Looking for Sci-Fi novels set in Asia.

[some guy]

2. maybe/

The Years of Salt and Rice by Kim Stanley Robinson was one I enjoyed.

It's sort of alternative history. The black plague essentially wipes out Europe, so history and progress falls to Asia. The discovery of the America's arrives at the west coast, rather than across the Atlantic. etc.

eta - it also deals kind of heavily with Buddhist thought and reincarnation, so it may not be what you're looking for. Some of the characters cycle through and you get to see them in various incarnations.