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HIGHLIGHTS BASIC TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA In this vibrant introductory guide, Glenn Wallis selects sixteen essential dialogues drawn from more than five thousand Pali-dialect suttas of the Buddhist canon. PAGE 1

DRIVEN OUT The brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten episode in our nation’s past. PAGE 7

GANDHI & CHURCHILL In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire. PAGE 4

LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF PEACE Written from 1968 until her killing in 1970, the words of a young, idealistic doctor’s diary give us fresh insight into the lives of the Vietcong during the Vietnam War. PAGE 10

THE SOUVENIR After finding a box containing letters her father had written to her mother during World War II, as well as a Japanese flag bearing a profound inscription, the author embarks on a mission to discover what happened to her father and the men of his Twenty-fifth Infantry. PAGE 9

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BASIC TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA

By Buddha Translated by Glenn Wallis

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n Basic Teachings of the Buddha, Glenn Wallis selects sixteen essential dialogues drawn from more than five thousand Pali-dialect suttas of the Buddhist canon. The result is a vibrant introductory guide to studying Buddhist thought, applying its principles to everyday life, and gaining a deeper understanding of Buddhist themes in modern literature. Focusing on the most crucial topics for today’s readers, Wallis presents writings that address modern psychological, religious, ethical, and philosophical concerns. This practical, inspiring, and engaging volume provides an overview of the history of Buddhism and an illuminating analysis of the core writings that personalizes the suttas for each reader.

“In this masterful new commentary on the earliest Buddhist writings, Professor Wallis challenges us with sixteen propositions about human existence itself. Only in this way, he asserts, can modern readers appreciate the Buddha’s analysis of the two trajectories facing human beings—toward pain or toward peace. Wallis offers fresh translations and a reader’s guide to sixteen discourses that eloquently illustrate these choices and their implications for our time. All this is introduced by the author’s learned reflection on the idiom, meaning, and historical evolution of the Dhamma, Buddha’s deepest insights. Glenn Wallis brings wisdom and compassion to this work of scholarship. Everyone should read this book.”

—Christopher Queen, Harvard University

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ZEN ENLIGHTENMENT Origins and Meaning

By Heinrich Dumoulin

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nlightenment, the cosmic experience of universal unity, is a notoriously elusive concept in Zen. Here, the renowned scholar Heinrich Dumoulin traces the development of Zen and the concept of enlightenment from its origins in India through its development in China to its fruition in Japan.

Delineating the Buddhist origins, as well as the Taoist and yogic influences, he traces the historical path Zen has followed, with special emphasis given to the development of koan practice and the writings of the great Japanese Zen master Dogen (1200-1253). He then brings the experience to life by presenting, in his own words, the enlightenment experiences of a number of contemporary practitioners of Zen. “A lucid and illuminating presentation of the essential nature of Zen by an outstanding scholar.

This book is an invaluable bridge between East and West.”

—Masao Abe, author of Zen and Western Thought

“This book not only makes for instructive and valuable reading, it is also clearly and beautifully written.”

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POEMS OF THE LATE T’ANG Translated and with an Introduction by A.C. Graham

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lassical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T’ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T’ang—a period of growing political turmoil and violence—are especially notable for combining striking formal innovation with raw emotional intensity.

A. C. Graham’s slim but indispensable anthology of late T’ang poetry begins with Tu Fu, commonly recognized as the greatest Chinese poet of all, whose final poems and sequences lament the pains of exile in images of crystalline strangeness. It continues with the work of six other masters, including the “cold poet” Meng Chiao, who wrote of retreat from civilization to the remoteness of the high mountains; the troubled and haunting Li Ho, who, as Graham writes, cultivated a “wholly personal imagery of ghosts, blood, dying animals, weeping statues, whirlwinds, the will-o’-the-wisp”; and the shimmeringly strange poems of illicit love and Taoist initiation of the enigmatic Li Shang-yin.

Offering the largest selection of these poets’ work available in English in a translation that is a classic in its own right, Poems of the Late T’ang also includes Graham’s searching essay “The Translation of Chinese Poetry” as well as helpful notes on each of the poets and on many of the individual poems.

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GANDHI & CHURCHILL: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

By Arthur Herman

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n this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.

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They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous aristocratic family, Mohandas Gandhi to a pious middle-class household in a provincial town in India. Yet Arthur Herman reveals how their lives and careers became intertwined as the twentieth century unfolded. Both men would go on to lead their nations through harrowing trials and two world wars—and become locked in a fierce contest of wills that would decide the fate of countries, continents, and ultimately an empire.

Includes three eight-page photo inserts and maps.

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“Arthur Herman offers a balanced and elegant account which captures both Churchill’s generosity of spirit and Gandhi’s greatness of soul. While recognizing their faults, he shows what motivated them and made them great—with impressive research that in Churchill’s words leaves “no stone unturned, no cutlet uncooked.” The last two chapters, and the author’s Conclusion, are alone worth the price of what must become the standard work on the subject.”

—Richard M. Langworth, Editor, Finest Hour, The Churchill Centre

“Gandhi & Churchill is a powerful tale of the monumental clash between two of the giants of the twentieth century. Set against the backdrop of war and conflict, this brilliant dual biography of strong-willed visionaries locked in a struggle each believed in makes for compelling reading. Arthur Herman has written a masterful and superbly well researched account of the lives of two men who have had a profound influence on the world in which we live in today that will long stand as a testament to their legacy.”

—Carlo D’Este, author of Patton: A Genius for War and Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life

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THE ADVENTURES OF AMIR HAMZA

By Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami Translated by Musharraf Ali Farooqi

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n the tradition of such beloved classics as The Thousand and One Nights and The Persian Shahnameh, here is the first unabridged English translation of a major Indo-Persian epic, The Adventures of Amir Hamza (Dastan-e Amir Hamza). A panoramic tale of magic and passion, and a classic hero’s odyssey, Adventures of Amir Hamza, has captivated much of the world.

