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	Insight Guide East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan  •   Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2001 •  PAPER  • 412 PAGES An illustrated guide to the history, culture and traditions of China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan featuring 250 color photographs and 16 maps. (ASA27, $24.95)
	Insight Guide Vietnam  •  Helen West  •  Scott Rutherford GUIDEBOOK •  2005 •  PAPER  • 381 PAGES A volume in the award-winning Insight series, this guide is noted for its wonderful photography, superb production and informative short essays. It is a highly recommended introduction to Vietnamese history and culture -- as well as a good overview of popular destinations. (VNM02, $23.95)
	Understanding China, A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Politics  •  John Bryan Starr HISTORY •  2001 •  PAPER  • 356 PAGES John Bryan Starr, a professor of history and former director of the China Association, brings his classroom experience to this admirably brief, clearheaded introduction to contemporary China. Revised edition. (CHN196, $16.00)
	The Inland Sea  •  Donald Richie TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 255 PAGES • FAVORITE Richie's book, on its surface a travel account, is a beautiful reflection on all things Japanese by one of the country's most acute observers. Anyone with an interest in Japan would enjoy this book, those on a voyage through the inland sea even more so. Written after many decades in Japan, The Inland Sea is among the best of the master's many books. Arturo Silva, who edited the Donald Richie Reader, calls it his masterpiece (and a work of fiction). (JPN13, $16.95)

	China Map  •   International Travel Maps    •  A double-sided, shaded-relief map of China, at a useful scale of 1:3,800,000, indexed with an inset map of central Beijing. (CHN06, $11.95)
	Vietnam Map  •   ITMB    •  A detailed travel map of Vietnam at a scale of 1:1,000,000. (VNM05, $10.95)
	Fodor's Exploring China  •  Christopher Knowles   • GUIDEBOOK • BEST SELLER  •  This excellent guidebook, featuring maps and color photos, brings old and new China to life, with sections on places to visit, a useful language guide and practical information for getting around. (CHN25, $22.00)
	Fodor's Hong Kong's 25 Best  •   Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A shirt-pocket guide and map. (HKG09, $11.95)
	Fodor's See It Vietnam  •   Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact, well-illustrated of Vietnam and its attractions. With good information on what to see and where to eat, sleep, and shop. (VNM84, $23.95)
	Insight Pocket Guide Hanoi  •   Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A handy full-color guide to the city with a pull-out map. Features recommendations for dining, shopping and sightseeing with an overview of the city's highlights. (VNM71, $13.95)
	Lonely Planet Beijing  •  Damian Harper   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This practical guide to Beijing features maps, an overview of culture, history and nature, and a good deal of nuts-and-bolts information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. There's even a section on the locally spoken dialect of Mandarin. (CHN47, $18.99)
	Lonely Planet Shanghai  •  Bradley Mayhew   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide to Shanghai featuring maps and detailed information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. With a few color photographs and excellent travel information. (CHN91, $19.99)
	Lonely Planet Vietnamese Phrasebook  •  Nguyen Xuanthu   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A palm-sized guide to pronunciation, grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (VNM20, $8.99)
	National Geographic Traveler China  •  Damian Harper   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A generously illustrated guide to China with the usual National Geographic attention to maps and photographs. With a 50-page appendix of practical travel information. (CHN163, $27.95)
	A Traveller's History of Japan  •  Richard Tames   • HISTORY  •  A lively and concise narrative history of Japan and its transformation from Shinto, Shogun and Samurai traditions to 20th-century powerhouse. (JPN09, $14.95)
	China, A New History  •  John Fairbank  •  Merle Goldman   • HISTORY  •  A sweeping history of China from the Paleolithic to Tiananmen, revised with a new chapter by Merle Goldman. A standard for history buffs. (CHN11, $22.50)
	China, Inc. How the Rise of the Next Superpower Changes America and the World  •  Ted C. Fishman   • HISTORY  •  An economist and former commodities trader, Ted Fishman draws on statistics, case studies and interviews in this lively economic history and guide to understanding China's spectacular economic growth and future prospects. (CHN305, $16.00)
	Hiroshima  •  John Hersey   • HISTORY  •  Never sensational, this classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Hersey, first published in 1946, puts a human face on the unthinkable. Hersey explores the tragedy through interviews with residents, scientists and politicians. (JPN20, $7.50)
	Hong Kong  •  Jan Morris   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • FAVORITE  •  A wonderful portrait of Hong Kong by one of our favorite writers. Morris enumerates the many personal pleasures of the city, deftly interweaving reportage, history and culture. (HKG02, $17.00)
	Inventing Japan, 1853-1964  •  Ian Buruma   • HISTORY  •  A favorite writer, Buruma offers admirably succinct, dramatic history of Japan's transformation from feudal state to host of the 1964 Olympics, with focus on World War II. (JPN139, $12.95)
	Life and Death in Shanghai  •  Nien Cheng   • HISTORY  •  A plainly told account of the horrors that took place during the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai, from an author who was a six-year political prisoner. (CHN42, $16.00)
	The Forbidden City, Center of Imperial China  •  Gilles Beguin  •  Dominique Morel   • HISTORY  •  This slim volume is packed with maps, archival photographs and illustrations. With a useful chronology and a carefully chosen selection of writings over the ages, it's an indispensable guide to the Forbidden City and the history of imperial China. (CHN32, $12.95)
	Understanding Vietnam  •  Neil Jamieson   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Jamieson's ambitious primer addresses politics, social history, village life, structural renewal, literature and the arts, illuminating the Vietnamese worldview with insight and depth. It's the single best introduction to Vietnam. (VNM01, $25.95)
	Vietnam Today: A Guide to a Nation at a Crossroads  •  Mark Ashwill  •  Thai Ngoc Diep   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A practical guide to the politics, culture and getting along in contemporary Vietnam. (VNM80, $24.95)
