Assignment:
Asian Business Book Essay Suggestions
Here are some suggestions for your book essay. You are not necessarily bound by these suggestions, and if you have other titles you'd like to read or subjects you'd like to investigate, let me know.
The book essay is NOT a book report-it is rather a book review...about 5-7 pages. Imagine that you're writing the piece for the New York Times book review section or the New York Review of Books. In other words, it should be critical review, digging in to the author's themes and, of course, bringing in other material (from the course, other courses, your own background, etc.) A critical review does not necessarily mean that you trash the books-rather, you should explore what the authors are really trying to achieve, the authors' points of view and assumptions, and, of course, whether the authors' goals are met.
You should be able to find most, if not all, of these titles in bookstores around town or in libraries. They are all available from Amazon (disclaimer: I do NOT own stock in Amazon) and other book sellers in hard copy and e-format. I would not recommend them if they were not going to be useful for the library of an "Asia hand".
GENERAL:
Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia by Joe Studwell (Grove, 2008)
Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures--and Yours by Tarun Khann (Harvard Business School Press, 2008)
CHINA
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos (Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2014)
Wealth and Power: China's Long March into the TwentyFirst Century by Orville Schell & John Delury (Random House 2013)
China Goes Global by David Shambaugh (Oxford UP 2013)
Mr. China, by Tim Clissold (Collins, 2006)
Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game by Paul Midler (Wiley, 2009)
Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China by Philip Pan (Simon&Schuster, 2008)
China Road: A Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford (Random House, 2008)
The Greaet Wall of Money, Helleiner & Kirshner eds. Cornell UP 2014
Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise, C. E Walter & F.J.T. Howie (Wiley 2011)
China in Ten Words (????????), Yu Hua )(??)2011
The People's Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim (Oxford UP 2014)
JAPAN
Reimagining Japan: The Quest for a Future that Works, B. Salsberg, (McKinsey 2011)
Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power And Purpose, by Kenneth Pyle (PublicAffairs Press, 2007)
Securing Japan, Richard Samuels (Cornell UP, 2007)
Japan Remodeled, by Steven Kent Vogel (Cornell UP, 2006)
Choose and Focus: Japanese Business Strategies for the 21st Century, by Ulrike Schaede (Cornell Univ. Press, 2008)
On Track With the Japanese: A Case-By-Case Approach to Building Successful Relationships by
Patricia E. Gercik, (1st Books Library, 2001)
INDIA
In Spite of the Gods, by Edward Luce (Doubleday, 2007),
Planet India, by Mira Kamdar (Scribner, 2007)
Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation by Nandan Nilekani (Penguin 2009)
India: The Emerging Giant by Arvind Panagariya (Oxford UP, 2008)
India's Century: The Age of Entrepreneurship in the World's Biggest Democracy, by Kamal Nath (McGrawHill 2007)
India: A Portrait, by Patrick French (Knopf, 2011)
KOREA
Korea: The Impossible Country by Daniel Tudor (Tuttle, 2012)