Asian History

Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female war...

When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start up the first full-time China bureau for Marketplace, the daily business a...

Beginning in the 1920s thousands of Chinese revolutionaries set out for Soviet Russia. Once there, they studied Russian language and experienced So...

The epic story of the British construction of the railways in India, as told by Britain''''s bestselling transport historian.''''Christian Wolmar i...

In the first half of the nineteenth century the Qing Empire faced a crisis. It was broadly perceived both inside and outside of government that the...

Reconstructions of Jesus occurred in Asia long before the Western search for the historical Jesus began in earnest. This enterprise sprang up in se...

Hardly more than a decade old, the twenty-first century has already been dubbed the Asian Century in recognition of China and Indias increasing imp...

In the opening days of World War II, a joint U.S.-Filipino army fought desperately to defend Manila Bay and the Philippines against a Japanese i...

Vietnam's Year of the Rat explores the lunar New Year 1960 and the dynamic relationship between two competing groups vying for control in the Re...

A Marine Corps recruiter returns to his old stamping grounds to speak with some of the men he enlisted, their families, and the families of othe...

C.M. (Mary) Turnbull's contributions to historical writing on Singapore extended from her 1962 thesis, published in 1972 as The Straits Settlements...

Assassination - in Japanese, ansatsu or dark murder - was instrumental in the samurai-led revolution known as the Meiji Restoration, by which the s...

In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his ret...

'An exciting, highly informative and also enjoyable read: Shepherd writes with clarity and verve this book should find its way into the hands of al...

U.S. Navy Supply Corps Ensign Ross Hofmann had no idea what was in store for him when he arrived at Cavite Naval Base in October 1941. Two months l...

The first to admit that he did not volunteer for military service, Myrrl W. McBride, Sr., was just a young man trying to work and return to coll...

A fascinating look at the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of CambodiaA richly detailed study that goes a long w...

Between the well-documented development of colonial Bombay and sprawling contemporary Mumbai, a profound shift in the citys fabric occurred: the em...

A non-fiction thriller by international bestselling author Blaine Harden (Escape from Camp 14) that explores the world's most repressive state thro...