Nonfiction titles submitted for the 2008 Kiriyama Prize (by title) |
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| Title | Author | Publisher |
| A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States | Henderson, Timothy | Hill & Wang/FSG |
| A History of the Modern Chinese Army | Li, Xiaobing | University Press of Kentucky |
| A Life Less Ordinary | Halder, Baby | HarperCollins |
| A War Like No Other: The Truth About China's Challenge to America | Bush, Richard C. and Michael E. O'Hanlon | John Wiley & Sons |
| America and China: Asia-Pacific Rim Hegemony in the Twenty-First Century | Doyle, Randall | Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield |
| American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China | Polly, Matthew | Gotham Books (Penguin Group, USA) |
| Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia | Studwell, Joe | Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Assembling Women: The Feminization of Global Manufacturing | Caraway, Teri L. | Cornell University Press |
| Beijing Confidential: A Tale of Comrades Lost and Found | Wong, Jan | Doubleday Canada |
| Beyond the Horizon: The Great Race to Finish the First Human-Powered Circumnavigation of the Globe | Angus, Colin | Doubleday Canada |
| Breaking Trail | Morimoto, Tom | Fifth House Ltd |
| Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons | Thomas, Cullen | Penguin Group-Viking |
| Capitalism Without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China | Tsai, Kellee S. | Cornell University Press |
| Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation | Finnane, Antonia | Columbia University Press |
| Charm Offensive | Kurlantzick, Joshua | Yale University Press |
| Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Creature | Flannery, Tim | Grove Press |
| China and Iran | Garver, John W. | University of Washington Press |
| China Fever: Fascination, Fear, and the World's Next Superpower | Fang, Frank S. | Stone Bridge Press |
| China Ghosts | Gammage, Jeff | HarperCollins |
| China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power | Gifford, Rob | Random House |
| China's Brave New World—And Other Tales for Global Times | Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. | Indiana University Press |
| China: Fragile Superpower | Shirk, Susan L. | Oxford University Press |
| Coming Home to China | Tuan, Yi-fu | University of Minnesota Press |
| Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China | Kang, Zhengguo | WW Norton |
| Countries of the World: Japan | Green, Jen | National Geographic Society |
| Democracy with a Gun: America and the Policy of Force | Matsuo, Fumio | Stone Bridge Press |
| Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans | Pfaelzer, Jean | Random House |
| Earth in Flower | Cravath, Paul | DatAsia, Inc |
| East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir through the Seasons | Dalby, Liza | University of California Press |
| Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative, Ritual, and Royal Authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike | Bialock, David T. | Stanford University Press |
| Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea | Tiberghien, Yves | Cornell University Press |
| Failed Diplomacy: The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb | Pritchard, Charles | Brookings Institution Press |
| Famine in North Korea | Haggard, Stephen and Marcus Noland | Columbia University Press |
| Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War | Gordin, Michael D. | Princeton University Press |
| For Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors: The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings | Scott, Janet Lee | University of Washington Press |
| Global "Body Shopping" | Xiang, Biao | Princeton University Press |
| Goodbye Madame Butterfly: Sex, Marriage, and the Modern Japanese Woman | Kawakami, Sumie | Chin Music Press, Inc |
| Hapa Girl: A Memoir | Chai, May-lee | Temple University Press |
| Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters | Choi, Annie | HarperCollins |
| Hiromi's Hands | Barasch, Lynne | Lee & Low |
| Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the US Empire | McQuaig, Linda | Doubleday Canada |
| In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India | Luce, Edward | Doubleday US |
| In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia | Spector, Ronald | Random House |
| India After Ghandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy | Guha, Ramachandra | HarperCollins |
| Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire | von Tunzelmann, Alex | Henry Holt, US and McClelland & Stewart, Canada |
| Inside the Red Mansion | August, Oliver | Houghton Mifflin |
| Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power And Purpose | Pyle, Kenneth B. | Public Affairs |
| Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China | Brocky, Liam Matthew | Harvard University Press/Belknap |
| Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry | Lynch, Caitrin | Cornell University Press |
| Karma Sutra: Essays from the Margin | Menen, Rajendar | Sage Books |
| Kiwis Might Fly | Evans, Polly | Delta/Dell |
| Legacies of Struggle: Conflict and Cooperation in Korean American Politics | Chung, Angie Y. | Stanford University Press |
| Lines of the Nation | Bear, Laura | Columbia University Press |
| Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West | Hohenegger, Beatrice | St Martin's Press |