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This Islamic saga dates back hundreds of years, perhaps to as early as the seventh century, when oral narratives of the deeds of the prophet Muhammad’s uncle Amir Hamza spread through Arabia, Persia, and the Indian subcontinent, expanding into a marvelous chronicle of warriors, kings, tricksters, fairies, courtesans, and magical creatures. The definitive one-volume Urdu text by Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami appeared toward the end of the nineteenth century, but English translations of this text have always been censored and abridged—until now.

In Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s faithful rendition, The Adventures of Amir Hamza is captured with all its colorful action, ribaldry, and fantastic elements intact.

Appreciated as the seminal Islamic epic or enjoyed as a sweeping tale as rich and inventive as Homer’s epic sagas, The Adventures of Amir Hamza is an extraordinary creation and a true literary treasure.

“It’s an extraordinary feat. Farooqi has translated into English what most of us thought was untranslatable. The adventures of Hamza have beguiled readers in many languages, from Iran to Malaysia, for centuries. As such this translation from Urdu should interest all students of Eastern literatures.”

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— C.M. Naim, Professor Emeritus of Urdu Studies, University of Chicago

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NIXON AND MAO The Week That Changed the World

By Margaret MacMillan

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ith the publication of her landmark volume Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan was praised as “a superb writer who can bring history to life” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Now she brings her extraordinary gifts to one of the most important subjects today—the relationship between the United States and China—and one of the most significant moments in modern history—Nixon’s visit to China. Weaving together fascinating anecdotes and insights, an understanding of Chinese and American history, and the momentous events of an extraordinary time, this brilliantly-written book looks at one of the transformative moments of the Twentieth Century and casts new light on one of the United States’ key relationships in the TwentyFirst Century. “[MacMillan] candidly describes the brutality of Mao’s regime, pointing out that even the courtly Zhou Enlai, so respected by the Americans and

by MacMillan herself, was responsible for multiple deaths and imprisonments. She shows why Nixon and Kissinger kept their approaches to the Chinese secret from allies and most of their own advisers, while suggesting that they relished the secrecy too much, carrying it beyond what was necessary. She reveals how generous the Americans were in giving the Chinese sensitive intelligence on Soviet military deployments, and how explicitly they promised to withdraw their own military forces from Taiwan and, eventually, South Vietnam. Her portrayals of key personalities throughout, as one might expect from the author of Paris 1919, are superb.”

—The New York Times

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DRIVEN OUT The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans

By Jean Pfaelzer • 2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

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n Driven Out Jean Pfaelzer details a largely forgotten episode in America’s past. She reveals how, beginning in 1848, lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians purged dozens of communities in California and the Pacific Northwest of thousands of Chinese residents—and how the victims bravely responded.

In town after town, Chinese miners and merchants, lumberjacks and field workers, prostitutes and merchants’ wives, were gathered up at gunpoint and marched out of town. But the Chinese fought back, prosecuting white vigilantes, demanding the right to own land, and winning access to public education for their children.

Driven Out is a story of hitherto unknown racial pogroms, purges, roundups, and brutal terror, but also a record of valiant resistance and community.

“Thanks to this gripping narrative, Chinese immigrants to the Far West—so long overlooked—now stand front and center in the saga of the struggle for civil rights in these United States.”

— Kevin Starr, University of Southern California; Author, California, A History

“Driven Out: the Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans is a meticulously researched and very readable recounting of America’s systematic effort to purge all Chinese immigrants, from the mid-19th into the early-20th centuries. Jean Pfaelzer documents hundreds of cases in which the Chinese were lynched, maimed, burned out of their neighborhoods, and forced at gunpoint to leave mining camps, small villages, Indian reservations, and Chinatowns….

This is a valuable addition to our understanding of the making of modern America.”

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–Franklin Odo, Director, Smithsonian Institution Asian Pacific American Program

“Too few Americans have any idea that these events mark the nation’s past. Pfaelzer capably reconstructs a shameful history.”

—Kirkus Reviews

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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Salman Rushdie © Beowulf Sheehan / PEN American Center.

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Forthcoming June 2008

THE ENCHANTRESS OF FLORENCE: A Novel Rushdie’s latest masterpiece is a novel about East meeting West; about Florence at the dawn of the Renaissance, a great lost Empire, the meaning of political power, and its proper uses, and the power of love to overcome time.

Do not order before 6/8/2008: Random House | HC | 978-0-375-50433-4 | 384pp. $27.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $13.75

FURY: A Novel Fury is a work of explosive energy, a pitiless and pitch-black comedy, a profoundly disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature, and a love story of mesmerizing force all at once.

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THE JAGUAR SMILE: A Nicaraguan Journey

SHALIMAR THE CLOWN: A Novel

Rushdie’s first work of nonfiction, a critically acclaimed, highly original and personal narrative of Nicaragua at a critical time in its history and in the history of American intervention.

Spanning the globe and darting through history, this narrative captures the heart of the reader and the spirit of a troubled age.

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MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN: A Novel Saleem Sinai was born at midnight—the midnight of India’s—independence, and finds himself mysteriously “handcuffed to history” by this coincidence.

He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent—it is their privilege and their curse to be both masters and victims of their times. In what is often regarded as Rushdie’s best novel, he explores issues of personal and national identity in his trademark style.

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SHAME: A Novel Shame is a “sort of modern fairy tale” set in “not quite Pakistan,” a satirical, mythical, political novel that showcases Rushdie’s characteristic prowess and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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GRIMUS: A Novel “Grimus is science fiction in the best sense of the word. It is literate, it is fun, it is meaningful, and perhaps most important, it pushes the boundaries of form outward.”

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THE SATANIC VERSES: A Novel A new edition of Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie’s fifth and best-known novel is as relevant as ever—The Satanic Verses details the metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations of two men after their plane explodes in a hijacking over the English Channel.

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THE SOUVENIR A Daughter Discovers Her Father’s War

By Louise Steinman

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ouise Steinman’s American childhood in the fifties was bound by one unequivocal condition: “Never mention the war to your father.” That silence sustained itself until the fateful day Steinman opened an old ammunition box left behind after her parents’ death. In it she discovered nearly 500 letters her father had written to her mother during his service in the Pacific War and a Japanese flag mysteriously inscribed to Yoshio Shimizu.

