Nonfiction - Asian Reads

Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hess...

In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a qu...

The Life of Yakoob Beg; Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have ...

The Indians is one of the most ambitious projects yet undertaken to map the origins, evolution, and present-day reality of India's civilization an...

The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame no Uzume is the first complete English translation of Ame no Uzume den (1991) by one ...

On 28 February 1968, on an impoverished plateau on the Coromandel Coast of south India, about 4,000 people from around the world gathered for a mos...

Shunsuke Tsurumi (1922-2015), the author, was a Japanese-leading philosopher, cultural and intellectual historian, sociologist, critic, editor and ...

"One of the most brilliant and original essayists in any language" (Washington Post Book World) reflects on the six years he spent in India as Mexi...

Ever felt like chucking it all and moving to an island paradise? Award-winning journalist David Haldane and his Filipino wife, Ivy, met on an inter...

Throughout her career, Elizabeth Bowen, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer, also wrote literary essays that display a shrewd, generous...

A collection of thirty heartfelt, witty, and hopeful thought pieces "that highlights the humanity and multitudes of being Asian American" (Kirkus R...

A Japanese designer offers a compelling alternative way to engage with our possessions, our history, our environment, and each other. The Japanese ...