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The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China by Tonio Andrade
RRP: $38.70$31.04From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth centuryGeorge Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of... -
India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750-2000 by Claude Markovits
RRP: $30.95$26.28In this pioneering history of modern India, Claude Markovits offers a new interpretation of events of world importance, focusing on the multiplicity of connections between India and the world. Beginning with an examination of India's evolving role in the... -
China Road: One Man's Journey into the Heart of Modern China by Rob Gifford 9780747593355
RRP: $19.34$14.33Running 3,000 miles from the eat-coast boomtown of Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan in the north-west, Route 312 - China's 'Route 66' - is a road that Rob Gifford has always wanted to travel. Gifford's journey and his desire to get to the heart of... -
The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India by Philip J. Stern
RRP: $52.88$32.83Almost since the event itself in 1757, the English East India Company's victory over the forces of the nawab of Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as the moment when the British Empire in India was born. Examining... -
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China by David J. Silbey 9780809030750
$16.51The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German Kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency... -
The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson
RRP: $21.92$18.47The 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 History of Central Asia: The Age of the Silk Roads by Christoph Baumer
RRP: $64.50$60.00The Age of the Silk Roads (c 200 BC- c 900 AD) shaped the course of the future. The foundation by the Han dynasty of an extensive network of interlinking trade routes, collectively known as the Silk Road, led to an explosion of cultural and commercial... -
Poems from the Guru Granth Sahib Guru Nanak 9780674258518
RRP: $38.64$33.73An exquisite new translation of Guru Nanak's verses, illuminating the sacred tenets cherished by millions of Sikhs worldwide.Guru Nanak (1469-1539), a native of Panjab, founded the Sikh religion. His vast corpus of nearly a thousand hymns forms the core... -
Secret Drugs of Buddhism: Psychedelic Sacraments and the Origins of the Vajrayana by Michael Crowley 9780907791744
RRP: $21.92$15.57Secret Drugs of Buddhism is the first book to explore the historical evidence for the use of entheogenic plants within the Buddhist tradition. Drawing on scriptural sources, botany, pharmacology, and religious iconography, this book calls attention to... -
Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire by Susie Woo
RRP: $32.24$27.95An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war. Yet during and after the Korean War, they were central to the projection of US military, cultural, and... -
China's Last Empire: The Great Qing by William T. Rowe
RRP: $28.32$23.09In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West.The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three... -
Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia Michael Vatikiotis 9781474602037
RRP: $14.18$9.82'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... -
Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire by Prashant Kidambi 9780198843139
RRP: $40.62$28.82Cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the English, it has famously been said. Today, the Indian cricket team is a powerful national symbol, a unifying force in a country riven by conflicts. But India was represented by a cricket team long... -
Wing Chun Compendium, V2 by Wayne Belonoha
RRP: $51.60$35.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583942291Author Wayne BelonohaFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1242gDimensions(mm)... -
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ian Buruma 9781838957674
RRP: $14.18$9.73'A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnificently.' Ben Macintyre, The TimesOn the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in common - aside from the fact that each committed... -
Plantation Worlds Maan Barua 9781478025610
RRP: $29.66$25.81In Plantation Worlds, Maan Barua interrogates debates on planetary transformations through the histories and ecologies of plantations. Drawing on long-term research spanning fifteen years, Barua presents a unique ethnography attentive to the lives of... -
Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization by Kuan-Hsing Chen
RRP: $30.95$27.30Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia... -
TheZuo Tradition / ZuozhuanReader: Selections from China’s Earliest Narrative History by Stephen Durrant
RRP: $36.11$31.14Essential passages from a classic Chinese history, organized topically, introduced, and annotatedZuo Tradition, China's first great work of history, was completed by about 300 BCE and recounts events during a period of disunity from 722 to 468 BCE. The... -
Journey To The Heart Of Aikido by Linda Holiday
RRP: $25.79$19.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583946596Author Linda HolidayFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm)... -
What Is China?: Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History by Zhaoguang Ge 9780674737143
RRP: $48.96$39.67Ge Zhaoguang, an eminent historian of traditional China and a public intellectual, takes on fundamental questions that shape the domestic and international politics of the world's most populous country and its second largest economy. What Is China?... -
Tanaka 1587: Japan'S Greatest Unknown Samurai Battle by Stephen Turnbull 9781912866496
RRP: $25.74$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866496Author Stephen TurnbullFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades: Wuxia Roleplaying by Brendan Davis
