1Cai_Tippett
I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for South Asian and Southeast Asian non-fiction?
2lilisin
I haven't read too many nonfiction about South Asia (yet) as I'm currently focusing on communism in China but out of the books I've personally read I can recommend the following:
Thant Myint-U : The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and Democracy in the 21st Century
- title is self-explanatory
- he also has two other nonfiction about Burma including a more personal account which might be of interest
Loung Ung : First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
- memoir about a woman who survived the Khmer Rouge
These two are about the Japanese during WWII but they take place in the Philippines so I included them.
Lester I. Tenney : My Hitch in Hell (Potomac's Memories of War)
- Lester Tenney recounts his experience as a POW to the Japanese while in the Philippinesa; includes the Bhataan Death March
Hiroo Onoda : No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
- fascinating memoir from a Japanese soldier who refused to believe the Japanese had surrendered and so continued to fight for 30 years in the Philippines after the end of the war
Thant Myint-U : The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and Democracy in the 21st Century
- title is self-explanatory
- he also has two other nonfiction about Burma including a more personal account which might be of interest
Loung Ung : First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
- memoir about a woman who survived the Khmer Rouge
These two are about the Japanese during WWII but they take place in the Philippines so I included them.
Lester I. Tenney : My Hitch in Hell (Potomac's Memories of War)
- Lester Tenney recounts his experience as a POW to the Japanese while in the Philippinesa; includes the Bhataan Death March
Hiroo Onoda : No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
- fascinating memoir from a Japanese soldier who refused to believe the Japanese had surrendered and so continued to fight for 30 years in the Philippines after the end of the war
3Belami2024
I would recommend "Around India in 80 Trains" by Monisha Rajesh.
I think the title is self-explanatory.
I think the title is self-explanatory.
7Belami2024
>4 LyzzyBee: That's interesting. From the title, I expect it's to do with trains?
8LyzzyBee
>7 Belami2024: Yes, her "thing" is to go on train journeys and write about them, and here she went for night trains. It's also written after she had two children, so there are reflections on travelling with and without your family. Really good.
9elkiedee
I've read two books by Monisha Rajesh - I still have to read her India book, but Around the World in 80 trains also includes stories of travelling in Asia, including quite a lot on China. And her latest book, published earlier this year, Moonlight Express includes a chapter on a trip on the Shalimar Express, a sleeper service in India.
