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River East, River West: an unmissable coming-of-age story from a dazzling new voice by Aube Rey Lescure 9780715655399
RRP: £16.99£11.67LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 A mesmerising reversal of the east-west immigrant narrative set against China's economic boom, River East, River West is a deeply moving exploration of race, identity and family, of capitalism's false... -
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... -
They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi Gupta 9780593442982
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593442982Author Prachi GuptaFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
What the Chinese Don't Eat by Xinran 9780099501527
RRP: £15.99£11.61Since June 2003 Xinran has been writing about China in her weekly column in the Guardian. She has covered a vast range of topics from food to sex education, and from the experiences of British mothers who have adopted Chinese daughters, to whether... -
Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience by Vinh Nguyen 9780520397262
RRP: £30.00£22.82A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In a world increasingly shaped by displacement and migration, refuge is both a... -
Available to Be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life by Dipali Mathur 9781666919813
RRP: £77.00£71.06In Available to be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life, Dipali Mathur contends that the saturation of the planet with toxic chemicals is not the "inevitable" price of progress but marks a deliberate, violent relationship with the Earth and its "others,"... -
Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia by Marina Welker 9780520399679
RRP: £30.00£22.82A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Indonesia is the world's second-largest cigarette market: two out of three men smoke,... -
The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History by Diego Javier Luis 9780674271784
RRP: £37.95£29.94The definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire-from Manila to Acapulco and beyond-and its implications for the history of race and colonization in the Americas.Between 1565 and 1815, the so-called Manila galleons enjoyed... -
The Tomb of the Mili Mongga: Fossils, Folklore, and Adventures at the Edge of Reality by Samuel Turvey 9781399409773
RRP: £20.00£14.29'The Tomb of the Mili Mongga lives up to its magnificent billing' DAILY TELEGRAPH - A fossil expedition becomes a thrilling search for a mythical beast deep in the Indonesian forest - and a fascinating look at how fossils, folklore, and... -
The Fifty Years That Changed Chinese Religion, 1898–1948 by Paul R. Katz
RRP: £20.00£15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304965Author Paul R. KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)... -
Touching My Father's Soul: Climbing Everest in the Footsteps of Tenzing Norgay by Broughton Coburn 9781529911640
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A story of passion, hardship and endurance' - Reinhold Messner'There is much to marvel at in these pages. It taught me a great deal... Enthralling' - Jon Krakauer, bestselling author of Into Thin AirIn this gripping and inspirational book, Jamling... -
Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital by Elise Hu 9780593473801
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593473801Author Elise HuFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters by Megan Walsh
RRP: £11.99£8.00What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics? The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you've never seen before: a vast... -
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot
RRP: £22.00£16.99A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism... -
The European Handbook of Central Asian Studies - History, Politics, and Societies by Adrien Fauve
RRP: £89.00£72.88This handbook is the first collection of comprehensive teaching materials for teachers and students of Central Asian Studies (CAS) with a strong pedagogic dimension. It presents 22 chapters, clustered around five themes, with contributions from more than... -
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot 9780691206806
RRP: £30.00£23.82A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism... -
Hoofprints on the Land: How Traditional Herding and Grazing Can Restore the Soil and Bring Animal Agriculture Back in Balance with the Earth by Ilse Köhler-Rollefson
RRP: £18.99£12.75'I never knew how fascinating a book about herding and grazing could be... This book is remarkable.' Joanna Lumley 'Ilse's deep understanding of herding cultures, and their relationship with the land and life itself, is both moving and revelatory... I... -
Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital by Elise Hu
RRP: £25.99£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593184189Author Elise HuFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal by Richard David Williams 9780226825458
RRP: £28.00£27.39Presents a new history of how Hindustani court music responded to the political transitions of the nineteenth century. How far did colonialism transform north Indian music? In the period between the Mughal empire and the British Raj, how did the... -
The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art beyond Solidarity by Joan Kee
RRP: £30.00£23.22A groundbreaking method for writing art history, using the language of geometry. How do we embark on a history of art from the assumption of a global majority, outside of essentializing categories like race or hollow proclamations of solidarity? With... -
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside by Xiaowei Wang
RRP: £12.99£10.16In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward,... -
Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border by Andrew Ong 9781501770715
