [SMU: PS 3570 A48 B6 2002]
  
• Yi XIN, Educated Youth (Kensington, Australia: University of New South Wales Press, 2016) [SMU: e-book]
• ZHANG Henshui (1895-1967), Shanghai Express (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997) [SMU: e-book]
  

2. Japan

History

Premodern

• Mikael S. Adolphson, The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʾi Press, 2000) [SMU: DS 850 A36 2000]
• Mikael S. Adolphson, The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sōhei in Japanese History (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007)
• Thomas D. Conlan, State of War: The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2003) [SMU: DS 865.5 C67 2003]
• William Wayne Farris, Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan's Military, 500-1300 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992) [SMU: DS 838.5 F37 1992]
• Karl F. Friday, Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992) [SMU: DS 838.5 F75 1992]
• Donald Keene, Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003)
  
• Ivan Morris, The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975) [SMU: DS 834 M64]
• Hiroaki Sato, Legends of the Samurai (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1995) [SMU: DS 827 S3 S36 1995]

Early Modern Era

• Mary Elizabeth Berry, Hideyoshi (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982) [SMU: DS 869 T6 B47 1982]
• Michael Cooper, They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1965) [SMU: DS 808 C6 1965]
• J. E. De Becker, The Nightless City of the Geisha: The History of the Yoshiwara (London: Kegan Paul, 2002) [SMU: GT 3412 D42 2002] (also Yoshiwara: The Nightless City (New York: Frederick Publications, 1960) [SMU: HQ 247 T6 D28 1960] and The Nightless City: The History of the Yoshiwara Yūkwaku (Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1971, fifth edition, revised) [DALKIL: HQ 247 T6 D4 1971])
• Samuel Jay Hawley, The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea (Seoul: Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch & Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2008)
• Rainier H. Hesselink, Prisoners from Nambu: Reality and Make-Believe in Seventeenth-Century Japanese Diplomacy (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001) [SMU: DS 871.7 H47 2002]
• Engelbert Kaempfer, Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey, ed., Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999) [SMU: DS 822.2 K313 1999]
• Stephen Longstreet, Yoshiwara: Geisha, Courtesans, and the Pleasure Quarters of Old Tokyo (Tokyo: Tuttle, 1988) [online]
• Noel Perrin, Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879 (Boston: D. R. Godine, 1979) [DALKIL: DS 868.2 P47]
• Donald Richie, Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai: A Historical Novel (Tokyo: Tuttle, 2011)
  
• Cecilia Segawa Seigle, Yoshiwara: The Glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993) [SMU: HN 730 T65 S45 1993]
• Kenneth Swope, A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009) [SMU: DS 913.43 S93 2009]
• Amy Stanley, Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012) [SMU: HQ 247 A5 S73 2012]

Japan's Opening and the Meiji Restoration

• Pat Barr, The Deer Cry Pavilion: A Story of Westerners in Japan, 1868-1905 (London & Melbourne: Macmillan, 1968) [DALKIL: DS 821.5 A1 B3]
• Andrew Cobbing, The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain: Early Travel Encounters in the Far West (Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library, 1998) [SMU: DA 625 C656 1998]
  
• Hugh Cortazzi, ed., Victorians in Japan: In and Around the Treaty Ports (London: Athlone Press, 1987) [SMUL DS 809 C84 1987]
• Albert M. Craig, Chōshū in the Meiji Restoration (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967) [SMU, DALKIL: DS 895 C5 C7 1967]
• Francis Hall, Japan through American Eyes: The Journal of Francis Hall, 1859-1866 (Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 2001) [SMU: DS 881.3 H257 2001]
• Marius B. Jansen, Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961) [SMU, DALKIL: DS 881.3 J28]
• Donald Keene, The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1969) [SMU: DS 821 K32 1969]
  
• Donald Keene, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005)
• Masao MIYOSHI, As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States (New York, Tokyo, London: Kodansha, 1994) [DALKIL: E 183.8 J3 M57]
• Kevin C. Murphy, The American Merchant Experience in Nineteenth-Century Japan, London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003 [SMU: e-book and HF 3127 M87 2003]
• Ryotaro Shiba and Juliet Winters Carpenter, The Last Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu (New York: Kodansha, 2004) [SMU: PL 861 H48 S213 1998
• Philipp Franz von Siebold, Manners and Customs of the Japanese in the Nineteenth Century (Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo: Tuttle, 1973 [1841]) [SMU: DS 809 M28 1973]
  
