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Mao's America: A Survivor’s Warning by Xi Van Fleet 9781546006305
RRP: £25.00£16.38Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later escaped communism and found freedom and new a life in America. But... -
The New Cold War: How the Contest Between the US and China Will Shape Our Century by Robin Niblett 9781805462118
RRP: £12.99£9.09'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,... -
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper
RRP: £21.95£16.34Cundill 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... -
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
RRP: £16.99£12.28THE 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... -
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future Chun Han Wong 9781472158512
RRP: £25.00£16.78'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... -
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping by Steve Tsang 9780197689363
RRP: £22.99£19.56An 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... -
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das 9781526615664
RRP: £12.99£8.78WINNER 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 Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan
RRP: £10.99£7.32'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... -
On China by Henry Kissinger
RRP: £16.99£12.28In 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... -
We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world’s most powerful leader by Michael Dillon 9781529914450
RRP: £10.99£7.77Meet 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... -
Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang 9780197756263
RRP: £26.99£23.20The 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... -
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji 9781847925497
RRP: £30.00£20.95**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLEThis is the authoritative history of South Asia in the 20th century.Shadows at Noon tells the subcontinent's story from the British Raj... -
The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea by Hyeonseo Lee
RRP: £9.99£6.64NEW 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: £43.99£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,... -
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden by Steve Coll
RRP: £18.99£13.61Winner 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... -
Christians in the City of Hong Kong: Chinese Christianity in Asia's World City by Tobias Brandner 9781350269088
RRP: £19.99£17.61Christians in the City of Hong Kong tells the story of a multi-faceted, constantly evolving Christianity in a vibrant metropolis that has always been China's gateway to the wider world. Having served in Hong Kong for over 25 years in contexts from prison... -
Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel that Outwitted the CIA by Patrick Winn 9781785789731
RRP: £20.00£13.46Award-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... -
Unti Nonfiction by Anon9780063061194 9780063061194
RRP: £25.00£16.43AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt's often said that China is in a cold war with America. The reality is far worse: the war is hot, and the body count is one-sided.China is killing Americans and working aggres sively to maximize the carnage while... -
China: A History by John Keay 9780007221783
RRP: £14.99£9.70Three 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... -
Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World by Mr. Alex Joske
RRP: £16.99£11.76Spies and Lies by Alex Joske is a groundbreaking expose of elite influence operations by China's little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it... -
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor
RRP: £9.99£7.11Richard 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... -
The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan by Matt Pottinger 9780817926458
RRP: £22.95£18.88There are urgent but feasible steps to deter China from pursuing a catastrophic invasion or blockade of Taiwan—and grave consequences for democracies everywhere if deterrence fails. Pottinger and his coauthors, who include acclaimed military and... -
Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism by Edgar Snow
RRP: £14.99£9.80The 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 Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan
RRP: £13.99£12.25A 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... -
The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China by Minxin Pei 9780674257832
RRP: £29.95£23.66Countering recent hype around technology, a leading expert argues that the endurance of dictatorship in China owes less to facial recognition AI and GPS tracking than to the human resources of the Leninist surveillance state.For decades China watchers... -
First They Killed My Father: Film tie-in by Loung Ung
RRP: £10.99£7.77A major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken... -
The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin
RRP: £20.00£13.81Apologies 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 -
Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction by James R. Rush 9780190248765
RRP: £8.99£6.45Straddling the equator, Southeast Asia comprises Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, and the Philippines, as well as Laos, Cambodia, Brunei, and East Timor. Despite its extraordinary diversity of ethnicities, religions, and... -
China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Planet on the Brink by Yifei Li 9781509543120
RRP: £15.99£15.61What does it mean for the future of the planet when one of the world's most durable authoritarian governance systems pursues "ecological civilization"? Despite its staggering pollution and colossal appetite for resources, China exemplifies a model of... -
The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson
RRP: £16.99£14.10The historiography of modern India is largely a pageant of presumed virtues: harmonious territorial unity, religious impartiality, the miraculous survival of electoral norms in the world's most populous democracy. Even critics of injustices within Indian... -
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen
RRP: £10.99£7.77From Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India. India is an immensely diverse country with many... -
Rebel Island: the incredible history of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements 9781915590275
RRP: £22.00£14.71The gripping story of Taiwan, from the flood myths of ancient legend to its ‘Asian Tiger’ economic miracle — and the looming threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a ‘ball of mud’, Taiwan has a modern GDP larger... -
In China's Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South by Nicholas Jepson 9780231187978
RRP: £25.00£19.59In 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,... -
To End a Civil War: Norway's Peace Engagement with Sri Lanka by Mark Salter
RRP: £25.00£22.43Between 1983 and 2009 Sri Lanka was host to a bitter civil war fought between the Government and the Tamil Tigers, which sought the creation of an independent Tamil state. In May 2009 came the war's violent end with the crushing defeat of the Tamil... -
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, The West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt
RRP: £17.99£12.60In the early 1850s, during the twilight of the Qing dynasty, word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces. The leader of this movement - who called themselves the Taiping - was Hong Xiuquan, a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son... -
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un Anna Fifield 9781529387254
RRP: £12.99£8.60The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly--he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese... -
Migrant Labour in Japan by Yoko Sellek 9780333804322
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book explores the impact of foreign migrant workers on elements of sovereign power in Japan and examines how the country's immigration control has been reshaped by the existence of these workers. It traces the changing situation of foreign migrant... -
The Contest for the Indian Ocean: And the Making of a New World Order Darshana M Baruah 9780300270914
RRP: £20.00£16.98A major new examination of the Indian Ocean, revealing how the region has become a hotly contested geopolitical flashpoint Throughout history, the Indian Ocean has been an essential space for trade, commerce, and culture. Every European power has sought... -
Under the Gun: Political Parties and Violence in Pakistan by Niloufer A. Siddiqui 9781009242523
RRP: £75.00£67.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009242523Author Niloufer A. SiddiquiFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
China's Military Power: Assessing Current and Future Capabilities by Roger Cliff
RRP: £96.99£83.38Once termed the 'world's largest military museum', the Chinese military has made enormous progress over the past twenty years. With skyrocketing military budgets and new technology, China's tanks, aircraft, destroyers, and missile capabilities are...