{"id":5616,"count":65,"description":"We have a vast range of interviews recommending books on every aspect of Asian life and culture, doing justice to the diversity and size of Asia.\u00a0 We have interviews covering the literature of Indonesia<\/a>, Georgia<\/a>, Japan<\/a> and Israel<\/a>, among others.\u00a0 On China, we have interviews on Chinese philosophy<\/a>, on Confucius<\/a>, on Chinese food<\/a>, religion in China<\/a>, China and the internet<\/a>, reform in China<\/a>, China and the USA <\/a>and a host of other topics, including Hong Kong<\/a> and Tibet<\/a>. Elsewhere we have numerous interviews on India<\/a> and Pakistan<\/a>, as well as on Singapore<\/a>, Japan<\/a>, Turkey<\/a>, North Korea<\/a>, Syria<\/a>, Georgia and the Caucasus<\/a>, Yemen<\/a>, Kazakhstan,<\/a> Burma<\/a> and Palestine<\/a>, to name a handful.\r\n\r\nWe cover a range of conflicts, both current and historical.\u00a0 Julia Lovell discusses the opium wars<\/a>, Nikolaus van Dam chooses his best books on the Syrian civil war<\/a> and Thomas de Waal chooses the best memoirs related to the Armenian genocide<\/a> and on conflict in the Caucasus<\/a>.\u00a0 Andrew Exum discusses the war in Afghanistan<\/a>.\u00a0 Marc Lynch looks at the origins of the Arab uprising<\/a>. Iftikhar Malik looks at Pakistan, Partition and Identity<\/a>.\r\n\r\nBeyond that we have interviews dedicated to all kinds of subjects, recommending books on everything from Buddhism<\/a>, to classical Chinese poetry<\/a> from Turkish politics<\/a> to Jewish history<\/a> and from desert nations<\/a> to Asia\u2019s rivers<\/a>, taking in every aspect of the Asia's politics, culture and society along the way. \u00a0We have a wealth of recommended\u00a0historical fiction set in Asia<\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/asia\/","name":"Asia","slug":"asia","taxonomy":"category","parent":23,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/23"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=5616"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=5616"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=5616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}