RRP: $32.25$26.50Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades is a roleplaying game of dark adventure and heroic thrills inspired primarily by the wuxia stories of Gu Long. Players assume the roles of eccentric heroes who solve mysteries, avenge misdeeds, uphold justice, and... -
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 9781847247643
RRP: $12.89$9.03Beginning in 1907 with the founding of a factory in Songarh, a small provincial town where narrow attitudes prevail, the story is of three generations of an Indian family, brilliantly told, in which a sensitive and intelligent foundling boy orphan who is... -
Chinese Characters by James Trapp
RRP: $19.34$13.71The elegant pen-strokes and visual harmony of Chinese writing, known as hanzi, have long been admired in the west. Classical Chinese calligraphy is a popular and valuable art form, and with the increasing economic and cultural power of China, its writing... -
The Teabowl: East and West by Bonnie Kemske
RRP: $45.15$35.26A complete history of the tea ceremony and teabowls with beautiful pieces from international potters. The teabowl has become an iconic form in contemporary ceramics. Having travelled from Japan, where it was an inherent part of chanoyu, or tea... -
The 9/11 Wars by Jason Burke 9780141044590
RRP: $24.50$18.07From the author of Al-Qaeda, Jason Burke's The 9/11 Wars is an essential book for understanding the dangerous and unstable world of the twenty-first century. On September 11th 2001, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks, terrorists destroyed New... -
Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1980 by Mark Galeotti
RRP: $18.05$12.91Storm-333, the operation to seize Kabul and assassinate Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin, was at once a textbook success and the start of a terrible blunder. It heralded the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, an operation intended to be a short, largely... -
A River in May by Edward Wilson
RRP: $14.18$10.04A magnificent debut novel, which follows in the spirit of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, in which an alienated student named Lopez joins the Vietnam war to escape from his past and himself. Forced out of self-pity by the brutality and injustice surrounding... -
How to Make a Mao Suit: Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949–1976 by Antonia Finnane 9781009359993
RRP: $33.53$28.37When the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, new clothing protocols for state employees resulted in far-reaching changes in what people wore. In a pioneering history of dress in the Mao years (1949-1976), Antonia Finnane traces the... -
The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide by Azeem Ibrahim 9781849049733
RRP: $21.92$20.05According 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... -
Communitarianism and its Critics by Daniel Bell 9780198279228
RRP: $82.55$65.09Many have criticized liberalism for being too individualist, but few have offered an alternative that goes beyond a vague affirmation of the need for community. In this entertaining book, written in dialogue form, Daniel Bell fills this gap, presenting... -
The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century Dennis J. Blasko 9780415783224
RRP: $61.91$53.93The Chinese Army Today is a comprehensive study of the Chinese military, examining its ground forces in a level of detail not found in any other contemporary works. This new, revised edition has been fully updated to take account of recent changes in the... -
The World According to Xi: Everything You Need to Know About the New China by Kerry Brown 9781788313285
RRP: $16.76$12.95China 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... -
Stalin's War on Japan: The Red Army's 'Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation', 1945 by Charles Stephenson
RRP: $32.25$23.09Did Japan surrender in 1945 because of the death and devastation caused by the atomic bombs dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima and Nagasaki or because of the crushing defeat inflicted on their armies by the Soviet Union in Manchukuo, the puppet state... -
A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness by NHK TV
RRP: $16.76$9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942993544Author NHK TV CrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vertical, Inc.Publisher Vertical, Inc.Weight(grams) 203g -
The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea by Charles Robert Jenkins
RRP: $32.25$25.27In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized... -
Russian Soldier vs Japanese Soldier by David Campbell
RRP: $20.63$17.45At the turn of the 20th century, the region of Manchuria sat atop a potentially catastrophic political fault line; the ancient strength of China was crumbling, leaving opportunities for both Russia and Japan to claw out new territories from the edges of... -
Karate as the Art of Killing: A Study of its Deadly Origins, Ideology of Peace, and the Techniques of Shito-Ry u Masayuki Shimabukuro 9781623176617
RRP: $34.83$23.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623176617Author Masayuki ShimabukuroFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty: Revised and Expanded Second Edition by Julie Nelson Davis
RRP: $38.70$37.81Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) was one of the most influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e, `pictures of the floating world', in late eighteenth-century Japan, and was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women. In... -
Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire by Nancy Steinhardt 9780691240169
RRP: $79.98$62.20A monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century ChinaThe Yuan dynasty endured for a century, leaving behind an architectural legacy without equal, from palaces, temples, and pagodas to pavilions, tombs, and...