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Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan by Donald Keene
TODD SHIMODA | 03 July 2008
Even those only mildly interested in Japanese history, literature, or culture, will likely have heard of DONALD KEENE. A professor at Columbia University, he is an award-winning scholar and translator of Japanese literature, biographer of Emperor Meiji, and former columnist for the Asahi newspaper. Of course with any person who has achieved so much, it's difficult to encapsulate his accomplishments in a sentence, or in a complete list of publications, or even in a slim, modest autobiography.

Professor Keene's life is well summed by the subtitle of the book. Having been in Japan at the end of World War II as a Navy translator... [ more ]



Building Energy Efficiency: Why Green Buildings are Key to Asia's Future by Wen Hong / Madelaine Steller Chiang / Ruth A. Shapiro / Mark L. Clifford / Margarethe P. Laurenzi (editor)
DOUG OGDEN | 30 June 2008
BUILDING ENERGY EFFICIENCY: WHY GREEN BUILDINGS ARE KEY TO ASIA'S FUTURE, an Asia Business Council book, is an excellent, comprehensive primer on Asia's green building trend. More than half the world's new construction is underway in Asia, and the boom is accelerating: China plans to shift from 30 percent urban today to 70 percent urban by 2050, and will build some 400 new cities to house 600 million rural-to-urban migrants over that period. That is, China alone plans to construct new... [ more ]


PICO IYER
THE OPEN ROAD
reviewed by Terry Grose
29 June 2008

SHERRI L. SMITH
HOT, SOUR, SALTY, SWEET
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
25 June 2008

ALEXANDRA HARNEY
THE CHINA PRICE: THE TRUE COST OF CHINESE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
reviewed by Peter Gordon
22 June 2008
ALSO RECENT IN THE ASIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS

fiction
SHOTARO YASUOKA
THE GLASS SLIPPER AND OTHER STORIES
reviewed by Todd Shimoda
12 June 2008
MINGMEI YIP
PEACH BLOSSON PAVILION
reviewed by Peg Fong
31 May 2008
ADRIAAN VAN DIS
REPATRIATED
reviewed by Peter Gordon
28 May 2008
PREETA SAMARASAN
EVENING IS THE WHOLE DAY
reviewed by Vineetha Mokkil
13 May 2008
KATHERINE MIN
SECONDHAND WORLD
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
23 April 2008

non-fiction
ROWAN SIMONS
BAMBOO GOALPOSTS
reviewed by Kerry Brown
18 June 2008
MOYING LI
SNOW FALLING IN SPRING: COMING OF AGE IN CHINA DURING THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
15 June 2008
FUSCHIA DUNLOP
SHARK'S FIN AND SICHUAN PEPPER
reviewed by Peg Fong
09 June 2008
LAURENCE BERGREEN
MARCO POLO: FROM VENICE TO XANADU
reviewed by Peter Gordon
09 June 2008
MICHAEL KEEVAK
THE STORY OF A STELE: CHINA'S NESTORIAN MONUMENT AND ITS RECEPTION IN THE WEST, 1625-1916
reviewed by Tim O'Connell
05 June 2008

