Nonfiction - Asian Reads

China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international prese...

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of th...

A 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income, and best-assimilated racial group i...

With a history stretching back nearly 1,500 years, written works originating from Japan encompass a vast range of forms and genres. Since the eight...

The eleven countries of Southeast Asia are diverse in every way, from the ethnicities and religions of their residents to their political systems...

In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russi...

Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe m...

India is widely recognized as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivaling China in terms of global influe...