HISTORY / Asia / General

Victorious in Defeat

The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975

by Alexander V. Pantsov

Translated by Steven I. Levine

Pacific Power Paradox

American Statecraft and the Fate of the Asian Peace

by Van Jackson

How Asia Found Herself

A Story of Intercultural Understanding

by Nile Green

Iran

A Modern History

by Abbas Amanat

The End of the Asian Century

War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region

by Michael R. Auslin

Against the Grain

A Deep History of the Earliest States

by James C. Scott

The Lost World of Byzantium

by Jonathan Harris

Samurai and the Culture of Japan’s Great Peace

by Fabian Drixler, William D. Fleming and Robert George Wheeler

Bridge Across Broken Time

Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory

by Vera Schwarcz

Russian Orientalism

Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration

by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art

Edited by Adriana Proser

Contributions by Susan Beningson, Janice Leoshko, D. Max Moerman, Katherine Paul, Ian Reader, Robert Stoddard, Donald Swearer and Chün-fang Yü

Thailand

A Short History; Second Edition

by David K. Wyatt

Jihad

The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia

by Ahmed Rashid

Legal and Administrative Texts from the Reign of Nabonidus

Yale Oriental Series, Babylonian Texts

by Paul-Alain Beaulieu

Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World

by John Larner

Urban Form and Meaning in South Asia

The Shaping of Cities from Prehistoric to Precolonial Times

Studies in the History of Art Series

Edited by Howard Spodek and Doris Srinasan