Setting out to determine the identity of Yoshio Shimizu and the origins of the silken flag, Steinman discovered the unexpected: a hidden side of her father, the green soldier who achingly left his pregnant wife to fight for his life in a brutal 165-day campaign that changed him forever. Her journey to return the “souvenir” to its owner not only takes Steinman on a passage to Japan and the Philippines, but also returns her to the age of her father’s innocence, where she learned of the tender and expressive man she’d never known.

Steinman writes with the same poignant immediacy her father did in his letters. Together their stories in The Souvenir create an evocative testament to the ways in which war changes one generation and shapes another.

“Louise Steinman has accomplished a great feat of history.”

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—Maxine Hong Kingston

“An intimate and powerful story of the effects of war.”

—James Bradley

“Throughout The Souvenir, Steinman deftly interweaves her father’s story with her own, and adds depth to both narratives by subtly slipping in insights gleaned from research on the psychological impact of combat. The result is an exceptional book that draws its strength from the complexities it explores.”

—The New York Times Book Review

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LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF PEACE The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram

By Dang Thuy Tram; Translated by Andrew X. Pham Introduction by Frances FitzGerald “Last night, I dreamed that Peace was established…”

— Dang Thuy Tram, Vietnam, June 4, 1968

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t the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked. Written between 1968 and 1970, her diary speaks poignantly of her devotion to family and friends, the horrors of war, her yearning for her high school sweetheart, and her struggle to prove her loyalty to her country. At times raw, at times lyrical and youthfully sentimental, her voice transcends cultures to speak of her dignity and compassion and of her challenges in the face of the war’s ceaseless fury.

Harmony | HC 978-0-307-34737-4 | 256pp. $19.95/$25.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.00 Paperback forthcoming October 2008.

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The American officer who discovered the diary soon after Dr. Tram’s death was under standing orders to destroy all documents without military value. As he was about to toss it into the flames, his Vietnamese translator said to him, “Don’t burn this one… It has fire in it already.” Against regulations, the officer preserved the diary and kept it for thirty-five years.

In the spring of 2005, a copy made its way to Dr. Tram’s elderly mother in Hanoi. The diary was soon published in Vietnam, causing a national sensation.

Never before had there been such a vivid and personal account of the long ordeal that had consumed the nation’s previous generations.

Translated by Andrew X. Pham and with an introduction

by Pulitzer Prize winner Frances FitzGerald, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace is an extraordinary document that narrates one woman’s personal and political struggles. Above all, it is a story of hope in the most dire of circumstances—told from the perspective of our historic enemy but universal in its power to celebrate and mourn the fragility of human life.

FIRST INTO NAGASAKI The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War

By George Weller; Edited with an Essay by Anthony Weller; Foreword by Walter Cronkite

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t the war’s end in 1945, General MacArthur’s media blackout forbade correspondents from entering Nagasaki or Hiroshima. However, this wouldn’t stop the intrepid Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter George Weller, who broke away and reached Nagasaki just weeks after the atomic bomb hit.

Boldly presenting himself as a U.S. colonel, Weller set out to explore the devastation, interviewing helpless, baffled doctors and entering Allied POW camps. But all was lost when his dispatches were censored upon their arrival in the States. Now, after Weller’s death, these pages have been rediscovered and compiled for the first time—a moving, unparalleled look at the bomb that killed more than 70,000 people and ended WWII. “Unearthed at last after six decades, George Weller’s daring reportage from the ruins of Nagasaki has made an unforgettable and momentous book. From the remains of a scorched, fractured city to the unfathomable tragedy of Allied POWs in Japanese custody, he channeled his five senses straight to the page, giving eloquent testimony to the martyrs, American and Japanese alike, who were trapped in the Pacific war’s bloody fun-house.”

—James D. Hornfischer, author of Ship of Ghosts and The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

Now in Paperback

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“An invaluable historical resource for those seeking the truth...Weller interviewed eyewitnesses, survivors, doctors, and imprisoned Allied POWs and wrote a brilliant series of reports...These exceptionally important eyewitness accounts, collected and organized by a tireless war reporter dedicated to making the horrible truth known to the American public... vividly relate the everyday inhumanity of the Pacific war.

Despite the sanitizing impulses of U.S. military censors, George Weller’s words continue to speak eloquently about the horrors of war across a gap of sixty years.”

—Boston Globe

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ORTHODOX CHINESE BUDDHISM A Contemporary Chan Master’s Answers to Common Questions

By Chan Master Sheng Yen; Translated by Otto Chang and Douglas Gildow

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s a well-known scholar and meditation master—His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama called him “extremely modest, a true spiritual practitioner of deep and broad learning”—Sheng Yen is uniquely qualified to guide Western seekers into the world of contemporary Chinese Buddhism.

Written while the author was secluded in solitary retreat in southern Taiwan, Orthodox Chinese Buddhism provides a wealth of theory and simple, clear guidelines for practicing this increasingly popular form of spirituality. One of the most influential Buddhist books in the Chinese language, it explores a wide range of subjects, from distinguishing core teachings from outdated cultural norms to bridging the gap between Western and Chinese traditions. In the process, it also addresses to what extent Buddhism should be westernized to fit new cultural conditions, and whether westernization necessarily leads to a “dumbing” down of Buddhism.

In addition to the translation of the complete original text, this edition of Orthodox Chinese Buddhism includes new annotations, appendixes, and a glossary designed for the Western reader.

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Now in Paperback

Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings

Dragon Rising: An Inside Look At China Today

By Matsuo Basho; Translated by Sam Hamill Basho is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku that recounts his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan. This volume includes beautiful Japanese-style illustrations by Stephen Addiss.

By Jasper Becker Dragon Rising comes to us as world attention begins focusing on the 2008 Beijing Olympics and China’s all-out effort to present itself as a modern world power.

Author Jasper Becker is the ideal guide to the profound changes that are already reshaping economic, diplomatic, and military strategies worldwide.