• Oliver Statler, Shimoda Story (New York: Random, 1969) [DALKIL: E 183.8 J3 S7]
• Lorraine Sterry, Victorian Women Travellers in Meiji Japan: Discovering a New Land (Folkestone: Global Oriental, 2009) [SMU: e-book]
• John E. Van Sant, Pacific Pioneers: Japanese Journeys to America and Hawaii, 1850-80 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000) [SMU: E 184 J3 V3 2000]
• Peter Booth Wiley, Yankees in the Land of the Gods: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan (New York: Penguin, 1990)

Late Nineteenth to the early Twenty-First Centuries

• Anne Allison, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) [SMU: GT 3415 A45 1994]
• Oleg Benesch, Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Naationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) [SMU: BJ 971 B8 B455 2016]
• Elisabeth Bumiller, The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and her Family (New York: Times Books, 1995) [SMU: HQ 1765 T64 B85 1995]
• John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (New York: Pantheon, 1986) [SMU: D 767.9 D69 1993]
• John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (New York: Norton, 1999) [SMU: DS 889 D69 1999]
• Edward J. Drea, Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853-1945 (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2009) [SMU: DS 838.7 D74 2009]
• David C. Evans and Mark R. Peattie, Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy (Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 1997) [SMU: VA 653 E93 1997; 2012 e-book]
• Takashi Fujitani, Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011) [SMU: D 769.8 A6 F798 2011]
• Mikiso HANE, Peasants, Rebels, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan (New York: Pantheon, 1982) [DALKIL, MSVU, SMU: HN 723 H36 1982]
• Mikiso HANE, Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press & Pantheon Books, 1989) [SMU: HN 726 R44 1989]
• Sheldon H. Harris, Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945 and the American Cover-up (New York and London: Routledge, 2002, revised) [SMU: DS 777.533 B55 H37 2002]
• Eri Hotta, Pan-Asianism and Japan's War, 1931-1945 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
• Rana Mitter, Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 (Boston: Houghlin Mifflin Harcourt, 2013); or his China's War with Japan, 1937-1945 (Penguin, 2014)
• Haruki MURAKAMI, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (New York: Vintage, 2000)
• ŌE Kenzaburō, Hiroshima Notes (New York: Marion Boyars, 1995) [SMU: D 767.25 H6 O3513 1995]
  
• S.C.M. Paine, The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
• Mark R. Peattie, Sunburst: The Rise of the Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941 (Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 2007) [SMU: VG95.J3 P43 2007]
  
• Kenneth B. Pyle, Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose (New York: Public Affairs, 2007) [SMU: DS 889.5 P95 2007]
• Junichi SAGA, Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan (New York and Tokyo: Kodansha, 1987)
• Richard J. Samuels, Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007) [SMU: UA 845 S328 2007]
• Edward Seidensticker, Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake (New York: Knopf, 1983)
• Edward Seidensticker, Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake (New York: Knopf, 1990)
• Mordecai Sheftall, Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze (NAL, 2005)
• Oliver Statler, Japanese Inn (New York: Random, 1961) [SMU: DS 897 O4 S7]
• Oliver Statler, Japanese Pilgrimage (New York: Morrow, 1983) [SMU: BQ 6450 J32 S48674 1983]
• Toshiyuki TANAKA, Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018, 2nd ed.) [SMU: D 805 I55 T3613 2018]
  
• Yoshiaki YOSHIMI, The Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military during World War II (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000) [MSVU: D 810 C698 Y6713 2004]

Fiction

Premodern and Early Modern

• Lafcadio Hearn, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo: Tuttle, 1971 [1904])
• IHARA Saikaku, The Life of an Amorous Woman (New York: New Directions, 1963)
  
• IKKU Jippensha, Shanks' Mare: Being a Translation of the Tokaido Volumes of Hizakurige, Japan's Great Comic Novel of Travel and Ribaldry (Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1960) [SMU: PL 797 T67 E5 1960]
• KATSU Kokichi, Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988)
• Donald Keene, Anthology of Japanese Literature (New York: Grove Press, 1955-1956) [SMU, DALKIL, MSVU, NSCAD, STFX: PL 882 K4 1955 v. 1-2]
  
