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A Kim Jong-il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer
RRP: $37.40$21.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250054272Author Paul FischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants by Hsiao-Hung Pai
$28.01Each year, 200 million workers from China's vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China's GDP, but is an unorganized... -
Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent by Alfreda Murck
RRP: $38.64$31.81Throughout the history of imperial China, the educated elite used various means to criticize government policies and actions. During the Song dynasty (960-1278), some members of this elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting... -
The Eurasian Steppe by Warwick Ball
RRP: $32.24$27.10From nomadic peoples to conquering empires, from tales of Amazon women to art nouveau, and from golden grave goods to the formation of countries that still exist today, Ball shows how the steppe has continually shaped Europe's destiny.About the... -
The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China by David Eimer
RRP: $16.76$12.05Far from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shanghai, China's borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage 'the mountains are high and the Emperor... -
Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 by Ian Buruma
RRP: $15.12$12.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972863Author Ian BurumaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Hong Kong by Jan Morris 9780679776482
RRP: $21.92$15.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679776482Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm... -
Under Deadly Fire: The First Hand Experiences of a Young Officer of the 3rd Bengal Native Cavalry and Hodson's Horse During the Indian Mu by Hugh Gough 9780857065605
$11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857065605Author Hugh GoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 150g -
Can Art History be Made Global?: Meditations from the Periphery Monica Juneja 9783110716290
RRP: $57.41$51.96The book responds to the challenge of the global turn in the humanities from the perspective of art history. A global art history, it argues, need not follow the logic of economic globalization nor seek to bring the entire world into its fold. Instead,... -
Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma's Tyrant by Benedict Rogers
RRP: $32.24$28.39Than Shwe is one of the world's most brutal dictators, presiding over a military regime that persists in repressing and brutalizing its own people. Until now, his story has not been told. Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma's Tyrant provides the first-ever... -
China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict by David Daokui Li 9780393292398
RRP: $29.66$24.25Recent rising tensions between China and the West largely stem from a basic misunderstanding of China's approach to governance, argues Dr David Daokui Li, who has served as an advisor to senior Chinese Communist Party leaders as well as major... -
British Social Life in India, 1608-1937 by Dennis Kincaid
$22.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129137487Author Dennis KincaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls 9780374601652
RRP: $45.15$31.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374601652Author Tessa HullsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint MCDPublisher MCDWeight(grams) 300g -
The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development by Yuhua Wang
RRP: $38.70$30.52How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese stateChina was the world's leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China's decline? The... -
The Promise: Love and Loss in Modern China by Xinran Xue
RRP: $12.89$10.18A spellbinding and magical narrative, this is the story of modern China through the women who lived through it. At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. They went on to... -
Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World by John Baines 9781800500266
$45.95Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in ancient civilizations across the world. The contributors are leading experts in Ancient Near Eastern... -
Japan: Courts and Culture Rachel Peat 9781909741683
RRP: $64.44$44.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909741683Author Rachel PeatFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Royal Collection TrustPublisher Royal Collection TrustWeight(grams) 1880g -
The Eyes of the Eagle: F Company LRPs in Vietnam, 1968 Gary Linderer 9780804107334
RRP: $9.02$6.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804107334Author Gary LindererFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm)... -
Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
RRP: $10.31$7.71'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.'Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written on Bushido, or the samurai Way of the Warrior, argues that the philosophy of Bushido is the... -
The Meiji Restoration by W. G. Beasley 9781503608269
RRP: $32.24$28.91For Japan, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has something of the significance that the French Revolution has for France: it is the point from which modern history begins. In this now classic work of Japanese history, the late W. G. Beasley offers a... -
Red Dragon 'Flankers': China'S Prolific 'Flanker' Family by Andreas Rupprecht
RRP: $51.59$36.89Noted for its exceptional performance, the Sukhoi Su-27 is not only one of the most capable fourth-generation fighters, but its development history is also remarkably rich. The 'Flanker' story took on a new industrial and political dimension when the... -