Shambhala | TR 978-1-57062-716-3 | 224pp. $16.95/$23.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Forthcoming July 2008

On the Warrior’s Path, Second Edition

By Daniele Bolelli

On the Warrior’s Path brings fresh insights to why martial arts remain an enduring and widespread art and discipline. Two new chapters in this second edition focus on spirituality in the martial arts and the author’s personal journey in the field.

Do not order before 7/1/2008: Blue Snake Books | TR 978-1-58394-219-2 | 200pp. $16.95/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

National Geographic | TR 978-1-4262-0116-5 | 264pp. $18.95/$24.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

The Samurai

By Anthony Bryant; Illustrated by Angus McBride Perhaps the greatest warriors in history, the Samurai were a product of a social system totally geared to war. In this title Anthony J. Bryant presents a fascinating overview of these truly elite warriors.

Osprey | TR 978-0-85045-897-8 | 64pp. $17.95/$25.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

The Great Wave Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan

By Christopher Benfey Historian and critic Christopher Benfey recounts the cross-pollination that came about during the Gilded Age, and argues that, as both the United States and Japan attempted to adjust to massive internal changes in the late nineteenth century, they engaged in a reciprocal historical and cultural relationship.

Zen For Beginners

By Judith Blackstone and Zoran Josipovic This book uses an engaging mix of clear, informative writing and delightful illustrations to document the story of Zen from its impact on Chinese and Japanese culture to its influence on American writers such as Ginsberg and Kerouac.

For Beginners | TR 978-1-9343-8906-5 | 176pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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The Dhammapada Verses on the Way

By Buddha; Translated

by Glenn Wallis In this elegant new translation of The Dhammapada, Sanskrit scholar Glenn Wallis has exclusively referred to and quoted from the canonical suttas—the presumed earliest discourses of the Buddha—to bring us the heartwood of Buddhism, words as compelling today as when the Buddha first spoke them.

Modern Library | TR 978-0-8129-7727-1 | 224pp. $11.95/$14.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

The Dhammapada: A New Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations Translated by Gil Fronsdal With extensive explanatory notes, this fresh new translation combines a rigorous attention to detail in bringing forth the original text with the translator’s personal knowledge of the Buddhist path.

It is the first truly accurate and highly readable translation of this text to be published in English.

Shambhala | TR 978-1-59030-380-1 | 192pp. $9.95/$12.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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Inventing Japan 1853-1964

By Ian Buruma “In his characteristically penetrating manner, Ian Buruma delves into why modern Japan—for all its intellectual and artistic vitality— has not developed a more open, democratic, and cosmopolitan political order.”

—Sheldon Garon, Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University Modern Library | TR 978-0-8129-7286-3 | 208pp. $12.95/$17.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

English, August An Indian Story

By Upamanyu Chatterjee; Introduction by Akhil Sharma “Upamanyu Chatterjee’s affectionate yet unsparing slacker view of modern India…. Most novels progress, but this one simply chronicles an ongoing anomie and spiritual restlessness....

Chatterjee, though, excels in his descriptions of Indian life.”

—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post NYRB Classics | TR 978-1-59017-179-0 | 336pp. $14.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00

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Love in a Fallen City

By Eileen Chang; Translated

by Karen S. Kingsbury Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China who tells tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life.

Love in a Fallen City ultimately introduces American students to the stark and glamorous vision of a modern master.

NYRB Classics | TR 978-1-59017-178-3 | 320pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Brothers: A Novel

By Da Chen Brothers, by bestselling memoirist Da Chen, is a sprawling, dynamic family saga, complete with assassinations, love affairs, narrowly missed opportunities, and the ineluctable fulfillment of destiny.

“...An epic novel that neatly distills modern Chinese history.

Da Chen’s elegantly written novel ends on the promise of redemption. . . .”

—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Three Rivers Press | TR 978-1-4000-9729-6 | 448pp. $14.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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Forthcoming August 2008

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

Forthcoming July 2008

The Man on Mao’s Right From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life Inside China’s Foreign Ministry

By Leslie Chang Former Wall Street Journal Beijing correspondent Leslie Chang investigates the lives of female Chinese migrant workers, an enormous and growing population upon whom much of the world’s economic growth depends. This is an important contribution to the literature on China’s economy.

The Man on Mao’s Right is the unique story of a boy, Ji Chaozhu, who fled China to escape the Japanese onslaught in the late 1930’s, was educated here, and then returned to China and rose to become Chairman Mao’s translator.

Do not order before 8/1/2008: Spiegel & Grau | HC 978-0-385-52017-1 | 256pp. $24.95/$27.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50

Do not order before 7/1/2008: Random House | HC 978-1-4000-6584-4 | 384pp. $28.00/$33.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $14.00

The Supreme Way Inner Teachings of the Southern Mountain Tao

Saying Yes to Japan How Outsiders are Reviving a Trillion Dollar Services Market

By Loy Ching-Yuen; Translated

by Trevor Carolan Du Liang Taoist Master Loy Ching-Yuen wrote The Supreme Way to give his students an understanding of how China’s three great religious traditions have co-existed for two thousand years.

The Supreme Way also delineates Buddhist compassion and Confucian humanism, and shows how these vary from each other and Taoism.

By Tim Clark and Carl Kay Saying Yes to Japan examines the history and future of Japan’s service sector. Revealing analyses of the real estate, finance, health care and information technology industries are coupled with up-close profiles of entrepreneurs from around the world who use their “outsider” perspectives to successfully identify basic customer needs.

North Atlantic Books | TR 978-1-55643-239-2 | 120pp. $11.95/$14.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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By Ji Chaozhu

NEW The Art of War: Complete Text and Commentaries

The Art of War: The Denma Translation

By Thomas Cleary Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world, as eagerly studied by contemporary businessmen as by military leaders.

By Sun Tzu "An exhilarating experience.

The principles of translation are among the best I have ever encountered. They have a collective genius. . . ."

