Writings On Other Asian Countries
McCargo has also edited a book on Vietnam (2004). He is one of the very few Southeast Asia specialists to have published a well-known volume on a different part of Asia; his book Contemporary Japan (third edition forthcoming) is widely assigned even by Japanologists as an introductory student text.
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