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Crysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
by Ruth Benedict
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
by John W. Dower
Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family
by Duong Van Mai Elliott
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Chile, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Cultures
by Anne Fadiman
The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named
by John Keay
Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
From Third World To First: The Singapore Story, 1965 - 2000
by Lee Kuan Yew
The Singapore Story: Memories of Lee Kuan Yew
by Lee Kuan Yew
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
by Bradley M. Martin
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Loung Ung
