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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan by Arthur Waley 9784805311080
£12.18Japan in the 10th century stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Inside this bubble, a subtle and beautiful world was in operation, and its inhabitants were tied to the moment, having no interest in the future and disdain... -
The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute: Songs of the Imperial Visit to Datong by Pu Songling 9780197606308
RRP: £22.99£19.96The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute by one... -
The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by which They Forced Her Gates Ajar by Peter Ward Fay 9780807847145
RRP: £46.95£44.93This work tells the story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the... -
For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India by Anjali R. Arondekar
RRP: £20.99£18.37Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a... -
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia
RRP: £21.99£19.19The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in 1947 more than twelve million people were displaced. A million died. More than seventy-five... -
International Departures: Art in India After Independence by Devika Singh 9781789147988
RRP: £30.00£29.09In this captivating and richly illustrated account, Devika Singh presents together for the first time the work of Indian and foreign artists active in India after independence in 1947. The book engages with the many creators, critics and patrons of the... -
The Man Who Stayed Behind by Sidney Rittenberg
RRP: £25.99£22.89The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence... -
Empress: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor
£14.34An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837"A widely and deeply researched, elegantly written, and vital portrayal of [Queen Victoria's] place in... -
The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War by Parks M. Coble
RRP: £30.00£25.95When World War II ended Chiang Kai-shek seemed at the height of his power-the leader of Nationalist China, one of the victorious Allied Powers in 1945 and with the financial backing of the US. Yet less than four years later, he lost the China's civil war... -
The Japanese in the Western Mind: A Psychological History of the Cultural Other by Perry Hinton
RRP: £36.99£32.53• Focuses on how and why specific cultural stereotypes have emerged throughout the history of Western-Japanese interaction, by drawing on socio-cultural theories within Psychology and Intercultural Studies • Explains how stereotypes are formed in culture... -
An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj by Benjamin B. Cohen
RRP: £25.95£20.64The dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and whose notorious trial and fall reverberated throughout the British Empire, setting the benchmark for Victorian scandals.In April... -
The Path of Modern Yoga: The History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice by Elliott Goldberg 9781620555675
RRP: £26.00£17.43In The Path of Modern Yoga, Elliott Goldberg shows how yoga was transformed from a sacred practice into a health and fitness regime for middle-class Indians in the early 20th century and then gradually transformed over the course of the 20th century into... -
The Great Wall in 50 Objects by William Lindesay
RRP: £18.99£13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780734310484Author William LindesayFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Viking AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
Restless Empire by Ian Barnes 9780674504677
RRP: £51.95£42.34From the first Slavic migrations to the Romanovs' rise to the Putin era, Russia has endured for centuries as a nation whose sheer size and diversity have challenged its rulers and shaped its identity. Restless Empire illuminates the epic sweep of Russian... -
The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan by Ayesha Jalal
RRP: £30.99£28.28In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India. Seven years later Pakistan was created amidst a communal holocaust of unprecedented proportions. Concentrating on the All-India Muslim League and its... -
New Japan Architecture by Geeta Mehta 9780804857192
RRP: £12.99£9.60Featuring dozens of high-quality photographs, schematic designs and insightful commentary this Japanese architecture book is a must-have for architects or collectors.The past five years are widely considered to have been the most innovative period in... -
Confrontation: The War with Indonesia 1962-1966 by Nick van der Bijl 9781783030187
RRP: £18.99£13.61For over four years in the 'Swinging Sixties' the armed forces of the UK were engaged in a little publicised but crucial jungle war against communist aggressive on the vast island of Borneo. At any one time up to 50,000 troops (half of the Army's... -
The Scorpion-Fish by Nicolas Bouvier 9781780600444
RRP: £12.99£8.60The narrator arrives in his 117th rented room at the end of an epic journey, abandoned by his lover, almost broke and certainly feverish. His obsession with the insects he shares the room with and his beautifully articulated observations of himself on... -
The Vietnam War by Ken Burns
RRP: £45.00£44.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307700254Author Geoffrey C. WardFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 2499gDimensions(mm) 283mm *... -
The Book Collectors of Daraya: A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui 9781529012316
RRP: £16.99£15.11'This is an urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. Delphine Minoui has crafted a book that champions books and the individuals who risk everything to preserve them.' Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book In 2012 the rebel suburb... -
Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age by Uluğ Kuzuoğlu 9780231209397
