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JongWK
For those who are interested in knowing what's in SoA, Drivethru has a free pdf preview available:

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It's roughly 1 Mb. Contents: Back cover, internal cover, table of contents, credits and introduction.
JongWK
INTRODUCTION 5

LOOKING TOWARD THE RISING SUN 6

NEO-ASIA 7

The Corporate East 7
Japan. Inc. 7
Pacific Prosperity Group 8
The Asia Twenty 8
Eastern Spirituality 15
Buddhism 16
Confucianism 16
Daoism 17
Hinduism 18
Islam 19
Shamanism 19
Shinto 20
Zoroastrianism 20

CHINESE PUZZLE 21
Fall of the House of Mao 21
The Republic Civil War 22
The Nationalist War 22
The Canton Confederation: East Meets West 24
Macao 27
Zhurong Peak 27
South China Sea 28
Neighbors 28
Hong Kong Free Enterprise Zone 29
Victoria Harbor 31
Aberdeen 31
Kowloon 32
Lantau 32
The New Territories 32
Manchuria: Power of the People 32
Shen Yao-Xiang and the Three Wise Men 33
Spirits of the People 33
The Ta’ren 34
Manchuria and Extraterritoriality 34
Shaanxi: Great Underground Empire 35
Monarchs to Behold the Swelling Scene 35
And Rouse at the Name of Shaanxi 36
A Kingdom for a Stage, Princes to Act 36
Occasions and Causes in All Things 37
A Peopled Kingdom 37
Beijing: Mandate of Heaven 39
Emperor of Heaven and Earth 40
The Forbidden City 40
Tiananmen Square 41
Tan Tien Corporation 41
The Republic of China: Rump State 42
Henan: Great Leap Backward 42
The Little Red Book (2064 Edition) 42
The Bourgeoisie 43
Champions of the Workers 43
Party Apparatchiks 43
Song Shan 44
Sichuan: Warring State 44
The Barrel of a Gun 44
Magical Meritocracy 45
Atomic Enlightenment 46
Locations of Interest 46
Other Splinter States 47
Coastal Provinces: Made in China 47
Western China: Wild, Wild West 48

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT 50
Indian Union: Spice of Life 50
Chaos Resplendent 52
Urban Chakras 56
New Delhi: Political Capitol 57
Calcutta: Economic Powerhouse 58
The MBC Axis: Open Heart 59
Bombay: Bollywood Melodrama 59
Crime Pays 60
Land of Wonder 61
Indian Pilgrimage 62
Bangla Commonwealth 64
Khalistan 65
Kashmir Wastes 66
Nepal 66
Pakistan 67
Sri Lanka 68
Tibet 68

The Maya Cloud 69
The Roof of the World 70
The Search for the Dalai Lama 71
The Stewards of Tibet 72
JongWK
I'm cutting and pasting ths from the preview, so bear with me if I take a few minutes.

JAPAN 73
Empire at Large 73

Rise of the Japanacorps 74
The Downward Spiral 76
Ring of Fire, Sea of Ash 77
Iron Triangle: The Powers That Be 79
Emperor Yasuhito 79
Taro Yonekura 79
Hitomi Shiawase 80
The Wraith 80
The National Diet 81
Japanacorps 81
Ryumyo 82
Shinto and the Kami 82
In the Shadows 83
Yakuza 83
Ninja Societies 84
Koga 84
Oni-do 85
Code of the Salaryman 85
Japan: An Outsider’s View 86
Japan: An Insider’s View 87
Pop Culture Gone Wild 88

Idoru 88
Moe Obsessions 88
Robots 90
Places of Note 90
The Nippon Matrix 90
Neo-Tokyo 91
Ise Jingu 92
Nagasaki 92

THE MIDDLE EAST 93
The Arabian Caliphate 96

Blending In 96
Culture Gap 97
Tribal Allegiances 98
Tools of the Trade 98
Underworld Among the Dunes 101
Sand Castles 101
Iran and Iraq: Saints and Sinners 102
The Islamic Republic of Iran 102
The Federal Republic of Iraq 105
Israel, Palestine and Jerusalem 107
Olive Trees and Nuclear Warheads 107
Kings, Prophets and Thieves 109
Merchants 110
Land of Milk and Honey 110
Turkey 112
Islam vs. Secularism 112
History 113
The Secular Republic of Turkey (West Turkey) 114
Free City of Constantinople (Istanbul) 115
East Anatolia (East Turkey) 116
Other Middle East Countries 117
Afghanistan 117
Cyprus 119
Kurdish Autonomous Zone 119
Syria 119
Update 120

