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Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: £22.00£13.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986204Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Wild East: The British in Japan 1854-1868 by Josh Provan 9781781557563
RRP: £25.00£17.62For 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: £9.99£9.88On 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... -
The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide by Azeem Ibrahim 9781849049733
RRP: £16.99£15.31According 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... -
Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong by Michael C. Davis 9781952636448
RRP: £14.99£12.15Apologies 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
£26.74Lost 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... -
Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy by George Magnus
RRP: £11.99£10.15A 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... -
India's Moment: Changing Power Equations around the World by Mohan Kumar 9789356999527
RRP: £19.99£16.42Apologies 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 -
Social Contagion: And Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China by Chuang 9780882860077
RRP: £12.00£9.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882860077Author ChuangFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint Charles KerrPublisher Charles KerrWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 118mm * 17mm -
U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Will China's Challenge Lead to a Crisis? by Ryan Hass
RRP: £19.99£17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815739999Author Ryan HassFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 223mm... -
The World According to Xi: Everything You Need to Know About the New China by Kerry Brown 9781788313285
RRP: £12.99£9.79China is now the most powerful country on earth. Its manufacturing underpins the world's economy; its military is growing at the fastest rate of any nation and its leader - Xi Jinping - is to set the pace and tone of world affairs for decades. In 2017... -
A History of Cambodia David Chandler 9780813343631
RRP: £49.99£43.50In 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... -
Xi Jinping: The Backlash Richard McGregor 9781760893040
RRP: £5.99£4.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760893040Author Richard McGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia -
Soft Power With Chinese Characteristics: China's Campaign for Hearts and Minds by Kingsley Edney
RRP: £31.99£28.33This book examines the Chinese Communist Party's attempts to improve China's image around the world, thereby increasing its "soft power." This soft, attractive form of power is crucial if China is to avoid provoking an international backlash against its... -
China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom by Roger Garside
RRP: £20.00£15.89An expert's take on how a coup in China could launch a transition to democracy. This short book predicts-contrary to the prevailing consensus-that China's leader Xi Jinping will very soon be removed from office in a coup d'etat mounted by rivals in the... -
China: Fragile Superpower by Susan Shirk 9780195373196
RRP: £13.99£10.84Once a sleeping giant, China today is the world's fastest growing economy--the leading manufacturer of cell phones, laptop computers, and digital cameras--a dramatic turn-around that alarms many Westerners. But in China: Fragile Superpower, Susan L... -
China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One by Professor Kerry Brown 9781350267244
RRP: £20.00£15.32Is the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China? A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership that the USA currently assumes? And can we learn to embrace Chinese political culture, as China learned to embrace... -
The Wuhan Lockdown by Guobin Yang
RRP: £22.00£17.76A metropolis with a population of about 11 million, Wuhan sits at the crossroads of China. It was here that in the last days of 2019, the first reports of a mysterious new form of pneumonia emerged. Before long, an abrupt and unprecedented lockdown was... -
To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism by Debasish Roy Chowdhury
RRP: £22.99£16.28India is heralded as the world's largest democracy. Yet, there is now growing alarm about its democratic health. To Kill a Democracy gets to the heart of the matter. Combining poignant life stories with sharp scholarly insight, it rejects the belief... -
The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific: Strategy, Order, and Regional Security by Catherine L. Grant
RRP: £37.00£32.95A new framework contextualizes crucial international security issues at sea in the Indo-Pacific Competition at sea is once again a central issue of international security. Nowhere is the urgency to address state-on-state competition at sea more strongly... -
Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan by Elisabeth Leake 9780198846017
RRP: £31.49£21.94A new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - an invasion whose consequences are still felt in Afghanistan and across the wider world. On 24 December 1979, Soviet armed forces entered Afghanistan, beginning an occupation that would last... -
Will China Dominate the 21st Century? Jonathan Fenby 9781509510979
RRP: £14.99£13.58China's spectacular growth and expanding global role have led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state on earth ruled by a Communist Party. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed book, renowned China expert Jonathan... -
China's Asian Dream: Empire Building along the New Silk Road by Tom Miller
RRP: £10.99£8.38'China', Napoleon once remarked, 'is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.' In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared that the lion had awoken. From holding its ground in trade wars with the US, to... -
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam by H. R. McMaster
£14.67"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." -H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and... -
Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia Michael Vatikiotis 9781474602037
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A lively and learned guide to the politics, personalities and conflicts that are shaping a dynamic group of countries' FINANCIAL TIMES'A fascinating and many-layered portrait of Southeast Asia' THANT MYINT-UWhy are the region's richest countries such as... -
Soft Power in Central Asia: The Politics of Influence and Seduction by Kirill Nourzhanov 9781793650795
RRP: £30.00£26.68Central Asia often evokes images of imperial power rivalry dating back to the 19th century. Yet as the region's international politics becomes more complex in the age of globalization, the need for new ways of looking at its many actors is more pressing... -
A Letter to a Hindu by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: £5.00£4.42Dated the 14th of December 1908, A Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das, a Bengali revolutionary and scholar, in response to a request for support for India's separation from British rule, which argued that the Indian... -
China’s Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order by Isaac B. Kardon
RRP: £30.00£24.85An in-depth examination of the law and geopolitics of China's maritime disputes and their implications for the rules of the international law of the sea China's Law of the Sea is the first comprehensive study of the law and geopolitics of China's... -
The Art of Rulership: A Study of Ancient Chinese Political Thought by Roger T. Ames 9780791420621
£25.96Apologies 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... -
Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China by Mike Beckley
RRP: £23.99£18.95It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a "superpower marathon" that may last a century. Yet Hal Brands and Michael Beckley pose a counterintuitive question: What if the sharpest phase of that competition is more like a... -
Easternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Century by Gideon Rachman
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A masterly account...the best survey of global affairs I have read for some time' Sunday TimesWITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHORThe West's domination of world politics is coming to a close. The flow of wealth and power is turning from West to East and a... -
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History by Vidya Krishnan
RRP: £22.00£16.04It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others - rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just. For centuries, tuberculosis has ravaged cities and plagued the human body. In Phantom... -
The Hundred-Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury 9781250081346
RRP: £11.99£10.98The Hundred-Year Marathon reveals China's secret strategy to supplant the United States as the world's dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. Michael Pillsbury, who has served in... -
This Is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood by Hyok Kang
RRP: £10.99£7.40Hyok Kang was eighteen when he escaped from North Korea, a country locked away from the outside world. This personal, illustrated account of school days in a rigidly communist institution and everyday life with his family and community provides a rare... -
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap by Yuen Yuen Ang
RRP: £21.99£19.19WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRSWINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY"How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis... -
Gwangju Uprising: The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea by Hwang Sok-yong
RRP: £30.00£24.17On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'etat and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated violence, and over the next ten days hundreds... -
Losing Afghanistan: The Fall of Kabul and the end of Western Intervention by Brian Brivati 9781785907319
RRP: £20.00£14.48When Taliban forces took Kabul on 15 August 2021, it marked the end of the Western intervention that had begun nearly twenty years earlier with the US-led invasion. The fall of Afghanistan triggered a seismic shock in the West, where US President Joe... -
Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution by Viren Murthy 9780226828008
RRP: £24.00£23.03An intellectual history of pan-Asianist discourse in the twentieth century. Recent proposals to revive the ancient Silk Road for the contemporary era and ongoing Western interest in China’s growth and development have led to increased attention to the... -
Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War by David M Lampton 9781538187258
RRP: £30.00£26.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538187258Author David M. LamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm)... -
Asia's Cauldron by Robert D. Kaplan
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812984804Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...