An insightful and comprehensive look at Asia on the rise-a masterful job of describing Asia’s anguish and ambition (The Washington Post Book World)-from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky and Tightrope

The 1997 economic crisss in Asia heaped devastation upon millions. Yet Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
argue that it was the best thing that could have happened to Asia. It destroyed the
cronyism, protectionism, and government regulation that had been crippling Asian
business for decades, and it left in its wake a vast region of resilient and determined
millions poised to wrest economic, diplomatic and military power from the West.

Thunder
from the East is a riveting look at a complex region, a fascinating panoply of compelling
characters, and a prophetic analysis from arguably the West’s most informed and intelligent
writers on Asia.