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River East, River West: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024 by Aube Rey Lescure 9780715655627
RRP: $19.48$13.16SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 Shanghai, 2007: feeling betrayed by her American mother's engagement to their rich landlord Lu Fang, fourteen-year-old Alva begins plotting her escape. But the exclusive American School - a potential... -
Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits by Red Pine
RRP: $27.28$19.58Apologies 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 -
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping by Steve Tsang 9780197689363
RRP: $44.83$38.14An 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... -
Available to Be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life by Dipali Mathur 9781666919813
RRP: $157.95$138.57In 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,"... -
Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital by Elise Hu 9780593473801
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies 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 Fifty Years That Changed Chinese Religion, 1898–1948 by Paul R. Katz
RRP: $39.00$30.99Apologies 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: $25.33$17.73'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... -
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside by Xiaowei Wang
RRP: $25.33$16.77In 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,... -
What the Chinese Don't Eat by Xinran 9780099501527
RRP: $31.18$22.64Since 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... -
River East, River West: an unmissable coming-of-age story from a dazzling new voice by Aube Rey Lescure 9780715655399
RRP: $33.13$22.76LONGLISTED 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 Geometries of Afro Asia: Art beyond Solidarity by Joan Kee
RRP: $58.50$46.20A 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... -
Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic by Jinghong Zhang 9780295993232
RRP: $54.58$47.07Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the "Six Great Tea Mountains" of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan via the so-called Tea Horse Road and presented as tribute to the emperor... -
Hoofprints on the Land: How Traditional Herding and Grazing Can Restore the Soil and Bring Animal Agriculture Back in Balance with the Earth Ilse Koehler-Rollefson 9781645021520
RRP: $37.03$24.86'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... -
They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi Gupta 9780593442982
RRP: $44.85$27.94Apologies 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 -
The Tomb of the Mili Mongga: Fossils, Folklore, and Adventures at the Edge of Reality by Samuel Turvey 9781399409773
RRP: $39.00$27.87'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 Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters by Megan Walsh
RRP: $23.38$15.60What 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: $42.90$35.80A 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... -
Sex in the Land of Genghis Khan: From the Times of the Great Conqueror to Today by Baasanjav Terbish 9781666937497
RRP: $142.35$125.15This 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... -
Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border by Andrew Ong 9781501770715
RRP: $50.68$43.86Stalemate 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... -
The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History by Diego Javier Luis 9780674271784
RRP: $74.00$59.49The 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... -
Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition by Yi-Lin Chiang
RRP: $42.90$33.85How 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... -
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: $64.33$40.95Apologies 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 Nirmal Puwar 9781859736029
RRP: $70.18$61.80South 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: $48.75$35.14The 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... -
Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience by Vinh Nguyen 9780520397262
RRP: $58.50$45.42A 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... -
India In The Caribbean by David Dabydeen 9781870518000
RRP: $25.33$17.55Apologies 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: $38.98$34.20In 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... -
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot 9780691206806
RRP: $58.50$47.37A 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... -
Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital by Elise Hu
RRP: $50.68$33.11Apologies 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: $54.60$53.41Presents 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... -
Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Ran Zwigenberg 9780226826769
RRP: $54.60$53.41How researchers understood the atomic bomb's effects on the human psyche before the recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In 1945, researchers on a mission to Hiroshima with the United States Strategic Bombing Survey canvassed survivors of the... -
The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court by Yael Rice
RRP: $120.90$104.44Sheds light on the art and artists that gave material form to Mughal imperial visionOver the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Mughal court painters evolved from illustrators of manuscripts and albums to active mediators of... -
Imperfect Partners: The United States and Southeast Asia by Scot Marciel 9781538178959
RRP: $58.50$56.37Imperfect 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... -
Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century by Audrey Wu Clark 9780814215623
$196.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215623Author Audrey Wu ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
Being Korean, Becoming Japanese?: Nationhood, Citizenship, and Resistance in Japan Hwaji Shin 9780824898427
RRP: $54.50$52.07In Japan the number of "Special Permanent Residents"—most of whom are of Korean descent, the so-called "Zainichi"—is declining according to government statistics. Does this mean Koreans living in Japan are becoming Japanese? This volume presents a... -
Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule Fang Yu Hu 9780295752648
RRP: $54.58$47.07Traces Japan's efforts to modernize Taiwan through gendered educational practicesIn Good Wife, Wise Mother, female education and citizenship serve as a lens through which to examine Taiwan’s uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and... -
A Catalog of Benevolent Items: Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge Li Shizhen 9780520404243
RRP: $48.75$44.79Distills ten volumes, four dictionaries, and 1,800 years of knowledge into an authoritative introduction to the Ben cao gang mu. The Ben cao gang mu was the world’s most comprehensive encyclopedia of natural history and medicine when it was published in... -
The Islamic-Confucian Synthesis in China by Zongping Sha 9781666913361
RRP: $134.55$116.98The presence and history of Islam in China is not well-known. Since its arrival into China during the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE), Islam and its traditions have become an inextricable part of the fabric of the Chinese tradition. By the time of the Ming... -
Communicating Food in Korea by Jaehyeon Jeong 9781793642271
RRP: $58.50$52.03An in-depth investigation of the complex relationships among food, culture, and society, Communicating Food in Korea features contributors from a variety of disciplines, including economics, political science, communication studies, nutrition research,... -
Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China by Fang Xu 9781793635310
RRP: $175.50$154.46Silencing Shanghai investigates the paradoxical and counterintuitive contrast between Shanghai's emergence as a global city and the marginalization of its native population, captured through the rapid decline of the distinctive Shanghai dialect. From...