• Donald Keene, tr., Major Plays of Chikamatsu (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961) [SMU, DALKIL: PL 898 C5 A24]
• Helen Craig McCullough, Ōkagami: The Great Mirror: Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027) and His Times (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980) [SMU: DS 856 O3813 1980]; The Ōkagami: A Japanese Historical Tale (London: Allen & Unwin, 1967) [DALKIL: DS 851 A2 O43]
• Michitsuna no haha, The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian (Japan, Tokyo: Tuttle, 1964) [SM: PL 789 F8 K313]
• MURASAKI Shikibu, The Tale of Genji (New York: Knopf, 1989; unabridged: 1090 pp.)
• MURASAKI Shikibu, The Tale of Genji (New York: Vintage, 1990; abridged: 360 pp.)
• Ochikubo monogatari: The Tale of Lady Ochikubo, A Tenth Century Japanese Novel (London: Owen, 1970) [DALKIL: PL 898 O3 T313]
  
• Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (New York: Penguin, 1967)
• Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, As I Crossed the Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975) [DALKIL: PL 789 S8 S2513 1975]
• A. L. Sadler, The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike (Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo: Tuttle, 1972)
• H. Paul Varley, The Ōnin War: History of its Origins and Background with a Selective Translation of the Chronicle of Ōnin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1967) [SMU: DS 864 V3 1967]
• H. Paul Varley, Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994) [SMU: PL 747.25 W3 V37 1994]

Modern

• ABE Kōbō (1924-1993), The Woman in the Dunes (New York: Knopf, 1964) [DALKIL: PL 845 B36]
  
• AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke (1892-1927):
• Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (New York and Toronto: Penguin, 2006) [DALKIL, STFX: PL 801 K8 2006]
• Cogwheel and Other Stories (Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic, 1982) [DALKIL, NSCC: PL 801 K8 A25]
• Hell Screen and Other Stories (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1971) [DALKIL: PN 801 K8 J513]
• Kappa: A Novel (London: Owen, 1970) [SMU: PL 801 K8 K313 1970]
• Exotic Japanese Stories (New York: Livelight, 1964) [DALKIL: PN 801 K8 E9]
• ARIYOSHI Sawako (1931-1984):
  
• The River Ki (New York and Tokyo: Kodansha, 1980)
• The Doctor's Wife (New York and Tokyo: Kodansha, 1981)
• The Twilight Years (New York and Tokyo: Kodansha, 1987)
  
• DAZAI Osamu (1909-1948), No Longer Human (Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1958) [Acadia: PL 825 A8 N5613 1958]
  
• ENDŌ Shūsaku (1923-1996), The Sea and Poison (London: Owen, 1972) [DALKIL: PL 849 N4 U513]
• Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997) [SMU: PS 3557 O35926 M45 1997]
• IBUSE Masuji (1898-1993), Black Rain (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1969) [SMU: PL 830 B8 K813 1979]
• KAWABATA Yasunari (1899-1972):
• Snow Country (New York: Knopf, 1956) [SMU: PL 832 A9 Y813 1969]
• The Master of Go (New York: Knopf, 1972)
• Thousand Cranes (New York: Perigree, 1981) [SMU: PL 832 A9 S413 1981]
  
• The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005)
  
• KITA Morio (b. 1927), The House of Nire (Great Britain: Fontana and Kodansha, 1990), 2 vols. [SMU: PL 855 I65 N513 1984]
  
• MARUYA Saiichi (1925-2012):
  
• Singular Rebellion (New York and Tokyo: Kodansha, 1972)
• Grass for My Pillow (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002)
  
• MISHIMA Yukio (1925-1970):
• The Temple of Dawn (New York: Vintage, 1990) [DALKIL: PL 833 I7 A727 1990]
  
• The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (New York: Vintage, 1994) [SMU: on order]
  
• MIURA Tetsuo (1931-2010), Shame in the Blood (Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007) [DALKIL: PL 856 I83 S513 2007]
  
