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General Asia

(Un )Tying the Knot by Gavin W. Jones (Editor); Kamalini Ramdas (Editor)
Call Number: HQ663 .A85 2004 (General Collection)
Asia Inside Out: Connected Places by Eric Tagliacozzo; Helen F. Siu; Peter C. Perdue
Call Number: DS5.9 .A74 2015 (General Collection)
Christianities in Asia by Peter C. Phan (Editor)
Call Number: BR1065 .C45 2011 (General Collection)
Ethnic Chinese Business in Asia: History, Culture and Business Enterprise by Qinghuang Yan
Martial Arts As Embodied Knowledge by Farrer Whalen-Bridge; D. S. Farrer (Editor); John Whalen-Bridge (Editor)
The Religious Traditions of Asia: Religion, History, and Culture by Joseph M. Kitagawa (Editor)
Traditional Customary Laws and Indigenous Peoples in Asia
Call Number: KM88 .R69 2005 (Oversize Collection)
Vanishing Beauty: Indigenous Body Art and Decoration by Bertie Winkel
Call Number: GN419.15 .W55 2006 (Oversize Collection)

Southeast Asia

The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Postgenocide Indonesia by Rachmi Diyah Larasati
Eating Her Curries and Kway: A Cultural History of Food in Singapore by Nicole Tarulevicz
A History of Cambodia by David Chandler
Call Number: DS554.5 .C46 2007 (General Collection)
A History of Southeast Asia by Arthur Cotterell
Music in Mainland Southeast Asia: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture by Gavin Douglas
Call Number: ML330 .D68 2010 (General Collection)
The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today: Ethnography, Ethnology, and Change in a Complex Region by Robert L. Winzeler
Call Number: GN635.S58 W46 2011 (General Collection)
Southeast Asia in World History by Craig Lockard
Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia by C. W. Watson (Editor); Roy Ellen (Editor)
Call Number: BF1584.A785 U53 1993 (General Collection)

South Asia

Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civilization
Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia: Magic and Modernity by Volker Gottowik (Editor)
Everyday Life in South Asia
Call Number: DS339 .E94 2002 (General Collection)
The Grace of Four Moons by Pravina Shukla
Call Number: GT1460 .S55 2008 (General Collection)
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai; Christina Lamb (As told to)
Call Number: LC2330 .Y69 2013 ( General Collection)
Islam in South Asia: A Short History by Jamal Malik
South Asian Media Cultures: Audiences, Representations, Contexts
Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India by Narendra Jadhav
Call Number: HB126.I43 J3313 2005 (General Collection)
Violence against Women in South Asian Communities: Issues for Policy and Practice

East Asia

Blackwell History of the World by David W. Russell
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory: Class, Ethnicity, and Productivity on the Shop Floor in Globalizing China by Jaesok Kim
Contemporary China: A History since 1978 by Yongnian Zheng (Editor)
The Devouring Dragon: How China's Rise Threatens Our Natural World by Craig Simons
Call Number: GE190.C6 S55 2013 (General Collection)
Drugging a Nation: The Story of China and the Opium Curse by Samuel Merwin
Ethnicity in China: A Critical Introduction by Xiaowei Zang
Call Number: DS730 .Z364 2015 (General Collection)
Freeing Tibet: 50 Years of Struggle, Resilience, and Hope by John B. Roberts; Elizabeth A. Roberts
Call Number: DS786 .R568 2009 (General Collection)
From Moon Cakes to Mao to Modern China by Zhu Fayuan; Wu Qixin; Xia Hanning; Gao Han
Call Number: DS721.Z483 2014 (General Collection)
Gugak: Traditional Korean Music Today by Chung-gang Yun
Call Number: ML3752.6 .Y86 2014 (General Collection)
I Stand Corrected: How teaching Western Manners in China Became its Own Unforgettable Lesson by Eden Collinsworth
Call Number: HF5389 .C653 2014 (General Collection)
Japan: A Concise History by Milton W. Meyer
Japan Emerging: Premodern History To 1850 by Karl F. Friday
Japanese Family in Transition: From the Professional Housewife Ideal to the Dilemmas of Choice by Steven K. Vogel
Call Number: HQ682 .V65 2013 (General Collection)
Japanese Tattooing Now by Michael McCabe
Call Number: GT2346.J3 M33 2005 (General Collection)
The Korean Popular Culture Reader by Kyung Hyun Kim (Editor); Youngmin Choe (Editor)
Call Number: DS916.27 .K68 2014 (General Collection)
No Enemies, No Hatred by Xiaobo Liu; Perry Link; Tienchi Martin-Liao (Editor); Xia Liu (Editor)
Call Number: PL2879.X53 A2 2012 (General Collection)
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Call Number: HN730.6.A8 D46 2010 (General Collection)
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
Call Number: DS796.N2 C44 1997 (General Collection)
Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide by Andrew Rankin
Call Number: HV6548.J3 R36 2011 (General Collection)
Two Republics in China : How Imperial China Became the PRC by X. L. Woo
Understanding Japanese Society by Joy Hendry
Call Number: HN723.5 .H46 2012 (General Collection)
Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan's Unending Postwar by Akiko Takenaka
Call Number: BL2225.T62 Y37745 2015 (General Collection)