Shambhala | TR 978-1-59030-054-1 | 474pp. $22.95/$32.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.50

—Victor H. Mair, Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania Shambhala | TR 978-1-57062-904-4 | 272pp. $14.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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Training the Samurai Mind

The Lizard Cage

By Thomas Cleary Thomas Cleary has collected writings on bushido by warriors, scholars, political advisors, and educators from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries that provide a comprehensive, historically rich view of samurai life and education. The selections deal with a broad range of subjects —from military strategy and political science to personal discipline and character development.

By Karen Connelly

Shambhala | HC 978-1-59030-572-0 | 288pp. $24.95/$27.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50

Do not order before 4/8/2008: Spiegel & Grau | TR 978-0-385-52503-9 | 448pp. $14/$0 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

• Winner, Orange Prize for New Writers “The Lizard Cage is a thrilling, vital excoriation of the military junta that has ruled Burma for decades....Karen Connelly’s language and imagery evoke the short stories and poems that trickle out of Burma, by turns fearful and violent, beautiful and rancid.”

—The Wall Street Journal

NEW The Lady and the Panda The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China’s Most Exotic Animal

By Vicki Constantine Croke Here is the well-researched and fascinating true story of Ruth Harkness, the New York socialite who trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains.

Random House | TR 978-0-375-75970-3 | 400pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

The Palace of Illusions A Novel

By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Palace of Illusions takes us back to the time of the Indian epic The Mahabharat—a time that is half-history, half-myth, and wholly magical. Through her narrator Panchaali, the wife of the legendary five Pandavas brothers, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni gives us a rare feminist interpretation of an epic story.

Doubleday | HC 978-0-385-51599-3 | 384pp. $23.95/$27.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.00

NEW Fried Eggs with Chopsticks One Woman’s Hilarious Adventure into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own

By Polly Evans From the award-winning author and former editor at Hong Kong’s largest weekly newspaper, this memoir of Polly Evans’s solo adventure around China includes historical and cultural references.

Delta | TR 978-0-385-33993-3 | 320pp. $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Love Marriage A Novel

By V. V. Ganeshananthan A young Sri Lankan-American woman is prompted to explore her family’s history—particularly as it relates to marriage and emigration—when her uncle, a member of the Tamil Tigers, reappears with a daughter.

Do not order before 4/8/2008: Random House | TR 978-1-4000-6669-8 | 320pp. $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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Buddha or Bust In Search of Truth, Meaning, Happiness, and he Man Who Found Them All

By Perry Garfinkel In this original, entertaining book, Garfinkel separates Buddhist fact from fiction, sharing his humorous insights and keen perceptions about everything from spiritual tourism to Asian traffic jams to the endless road to enlightenment.

Three Rivers Press | TR 978-1-4000-8218-6 | 336pp. $13.95/$17.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Tao Te Ching

By Lao Tzu; Translated

by Stanley Lombardo and Stephen Addiss Here, in what may be the most faithful translation to date, the translators have created a lucid, economical rendering that allows readers to get as close to the original text as possible without knowing Chinese.

“This is by far the best translation on the market today.”

China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power

By Rob Gifford From its origin burgeoning Shanghai to its end on the border with Kazakhstan, Gifford reveals the rich mosaic of modern Chinese life in all its contradictions, as he poses the crucial questions that so many are asking about China.

Random House | HC 978-1-4000-6467-0 | 352pp. $26.95/$34.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.50 Paperback forthcoming July 2008.

Do not order before 7/1/2008: Random House | TR 978-0-8129-7524-6 | 352pp. $17.00/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Dao De Jing A Philosophical Translation Translated and with Commentary by Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall Ames’s and Hall’s brilliant version will stand as both a compelling introduction to the complexities of Daoist thought and as the classic modern English translation. Includes the recently discovered Bamboo Texts.

Ballantine | TR 978-0-345-44419-6 | 256pp. $13.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

—Livia Kohn, Professor of Religion, Boston University Shambhala | HC 978-1-59030-546-1 | 144pp. $18.95/$23.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $9.50

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The Poetry of Zen Translated by Sam Hamill and J.P. Seaton Two of America’s most renowned poets and translators provide an overview of Zen poetry from China and Japan in all its rich variety from the earliest days to the twentieth century. Included are works by Lao Tzu, Han Shan, Li Po, Dogen Kigen, Saigyo, Basho, Chiao Jan, Yuan Mei, Ryokan, and many others.

Tao Te Ching A New Translation Translated by Sam Hamill The most widely read of the Asian classics, Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching offers a series of insightful spiritual observations on life and human nature. Sam Hamill’s extraordinary translation captures the poetry of Lao Tzu’s original without sacrificing the resonance of the text’s many meanings and possible interpretations.

Shambhala | TR 978-1-59030-425-9 | 208pp. $12.95/$16.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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Siddhartha

Siddhartha

By Hermann Hesse; Translated by Susan Bernofsky; Introduction by Tom Robbins A new translation of Herman Hesse’s classic novel of spiritual awakening.

By Hermann Hesse; Translated

by Sherab Chodzin Kohn Kohn’s edition of Siddhartha includes an introduction exploring Hesse’s own spiritual journey as evidenced in his journals and personal letters.

Modern Library | TR 978-0-8129-7478-2 | 160pp. $11.95/$14.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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NEW Siddhartha

Genghis: Birth of an Empire

Genghis: Lords of the Bow

The Seeker: A Novel

By Hermann Hesse In this parable of worldliness and renunciation, a young prince of ancient India rejects his luxurious station to search for the path of enlightenment.

By Conn Iggulden

By Conn Iggulden In the second book of this sweeping epic from internationally bestselling author Conn Iggulden, the mighty warrior and fearsome leader Genghis Kahn embarks on a daring quest to conquer the mighty Chin empire.

By Sudhir Kakar It is 1925 and India’s struggle for independence is in disarray.

Using words preserved in their autobiographical accounts, letters, diaries, and the reminiscences of others, the author has created a fictional narrative based on the extraordinary association, lasting over two decades, between a young, upper-class British woman and Mahatma Gandhi.