• MURAKAMI Haruki (b. 1949):
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (New York: Vintage, 1998) [SMU: PL 856 U673 N4513 1998]
• After the Quake: Stories (New York: Knopf, 2002) [SMU, DALKIL: PL 856 U673 K36 2002]
• A Wild Sheep Chase (London: Vintage, 2003) [DALKIL: PL 856 U673 H5813 2003]
  
• Kafka on the Shore (New York: Knopf, 2005) [MSVU: PL 856 U673 U4813 2005]
• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (London: Harvill Secker, 2006) [DALKIL: PL 856 U673 A23 2006]
• After Dark (New York: Knopf, 2007) [DALKIL: PL 856 U673 A6613 2007]
  
• 1Q84 (New York: Knopf, 2011) [SMU: PL 856 U673 A61213 2011]
• Men Without Women: Stories (Toronto: Anchor, 2018)
  
• NAGATSUKA Takashi (1879-1915), The Soil: A Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji Japan (New York: Routledge, 1989) [SMU: PL 812 A46 T713 1993]
  
• NATSUME Sōseki (1867-1916):
• Kokoro (Tokyo: Tuttle, 1969) [SMU: PL 812 A8 K613 1976]
• I Am a Cat (Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1979) [SMU: PL 812 A8 W313 1979]
• Botchan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 2005) [SMU: PL 812 A8 B614 2005]
  
• ŌE Kenzaburō (b. 1935):
• A Personal Matter (Tokyo: Tuttle, 1969) [SMU: PL 858 E14 K616 1969]
• The Silent Cry (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1974) [PL 858 E14 M313 1974]
  
• A Healing Family (Tokyo and New York: Kodansha, 1996) [SMU: PL 858 E14 Z4613 1996]
  
• A Quiet Life (New York: Grove Press, 1996) [SMU: PL 858 E14 S4913 1996]
• An Echo of Heaven (Tokyo and New York: Kodansha, 1996) [SMU: PL 858 E14 J5513 1996]
  
• SHIGA Naoya (1883-1971):
• A Dark Night's Passing (Tokyo and New York: Kodansha, 1974) [SMU: PL 816 H5 A813 1976]
  
• The Paper Door and Other Stories (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987)
• TAKEYAMA Michio (1903-1984), Harp of Burma (Boston: Tuttle, 2001 [1966]) [DALKIL: PL 839 A57 H37 1966]
  
• TANIZAKI Jun'ichirō (1886-1965):
• The Key (Tokyo: Tuttle, 1971)
• The Makioka Sisters (New York: Knopf, 1957) [SMU: PL 839 A7 S313]
• Naomi (Tokyo: Tuttle, 1985)
• Some Prefer Nettles (New York: Vintage, 1995)
• TOKUTOMI Kenjirō (1868-1927), Footprints in the Snow: A Novel of Meiji Japan (New York: Pegasus, 1970) [SMU: PL 817 O4 O43 1970]
• UNO Chiyo (1897-1996), Confessions of Love (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989) [SMU: e-book]
  
• WATANNA Onoto (1879-1954), The Heart of Hyacinth (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000) [SMU: e-book]
• Banana YOSHIMOTO (b. 1964):
• Kitchen (New York: Grove Press, 1993) [DALKIL: PL 865 O7138 K5813 1993]
  
• N.P. (New York: Washington Square Press, 1995) [MSVU: PL 865 O7138 N713 1995]
  
• Lizard (New York: Grove Press, 1995) [MSVU: PL 865 O7138 T6513 1995]
  

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3. Korea

History (survey textbooks)

• Bruce Cumings, Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (New York: Norton, 1997) [SMU, DALKIL: DS 917 C86 1997]
• Carter Eckert, et al, Korea, Old and New: A History (Seoul, Korea & Cambridge, MA: Ilchokak and Harvard University Press, 1990) [DALKIL: DS 907.18 K64 1990]

Fiction and Biography

• Bandi, The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea, trans. Deborah Smith (New York: Grove, 2017)
• Theresa Hak Kyung CHA, Dictee (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001) [NSCAD: PS 3553 H13 2001]
  
• Chong-wha Chung, ed., Korean Classical Literature: An Anthology (London: Kegan Paul International, 1989) [SMU: PL 984 E1 K67 1989]
• Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2010) [SMU: HN 730.6 A8 D46 2010]
  