	World Religions: Eastern Traditions  •  Willard G. Oxtoby   • RELIGION  •  A clear and insightful introduction to Eastern religions by a team of scholars, covering Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist and East Asian traditions. Scholarly, but still rewarding for the general reader. (ASA07, $62.95)
	In Praise of Shadows  •  Junichiro Tanizaki  •  Thomas J. Harper  •  Edward G. Seidensticker   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This essay by the great Japanese novelist, first published in 1933, offers tremendous insight into Japanese aesthetics. It's an earthy meditation on traditional Japanese art, architecture and design. Most illuminating. (JPN19, $9.95)
	Search for Ancient China  •  Corinne Debaine-Francfort   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  With information on everything from jewelry to emperors' tombs, the Great Wall and the dazzling 400-year Han empire, this shirt-pocket survey of discovery features 150 illustrations. (CHN69, $12.95)
	The Arts of China  •  Michael Sullivan   • ART & ARCHITECTURE • COMING IN NOVEMBER  •  A comprehensive survey of Chinese visual arts and culture through the ages. It's a lively overview, thoroughly illustrated and accessible, of bronzes, ceramics, painting and architecture, from the Neolithic to the modern era. (CHN16, $39.95)
	The Gardens of Japan  •  Teiji Itoh   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This beautifully illustrated overview of the history and tradition of gardens features 75 color photographs and astute essays. With a guide to 50 popular and representative gardens. (JPN38, $60.00)
	Dispatches  •  Michael Herr   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Journalist Michael Herr looks back at his time as a war correspondent in Vietnam. More a collection of thoughts, stories and impressions than a straightforward memoir, the book is a visceral account of the experience of war and its effect on the men who fight in it. (VNM03, $12.95)
	Earth and Water, Encounters in Vietnam  •  Edith Shillue   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Shillue, an English professor, reflects on the people, culture and history of the country in this meditative account of experiences and encounters in Vietnam as a teacher and traveler in the 1990s. (VNM79, $24.95)
	Golden Boy, Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood  •  Martin Booth   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Booth writes with warmth of his youthful rambles in this sharp-eyed, affectionate memoir of coming of age in colonial Hong Kong. The book is a portrait of place, of a lost time, and most especially of his friends and family. (HKG23, $14.00)
	Korea, A Walk Through the Land of Miracles  •  Simon Winchester   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Winchester, in his familiar and engaging style, blends travel, history and reporting in this insightful account of a walk across Korea in 1988. With a map and black-and-white photographs. (KOR16, $13.95)
	Learning to Bow, Inside the Heart of Japan  •  Bruce Feiler   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  As surprising, helpful and informative as it is funny, this is an insightful account of travels and teaching in Japan. Feiler presents anecdotes on the rituals, personality traits and cultural peccadilloes of the Japanese. (JPN111, $13.95)
	The Sacred Willow, Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family  •  Duong Van Mai Elliott   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A vivid family saga, beginning with the author's great-grandfather, that captures the life and momentous history of Vietnam over the last 100 years. (VNM39, $23.95)
	Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China  •  Jung Chang   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAVORITE  •  A riveting tale of three generations, spanning the end of Old China, Mao's regime and the Japanese occupation. Chang chronicles the enormous changes in China since 1929 through her family's story, which includes arrest during the Cultural Revolution, exile to the Sichuan wilderness and coming to terms with the bewildering state of China today. (CHN04, $16.00)
	Vietnam, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  John Balaban  •  Nguyen Qui Duc   • ANTHOLOGY  •  These 17 stories from Vietnam's finest modern writers explore the country's landscapes, mythology and changing traditions. (VNM04, $14.95)
	Empress Orchid  •  Anchee Min   • LITERATURE  •  In this novel of the glorious, decadent last days of 19th-Century Imperial China, Min (Red Azalea, Becoming Madame Mao) combines her tale of a young girl from the provinces who marries an emperor -- and then improbably becomes the Last Empress -- with a lovingly re-created portrait of life in the Forbidden City. (CHN267, $14.00)
	The Quiet American  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE • FAVORITE  •  A classic, this is the most famous western work of fiction on Vietnam. Greene writes of a love triangle between a war correspondent, his Vietnamese consort and an optimistic young American during the last days of French rule. (VNM08, $15.00)
	Wild Asia, Spirit of a Continent  •  Mark Brazil  •  Art Wolfe   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A lavishly illustrated survey of the wildlife and habitats of Asia, organized by bioregion. With 180 color photographs by Art Wolfe, Mitsuaki Iwago and others, it covers the diverse plants, animals and landscapes of the Himalayas, India, Indonesia, Korea, Japan and the Russian Far East. (ASA33, $49.95)
	A Field Guide to the Birds of China  •  John MacKinnon  •  Karen Phillipps   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive field guide to the birds of China, featuring 128 color plates illustrating 1300 species of birds. Contains introductory chapters on the history of ornithology in China, biogeography, and conservation. (CHN85, $116.25)
	A Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia  •  Craig Robson   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive guide to 1,250 birds found in Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Features 104 color plates, good descriptive text, range maps and introductory chapters on habitats, conservation and bird watching in the region. (SEA22, $85.00)
	A Photographic Guide to the Birds of China  •  John MacKinnon  •  Nigel Hicks   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A slim pocket guide to 252 of the most conspicuous birds of China. (CHN29, $15.95)
	Birds of Southeast Asia  •  Craig Robson   • FIELD GUIDE • COMING IN OCTOBER  •  Featuring 140 color plates, authoritative text and range maps. (SEA49, $35.00)

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