Suggested Book/Film
list
Books
The Kabuki Theater of
Comfort Woman—Henson
The Comfort Women—George Hicks
The Rape of
Wild Swans—Jung Chang
The Boxer Rebellion—Diane Preston
Behind the Wall—Colin Thubron
The Yamato Dynasty—
A Yankee in Meiji
Samurai William—Milton Giles
Peasant Revolts in
The Emergence of Meiji
Tiananmen Diaries—
An Intellectual
History of Modern
Japan as Number One—Ezra Vogel
Schools Behind Barbed Wire—Riley
You Gotta Have Wa—Robert Whiting
Women of the Pleasure Quarters—Lesley Downer
Chrysanthemum and the Sword—Ruth Benedict
Engendering the Chinese Revolution—Gilmartin
Peasants, Rebels, Women and Outcasts—Mikiso Hane
Learning to Bow—Bruce Feller
Anime Explosion--Drazen
Films
Farewell My Concubine
The Last Emperor
Hero
The Blue Kite
House of Flying
Daggers
Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon
47 Ronin
China Spring
Bumming in
The Great Step Forward
An Autumn Afternoon
One Step on a Mine,
It’s All Over
Big Business and the
Ghost of Confucius
The Cat and the Mouse
The Worlds of Mei Lan
Fang
Freedom Fighter
The Play’s the Thing
Born Under the Red
Flag
Our
Art in the Cultural
Revolution
Postmen in the
Mountains
Balzac and the Little
Chinese Seamstress
The Legend of Eight
Samurai
Samurai Rebellion
Interested in Asian Films—good web resource for finding all
kinds is www.facets.org