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back by Janice P. Nimura
RRP: $16.76$15.33In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the... -
In Good Faith: A History of the Vietnam War Volume 1: 1945–65 by Sergio Miller
RRP: $21.92$16.09In Good Faith is the first of a two-volume, accessible narrative history of America's involvement in Indochina, from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon in 1975. The books chart the course of America's engagement with the region, from its... -
Japan's Best Friend: Dog Culture in the Land of the Rising Sun by Manami Okazaki
RRP: $21.92$15.84In Japan's Best Friend, stunning photographs take readers to religious festivals and shrines that honor dog deities, to the streets of Tokyo where canines are a mainstay of kawaii culture, and inside the doors of cafes that make pup-themed latte art as... -
A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People by Daguan Zhou
RRP: $32.24$28.39Only one person has given us a first-hand account of the civilization of Angkor. This is the Chinese envoy, Zhou Daguan, who visited Angkor in 1296-97 and wrote A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People after his return to China. To this day Zhou's... -
My Life with the Taliban by Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef
RRP: $21.92$19.75Abdul Zaeef describes growing up in poverty in rural Kandahar province, which he fled for Pakistan after the Russian invasion of 1979. Zaeef joined the jihad in 1983, was seriously wounded in several encounters and met many leading figures of the... -
Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda by Ruth Harris
RRP: $43.80$35.63From the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of The Man on Devil's Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped the intellectual and spiritual history of both East and West.Few thinkers have had so enduring an impact on... -
Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media by Betsy Huang 9780813570631
RRP: $46.44$36.56What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling... -
The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir Thomas McKelvey Cleaver 9781472824882
RRP: $14.18$10.31In November 1950 The US 1st Marine Division was trapped in the Chosin Reservoir following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, the ensuing battle is considered by the United States Marine Corps... -
Burma Victory, 1944 1945: Photographs from Wartime Archives by Diamond, Jon 9781399008532
RRP: $21.92$16.60General Stilwell's ad hoc force of Merrill's Marauders, American-trained Chinese divisions, Kachin guerrillas and General Wingate's Chindits conducted a northern Burmese offensive that led to the coup de main seizure of Myitkyina's airfield in May 1944... -
Introduction to Classical Chinese by Kai Vogelsang 9780198834984
RRP: $52.88$51.05This textbook provides a comprehensive scholarly introduction to Classical Chinese and its texts. Classical Chinese is the language of Confucius and Mencius and their contemporaries, who wrote the seminal texts of Chinese philosophy more than 2,000 years... -
In Good Faith: A history of the Vietnam War Volume 1: 1945-65 by Sergio Miller 9781472838469
RRP: $32.25$25.26In Good Faith is the first of a two-volume, accessible narrative history of America's involvement in Indochina, from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon in 1975. The books chart the course of America's engagement with the region, from its... -
Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping by Klaus Mühlhahn 9780674248311
RRP: $29.61$25.25"Thoughtful, probing...a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China."-William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lead?It is tempting to attribute the rise of China to Deng... -
On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War by Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr 9780891415633
RRP: $15.47$14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891415633Author Harry G. SummersFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio PressWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Martial Races: The Military, Race and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914 by Heather Streets 9780719069635
RRP: $25.79$22.72This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire's fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourse. As 'martial races' these men were believed to possess a... -
A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea by Eunsun Kim
RRP: $14.18$12.85Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw... -
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll
RRP: $25.79$23.39In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier airpower marked a pivotal moment in the Pacific War. No... -
F4F Wildcat: South Pacific 1942–43 by Edward M. Young 9781472854865
RRP: $20.63$15.21This book examines the role of the Grumman F4F Wildcat, the US Navy's standard carrier fighter at the start of the Pacific War, and its clashes against the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force's Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen. The US Navy went to war in... -
Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858 Tom Young 9781913107390
RRP: $51.60$43.67Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British state's nationalisation of the East India Company, transforming the relationship between nation and empire This pioneering book explores how art shaped the... -
Just Enough: Lessons from Japan for Sustainable Living, Architecture, and Design by Azby Brown
RRP: $28.37$21.57How the mindset of traditional Japanese society can guide our own efforts to lead a green lifestyle today.If we want to live sustainably, how should we feel about nature? About waste? About our forests and rivers? About food? Just Enough is a book of...