Bantam Classics | MM 978-0-553-20884-9 | 160pp. $5.99/$6.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

• Alex Award Winner “...[B]rilliantly imagined and addictive historical fiction...

Building on the fragment of Genghis’s life, Iggulden weaves a spellbinding story of an exotic and ‘unforgiving land’ and the enigmatic young man—who sets out to tame it. This is historical fiction of the first order.”

Do not order before 4/8/2008: Delacorte Press | HC 978-0-385-33952-0 | 400pp. $25.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $12.50

—Publishers Weekly, starred review

Trumpeter | TR 978-1-59030-525-6 | 272pp. $14.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Dell | MM 978-0-440-24390-8 | 560pp. $6.99/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00

NEW The Second World Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

By Parag Khanna “Parag Khanna’s fascinating book takes us on an epic journey around the multi-polar world, elegantly combining historical analysis, political theory, and eyewitness reports to shed light on the battle for primacy between the world’s new empires.”

—Mark Leonard, Executive Director, European Council on Foreign Relations Random House | HC 978-1-4000-6508-0 | 496pp. $29.00/$34.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $14.50

NEW Peking Story The Last Days of Old China

Among Flowers A Walk in the Himalaya

By David Kidd For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking. “I used to hope,” he writes, “that some bright young scholar on a research grant would write about us and our Chinese friends before it was too late and we were all dead and gone, folding into the darkness the wonder that had been our lives.” Here Kidd himself brings that wonder to life.

By Jamaica Kincaid After laborious training and preparation, Kincaid and a group of botanists trek the Himalayas.

Along the way she moves easily between closely observed, down-to-earth descriptions of the trek and larger musings about gardens, nature, seed gathering, home, and family.

National Geographic | TR 978-1-4262-0096-0 | 208pp. $10.95/$13.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology

By Jack Kornfield In The Wise Heart, one of the leading spiritual teachers of our time offers the most accessible and illuminating guide to Buddhism’s transformational psychology ever published in the West.

Do not order before 4/29/2008: Bantam | HC 978-0-553-80347-1 | 432pp. $28.00/$33.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $14.00

NYRB Classics | TR 978-1-59017-040-3 | 208pp. $14.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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NEW One Thousand Years of Manga

Gifted: A Novel

Essential Teachings

By Nikita Lalwani

By Dalai Lama

By Brigitte Koyama-Richard

“A triumph . . . All the conventional pieties and forms of Indian immigrant identity and trauma are so wittily preempted, and yet there’s a sure grasp, at the serious core of the novel, of the deep reverberations of politics and history.

I couldn’t bear it when it ended.”

Essential Teachings presents the first English translation in a series of talks given in 1974 by the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, India—the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment—to a gathering of Tibetan refugees and Western Buddhists.

—Tessa Hadley, author of The Master Bedroom

North Atlantic Books | TR 978-1-55643-192-0 | 129pp. $15.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

One Thousand Years of Manga is both an informative account of the genesis of the form and a visual delight. Through its captivating illustrations and enlightening text, the book situates Manga in its proper context, appreciating it for what it truly is: an integral part of Japanese art and culture that is as rich and revealing as it is popular.

Flammarion | HC 978-2-08-030029-4 | 248pp. $49.95/$62.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $25.00

Random House | HC 978-1-4000-6648-3 | 288pp. $23.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $14.00 Paperback coming August 2008.

Do not order before 8/19/2008: Random House | TR 978-0-8129-7794-3 | 288pp. $14.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00

The Korean War

Forthcoming September 2008

By Carter Malkasian The Korean War was a significant turning point in the Cold War. This book explains how the conflict on a small peninsula in East Asia had a tremendous impact on the entire international system and the balance of power between the two superpowers, America and Russia.

The Road of Lost Innocence

Osprey | TR 978-1-84176-282-1 | 96pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

By Somaly Mam

The Road of Lost Innocence is a riveting, raw and beautiful memoir of survival that exposes the brutal world of human trafficking as experienced by a victim turned activist.

It is the true story of a Cambodian heroine who emerged from a childhood of sexual slavery to become a rescuer of girls from the hellish brothels of Southeast Asia.

Do not order before 9/1/2008: Spiegel & Grau | HC 978-0-385-52621-0 | 192pp. $24.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $12.50

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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories

By Yiyun Li In this brilliant and original collection of stories, the author illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate.

“Self-effacing maternal love, extreme societal pressures, betrayal, and peculiar convictions all make for provocative and memorable fiction that is simultaneously culturally specific and universal.”

—Booklist Random House | TR 978-0-8129-7333-4 | 240pp. $13.95/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

National Geographic Atlas of China

By National Geographic Containing more than 300 fullcolor maps and illustrations, this essential new atlas dramatically highlights the tremendous changes occurring within China—the world’s fastest growing economy and most populous place—as well as their global implications.

National Geographic | HC 978-1-4262-0136-3 | 128pp. $26.00/$34.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00

Inside China

By National Geographic In an unprecedented visual tour de force, National Geographic chronicles China’s emergence as an economic and cultural giant through some of the most eyeopening, evocative, and extraordinary pictures ever recorded of the enigmatic nation, past and present.

National Geographic | HC 978-1-4262-0126-4 | 272pp. $50.00/$62.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $25.00

NEW Managing the Dragon How I’m Building a BillionDollar Business in China

By Jack Perkowski The emergence of China as a world economic power is one of the leading stories of our time.

Every business that intends to be an important part of the fastchanging global economy will benefit from Chairman and CEO Jack Perkowski’s view of doing business in China.

Crown Business | HC 978-0-307-39353-1 | 336pp. $27.50/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.75

NEW The Eaves of Heaven A Life in Three Wars

The Blade of the Courtesans

By Andrew X. Pham From Andrew X. Pham, author of Catfish and Mandala: A Two-

By Keiichiro Ryu In the tradition of The Last Samurai and Shogun, The Blade of the Courtesans is a both a sweeping look at a bygone Japan and ultimately an ode to human liberties in the face of political warfare. Ryu’s debut historical thriller was nominated for a Naoki Prize, the Japanese equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.

Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam and winner of the 1999 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, comes a son’s memoir of his Vietnamese father’s experiences over the course of three wars.

Do not order before 6/1/2008: Harmony | HC 978-0-307-38120-0 | 256pp. $24.95/$27.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50

The Red Carpet

Vertical | HC 978-1-934-28701-9 | 304pp. $21.95/$25.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.00

By Lavanya Sankaran Wry humor and a delicious grasp of the friction between generations in Bangalore are the hallmarks of Lavanya Sankaran’s fresh, deeply nuanced debut collection.

“Sankaran’s tales coruscate with insight and bristle with an energy that could only be channeled by someone who has beheld the raw and ferocious forces of societal change.”

—San Diego Union-Tribune Dial Press TR | TR 978-0-385-33820-2 | 224pp. $13.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Now in Paperback

The Honda Myth: The Genius and His Wake

By Masaaki Sato From the top Japanese auto-industry journalist, Masaaki Sato, comes this inimitably informed account of Honda Motor Company’s birth out of the ashes of World War II and its subsequent rise.

Vertical | HC 978-1-932234-26-8 | 480pp. $24.95/$32.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50

Forthcoming June 2008

The Toyota Strategy: An Executive Guide

By Masaaki Sato In this report on the auto industry, readers will discover Toyota’s noble business moves and a culture first put into place by its founders and built on through the years. Not a corporate history, this guide uses Toyota’s past to contextualize Sato’s discussion as he focuses on the company’s unique business strategies.

Do not order before 6/24/2008: Vertical | HC 978-1-934-28723-1 |224pp. $19.95/$22.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.00

Peony in Love: A Novel

By Lisa See Immersed in the richness and magic of the Chinese vision of the afterlife, transcending even death, Peony in Love beautifully explores the many manifestations of love, the bonds of friendship, the power of words, and the age-old desire of women to be heard.

Random House | TR 978-0-8129-7522-2 | 320 pp. $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel

By Lisa See

• A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel the lives of two women in 19th-century China.

Random House | TR 978-0-8129-6806-4 | 288pp. $13.95/$21 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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The Way of the Bodhisattva: Revised Edition

By Shantideva Translated from the Tibetan and revised by the translators of the 1997 edition, this version includes a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and a new preface as well as a thorough introduction, a note on the translation, and three appendices of commentary by the Nyingma master Kunzang Pelden.

Shambhala | TR 978-1-59030-388-7 | 256pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Zen Buddhism

By Daisetz T. Suzuki and William Barrett Zen Buddhism is a collection of Suzuki’s penetrating and timeless essays concerning Zen. Offering the very soul of Zen, Suzuki describes the experiential aspect of Zen while clearly explaining Zen’s terminology and concepts. Zen Buddhism brings together Suzuki’s writings to form the most accessible and definitive overview of Zen philosophy available.

Three Leaves | TR 978-0-385-48349-0 | 400pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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Forthcoming October 2008

Footprints in the Snow The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk

By Master Chan Sheng Yen Few notable figures can bridge the gap between pre-Communist China and the present and few connect the ancient practice of Buddhism in China with our world today. Footprints in the Snow is a rare document that is both an important piece of history but also a compelling spiritual journey.

Do not order before 10/21/2008: Doubleday Religion | HC 978-0-385-51330-2 | 256pp.

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In the Ruins of Empire The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia

By Ronald H. Spector In the Ruins of Empire examines how the end of World War II in the Pacific spawned brutal new conflicts for power among the peoples of the former Japanese Empire in Asia.

Random House | HC 978-0-375-50915-5 | 384pp. $27.95/$34.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $14.00 Paperback forthcoming July 2008.

Do not order before 7/08/2008: Random House | TR 978-0-8129-6732-6 | 400pp. $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Forthcoming September 2008

China: A Celebration in Art & Literature Edited by Jason Steuber A window into a world of extraordinary beauty and mystery, this volume traces China through its tales and stories, plays and poetry, paintings and objects; from Tang dynasty silk scrolls depicting sublime mountain valleys to government-commissioned propaganda posters.

Do not order before 9/1/2008: Welcome Books | HC 978-1-59962-030-5 | 240pp. $60.00/$77.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $30.00

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

The Bonesetter’s Daughter: A Novel

Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel

By Shunryu Suzuki In the thirty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind has become one of the great modern Zen classics. Suzuki Roshi presents the basics—from the details of posture and breathing in zazen to the perception of nonduality—in a way that is not only remarkably clear, but that also resonates with the joy of insight from the first to the last page.

By Amy Tan A Chinese-American woman discovers her tormented mother’s memoirs of life as a girl in China, and uncovers family secrets long kept hidden.

By Amy Tan On an ill-fated art expedition into Burma, eleven Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas-morning tour—and disappear. Through twists of fate, they encounter a tribe awaiting the return of a leader and the mythical book of wisdom that will protect them from the ravages of the Myanmar military regime.

Weatherhill | TR 978-0-8348-0079-3 | 132pp. $12.95/$17.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Ballantine | TR 978-0-345-45737-0 | 400pp. $14.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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“This luminous and gripping book demonstrates enhanced tenderness and wisdom, however; it carries the texture of real life and reflects the paradoxes historical events can produce.”

—Publishers Weekly

Ballantine | TR 978-0-345-46401-9 | 528pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor

By W.M. Thackston Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483—1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries.

“One of the classics of world literature.”

Genghis Khan & the Mongol Conquests 1190-1400

By Stephen Turnbull This book provides a concise yet thorough account of the Mongol conquests, including the rise of Genghis Khan and the unification of the tribes, with up to date information on campaign logistics, tactics and horse breeding.

Osprey | TR 978-1-84176-523-5 | 96pp. $14.95/$21 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

—The New York Times Book Review

Samurai—The World of the Warrior

Warriors of Medieval Japan

By Stephen Turnbull This book explores the samurai within the context of an all-encompassing warrior culture expressed through art and poetry as much as through violence.

