The myth of the great white rajah / Joseph Conrad -- And the king of Siam / Anna Leonowens -- Traditional legends and ghost stories from Japan / Lafcadio Hearn -- The white man's burden / Rudyard Kipling -- XXX / AndrΓ© Malraux -- Burmese days / George Orwell -- On Asia's edge / W. Somerset Maugham -- A passage to India / E.M. Forster -- Lost horizon, Shangri-La / James Hilton -- The good earth / Pearl S. Buck -- Bhowani junction / John Masters -- The quiet American / Graham Greene -- The yellow peril / Sax Rohmer -- Charlie Chan / Earl Derr Biggers -- Sayonara / James Michener -- The world of Suzie Wong / Richard Mason -- King rat / James Clavell -- The devil of a state / Anthony Burgess -- The lover / Marguerite Duras -- The bridge over the River Kwai / Pierre Boulle -- American pimp in Singapore / Paul Theroux -- You only live twice / Ian Fleming -- The ugly American / William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick -- The city of joy / Dominique Lapierre -- The manchurian candidate / Richard Condon -- The joy luck club / Amy Tan -- Rising sun / Michael Crichton -- Memoirs of a Geisha / Arthur Golden -- The beach / Alex Garland -- The ninja / Eric Van Lustbader (and friends) -- Thailand's sex industry / Michel Holleubecq & John Burdett -- A million mutinies now / V.S. Naipaul.;From the time of Marco Polo's trek across the Central Asian desert to the empire of the mighty Kahn, no other place on earth, not the languid South Pacific or even deepest, darkest Africa has so challenged and enchanted the Western imagination as have the fabled lands of the East!However soaked in blood its history and no matter how unsettling its social conditions and poverty, Asia has never lost its irresistible attraction or mystic. Asia has long been an inspiration for Western novelists, so much so that more than 5000 novels have been set in Asia in the English language alone. Storied name.