RRP: £30.00£23.29In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing system. The Chinese characters, they argued, were too cumbersome to learn, blocking the channels of... -
The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa by Adam Roberts 9781586485009
£15.98Equatorial Guinea is a tiny country roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Humid, jungle covered, and rife with unpleasant diseases, natives call it Devil Island. Its president in 2004, Obiang Nguema, had been accused of cannibalism, belief in... -
The Coming Collapse Of China by Gordon G. Chang
RRP: £15.99£11.61Fully revised and updated edition covering China's new membership of the WTO and with a new introduction. 'Damning data and persuasive arguments that should set some Communist knees a-knocking.' Kirkus Reviews'A compelling account of the rot in China's... -
The Japanese Home Front 1937-45 by Philip Jowett
RRP: £14.99£10.95From the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 until the Japanese surrender in August 1945, a multitude of military and civil-defence forces strove to support the Japanese war effort and latterly prepared to defend the Home Islands against... -
Reading North Korea: An Ethnological Inquiry by Sonia Ryang
RRP: £33.95£27.41Often depicted as one of the world's most strictly isolationist and relentlessly authoritarian regimes, North Korea has remained terra incognita to foreign researchers as a site for anthropological fieldwork. Given the difficulty of gaining access to the... -
Singapore: Unlikely Power by John Curtis Perry
RRP: £24.49£17.68When Lee Kuan Yew died recently, the world media turned its attention to the nation he led for decades: Singapore. Lee Kuan Yew's revolutionary transformation of Singapore from a poor and corrupt colonial backwater into an economic powerhouse renowned... -
Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyers 1919-45 1: Minekaze to Shiratsuyu Classes by Mark Stille
RRP: £12.99£11.01This volume will detail the history, weapons and tactics of the Japanese destroyers built before the war. This includes the famous Fubuki class (called "Special Type" by the Japanese, which were, when completed in the late 1920's, the most powerful class... -
A History of Tokyo by Jonathan Clements
RRP: £9.99£7.06Tokyo, which in Japanese means the "Eastern Capital," has only enjoyed that name and status for 150 years. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, the city that is now Tokyo was a sprawling fishing town by the bay named Edo. Earlier still, in the... -
Art in Turmoil: The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76 by Richard King
RRP: £31.00£24.14Forty years after China's tumultuous Cultural Revolution, this book revisits the visual and performing arts of the period - the paintings, propaganda posters, political cartoons, sculpture, folk arts, private sketchbooks, opera, and ballet. Probing... -
The Brunei Revolt, 1962 1963 by Bijl, Nick van der 9781399013543
RRP: £14.99£10.95In December 1962, nationalists in Brunei, the hugely wealthy small kingdom on the North Coast of Borneo, formed the Army of North Kalimantan (TNKU) and, demanding greater democracy, engineered a rebellion against the Sultan and seized a large number of... -
The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople by Donald E. Queller
RRP: £27.99£24.54On August 15, 1199, Pope Innocent III called for a renewed effort to deliver Jerusalem from the Infidel, but the Fourth Crusade had a very different outcome from the one he preached. Proceeding no further than Constantinople, the Crusaders sacked the... -
Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping by Roger Faligot
RRP: £35.00£32.24In 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the first Chinese communist spy network, operating in the shadows against nationalists, Western powers and the Japanese. The story of Chinese spies has been a global one from the start. Unearthing previously... -
Postwar Japan as History by Andrew Gordon
RRP: £31.00£24.43Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this book seek to offer such a view. As they examine three... -
Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios by Gregory D. Booth 9780195327649
RRP: £34.49£23.32Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others--to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the words of some, "the original fusion music." They worked as... -
Savage Beasts by Rani Selvarajah
RRP: £8.99£6.52'A beautiful and unique retelling of Medea. I loved it!' Sunday Times bestselling author Sophie Irwin 'Absorbing and thoughtful...full of page-turning drama and vibrantly drawn characters. Bold and illuminating' Claire Heywood, author of... -
The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks by Richard Stoneman 9780691154039
RRP: £40.00£32.53An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and... -
Stronger: Adapting America's China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence by Ryan Hass
£20.39An examination of how America can strengthen its approach to China by building on its existing advantages"This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how the United States can renew its advantages in its competition with China... -
From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia by Dan Slater
RRP: £30.00£23.29Why some of Asia's authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer-and why others haven'tOver the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization-a spectacular record of development... -
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman 9780312429706
RRP: £24.00£15.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312429706Author Michael NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Burma: The Curse of Independence by Shelby Tucker 9780745315416
RRP: £29.99£19.40This book is an overview and understanding of Burma's tragic armed conflict in the twentieth century. Examining the 'causes' of the war, Shelby Tucker traces the political development of the country from the occupations by the British and Japanese and...