RANDOM VIEWS OF ASIA FROM THE MID-PACIFIC weaves together a series of analyses focused on contemporary events in the Asia-Pacific region.



This book is best seen as a learning tool to help both the general reader and Asia specialist to better understand the complexion of the region and true dynamics of individual events. Newspaper articles, internet commentary, political discussions and debates come excitingly alive, and suddenly relevant, meaningful, and understandable.

Of course, that alone is not enough to make a non-fiction political work an enduring one: All sides of the important issues need to be, and in RANDOM VIEWS OF ASIA FROM THE MID-PACIFIC are investigated and elucidated providing readers with the additional insight needed to make to their own, independent assessments of today's and tomorrow's events.

Supplementing the analyses are in-depth interviews with two women whose lives have been greatly changed by China's opening to the world: Liu Ping, a former Red Guard who is now a very successful businesswoman, and Qiao Chu, a teenager who is privleged to grow up in a much more luxuriant, comfortable era than her parents. Join me in this most human of stories of the past, present and future.

Sincerely,
William E. Sharp, Jr.
Author of RANDOM VIEWS OF ASIA FROM THE MID-PACIFIC (Savant 2012)