Using themed chapters, Turnbull illuminates the samurai through their historical development and their relationship to the world around them—relationships that are shown to persist in Japan even today.

By Stephen Turnbull With rare material from Japanese sources and lavish artwork and photography, this book examines the military lives, beliefs and battle experience of four formidable warrior types—samurai, ninja, warrior monk and ashigaru foot soldier—resulting in a highly authoritative account of Japan’s warrior elite.

Osprey | TR 978-1-84176-951-6 | 224pp. $18.95/$26.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Modern Library | TR 978-0-375-76137-9 | 608pp. $17.95/$25.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Osprey | TR 978-1-84603-220-2 | 288pp. $18.95/$24.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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THE ART OF BUDDHISM An Introduction To Its History And Meaning

By Denise Patry Leidy Do not order before 10/24/2008: Shambhala | HC | 978-1-590-30594-2 $40.00/$45.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $20.00

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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

By Jack Weatherford This magnificently researched revisionist history of the life of Genghis Khan and his legacy argues that rather than a crude and brutal barbarian, Khan was one of the most progressive leaders in all of world history who joined East and West and brought about the great “Global Awakening” that lead to the Renaissance.

Three Rivers Press | TR 978-0-609-80964-8 | 352pp. $14.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

By Kenji Yoshino Drawing on his experiences as a gay Asian American, Yoshino argues that the culturally sanctioned suppression of our authentic selves is a harm from which the law should sometimes protect us.

More profoundly, he claims that law will be less important to the civil rights of the future than a common culture of authenticity.

Random House | TR 978-0-375-76021-1 | 304pp. $15.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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AUTHOR/TITLE INDEX Adventures of Amir Hamza, The . . . . . 5 Ames, Roger T. and David L. Hall, trans. by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Among Flowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Art of War, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Baburnama, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Basho, Matsuo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Basic Teachings of the Buddha . . . . . . . 1 Becker, Jasper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Benfey, Christopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Blackstone, Judith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Blade of the Courtesans, The . . . . . . . 19 Bolelli, Daniele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Bonesetter’s Daughter, The . . . . . . . . . 20 Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Bryant, Anthony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Buddha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 13 Buddha or Bust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Buruma, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Chang, Eileen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Chang, Leslie T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Chaozhu, Ji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Chatterjee, Upamanyu . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Chen, Da . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 China Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Ching-Yuen, Loy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Clark, Tim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Cleary, Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Cleary, Thomas, trans. by . . . . . . . . . . 15 Connelly, Karen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Covering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Croke, Vicki Constantine . . . . . . . . . . 15 Dao De Jing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Dhammapada, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee . . . . . . . . 15 Dragon Rising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Driven Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Dumoulin, Heinrich. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Eaves of Heaven, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Enchantress of Florence, The . . . . . . . . 8 English, August. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Essential Teachings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Evans, Polly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Factory Girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 First Into Nagasaki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Footprints in the Snow . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Fried Eggs with Chopsticks . . . . . . . . . 15 Fronsdal, Gil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Fury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Gandhi & Churchill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Ganeshananthan, V.V. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Garfinkel, Perry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Genghis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World . . . . . . . 20 Genghis Khan & the Mongol Conquests 1190-1400 . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Genghis: Lords of the Bow . . . . . . . . . 17 Gifford, Rob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Gifted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Graham, A.C., trans. by . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Great Wave, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Grimus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Hamill, Sam, trans. by . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Herman, Arthur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Hesse, Hermann . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 17 Honda Myth: The Genius and His Wake, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Iggulden, Conn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 In the Ruins of Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Inside China. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Inventing Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Jaguar Smile, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Kakar, Sudhir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Khanna, Parag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Kidd, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Kincaid, Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Korean War, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Kornfield, Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Kornfield, Jack, ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Koyama-Richard, Brigitte . . . . . . . . . . 18 Lady and the Panda, The . . . . . . . . . . 15 Lakhnavi, Ghalib . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Lalwani, Nikita. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Lama, Dalai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Last Night I Dreamed of Peace . . . . . . 10 Li, Yiyun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Lizard Cage, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Love in a Fallen City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Love Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 MacMillan, Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Malkasian, Carter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Mam, Somaly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Man on Mao’s Right, The . . . . . . . . . . 14 Managing the Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Midnight’s Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Narrow Road to the Interior . . . . . . . . 13 National Geographic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 National Geographic Atlas of China. . 18 Nixon and Mao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 On the Warrior’s Path, Second Edition 13 One Thousand Years of Manga . . . . . . 18 Orthodox Chinese Buddhism . . . . . . . 12 Palace of Illusions, The . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Peking Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Peony in Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Perkowski, Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Pfaelzer, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Pham, Andrew X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Poems of the Late T’ang . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Poetry of Zen, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Red Carpet, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Road of Lost Innocence, The . . . . . . . 18 Rushdie, Salman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Ryu, Keiichiro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Samurai, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Samurai - The World of the Warrior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Sankaran, Lavanya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Satanic Verses, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Sato, Masaaki. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Saving Fish from Drowning . . . . . . . . 20 Saying Yes to Japan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Second World, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 See, Lisa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Seeker, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Shalimar the Clown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Shame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Shantideva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Siddhartha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 17 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Souvenir, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Spector, Ronald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Steinman, Louise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Step Across This Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Steuber, Jason, ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Supreme Way, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Suzuki, Daisetz T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Suzuki, Shunryu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Tan, Amy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Tao Te Ching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Teachings of the Buddha . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Thackston, W.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Thousand Years of Good Prayers, A . . 18 Toyota Strategy: An Executive Guide . 19 Training the Samurai Mind . . . . . . . . . 15 Tram, Dang Thuy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Turnbull, Stephen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Tzu, Lao. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Tzu, Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Warriors of Medieval Japan . . . . . . . . 21 Way of the Bodhisattva, The . . . . . . . . 20 Weatherford, Jack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Weller, George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Wise Heart, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Yen, Sheng Chan Master . . . . . . . 12, 20 Yoshino, Kenji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Zen Buddhism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Zen Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Zen For Beginners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind . . . . . . . . 20

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