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South Asia and Southeast Asia Non-Fiction

1Cai_Tippett
Nov 24, 2021, 12:06 pm

I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for South Asian and Southeast Asian non-fiction?

2lilisin
Nov 25, 2021, 3:07 am

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