#alix is probably autistic and can't be bothered to get dxed

[shu-of-the-wind]

I will be adding this to the sotb page eventually when it's ready for proper viewing again (it's kind of in uhhhh construction mode) but here are the books that I've shortlisted in my research for Swallows on the Beam.

THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE LIST. I will continue adding to this list as I find titles I know I've read before. These are just the books that I personally own. And as a side note I am only including George Kerr's Okinawa because it's one of the only histories of Okinawa in English, it's NOT good and the guy wrote it in 1958 so his perspective on Okinawans, Chinese, and Japanese people is EXTREMELY skewed by the Second World War being so recent in his memory.

(ID: Eight photos of books. The first photo is a stack of six books on a table. From bottom to top, the books are The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia by Mamoru Akamine, The Secret History of the Mongol Queens by Jack Weatherford, Cults Inside Out by Rick Alan Ross, Okinawa: The History of an Island People by George Kerr, Our Land Was a Forest by Kayano Shigeru, and The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk. The other seven photos are photographs of covers of books on a Kindle screen. Those books are in order: Hokkaido: A History of Japan's Northern Isle and Its People by Ibrahim Jalal, China from Empire to Nation-State by Wang Hui, trans. by Michael Gibbs Hill, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell, God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Jonathan D. Spence, Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Liliuokalani, Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt, and The Romance of Three Kingdoms translated by C.H. Brewitt-Taylor.)