This Week's Readings and the Search for Good Fiction Continues

For this coming week, please read Murphey, chapter 7, on Southeast Asian civilization (15 pages) by Monday and Murphey, chapter 8, for more on Chinese civilization (20 pages) by Wednesday. Blog posts are due by midnight on Wednesday.

In addition, lets continue to look for the best fiction for our book club assignment. 

Revised and updated 2/6/15:

We will have six books, two each on Indian Partition, 2 each on the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and 2 each on South East Asia in 1975. Each student should look over the options and come to class on Monday prepared with his/her first, second and third choices. Each book will have a "club" of three students to read and review it.

China

• To Live by Yu Hua
• A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama

South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh)

• The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
• Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa

Southeast Asia

• The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
• No Man's Land by Huong, Duong