southeast asia

Presents portraits of life in Mongolia, Myanmar, and Nepal, describing each country's peoples, history, economy, classes, religions, health, education, and cultural aspects such as food and drink, sport, the arts, and festivals, and features color photos, sidebars, a time line, a glossary, and a list of Web sites and books.

Presents portraits of life in South Korea, Laos, and Malaysia, describing each country's peoples, history, economy, classes, religions, health, education, and cultural aspects such as food and drink, sport, the arts, and festivals, and features color photos, sidebars, a time line, a glossary, and a list of Web sites and books.

Presents portraits of life in Japan and North Korea, describing each country's peoples, history, economy, classes, religions, health, education, and cultural aspects such as food and drink, sport, the arts, and festivals, and features color photos, sidebars, a time line, a glossary, and a list of Web sites and books.

A portrait of life in Indonesia that describes the country's peoples, history, economy, religions, health, education, and cultural aspects such as food and drink and arts and leisure, and features color photos, sidebars, a time line, a glossary, and a list of Web sites and books.

A portrait of life in India that describes the country's peoples, history, economy, classes, religions, health, education, and cultural aspects such as food and drink, sport, music, dance, theater, film, art, literature, architecture, and festivals, and features color photos, sidebars, a time line, a glossary, and a list of Web sites and books.

Introduces China's peoples of the northwest, southwest, south, southeast, central region, and Qinghai and Tibet, and describes China's economy, classes, religions, health, education, and cultural aspects such as food and drink, sport, the arts, and festivals; and presents a portrait of East Timor, covering its history, peoples, economy, religions, health, education, and arts.

Presents a portrait of life in Cambodia, covering its peoples, history, economy, classes, religions, health, education, and cultural aspects such as arts and leisure; chronicles China's history, discusses its languages, and describes its peoples of the northeast, Inner Mongolia, and provinces south of the Great Wall; and features color photos, sidebars, a time line, a glossary, and a list of Web sites and books.

Tells the stories of twenty-one American Vietnam veterans who for various reasons would not, or could not leave Southeast Asia after the war, and refused to leave behind the people they had fought and defended.

Describes the historical and contemporary lives of Southeast Asian women, their religious, family, and public lives, and issues and controversies they face, and discusses the work of individual Southeast Asian women who have made a difference in their societies or the world.

Describes a variety of holiday celebrations in Southeast Asia, including Thailand's Elephant Round-Up, Singapore's Moon Cake Festival, and the Vietnamese New Year.