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Eastern Asia
China, Hong Kong, Macao, DPR of Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Republic of Korea, Taiwan
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Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War by Zhuqing Li

Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War

Zhuqing Li

368 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598 by Kenneth M. Swope

A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598

Campaigns and Commanders #20

Kenneth M. Swope

432 pages • 2009

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China by Samuel Hawley

The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China

Samuel Hawley

684 pages • paperback • 2005

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Hiroshima by John Hersey

Hiroshima

John Hersey

5 hours, 24 minutes • audio • 1946

nonfiction classics history dark informative sad medium-paced
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick

314 pages • hardcover • 2009

nonfiction history politics dark informative sad medium-paced
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Iris Chang

8 hours, 4 minutes • audio • 1997

nonfiction history dark informative sad slow-paced
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain

The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future

Geoffrey Cain

288 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction history politics technology dark informative medium-paced
The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee, David John

The Girl with Seven Names

Hyeonseo Lee, David John

320 pages • hardcover • 2014

nonfiction biography memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Herbert P. Bix

832 pages • hardcover • 2000

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau

The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

Marie Favereau

304 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction history adventurous informative medium-paced