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The New Cold War: How the Contest Between the US and China Will Shape Our Century by Robin Niblett 9781805462118
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.22'An illuminating book for the interested citizen as well as for those making policy' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'An important, crystal-clear account of contemporary global geopolitics... Essential reading' PETER FRANKOPAN'An excellent short guide: concise,... -
Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir Kishore Mahbubani 9781541703049
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.22In this stirring memoir, a preeminent politician and diplomat traces the transformation of the Republic of Singapore from a poor colony into an Asian powerhouseGrowing up in poverty in the 1950s, Kishore Mahbubani expected to become a common textile... -
New Cold Wars: China’s rise, Russia’s invasion, and America’s struggle to defend the West by David Sanger 9781915590817
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.33THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous cold wars against two very different adversaries - Xi Jinping's China and Valdimir Putin's Russia. New Cold Wars - the latest from Pulitzer Prize-winning... -
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £17.78Cundill Prize FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Book of the Year“Superbly original…Breaks new ground by showing how a collective consciousness emerged among revolutionaries.”—The Economist“A clearly written, brilliantly... -
On China by Henry Kissinger
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.96In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic step of reopening relations between China and the West, and since then has been more intimately connected with the country at the highest level than any other western figure. This book distils his unique... -
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.96THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW AN ACCLAIMED TV SERIESThis is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a terror network, and to the FBI agent whose warnings of... -
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.82In Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy--a nation of 1.2 billion, where the country's 100 richest people own assets worth one quarter of India's gross domestic product. Ferocious and... -
Imperial China: The Definitive Visual History by DK
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.90Explore the long and rich history of China's great dynasties.From the clans and legends of prehistory to the last Qing emperor, this book brings China's imperial history to life through its pivotal events, political forces, and powerful people, in a... -
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das 9781526615664
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.22WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE A SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the... -
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping by Steve Tsang 9780197689363
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.49An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"--now the official dogma of the Chinese Communist Party--that marshals Xi's personal words and writings to reveal his plan to make "the China Dream of national rejuvenation" a reality in the coming... -
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden by Steve Coll
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.34Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer PrizeThe explosive, New York Times bestselling first-hand account of America's secret history in AfghanistanPrize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified... -
We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world’s most powerful leader by Michael Dillon 9781529914450
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.40Meet the most powerful leader in the world. Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our television screens and news headlines on a regular basis. But even after a decade in power, he remains shrouded in mystery.From growing up with a father purged in Mao's... -
China's Search for Security by Andrew J. Nathan 9780231140515
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.50Despite its impressive size and population, economic vitality, and drive to upgrade its military, China remains a vulnerable nation surrounded by powerful rivals and potential foes. Understanding China's foreign policy means fully appreciating these... -
Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang 9780197756263
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.13The definitive account of the Chinese government's response to the initial Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. The Covid-19 pandemic, which began as an outbreak in Wuhan in late 2019, has claimed millions of lives and caused unprecedented disruptions. Despite... -
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power by Sergey Radchenko 9781108477352
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.46What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the... -
The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea by Hyeonseo Lee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.22NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. ... -
Return Of The Dragon: China's Wounded Nationalism Maria H Chang 9780813338569
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £38.44As Maoism recedes, and especially after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Beijing has increasingly turned to patriotic nationalism for its ideological inspiration and legitimation. Return of the Dragon begins with a discussion of the definitions,... -
The History of Central Asia: The Age of Decline and Revival by Christoph Baumer
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.81For more than a hundred years, Central Asia was the heartland of the mightiest military power on the planet. But after the fragmentation of the all-conquering Mongol polity, the region began a steep decline which rendered this former domain of horse... -
China: A History by John Keay 9780007221783
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.12Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume. Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history remains an elusive subject. Yet it is this vast... -
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.71Richard McGregor's The Party has been established as the book on China and its political leadership. It is indispensable to understanding what may soon become the most powerful country on earth, and here is it is newly updated to include material on the... -
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future Chun Han Wong 9781472158512
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.29'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary ReviewFrom one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian... -
Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel that Outwitted the CIA by Patrick Winn 9781785789731
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.18Award-winning journalist - and author of Hello, Shadowlands - Patrick Winn reveals the inside story of a forbidden republic - the narco-state of the WaThe jagged mountains dividing China and Burma belong to the Wa, an indigenous group who have outwitted... -
The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea by Namhee Lee 9780801475733
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.65In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history of the minjung ("common people's") movement in South Korea, Namhee Lee shows how the movement arose in the 1970s and 1980s in response to the repressive authoritarian regime and grew out of a widespread... -
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy Rahul Bhatia 9781408717882
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.18The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals a picture of a nation on the precipice of dramatic change.'Remarkable... fascinating... brilliant'... -
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia by Andrei Lankov 9780199390038 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £5.05Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to... -
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia by Andrei Lankov
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to... -
Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy by Kishore Mahbubani
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.18The twenty-first century's great geopolitical contest has begun. A major trade war has broken out. American and Chinese naval vessels are having close encounters in the South China Sea. American congressmen and businessmen are cheering their government's... -
All under Heaven: The Tianxia System for a Possible World Order by Tingyang Zhao
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.50In this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang, one of China's most distinguished intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China's story and also develops a Chinese worldview for the future. Over the past few decades,... -
The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.93'I beseech you to read this account' - Christopher HitchensA magnificent, harrowing testimony to the voiceless victims of North Korea.Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of a North Korean concentration camp to escape the 'hermit kingdom' and tell his... -
The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan by Matt Pottinger 9780817926458
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £20.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817926458Author Matt PottingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt - from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad 9781408717936
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.48'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding'As an exploration of the social fabric of Afghan life, this book takes some beating' DAILY TELEGRAPH'No other recent book on the subject comes close' CPW Gammell, author of... -
Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism by Edgar Snow
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorised account of Mao's life, as well as a history of the famous Long March and the men and women who were responsible for the... -
The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984878281Author Keyu JinFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult -
Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan by Hsiao-Ting Lin 9780674659810
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £32.03The existence of two Chinese states-one controlling mainland China, the other controlling the island of Taiwan-is often understood as a seemingly inevitable outcome of the Chinese civil war. Defeated by Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists fled to... -
Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China by Alec Ash
Booksplease Price: £13.85As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.This is the generation that will change China. The youth, over 320 million of them in their teens and twenties, more than the population of the USA. Born after Mao, with no memory of Tiananmen, they are destined to... -
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.91A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan"Eloquently discusses the making of India and Pakistan after British rule on the subcontinent was dismantled in 1947. . . . A new look at... -
In China's Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South by Nicholas Jepson 9780231187978
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.50In the early 2000s, Chinese demand for imported commodities ballooned as the country continued its breakneck economic growth. Simultaneously, global markets in metals and fuels experienced a boom of unprecedented extent and duration. Meanwhile,... -
Westlessness: The Great Global Rebalancing Samir Puri 9781399722636
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.00What if the sun truly is setting on the Western world's outsized influence over the rest of the planet? In Westlessness, former UK diplomat Dr Samir Puri vividly demonstrates how in demographic, economic, military and cultural terms, we are hurtling into... -
The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power Kerry Brown 9780300272925
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.87A vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the present The relationship between Britain and China has shaped the modern world. Chinese art, philosophy and science have had a profound effect upon British culture, while... -
Freedom: How we lose it and how we get it back by Nathan Law
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.58'Nathan Law's agonising account of China's ruthless takeover of Hong Kong provides a terrible insight into Beijing's ambitions - the world needs to read this.' - Jon Snow 'In Freedom, Nathan Law paints a deeply personal portrait of sheer courage... An...