• Bruce Fulton and Yong-min Kwon, eds., Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005)
  
• Moo-Sook HAN, Encounter: A Novel of Nineteenth-Century Korea (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992) [SMU: SMU PL 992.26 M8 M3613 1992]
• Mu-suk HAN, And So Flows History, trans. Young-Key Kim-Renaud (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005)
• Blaine Harden, Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (New York: Penguin, 2013)
  
• Hyegyonggung HONG Ssi (1735-1815), Memoirs of a Korean Queen (London: Kegan Paul International, 1985) [SMU: DS 913.392 H94 A3 1985]
• Toshiyuki KAJIYAMA(1930-1975), The Clan Records: Five Stories of Korea (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995)
• Ch'or-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot, The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in a North Korean Gulag (New York: Basic Books, 2001) [SMU: HV 9815.6 K3613 2001]
  
• Nora Okja Keller, Fox Girl (New York: Viking, 2002)
  
• Chong-un Kim and Bruce Fulton, eds., A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Korean Fiction (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998)
  
• Choong Soon Kim, A Korean Nationalist Entrepreneur: A Life History of Kim Songsu, 1891-1955 (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998)
• Donguk Kim, Ross King, Si Nae Park, eds., Score One for the Dancing Girl, and Other Selections from the 'Kimun ch'onghwa': A Story Collection from Nineteenth-Century Korea (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016)
  
• Dong-ni Kim, The Shaman Sorceress (London: Kegan Paul International, 1989) [SMU: PL 992.415 T74 U713 1989]
• Richard Kim, Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood (New York: Praeger, 1970) [DALKIL: PS 3561 I415 Z5]
• Yong Kim and Suk-Young Kim, Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor (New York: Columbia University Press, ,2009) [SMU: HV 9815.6 K56 2009]
• Min Jin Lee, Pachinko (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2017)
  
• Peter H. Lee, ed., Flowers of Fire: Twentieth-century Korean Stories (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986, revised)
• Kyong-Ni Pak, Land: A Novel by Park Kyong-Ni Pak (London: Kegan Paul, 1996)
• Won-so Pak, Chong-hui O, Ch'or-u Im, eds., The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporaryh Korea (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2009)
  
• Marshall R. Pihl, Bruce Fulton, and Ju-Chan Fulton, eds., Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction, trans., Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton (Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 1993)
• Robin Rhee, Korea through Myths and Legends (Elizabeth, NJ: Hollym International & Seoul: Seoul Press, 1996)
  
• Hyunjae Yee Sallee, The Snowy Road and Other Stories: An Anthology of Korean Fiction (Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, 1993)
  

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4. Vietnam

History (survey textbooks and other views)

• Christopher Goscha, Vietnam: A New History (New York: Basic Books, 2016)
• Keith W. Taylor, A History of the Vietnamese, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) [SMU, DALKIL: DS 556.5 T38 2013]
  
  
• William Stewart Logan, Hanoi: Biography of a City (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000)
• NGUYEN Viet Thanh, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016)
  
• Robert Templer, Shadows and Wind: A View of Modern Vietnam (New York: Penguin, 1999)

Fiction and Biography

• BAO Ninh, The Sorrow of War (London: Secker & Warburg, 1993)
• Thi BUI, The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir (New York: Harry N. Abrams 2017) [website]
  
• DUONG Thu Huong (b. 1947):
• Paradise of the Blind (New York: William Morrow & Co, 1993/New York: Penguin, 1994)
• Novel Without a Name (New York: William Morrow & Co, 1995) [DALKIL: PL 4378.9 D759 T5413]
• Memories of a Pure Spring (New York: Penguin, 2001)
• DUONG Uyen Nicole, Daughters of the River Huong: A Vietnamese Royal Concubine and Her Descendants (Oakton, Va: Ravens Yard, 2005) [SMU: PS 3604 U6214 D38 2005]
  
• DUONG Van Mai Elliott, The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
• Evelyn Friesen and Sam PHU, Freedom Isn't Free: A Boat People's Story (Winnipeg, Man.: Kindred Press, 1985) [Acadia: PS 8561 R54 F74 1985]
  
