A New Take on Cold War Relations & the Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco: Academic Best Sellers on Asian History

A masterful history of the encounters between Greece and India; a fresh appraisal of the Cold War; and a revelatory account of an overlooked part of Chinese history top the list of best-selling Asian History books, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

A masterful history of the encounters between Greece and India; a fresh appraisal of the Cold War; and a revelatory account of an overlooked part of Chinese history top the list of best-selling Asian History books, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

1. Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks
Stoneman, Richard
Princeton University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780691154039. $39.95.

2. Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan
Miller, Jennifer M.
Harvard University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780674976344. $45.

3. White Devil's Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
Siler, Julia Flynn
Alfred A. Knopf. 2019. ISBN 9781101875261. $28.95.

4. Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po)
Jin, Ha
Pantheon. 2019. ISBN 9781524747411. $28.

5. White Lotus War: Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China
Dai, Yingcong
University of Washington Press. 2019. ISBN 9780295745459. $60.

6. China Imagined: From European Fantasy to Spectacular Power
Lee, Gregory B.
C Hurst & Co. 2018. ISBN 9781787380165. $24.95.

7. Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History
Kim, Monica
Princeton University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780691166223. $35.

8. Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat
Spengler, Robert N.
University Of California Press. 2019. ISBN 9780520303638. $34.95.

9. What Is Japanese Cinema? A History
Yomota, Inuhiko
Columbia University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780231191623. $80.

10. Samurai: A Concise History
Wert, Michael
Oxford University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780190932947. $18.95.

11. Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War
Yellen, Jeremy A.
Cornell University Press. 2019. ISBN 9781501735547. $45.

12. Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
Chang, Gordon H.
Stanford University Press. 2019. ISBN 9781503608290. $90.

13. Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan
Lavery, Jos
Princeton University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780691183626. $45.

14. Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
Fifield, Anna
Public Affairs. 2019. ISBN 9781541742482. $28.

15. American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War
Williams, Duncan Ryuken
Belknap Harvard. 2019. ISBN 9780674986534. $29.95.

16. Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
Chang, Gordon H.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2019. ISBN 9781328618573. $28.

17. China and Japan: Facing History
Vogel, Ezra F.
Belknap Harvard. 2019. ISBN 9780674916579. $39.95.

18. Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
Zia, Helen
Ballantine. 2019. ISBN 9780345522320. $28.

19. Chinese Architecture: A History
Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman
Princeton University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780691169989. $65.

20. Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry
Yau, Shing-Tung
Yale University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780300235906. $28.

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