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End of an Era: How China's Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise by Carl Minzner 9780190056346
RRP: $41.98$40.55China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it-political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth-are unraveling. Since the 1990s, Beijing's leaders have firmly rejected any fundamental reform of their authoritarian... -
China's Grand Strategy: A Roadmap to Global Power? by David B. H. Denoon
RRP: $67.20$59.24Leading scholars examine China's global strategic plans, from Hong Kong to military power, to economic dominance Over the past few decades, China has increasingly challenged the global influence of the United States. In China's Grand Strategy, David B... -
China's Leaders: From Mao to Now by David Shambaugh 9781509557394
RRP: $37.78$25.49Since the founding of the People's Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping... -
Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire by Raffaello Pantucci 9780198857969
RRP: $55.63$39.08Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland. China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given... -
Mao's Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China's Navy by Toshi Yoshihara 9781647122829
RRP: $58.80$56.57New details about the founding of China's Navy reveals critical historical context and insight into future strategy From 1949 to 1950, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) made crucial decisions to establish a navy and secure China's periphery. The... -
The Trouble with Taiwan: History, the United States and a Rising China by Kerry Brown
RRP: $29.38$23.18Taiwan: a place with its own flag, currency, government and military, but which most of the world does not recognise as a sovereign country. An island that China regards as a 'rebellious province', but which has managed to survive defiantly for decades... -
Overreach: China, America, and the New Cold War by Susan Shirk
RRP: $51.43$44.50For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something changed. For three decades after Mao's death in... -
Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order by Bruno Macaes
RRP: $31.48$28.64China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy... -
The Sarawak Report: The Inside Story of the 1MDB Expose by Clare Rewcastle Brown 9781527219366
RRP: $31.48$27.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527219366Author Clare Rewcastle BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Lost World PressPublisher Lost World Press -
Policy Analysis in South Korea Sounman Hong (Yonsei University) 9781447362579
RRP: $214.18$163.99The industrialisation and modernisation in South Korea that followed the Second World War resulted in rapid progress in economic development, public administration, social service provision and the establishment of modern public policy. Bringing together... -
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
RRP: $20.98$20.18In 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... -
The Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower--A Retelling for Our Times by Linda Jaivin
RRP: $35.60$26.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615198207Author Linda JaivinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ExperimentPublisher ExperimentWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 22mm -
The Hazaras and the Afghan State: Rebellion, Exclusion and the Struggle for Recognition by Niamatullah Ibrahimi
RRP: $42.00$37.46The Hazaras of Afghanistan have borne the brunt of many of the destructive forces unleashed by the establishment of the Afghan monarchy in 1747. The history of their relationship with the Afghan state has been punctuated by frequent episodes of ethnic... -
Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping by Francois Bougon
RRP: $37.78$33.89Xi Jinping wants to become the world's most powerful leader. To succeed, he must balance Mao's Little Red Book with the Analects of Confucius, and more. For Xi, the task ahead of China is to preserve the guiding ideology of Marxism, while challenging... -
The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited by Louisa Lim 9780190227913
RRP: $29.38$20.48"One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989." --The New York Times Book Review On June 4, 1989, People's Liberation Army soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians in Beijing, killing untold hundreds of... -
Mao Zedong Thought by Wang Fanxi
RRP: $63.00$47.00There have been many books on Mao Zedong, but few match this indispensable study by Wang Fanxi, a leading Chinese Trotskyist and contemporary of Mao. Written more than fifty years ago during Wang Fanxi's exile in Macau, this outstanding analysis has... -
Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today's India by Christophe Jaffrelot 9781849044295
RRP: $63.00$56.60In 2012 Narendra Modi became the first Hindu nationalist politician thrice elected to lead a state of the Indian Union, his stewardship as Chief Minister of Gujarat being the longest in that state's history. Modi and his BJP supporters explained his... -
The Future Is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-first Century Parag Khanna 9781474610681
RRP: $23.08$15.54Five billion people, two-thirds of the world's mega-cities, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic growth, thirty of the Fortune 100, six of the ten largest banks, eight of the ten largest armies, five nuclear powers, massive... -
The Art of Rulership: A Study of Ancient Chinese Political Thought by Roger T. Ames 9780791420621
