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The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan EDITED BY MATT POTTINGER. Hoover Institution Press, 2024, 288 pp. Pottinger, a former senior aide in the Trump administration, convenes an impressive [...]

The Dalai Lama's Special Envoy: Memoirs of a Lifetime in Pursuit of a Reunited Tibet BY LODI GYALTSEN GYARI. Columbia University Press, 2022, 800 pp. For a quarter century, Lodi [...]

From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia BY DAN SLATER AND JOSEPH WONG. Princeton University Press, 2022, 368 pp. Slater and Wong ask why economic development does not [...]

Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s BY JULIAN GEWIRTZ. Harvard University Press, 2022, 432 pp. On a visit to China in the summer of 1988, [...]

India Before Modi: How the BJP Came to Power BY VINAY SITAPATI. Hurst, 2021, 400 pp. Since the 1920s, Hindu nationalists in India have labored to create a political arm [...]

A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific BY T. J. PEMPEL. Cornell University Press, 2021, 252 pp. Pempel comprehensively analyzes the growth strategies of ten econo mies [...]

China's Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia BY DANIEL S. MARKEY. Oxford University Press, 2020, 336 pp. Protecting China's Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy BY ANDREA [...]

The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order BY RUSH DOSHI. Oxford University Press, 2021, 432 pp. Stronger: Adapting America's China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence [...]

To Kill a Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism BY DEBASISH ROY CHOWDHURY AND JOHN KEANE. Oxford University Press, 2021, 336 pp. Acombination of investigative reporting and political theory, this probing [...]

Infiltrating Society: The Thai Military's Internal Security Affairs BY PUANGTHONG PAWAKAPAN. ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2021, 182 pp. It takes not just skill but also courage for a Thailand-based scholar to [...]

China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption BY YUEN YUEN ANG. Cambridge University Press, 2020, 266 pp. Economists often claim that corruption hurts an economy, but [...]

How China Loses: The Pushback Against Chinese Global Ambitions BY LUKE PATEY Oxford University Press, 2021, 400 pp. The Emperor's New Road: China and the Project of the Century BY [...]

Democracy in China: The Coming Crisis BY JIWEI CI. Harvard University Press, 2019, 432 pp. There is a Chinese saying about the audacity of negotiating with a tiger for its [...]

Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression, and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre BY YANG su. Cambridge University Press, 2023, 330 pp. Surejects the conventional view--based partly on The Tiananmen [...]

Ideology and Organization in Communist China BY FRANZ SCHURMANN. University of California Press, 1966, 642 pp. Asian Power and Politics: The Cultural Dimensions of Authority BY LUCIAN W. PYE WITH [...]

Authoritarian Advance: Responding to China's Growing Political Influence in Europe BY THORSTEN BENNER, JAN GASPERS, MAREIKE OHLBERG, LUCREZIA POGGETTI, AND KRISTIN SHI-KUPFER. Global Public Policy Institute and Mercator Institute for [...]

Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other' BY FRANCIS WADE. Zed Books, 2017, 304 pp. Wade's probing reportage exposes the historical and cultural roots of [...]

Rising China's Influence in Developing Asia EDITED BY EVELYN GOH. Oxford University Press, 2016, 304 pp. Even as China's power increases, the country does not always get what it wants [...]

Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline, From Obama to Trump and Beyond BY GIDEON RACHMAN. Other Press, 2017, 320 pp. As the Financial Times' chief foreign affairs commentator, Rachman has [...]

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap BY YUEN YUEN ANG. Cornell University Press, 2016, 344 pp. Centrifugal Empire: Central-Local Relations in China BY JAE HO CHUNG. Columbia University Press, 2016, […]

Strategic Coupling: East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy BY HENRY WAI-CHUNG YEUNG. Cornell University Press, 2016, 312 pp. The theory of the 'developmental state' has shaped understandings [...]

Line of Advantage: Japan's Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzo BY MICHAEL J. GREEN. Columbia University Press, 2022, 328 pp. Green knows Japanese foreign policy like few others. [...]

Daniel A. Bell, The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015), 336 pp' $29.95. The ideological competition between democracy and authoritarianism was [...]

Martin Jacques, When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order. (New York: Penguin Press, 2009), 576 pp., $29.95. Will [...]

Robert S. Ross and Jiang Changbin, editors. Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954-1973. Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001. XV, 504 pp. Hardcover $60.00, ISBN 0-674-00524-4. [...]

China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy by Kay Ann Johnson. University of Chicago Press, 2016, 224 pp. Johnson, an adoptive parent, set out [...]

Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism edited by jeremy brown and matthew d. johnson. Harvard University Press, 2015, 480 pp. A new generation of [...]

The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World BY HO-FUNG HUNG. Columbia University Press, 2015, 264 pp. Hung masterfully integrates wide-ranging historical and economic details to make sense […]

Does ASEAN Matter? A View From Within BY MARTY NATALEGAWA. ISEAS--Yusof Ishak Institute, 2018, 258 pp. Natalegawa, a former Indonesian foreign minister, is a strong believer in the value of [...]

Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China BY SHEILA A. SMITH. Columbia University Press, 2015, 384 pp. $40.00. One might expect close trade ties and a common interest [...]