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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 ]
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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 ]
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