$54.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791420621Author Roger T. AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
A History of Cambodia David Chandler 9780813343631
RRP: $104.98$91.35In this clear and concise volume, author David Chandler provides a timely overview of Cambodia, a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian nation. Praised by the Journal of Asian Studies as an ''original contribution, superior to any other existing... -
Pakistan on the Brink: The future of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the West by Ahmed Rashid
RRP: $33.58$24.38Ahmed Rashid, author of Descent Into Chaos and Taliban, charts the latest developments in the dangerous trajectory of one of the world's most strategically important, and volatile, countries - and the effects on its neighbours and us all'An expert's... -
The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China by Xinran Xue 9781399406680
RRP: $52.50$37.00The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today. Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his... -
Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent by Wendy Law-Yone
RRP: $20.98$13.94POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENTA portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for democracyin Myanmar, is once again behind bars. Her... -
Fortune-tellers and Philosophers: Divination In Traditional Chinese Society by Richard J Smith 9780367159801
RRP: $79.78$70.94Providing an analysis of Chinese divination as a means of organizing and interpreting reality, Richard Smith examines a wide variety of mantic techniques - from the use of the hallowed Yjing to such popular practices as siting (geomancy), astrology,... -
Modern India: A Very Short Introduction by Craig Jeffrey
RRP: $18.88$13.55India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes... -
The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung
RRP: $50.40$33.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593241431Author Karen CheungFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University by Daniel A. Bell
RRP: $46.20$36.46An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China's political systemOn January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University-the first foreign dean of a... -
Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World's Largest Dictatorship by Stephen Vines
RRP: $42.00$38.30'Defying the Dragon' tells a remarkable story of audacity: of how the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRC's authority, just as its president reached the height of his powers. Is Xi's China as unshakeable as it seems? What are its real interests in... -
The New Koreans: The Business, History and People of South Korea Mr Michael Breen 9781846045202
RRP: $41.98$30.83'As good a guide to a fascinating country in transformation as you will get.' Management TodayIn the course of a couple of generations, South Koreans took themselves out of the paddy fields and into Silicon Valley, establishing themselves as a democracy... -
China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord by Philip Snow
RRP: $52.50$43.93A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for... -
Wild East: The British in Japan 1854-1868 by Josh Provan 9781781557563
RRP: $52.50$37.00For over two centuries Japan had been hidden behind a veil of seclusion. This changed in when Commodore Perry arrived in 1853. Unsurprisingly for a world power, Britain was fast to get in on the action. But unknown to the intruders their sudden... -
Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China by Leta Hong Fincher 9781786633651
RRP: $20.98$20.18On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. The Feminist Five became a global cause celebre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf, and activists... -
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald
$38.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316159197Author Frances FitzGeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide by Azeem Ibrahim 9781849049733
RRP: $35.68$32.15According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet the... -
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
RRP: $23.08$16.32*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2014*A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China.A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the... -
Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong by Michael C. Davis 9781952636448
RRP: $31.48$25.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952636448Author Michael C. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian Studies -
Lost Decade: The US Pivot to Asia Robert Blackwill 9780197677940
$56.15Lost Decade is an essential guide for understanding the historic shift to Asia-centric geopolitics and its implications for America's present and future. Across the political spectrum, there is wide agreement that Asia should stand at the center of US... -
India's Moment: Changing Power Equations around the World by Mohan Kumar 9789356999527
RRP: $41.98$34.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356999527Author Mohan KumarFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm -
Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea by Katie Stallard
RRP: $57.73$41.33History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America's leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, autocrats and populist strongmen are on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie... -
Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy by George Magnus
RRP: $25.18$21.32A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued economic rise Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious...