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Massive Entanglement, Marginal Influence: Carter and Korea in Crisis by William H. Gleysteen, Jr.
RRP: £18.99£17.28Using extensive documentation, this book examines how President Jimmy Carter's troop withdrawal and human rights policies -conceived in abstraction from East Asian realities -contributed to the demise of Korean President Park Chung Hee. The author... -
Piety and Public Opinion: Understanding Indonesian Islam by Thomas B. Pepinsky
RRP: £74.00£63.22Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and public lives of over a billion people. Observers of these changes struggle to understand the consequences of an Islamic resurgence in a democratizing world... -
Converts to Civil Society: Christianity and Political Culture in Contemporary Hong Kong by Lida V. Nedilsky
RRP: £46.95£38.30Lida V. Nedilsky captures the public ramifications of a personal, Christian faith at the time of Hong Kong's pivotal political turmoil. From 1997 to 2008, in the much-anticipated reintegration of Hong Kong into Chinese sovereignty, she conducted detailed... -
Is Japan Really Changing Its Ways?: Regulatory Reform and the Japanese Economy by Lonny E. Carlile
RRP: £18.99£17.28Deregulation has been at the top of Japan's economic policy agenda for many years. Now, in the midst of a financial crisis that engulfs all of Asia, pressures on the Japanese government for substantial reform--coming from both inside and outside... -
Pride, Not Prejudice: National Identity as a Pacifying Force in East Asia by Eunbin Chung
RRP: £73.00£58.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472132942Author Eunbin ChungFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams)... -
Japan's Aging Peace: Pacifism and Militarism in the Twenty-First Century by Tom Phuong Le
RRP: £121.00£107.48Since the end of World War II, Japan has not sought to remilitarize, and its postwar constitution commits to renouncing aggressive warfare. Yet many inside and outside Japan have asked whether the country should or will return to commanding armed forces... -
Did Marco Polo Go To China? by Frances Wood 9780813389998
RRP: £43.99£38.44We all ?know? that Marco Polo went to China, served Ghengis Khan for many years, and returned to Italy with the recipes for pasta and ice cream. But Frances Wood, head of the Chinese Department at the British Library, argues that Marco Polo not only... -
Reporting the Partition of Punjab 1947: Press, Public & Other Opinions by Raghuvendra Tanwar
£81.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788173046742Author Raghuvendra TanwarFormat HardbackPage Count 622Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and Distributors -
Between Hope and Despair: 100 Ethical Reflections on Contemporary India by Rajeev Bhargava 9789394701373
£24.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394701373Author Rajeev BhargavaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India -
Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics: Growing Polarization and the Decline of the Congress Party (2009-19) by Zoya Hasan 9780192863416
RRP: £71.00£64.64Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics examines the immense changes that have occurred in Indian politics over the past decade and its impact on the Indian National Congress. The impact is most apparent in the changing fortunes of the Congress... -
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in Its First Decade by Joseph Y. S. Cheng 9789629371456
RRP: £37.95£32.16This volume intends to survey the developments of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) in various important areas in its first decade (1997-2007). It aims to critically review past developments, identify the significant issues, and assess... -
Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World by Alyssa Ayres
RRP: £21.99£19.44Over the last 25 years, India's explosive economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging major powers. Long plagued by endemic poverty, until the 1990s the Indian economy was also hamstrung by a burdensome regulatory regime that... -
The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier by Hassan Abbas
RRP: £14.99£13.03The true story of the Taliban's remarkable resurgence in Pakistan and war-torn Afghanistan more than a decade after the U.S. military's post-9/11 incursion In autumn 2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the Taliban rulers,... -
Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-Colonial Siam by Trais Pearson
RRP: £47.00£40.14By the 1890s, Siam (Thailand) was the last holdout against European imperialism in Southeast Asia. But the kingdom's exceptional status came with a substantial caveat: Bangkok, its bustling capital, was a port city that was subject to many of the same... -
International Relations of Asia by David Shambaugh 9781538162859
RRP: £38.00£36.68As the world's most vital region, Asia embodies explosive economic growth, diverse political systems, vibrant societies, modernizing militaries, cutting-edge technologies, rich cultural traditions amid globalization, and strategic competition among major... -
Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific by Michael R. Auslin 9780817923242
RRP: £29.95£24.13The Indo-Pacific is fast becoming the world's dominant region. Now, as it grows in power and wealth, geopolitical competition has reemerged, threatening future stability not merely in Asia but around the globe. China is aggressive and uncooperative, and... -
Cracking the China Conundrum: Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong by Yukon Huang
RRP: £33.49£30.68China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention. Despite extensive media and academic scrutiny, the conventional wisdom about China's economy is often wrong. Cracking the China... -
Mugabe's Legacy: Coups, Conspiracies, and the Conceits of Power in Zimbabwe by David B. Moore
RRP: £22.00£19.11Zimbabwe's party-internal 'coup' of 2017, and deposed president Robert Mugabe's death nearly two years later, demand careful, historically nuanced explanation. How did Mugabe gain and retain power over party and state for four decades? Did the suspected... -
Difficult Choices: Taiwan's Quest for Security and the Good Life by Richard C. Bush
RRP: £30.00£27.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815738336Author Richard C. BushFormat PaperbackPage Count 429Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Brookings InstitutionWeight(grams) 712gDimensions(mm)... -
China Imagined: From European Fantasy to Spectacular Power by Gregory B. Lee
RRP: £19.99£17.44How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name 'China' was first used by sixteenth-century Europeans, and its Chinese equivalent,... -
