Reading List

I thought I would keep a reading list on this site for interested readers, and for my own benefit. This is not necessarily a list of recommendations – just a place to keep track of what I have read. You can contact me or check out some reviews if a title sounds interesting.

 

American Politics

  1. Kromkowski, C. (2005). Recreating the American Republic: Rules of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and American Political Development, 1700-1870.
  2. Obama, B. (2008). The Audacity of Hope.
  3. Tocqueville, A. (2003). Democracy in America (Penguin Classics).
  4. Paul, R. (2008). The Revolution: A Manifesto.

Business and Economics

  1. Collins, J. (2001). Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t.
  2. Dubner, S., & Levitt, S. (2006). Freakonomics.
  3. Heifetz, R. (1998). Leadership Without Easy Answers.
  4. Heifetz, R., & Linsky, M. (2002). Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading.
  5. Luo, Y. (2007). Guanxi and Business.
  6. Xiaohui, J. (2007). Shanghai Finance.

History

China

  1. Jian, C. (2001). Mao’s China and the Cold War (The New Cold War History).
  2. Huang, P. (2002). Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China: The Qing and the Republic Compared (Law, Society, and Culture in China).
  3. Kuhn, P. (2006). Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768.
  4. Larkin, B. (1971). China and Africa, 1949-1970: The Foreign Policy of the People’s Republic of China (Center for Chinese Studies, Uc Berkeley : No. 5).
  5. Lilley, J., & Lilley, J. (2005). China Hands: Nine Decades Of Adventure, Espionage, And Diplomacy In Asia.
  6. Levathes, L. (1996). When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433.
  7. Maccormack, G. (1996). The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Law (Spirit of the Laws).
  8. Snow, P. (1988). The Star Raft: China’s Encounter with Africa.
  9. Sommer, M. (2000). Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China (Law, Society, and Culture in China).
  10. Theiss, J. (2005). Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China.

Indonesia

  1. Koch, C. (1983). The Year of Living Dangerously.
  2. Vickers, A. (2005). A History of Modern Indonesia.
  3. Winchester, S. (2005). Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883.

Japan

  1. Allinson, G. (2004). Japan’s Postwar History, Second Edition.
  2. Lewis, C., Morton, W., & Olenik, J. (2004). Japan: Its History and Culture.

Pakistan

  1. Kux, D. (2001). The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000: Disenchanted Allies.

Vietnam

  1. Nguyen, K. (1999). Vietnam: A Long History (Knowlege of Vietnam).
  2. Race, J. (1973). War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province.

International Politics/Current Affairs

Africa

  1. Flint, J., & Waal, A. (2008). Darfur: A Short History of a Long War (African Arguments).
  2. Cheadle, D., & Prendergast, J. (2007). Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond.

China

  1. Alden, C. (2007). China in Africa: Partner, Competitor or Hegemon? (African Arguments).
  2. Andrews-Speed, A. (2002). The Strategic Implications of China’s Energy Needs (Adelphi Papers, 346).
  3. Broadman, H. (2007). Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s New Economic Frontier.
  4. Buderi, R., & Huang, G. (2006). Guanxi (The Art of Relationships): Microsoft, China, and Bill Gates’s Plan to Win the Road Ahead.
  5. Goldstein, M. (1999). The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama.
  6. Guerrero, D., & Manji, F. (2008). China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective.
  7. Kitissou, M. (2007). Africa in China’s Global Strategy (PB).
  8. Lampton, D., Ed. (2002). The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Reform Era.
  9. Liu, G. (2004). Chinese Foreign Policy in Transition.
  10. Manji, F., & Stephen, M. (2007). African Perspectives on China in Africa.
  11. Miyazaki, I. (1981). China’s Examination Hell: The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China.
  12. Taylor, I. (2006). China and Africa: Engagement and Compromise (Routledge Contemporary China).
  13. Winchester, S. (2008). The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom.
  14. Womack, B. (2006). China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry.

Cambodia

  1. Kiernan, B. (2002). The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79.
  2. Ung, L (2006). First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers.

General

  1. Rees, P. (2005). Dining with Terrorists: Meetings with the World’s Most Wanted Militants.
  2. Hagerty, David T. (2005). South Asia in World Politics.

Indonesia

  1. Dahlby, T. (2006). Allah’s Torch: A Report from Behind the Scenes in Asia’s War on Terror.
  2. Perwitz, A. (2007). Indonesia And the Muslim World: Islam And Secularism in the Foreign Policy of Soeharto And Beyond (Nias Reports).

Japan

  1. Allison, A. (2006). Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes).
  2. Iwabuchi, K. (2002). Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism.
  3. Zielenziger, M. (2007). Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation.

Singapore

  1. Oei, Anthony (1992). What If There Had Been No Lee Kwan Yew?
  2. Yew, L. (2000). From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000.

Linguistics

  1. DeFrancis, J. Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy.

 

Fiction

China

  1. Ch’Eng-En, W. (1994). Monkey: Folk Novel of China.
  2. Hsun, L. (2004). Selected Stories of Lu Hsun.
  3. Henricks, R. (1990). The Poetry of Han-Shan: A Complete, Annotated Translation of Cold Mountain (Suny Series in Buddhist Studies).

Vietnam

  1. Du, N. (1987). The Tale of Kieu: A bilingual edition of Nguyen Du`s Truyen Kieu.
  2. Hayslip, L., & Wurts, J. (1991). When Heaven and Earth Changed Places.
  3. Pham, A. (2000). Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam.

Korea

  1. Rutt, R. (1999). The Song of the Faithful Wife.

Religion/Philosophy

  1. Bennett, D. (2001). Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You.
  2. Dawkins, R. (2007). The God Delusion.
  3. Harris, S. (2008). Letter to a Christian Nation.
  4. Harris, S. (2005). The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.
  5. Hitchens, C. (2007). God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.
  6. Mcinerny, D. (2005). Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking.
  7. Norden, P., & Ivanhoe, B. (2006). Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy.

 

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