RRP: £27.99£23.66Stalemate reveals the history and contemporary politics of the United Wa State Army (UWSA), Asia's strongest insurgent army on Myanmar's border with China. This ethnographic tale recounts how a highland group, often dismissed as rebels or... -
Sex in the Land of Genghis Khan: From the Times of the Great Conqueror to Today by Baasanjav Terbish 9781666937497
RRP: £73.00£64.63This book examines the history of sexuality in Mongolia over the last 800 years. As a culture-specific and time-specific system of values, practices and identities, sexuality in Mongolia, as elsewhere, has been subject to change as Mongolian society... -
Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition by Yi-Lin Chiang
RRP: £22.00£16.99How privileged adolescents in China acquire status and why this helps them succeed Study Gods offers a rare look at the ways privileged youth in China prepare themselves to join the ranks of the global elite. Yi-Lin Chiang shows how these competitive... -
Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits by Red Pine
RRP: £13.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582435237Author Red PineFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
Peoples Of The Greater Mekong: The Ethnic Minorities by Jim Goodman
RRP: £55.00£48.03This book tells the story of the Mekong River, from its source in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to its delta in southern Vietnam, and the geographical changes in its environment on its journey to the sea. It mainly focuses on the many ethnic minorities... -
The Kwee Family of Ciledug: A Family, Status and Modernity in Colonial Java Visualising the Private Life of the Peranakan Chinese Sugar by Peter Post 9789460224928
RRP: £32.99£21.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789460224928Author Peter PostFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 814g -
South Asian Women in the Diaspora by Parvati Raghuram 9781859736029
RRP: £35.99£31.69South Asian women have frequently been conceptualized in colonial, academic and postcolonial studies, but their very categorization is deeply problematic. This book, informed by theory and enriched by in-depth fieldwork, overturns these unhelpful... -
The Pashtun Tribes in Afghanistan: Wolves Among Men by Ben Acheson 9781399069205
RRP: £25.00£18.02The Pashtun Tribes of Afghanistan is a tour de force - combining erudite analysis, historical research, atmospheric story-telling, page-turning prose and above all, profound passion.' **- ****Sir Nicholas Kay, NATO Senior Civilian Representative in... -
India In The Caribbean by David Dabydeen 9781870518000
RRP: £12.99£9.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870518000Author David DabydeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 327Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 500g -
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China by Travis S. K. Kong 9781478019862
RRP: £21.99£18.79In Sexuality and the Rise of China Travis S. K. Kong examines the changing meanings of same-sex identities, communities, and cultures for young Chinese gay men in contemporary Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. Drawing on ninety life stories, Kong's... -
The King of Bangkok by Claudio Sopranzetti
RRP: £24.99£22.51The English translation of this bestselling graphic novel tells the story of Nok, an old blind man who sells lottery tickets in Bangkok, as he decides to leave the city and return to his native village. Through reflections on contemporary Bangkok and... -
Imperfect Partners: The United States and Southeast Asia by Scot Marciel 9781538178959
RRP: £30.00£27.89Imperfect Partners is a unique hybrid - part memoir, part foreign policy study of U.S. relations with Southeast Asia, a critically important region that has become the central arena in the global U.S.-China competition. From the People Power revolt in... -
The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era by Emily H. C. Chua 9780472075959
RRP: £60.00£48.64China’s news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and evolving arrangements that run from cooperation and collaboration to manipulation and betrayal. Drawing on... -
Righteous Revolutionaries: Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State by Jeffrey A. Javed 9780472055494
RRP: £29.95£24.13Righteous Revolutionaries illustrates how states appeal to popular morality-shared understandings of right and wrong-to forge new group identities and mobilize violence against perceived threats to their authority. Jeffrey A. Javed examines the Chinese... -
Thirty-two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh 9780472055463
£49.42Curating Taiwan Cinema: 32 New Takes covers thirty-two films from Taiwan, addressing a flowering of new talent, moving from art film to genre pictures, and nonfiction. Beyond the conventional framework of privileging "New and Post-New Cinema," or... -
Mediating the South Korean Other: Representations and Discourses of Difference in the Post/Neocolonial Nation-State by David C. Oh 9780472055456
RRP: £29.95£24.13Multiculturalism in Korea formed in the context of its neoliberal, global aspirations, its postcolonial legacy with Japan, and its subordinated neocolonial relationship with the United States. The Korean ethnoscape and mediascape produce a complex... -
Insect Histories of East Asia by David A. Bello 9780295751788
£95.61Interactions between people and animals are attracting overdue attention in diverse fields of scholarship, yet insects still creep within the shadows of more charismatic birds, fish, and mammals. Insect Histories of East Asia centers on bugs and creepy... -
Thirty-Two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema by Emilie Yueh-Yu Yeh 9780472075461
RRP: £81.00£66.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472075461Author Emilie Yueh-Yu YehFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press -
A Gaijin Sarariman by Asif R. Chowdhury 9789815017809
RRP: £13.95£10.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789815017809Author Asif R. ChowdhuryFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin Random House SEAWeight(grams) 325g