Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

Stephen R. Platt

Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India

Lawrence James

The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty (The Cambridge China Library)

Mao Haijian

The Art of Chinese Poetry

James J.Y. Liu

Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World

Matt Alt

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

Amy Stanley

Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite

Suki Kim

The Korean War

Max Hastings

Red Azalea: A Memoir

Anchee Min

The Story of China: A portrait of a civilisation and its people

Michael Wood

Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan

Giles Milton

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

Xinran Xinran

Eighteen Layers of Hell: Stories from the Chinese Gulag (Global Issues (Asian Studies))

Kate Saunders

In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians: A Story of Suppression, Secrecy and Survival

John Dougill

Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism

Edgar Snow

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu

A History of Cambodia

David P. Chandler

The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China

Pu Yi

The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

Xinran Xinran

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Jung Chang

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Iris Chang