The Communist Road To Power In Vietnam: Second Edition by William J. Duiker
RRP: £49.99£43.90In this new edition of his widely acclaimed study, William Duiker has revised and updated his analysis of the Communist movement in Vietnam from its formation in 1930 to the dilemmas facing its leadership in the post?Cold War era. Making use of newly... -
Protecting China's Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy by Andrea Ghiselli
RRP: £90.00£81.58Protecting China's Interests Overseas provides a fascinating and new window into Chinese foreign and security policymaking. In particular, it shows how the management of non-traditional security issues abroad led to the emergence of China's strategy to... -
Vernacular Politics in Northeast India: Democracy, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity by Jelle J.P. Wouters 9780192863461
RRP: £98.00£88.71Perhaps nowhere in India is contemporary politics and visions of 'the political' as diverse, animated, uncontainable, and poorly understood as in Northeast India. Vernacular Politics in Northeast India offers penetrating accounts into what guides and... -
Why India is not a Great Power (Yet) by Bharat Karnad 9780199459223
RRP: £34.99£32.41Since the economic liberalization of the early 1990s, India has been, on several occasions and at different forums, feted as a great power. This subject has been discussed in numerous books, but mostly in terms of rapid economic growth and immense... -
Cyber Policy in China by Greg Austin 9780745669809
RRP: £15.99£14.41Few doubt that China wants to be a major economic and military power on the world stage. To achieve this ambitious goal, however, the PRC leadership knows that China must first become an advanced information-based society. But does China have what it... -
China's New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong by Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette
RRP: £14.99£13.09In China's New Red Guards, Jude Blanchette illuminates two trends in contemporary China that point to its revival of Mao Zedong's legacy--a development that he argues will result in a more authoritarian and more militaristic China. Ever since Deng... -
Contemporary China by Kerry Brown 9781352004946
£33.26The third edition of this concise core textbook offers students a comprehensive introduction to the politics, economy, culture and society of modern China, while grounding all of these areas in the context of China's recent history in the 19th and 20th... -
Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption by Jeremy Garlick 9781350252318
RRP: £21.99£18.10The influence of the People's Republic of China on world affairs is increasingly keenly felt: in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America and in Europe and North America too. But what are the reasons for China's rise and how can the West adapt? Advantage... -
The Asian 21st Century by Kishore Mahbubani 9789811668104
RRP: £44.99£40.58This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. The contents cover four... -
Stumbling Giant: The Threats to China's Future by Timothy Beardson
RRP: £16.99£14.61Can anything prevent China surpassing the United States and becoming the world's superpower? While dozens of recent books and articles have predicted the near-certainty of China's rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely-held... -
The Politics of Education Reform in China’s Hong Kong by Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo 9780367706234
RRP: £39.99£35.06Education reform has become a highly political issue in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) since the transfer of sovereignty to the People's Republic of China (PRC). Lo and Hung focus on the political struggles among stakeholders,... -
End of an Era: How China's Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise by Carl Minzner
RRP: £28.49£26.67China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized itpolitical stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growthare unraveling. Since the 1990s, Beijing's leaders have firmly rejected any fundamental reform of their authoritarian... -
Two Systems, Two Countries: A Nationalist Guide to Hong Kong by Kevin Carrico
RRP: £25.00£19.18As Hong Kong is integrated into the People's Republic of China, ever fewer people in the city identify as Chinese. Two Systems, Two Countries explains why.Two Systems, Two Countries traces the origins of Hong Kong nationalism and introduces readers to... -
Trump vs. China: Facing America's Greatest Threat by Newt Gingrich 9781546099888
RRP: £14.99£9.80Every American needs to understand the threat to America's safety and prosperity posed by China's reemergence as a world power. Unlike our other economic and military rivals, China is the only country big enough and with enough human resources to compete... -
The Battle for Pakistan: The Bitter US Friendship and a Tough Neighborhood by Shuja Nawaz 9781538142042
£28.49The Battle for Pakistan showcases a marriage of convenience between unequal partners. The relationship between Pakistan and the United States since the early 1950s has been nothing less than a whiplash-inducing rollercoaster ride. Today, surrounded by... -
Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific by Mireya Solis 9780815740261
RRP: £65.00£56.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815740261Author Mireya SolisFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm)... -
North Korea: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Patrick McEachern
RRP: £10.99£7.77After a year of trading colorful barbs with the American president and significant achievements in North Korea's decades-long nuclear and missile development programs, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared mission accomplished in November 2017. Though... -
The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region by Michael R. Auslin
RRP: £14.99£12.55An urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stability"A point-by-point debunking of the 'Asiaphoria' that gripped so many imaginations a decade ago . . . Auslin argues that the conditions are building for... -
Umbrellas in Bloom: Hong Kongs Occupy Movement Uncovered by Jason Y. Ng 9789881376534
£14.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881376534Author Jason Y NgFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 432g -
The Costliest Pearl: China's Struggle for India's Ocean by Bertil Lintner
RRP: £30.00£26.43The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Yet, until now, China has been absent from the region since Admiral Zheng He sailed his fleet through...