• Graham Greene, The Quiet American (London: Vintage, 2004 [1955])
  
• Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace (New York: Doubleday, 1989) [SMU, DALKIL, MSVU: DS 556.93 H39 A3 1990/2003]
• HUYNH Sanh Thong, To Be Made Over: Tales of Socialist Reeducation in Vietnam (New Haven: Council on Southeast Asian Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 1988) [SMU: online]
  
• Huu Mai, The Beacon Banner: Short Stories about the War of Resistance in Vietnam (Hanoi: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1964) [DALKIL: PL 4371 A2 H8]
  
• Vincent Lam, The Headmaster's Wager (Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2013)
  
• LE Lu, A Time Far Past (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997) [SMU: e-book]
  
• Da Ngan NGUYEN, An Insignificant Family: A Novel (Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2009)
  
• NGUYEN Du, The Tale of Kieu (New York, Vintage Books, 1973; also published by New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983)
• NGUYEN Viet Thanh (b. 1971)
  
• The Sympathizer (New York: Grove, 2015) [SMU: PS 3614 G97 S96 2015]
• The Refugees (New York: Grove, 2017)
  
• Nha Ca, Mourning Headband for Hue: An Accont of the Battle for Hue, trans. Olga Dror (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014) [SMU: e-book]
  
• Andrew Pham, Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam (New York: Picador, 1999) [MSVU: E 184 V53 P455 1999]
• Andrew X. Pham, The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars (New York: Harmony Books, 2008) [SMU: E 184 V53 P4554 2008]
• Kim THUY, Ru (Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2012) [MSVU: PS 8639 H89 R813 2013]
• Monique T.D. Truong, The Book of Salt (Boston: Houghlin Mifflin, 2003) [DALKIL, KINGS: PS 3260 R86 B66 2003]

Vietnam and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge

• Dith Pran, ed., Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997) [SMU: DS 554.8 C46 1997]
• Ronnie Yimsut, Facing the Khmer Rouge: A Cambodia Journey (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2011) [SMU: e-book]
  
• William Shawcross
• The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust, and Modern Conscience (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984) [SMU, DALKIL, MSVU, STFX, CBU: DS 554.8 S54 1984]
• Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987) [SMU, DALKIL, KINGS, STFX, CBU: DS 557.8 C3 S5 1987]
  
  
• Kim A. Echlin, The Disappeared (New York: Black Cat, 2009) [SMU: PS 8559 C45 D57 2009]
• Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan (London & Toronto: Simon & Schuster, 2013) [Acadia: PS 3618 A876 I52 2013]
  
• Madeleine Thien, Dogs at the Perimeter: A Novel (Toronto: McClelland & Stewaret, 2011) [SMU: PS 8589 H449 D64 2011]

5. Other

Relevant and interesting works of history

• Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London & New York: Verso, 1991, revised edition) [SMU, KINGS, MSVU: JC 311 A656 1991]
• Alfred Crosby, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900 - 1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986) [SMU, DALKIL, KINGS: GF 50 C76 1986]
• Richard H. Grove, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600 - 1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) [SMU & DALKIL: GE 195 G76 1995]
• Daniel R. Headrick:
• The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981) [SMU, DALKIL, KINGS: JC 359 H4]
• The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988) [DALKIL: JC 359 H39 1988]
• The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) [SMU, DALKIL, MSVU: HE 7651 H43 1991]
• When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850 (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) [DALKIL: CB 203 H39 2000]
• Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen, The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997)
• William H. McNeill, The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000 (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982) [SMU, DALKIL, KINGS: U 37 M38 1982]
• Michael B. A. Oldstone, Viruses, Plagues, and History (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) [DALKIL DALSCI SCI: RC 114.5 O37 1998]
• Edward W. Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books, 1979) [DALKIL, KINGS, MSVU, SMU, etc: DS 12 S24 1979)
• Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York: Knopf, 1993) [DALKIL, SMU, MSVU, etc: PN 761 S28 1993]
• Thongchai Winichakul, Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994) [SMU: DS 563.9 T47 1994]
• Barbara Tuchman, Practicing History (New York: Knopf, 1981 & New York: Ballantine, 1982) [SMU & DALKIL: D 13 T83 1981]