| Marco Polo | Bergreen, Laurence | Knopf |
| Modern East Asia: An Introductory History | Miller, John H. | M.E. Sharpe |
| My Name is Number 4 | Ye, Ting-xing | Doubleday Canada |
| Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn | Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth | University of Arizona Press |
| Pathways to the Present: U.S. Development and Its Consequences in the Pacific | Blackford, Mansel G. | University of Hawai'i Press |
| Perfect Spy: The Incredible Life of Pahm Xuan An | Berman, Larry | HarperCollins |
| Planet India: How the Fastest-Growing Democracy is Transforming America and the World | Kamdar, Mira | Scribner |
| Poor People | Vollmann, William T. | HarperCollins |
| Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam | Statler, Kathryn C. | University Press of Kentucky |
| Rescued by Mao: World War II, Wake Island, and My Remarkable Escape to Freedom Across Mainland China | Taylor, William | Leatherwood Press/Silverleaf |
| Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man | Spence, Jonathan D. | Penguin Group-Viking |
| Revolution of Hope | Fox, Vicente and Rob Allyn | Viking |
| Rising Sons: The Japanese American GI's Who Fought for the United States in WWII | Yenne, Bill | St Martin's Press |
| Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy | Gill, Bates | Brookings Institution Press |
| Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia | Samuels, Richard J. | Cornell University Press |
| Sisters of Heaven: China's Barnstorming Aviatrixes | Gully, Patti | Long River Press |
| Stealing Buddah's Dinner | Nguyen, Bich Minh | Viking |
| Stones Witness | Randall, Margaret | University of Arizona Press |
| Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke Kahanamoku | Crowe, Ellie | Lee & Low |
| Textures of Struggle: The Emergence of Resistance Among Garment Workers in Thailand | Pangsapa, Piya | Cornell University Press |
| The 100-Mile Diet/Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally | MacKinnon, JB and Alisa Smith | Random House Canada |
| The Airmen and the Headhunters | Heimann, Judith | Harcourt Trade Publishers |
| The Astro Boy Essays | Schodt, Frederik | Stone Bridge |
| The Authentic Confucius: A Life of Thought and Politics | Chin, Annping | Scribner |
| The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression | Mann, James | Penguin Group-Viking |
| The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing | Alcalá, Kathleen | University of Arizona Press |
| The Eighth Promise | Lee, William Poy | Rodale |
| The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us | Meredith, Robyn | WW Norton |
| The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power | Tharoor, Shashi | Arcade |
| The Father of All Things | Bissell, Tom | Pantheon Books |
| The Fragile Edge | Whitty, Julia | Houghton Mifflin |
| The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama, and the First British Expedition to Tibet | Teltscher, Kate | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
| The Last Days of the Incas | MacQuarrie, Kim | Simon & Schuster |
| The Last Mughal | Dalrymple, William | Alfred A. Knopf (US) |
| The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest | McAllister, Ian | Greystone Books |
| The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia | Zaminder, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali | Columbia University Press |
| The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory, and the Death of Wild Culture | Bowling, Tim | Nightwood Editions |
| The Making of Minjung | Lee, Namhee | Cornell University Press |
| The Peninsula Question: A Chronicle of the Second Korean Nuclear Crisis | Funabashi, Yoichi | Brookings Institution Press |
| The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide | Heiss, Mary Lou and Robert J. | Ten Speed Press |
| The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy | Issenberg, Sasha | Gotham Books (Penguin Group, USA) |
| The Talented Women of the Zhang Family | Mann, Susan | University of California Press |
| The Thorn of Lion City | Lum, Lucy | Public Affairs |
| The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the 'Opening' of Japan | Jannetta, Ann | Stanford University Press |
| The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War | Horne, Gerald | University of Hawai'i Press |
| The World Made New | Aronson, Marc and John W. Glenn | National Geographic Society |
| The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi from Samurai to Supermarket | Corson, Trevor | HarperCollins |
| Think India: The Rise of the World's Next Superpower and What It Means for Every American | Rai, Vinay | Gotham Books (Penguin Group, USA) |
| Travels in the East | Richie, Donald | Stone Bridge |
| Under the Dragon: California's New Culture | Shavelson, Lonnie and Fred Setterberg | Heyday Books |
| Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army | Fruhstuck, Sabine | University of California Press |
| Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature | Bradford, Clare | Wilfred Laurier University Press |
| Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother | Orenstein, Peggy | Bloomsbury |
| Whale Warriors | Heller, Peter | Free Press |
| When the Huai Flowers Bloom | Shu Siang Lu | SUNY Press |
| Witness to Disaster: Volcanoes | Fradin, Judith and Dennis | National Geographic Society |
| Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary | Gao, Wenquian | Public Affairs |