children's
HOLLY THOMPSON / KAZUMI WILDS (ILLUS.)
THE WAKAME GATHERERS
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
30 April 2008
MING AND WAH CHEN / MARIKO JESSE (ILLUS.)
LING LING LOOKED IN THE MIRROR
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
15 April 2008
YING CHANG COMPESTINE
REVOLUTION IS NOT A DINNER PARTY
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
02 March 2008
KAVITA DASWANI
INDIE GIRL
reviewed by Karmel Schreyer
09 February 2008
AMY LEE-TAI AND FELICIA HOSHINO (ILLUSTRATOR)
A PLACE WHERE SUNFLOWERS GROW
reviewed by Roseanne Thong
30 August 2006
BOOKS WIDELY REVIEWED IN OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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FICTION:
THE BOAT by NAM LE: the IHT - the IHT [2] - the Christian Science Monitor
A CASE OF EXPLODING MANGOES (US) by MOHAMMED HANIF: the IHT - the Economist - The Independent - The Guardian
SEA OF POPPIES by AMITAV GHOSH: the Economist - The Observer - The Independent
THE FINDER by COLIN HARRISON: the Economist - The Christian Science Monitor - The IHT
UNACCUSTOMED EARTH by JHUMPA LAHIRI: The Independent - The Guardian - The New York Review of Books - The IHT - the Christian Science Monitor
THE ENCHANTRESS OF FLORENCE by SALMAN RUSHDIE: the IHT - The Independent [2] - The Economist - The Guardian - The Independent
DEVIL MAY CARE by SEBASTIAN FAULKS: the IHT - the Economist - The Independent - The Observer
NON-FICTION:
SHARK'S FIN AND SICHUAN PEPPER; A SWEET-SOUR MEMOIR OF EATING IN CHINA by FUCHSIA DUNLOP: The Christian Science Monitor - The Guardian
MARCO POLO: FROM VENICE TO XANADU by LAURENCE BERGREEN: The Independent - The IHT - The Guardian
THE BILLIONAIRE'S VINEGAR: THE MYSTERY OF THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE BOTTLE OF WINE by BENJAMIN WALLACE: the IHT - The Economist - Business Week
THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD by FAREED ZAKARIA: the Christian Science Monitor - the Economist - the IHT - Business Week - The Observer
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE by ERROL MORRIS: The NY Review of Books - The Economist - The Observer - The Guardian
FATAL MISCONCEPTION: THE STRUGGLE TO CONTROL WORLD POPULATION by MATTHEW CONNELLY: the Economist - The IHT - the Christian Science Monitor
TERROR AND CONSENT: THE WARS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY by PHILIP BOBBITT: The Independent - The IHT - The Economist - The Guardian
BIOGRAPHY:
THE MAN WHO LOVED CHINA: THE FANTASTIC STORY OF THE ECCENTRIC SCIENTIST WHO UNLOCKED THE MYSTERIES OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOM by SIMON WINCHESTER: the IHT - the Economist - The Christian Science Monitor
THE OPEN ROAD: THE GLOBAL JOURNEY OF THE FOURTEENTH DALAI LAMA by PICO IYER: The New York Review of Books - The IHT - The Economist
NEGRO WITH A HAT: THE RISE AND FALL OF MARCUS GARVEY by COLIN GRANT: the IHT - The Independent - The Guardian
WORLD IS WHAT IT IS; THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF V.S. NAIPAUL by PATRICK FRENCH: The Economist - The Independent - The Guardian
GIG; THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A ROCK-STAR FANTASIST by SIMON ARMITAGE: The Independent - The Guardian - The Independent
ASIAN FICTION:
THE BOAT by NAM LE: the IHT - the IHT [2] - the Christian Science Monitor
A CASE OF EXPLODING MANGOES (US) by MOHAMMED HANIF: the IHT - the Economist - The Independent - The Guardian
THE ENCHANTRESS OF FLORENCE by SALMAN RUSHDIE: the IHT - The Independent [2] - The Economist - The Guardian - The Independent
SEA OF POPPIES by AMITAV GHOSH: the Economist - The Observer - The Independent
THE FINDER by COLIN HARRISON: the Economist - The Christian Science Monitor - The IHT
UNACCUSTOMED EARTH by JHUMPA LAHIRI: The Independent - The Guardian - The New York Review of Books - The IHT - the Christian Science Monitor
WOLF TOTEM by JIANG RONG: the IHT - The Guardian - The Independent
ASIAN NON-FICTION:
SHARK'S FIN AND SICHUAN PEPPER; A SWEET-SOUR MEMOIR OF EATING IN CHINA by FUCHSIA DUNLOP: The Christian Science Monitor - The Guardian
MARCO POLO: FROM VENICE TO XANADU by LAURENCE BERGREEN: The Independent - The IHT - The Guardian
THE OPEN ROAD: THE GLOBAL JOURNEY OF THE FOURTEENTH DALAI LAMA by PICO IYER: The New York Review of Books - The IHT - The Economist
RECONCILIATION: ISLAM, DEMOCRACY, AND THE WEST by BENAZIR BHUTTO: The Independent - The IHT - The Economist - The Guardian
WORLD IS WHAT IT IS; THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF V.S. NAIPAUL by PATRICK FRENCH: The Economist - The Independent - The Guardian

 

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