FR :
Ces textes, souvent écrits dans des contextes de lutte, de réforme ou de transition, témoignent de la manière dont la plume devient une arme de persuasion et de mémoire. Comme le disait Jawaharlal Nehru dans The Discovery of India, « un peuple qui oublie son passé est condamné à le revivre ».
EN :
From Mao Zedong to Aung San Suu Kyi, Asia’s leaders have turned their political journeys into memoirs, manifestos, and reflections. Written in times of struggle, reform, or transition, these works show how writing becomes both a weapon of persuasion and a vessel of memory. As Jawaharlal Nehru noted in The Discovery of India, “a nation that forgets its past is doomed to relive it.”
Top 50 – Livres de politiciens asiatiques
| # | Titre du livre | Auteur (politicien) | Pays |
| 1 | Quotations from Chairman Mao | Mao Zedong | Chine |
| 2 | The Governance of China | Xi Jinping | Chine |
| 3 | Selected Works | Deng Xiaoping | Chine |
| 4 | My Country and My People | Sun Yat-sen | Chine |
| 5 | Unfinished Memoirs | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | Bangladesh |
| 6 | Prison Diaries | Sheikh Hasina | Bangladesh |
| 7 | The Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru | Inde |
| 8 | My Experiments with Truth | Mahatma Gandhi | Inde |
| 9 | Why I Am a Hindu | Shashi Tharoor | Inde |
| 10 | The Accidental Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh | Inde |
| 11 | India Wins Freedom | Abul Kalam Azad | Inde |
| 12 | Turning Points | A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | Inde |
| 13 | The Struggle for Pakistan | Ayub Khan | Pakistan |
| 14 | Pakistan: A Personal History | Imran Khan | Pakistan |
| 15 | Daughter of the East | Benazir Bhutto | Pakistan |
| 16 | Friends Not Masters | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Pakistan |
| 17 | The Wit and Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew | Lee Kuan Yew | Singapour |
| 18 | Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going | Goh Chok Tong | Singapour |
| 19 | From Third World to First | Lee Hsien Loong | Singapour |
| 20 | The Asian Renaissance | Anwar Ibrahim | Malaisie |
| 21 | A Doctor in the House | Mahathir Mohamad | Malaisie |
| 22 | The Future of Asia | Najib Razak | Malaisie |
| 23 | The Wit and Wisdom of Sukarno | Sukarno | Indonésie |
| 24 | Autobiography | Suharto | Indonésie |
| 25 | Reformasi | Megawati Sukarnoputri | Indonésie |
| 26 | The Wit and Wisdom of Ho Chi Minh | Ho Chi Minh | Vietnam |
| 27 | Prison Diary | Võ Nguyên Giáp | Vietnam |
| 28 | The Wit and Wisdom of Norodom Sihanouk | Norodom Sihanouk | Cambodge |
| 29 | The Wit and Wisdom of Hun Sen | Hun Sen | Cambodge |
| 30 | The Wit and Wisdom of Aung San Suu Kyi | Aung San Suu Kyi | Birmanie |
| 31 | Freedom from Fear | Aung San Suu Kyi | Birmanie |
| 32 | The Wit and Wisdom of Ferdinand Marcos | Ferdinand Marcos | Philippines |
| 33 | The Wit and Wisdom of Corazon Aquino | Corazon Aquino | Philippines |
| 34 | From EDSA to Malacañang | Fidel Ramos | Philippines |
| 35 | The Wit and Wisdom of Rodrigo Duterte | Rodrigo Duterte | Philippines |
| 36 | The Wit and Wisdom of Shinzo Abe | Shinzo Abe | Japon |
| 37 | Toward a Beautiful Country | Shinzō Abe | Japon |
| 38 | The Wit and Wisdom of Ichirō Ozawa | Ichirō Ozawa | Japon |
| 39 | The Wit and Wisdom of Junichiro Koizumi | Junichiro Koizumi | Japon |
| 40 | The Wit and Wisdom of Yoshihide Suga | Yoshihide Suga | Japon |
| 41 | The Wit and Wisdom of Kim Il-sung | Kim Il-sung | Corée du Nord |
| 42 | The Wit and Wisdom of Kim Jong-il | Kim Jong-il | Corée du Nord |
| 43 | The Wit and Wisdom of Kim Jong-un | Kim Jong-un | Corée du Nord |
| 44 | The Wit and Wisdom of Syngman Rhee | Syngman Rhee | Corée du Sud |
| 45 | The Wit and Wisdom of Park Chung-hee | Park Chung-hee | Corée du Sud |
| 46 | The Wit and Wisdom of Roh Moo-hyun | Roh Moo-hyun | Corée du Sud |
| 47 | The Wit and Wisdom of Moon Jae-in | Moon Jae-in | Corée du Sud |
| 48 | The Wit and Wisdom of Narendra Modi | Narendra Modi | Inde |
| 49 | Exam Warriors | Narendra Modi | Inde |
| 50 | The Wit and Wisdom of Rajiv Gandhi | Rajiv Gandhi | Inde |
FR :
Ce corpus de cinquante ouvrages révèle une Asie où la politique s’écrit autant qu’elle se pratique. De Gandhi à Lee Kuan Yew, de Ho Chi Minh à Shinzo Abe, chaque livre est une fenêtre sur les dilemmes du pouvoir et les rêves de société. Lire ces textes, c’est pénétrer dans le laboratoire des idées qui ont façonné le continent.
EN :
This collection of fifty works reveals an Asia where politics is as much written as it is practiced. From Gandhi to Lee Kuan Yew, from Ho Chi Minh to Shinzo Abe, each book opens a window onto the dilemmas of power and the dreams of society. To read them is to enter the laboratory of ideas that have shaped the continent.
Thierry Robinet | l’itinéraire des Voyages initiatiques Entre Orient et Indonésie
