The Asia Society has announced the finalists for its Bernard Schwartz Book Award. The only literary author shortlisted is Yu Hua 余华:

• Cambodia’s Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land by Joel Brinkley (PublicAffairs)
• China in Ten Words by Yu Hua (Pantheon Books)
• Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
• Water: Asia’s New Battleground by Brahma Chellaney (Georgetown University Press)
• Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia by Thant Myint-U (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

For more information, including the list of judges, click here.