RED STORM RISING 121
Of Mice and Men 121
Russian Roulette 122

Ultra-Nationalism 122
National Supreme Soviet 124
The Red Army 125
The GRU 126
Spetsnaz 126
The UGB 126
Russian Orthodox Church 127
The MVD 128
The Vory 129
Saeder-Krupp 130
Zeta-ImpChem 131
Yamatetsu 132
Cross Applied Technologies 133
The Human Nation 134
Across the Rodina 134
Moscow 134
St. Petersburg 135
Kronstadt 136
Nizhniy Novgorod 136
Volgograd 137
Novosibirsk 138
Irkutsk 138
Vladivostok 138
Petropavlosk-Kamchatsky 139
Svobodniy 139
Yakut: Call of the Wild 140
Revolution Gone Awry 140
Freedom Rock 141
Spiritual Civil War 141
The Savage Land 143

SOUTHEAST ASIA 145
Indochina 145
Generalities 145
Society 146
The Underworld 148
Indochinese Urban Centers 149
Burma: Corrupted Dream 151
Cambodia: Coveted Ruins 152
The Kashin State: The Green Dove 153
Laos: Shaking the Leash 154
Pattani Islamic Republic: Smuggling Haven 154
The Shan State: The Neverending Fight 154
Thailand: Little Japan 155
Vietnam: Apocalypse Now 156
Yunnan: The Druglords’ Garden157
Shattered Indonesia 157
Breaking Apart 158
Indonesian Islamism vs. Awakened Animism 158
The Javanese Republic 159
The Sumatran Alliance 161
The Enlightened Kingdom of Bali & Lombok 162
The Dayak Council of Borneo & Sulawesi 163
The Remaining Malay Archipelago 163
Independent State of New Guinea 164
Mompracen—The Floating Market 165
Malaysia 166
Politics 167
Malaysia Online 168
Banking 169
The Triads 170
Kuala Lumpur 170
Singapore, Inc. 170
The Strait of Malacca 172
The Philippines 172
Land of Broken Promises 172
The Hukbo Ng Bayan
Laban Sa Hapon 176
The Imperial Prefecture 178
Kaingineros 179
Typhoons of Change 180
Breeding in the Shadows 180

THE REST OF ASIA 181
Republic of Korea 181

Riding the Tiger 182
Regime Change, Korean Style 184
Dynamic Korea 185
Places to Go, People to Frag 187
Mongolia 189
The Mongols 189
The Corps 190
Oceania 190
Islands on the Edge of Tomorrow 191
Melanesia—The “Black Islands” 192
Micronesia: The “Small Islands”193
Polynesia: The “Many Islands” 194
The Kingdom of Hawai’i 195
Aotearoa-New Zealand 197
Transcaucasian Federation 199
The Caspian Sea 200
Azerbaijan 200
Georgia 200
Armenia 201
Turkestan: Crossroads Of Asia 201
The Turkic Peoples 202
The Nomadic Hordes 202
Citizens of the Sprawl 203
Power and Conflicts 205
Saeder-Krupp 205
The Mining Wars 206
Project Endgame 206
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GAME INFORMATION 207
Traditions within Traditions 207

Buddhism 207
Confucianism 208
Hinduism 208
Islam 208
Eastern Shamanism 208
Shinto 208
Daoism 208
Zoroastrianism 210
China 210
Getting In/Out 210
Running In China 210
Hong Kong Wild Magic 211
Manchurian Magic 211
The Five Sacred Mountains 211
Background Count In Western China 212
Indian Subcontinent 212
Getting In/Out 212
Atmoshere 212
Current Affairs 212
The Ganges 213
The Orissa Network and the Jyotirlinga 214
Tibet 214
Japan 216
Getting In/Out 216
Visas and Landing Permission 218
The Nippon Matrix 218
Running In Japan 218
Japanese Magic 218
Middle East 218
Getting In/Out 218
Running In the Middle East 219
Middle East Adventure Ideas 220
Russia and Yakut 221
Russia 221
Yakut 221
Southeast Asia 222
Getting In/Out 223
Running In Indochina 223
Running In Malaysia 224
Running In the Philippines 224
The Rest of Asia 225
Korea 225
Mongolia 225
Oceania 226
Turkestan 226
Border Crossing 227
Backgammon
Good lord I' going to have a lot of reading to do
SL James
QUOTE
Transcaucasian Federation 199
The Caspian Sea 200
Azerbaijan 200
Georgia 200
Armenia 201

They're not serious, are they?
fistandantilus4.0
How many pages is that running again?
Plus the 360 something of SR4?

The Sys Fail and SoLA..

yeah, be buried in books for a while

Oh happy day!
Adam
Shadows of Asia is 232 pages; SR4 is 352.

I hope to put up a larger preview of SOA this week -- I actually didn't mean for DTRPG to automatically build one, but it's cool that they did.
fistandantilus4.0
thanks Adam, now I can plan my next two months better.

good times, good times
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