Robert A. Scalapino

From Leavenworth to Lhasa: Living in a Revolutionary Era

University of California, Berkeley, 2008

Having spent close to a lifetime studying the Asian continent – particularly Japan, China, the two Koreas, Vietnam and Southeast Asia – Scalapino writes From Leavenworth to Lhasa with visible enthusiasm and expertise. His accounts of Asia are remarkable in themselves, and his witty humor and quirky anecdotes add to one’s reading pleasure. Scalapino weaves stories about his travels around Asia and his forty years of teaching at UC Berkeley in with discussions detailing economic, cultural, and political situations and developments across the Asian continent. He writes some about his early years and quickly gets to how – once back at Berkeley, during a time of tremendous domestic upheaval – he became heavily involved in Asian studies. Presenting Asia as a work in progress, he ends the book with “cautiously optimistic” reflections on our times.

James R. Silkenat and William M. Hanney, eds.

The ABA Guide to Foreign Law Firms

American Bar Association Press in 2004

“Designed for all lawyers with clients doing business in foreign countries, the new Fourth Edition of the ABA Guide to Foreign Law Firms assists lawyers in identifying qualified legal counsel in more than 130 foreign jurisdictions, with particular emphasis on countries that are emerging as major centers for international commercial transactions.”

– The American Bar Association

Seymour Topping

Fatal Crossroads: A Novel of Vietnam 1945

EastBridge Books, 2005

“Seymour Topping, reaching deep into his long reportorial career in Asia, has given us a masterful treatment of history as novel in this gripping story of the leaders and their people who lived the Vietnam tragedy.”
— Walter Cronkite

“This remarkable, poignant novel brings alive the strange and inexcusable failure of American policymakers to understand Vietnam before investing 58,000 lives in a fruitless war. Readers will also gain from Seymour Topping’s commanding knowledge of Asian life that shines from every page.”— Henry F. Graff, Historian and editor, History of the Presidents