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Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink by Wasserstrom Jeffrey
RRP: £11.99£8.00On the frontlines of the battle for democracy in ChinaThe rise of Hong Kong is the story of a miraculous post-War boom, when Chinese refugees flocked to a small British colony, and, in less than fifty years, transformed it into one of the great financial... -
How to Grow a Navy: The Development of Maritime Power by Geoffrey Till 9780367607968
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book examines the large but neglected topic of the development of maritime power from both an historical and a contemporary point of view.Navies have never been more important than they are now, in a century becoming, as widely expected,... -
The People We Hate at the Wedding by Grant Ginder 9781399711005 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£1.78'Wickedly smart and shamelessly funny' Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians 'Sinfully good' Elin Hilderbrand Relationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life. Paul and... -
The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History by Ruth Mostern
RRP: £27.50£22.89A three-thousand-year history of China's Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape "No other scholar has produced such a systematic, comprehensive account of the long-term changes in the river's function and... -
Islamicate Societies: A Case Study of Egypt and Muslim India Modernization, Colonial Rule, and the Aftermath by Husain Kassim 9780739165812
RRP: £92.00£80.53The basic contention of this study is that the colonial rule had far more serious consequence than it has been realized. It radically transformed the nature of the Islamic societies of Egypt and Muslim India to that of an 'Islamicate'societies. This... -
Viet Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present by Ben Kiernan
RRP: £58.00£33.71This book narrates the history of the different peoples who have lived in the three major regions of Viet Nam over the past 3,000 years. It brings to life their relationships with these regions' landscapes, water resources, and climatic conditions, their... -
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177652Author Thenmozhi SoundararajanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949 by M. Taylor Fravel 9780691210339
RRP: £25.00£19.59What changes in China's modern defense policy reveal about military organizations and strategyActive Defense offers the first systematic look at China's military strategy from the mid-twentieth century to today. Exploring the range and intensity of... -
The Office of Gardens and Ponds by Didier Decoin
RRP: £10.99£7.40The village of Shimae is thrown into turmoil when master carp-catcher Katsuro suddenly drowns in the murky waters of the Kusagawa river. Who now will carry the precious cargo of carp to the imperial palace and preserve the crucial patronage that everyone... -
China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter 9780674984264
RRP: £23.95£18.06A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearChinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the "victory"-a key foundation of China's rising nationalism... -
Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India by Roderick Matthews 9781787383852
RRP: £25.00£22.03How can we explain Britain's long rule in India beyond the cliches of 'imperial' versus 'nationalist' interpretations? In this new history, Roderick Matthews tells a more nuanced story of 'oblige and rule', the foundation of common purpose between... -
The Dragon Throne: China's Emperors from the Qin to the Manchu by Jonathan Fenby
RRP: £12.99£8.60They were the most powerful rulers on earth. The mighty Qin Shi Huangdu (r. 221-210 BC), who began the construction of the Great Wall. The long-lived Han emperor Wudi (r. 141-87 BC), who developed China as a centralized Confucian state. The... -
Japan at War 1931-45: As the Cherry Blossom Falls by David McCormack 9781781555453
RRP: £18.99£13.61This fascinating history, recounted from both the American and Japanese perspectives, follows the course of the Empire of the Sun's ultimately unequal struggle against the great allied powers. Drawing on archive material, this new history provides the... -
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China by John Man
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks: he conjures up an ancient people in an alien landscape in such a way as to make them live.' - GuardianThe people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated... -
The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development by Yuhua Wang
RRP: £30.00£23.29How 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 Mughal World: India's Tainted Paradise by Abraham Eraly
RRP: £16.99£11.54Inside the opulent, decadent world of the Mughal emperorsThe Mughal emperors were larger-than-life figures, men written on a supra-human scale who exercised absolute power. The three centuries of their rule, as laid out in Eraly's previous volume, THE... -
Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers by Norman H. Rothschild 9780231169394
RRP: £28.00£21.80Wu Zhao (624-705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China as emperor over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she-in a predominantly patriarchal and androcentric society-ascend the dragon throne?... -
The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea by Charles Robert Jenkins
RRP: £25.00£19.59In 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... -
Basti by Intizar Husain
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175828Author Intizar HusainFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap by Yuen Yuen Ang 9781501700200
RRP: £108.00£93.80WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRSWINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY"How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis... -
Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future by Pervez Hoodbhoy 9781032270234
RRP: £130.00£112.11This book is an accessible, comprehensive, and nuanced history of Pakistan. It reflects upon state and society in Pakistan and shows they have been shaped by historical forces and personae. Hoodbhoy expertly maps the journey of the region from many... -
The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver 9781472845955
RRP: £20.00£19.79This book tells the full story of the US Naval air campaign during the Vietnam War between 1965 to 1975, where the US Seventh Fleet, stationed off the Vietnamese coast, was given the tongue-in-cheek nickname 'The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club'. On August 2,... -
Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life During the Age of the Shoguns by Constantine Vaporis
RRP: £36.99£32.93In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan, Constantine Nomikos Vaporis offers an accessible collection of annotated historical documents of an extraordinary period in Japanese history, ranging from the unification of... -
A History of Japan, 1615-1867 by George Sansom 9780804705271
RRP: £24.99£21.67This is the concluding volume of a three-volume work that culminates the life study of the West's most distinguished scholar of Japanese history. A straightforward narrative of the development of Japanese civilization to 1867, the three volumes... -
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das 9781526615657
RRP: £16.99£13.60WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE A SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the... -
Friends and Enemies: The Past, Present and Future of the Communist Party of China by Kerry Brown 9781843317814
RRP: £14.99£14.68'Friends and Enemies' delivers a lucid and provocative history of one of the world's largest and most successful political organizations, the Chinese Communist Party. In tracing the traumatic and bitter struggles that forged modern China and analysing... -
Chinese Architecture: A History by Nancy Steinhardt 9780691169989
RRP: £60.00£49.10An unprecedented survey of the origins and evolution of Chinese architecture, from the last millennia BCE to todayThroughout history, China has maintained one of the world's richest built civilizations. The nation's architectural achievements range from... -
Modern South Korean Air Power: The Republic of Korea Air Force Today by Robin Polderman
RRP: £35.99£25.65Since the early 1950s, the heavily industrialised nation of South Korea has seen steady growth and is now the world's seventh-largest exporter and 11th-largest economy overall. As the Cold War on the Korean peninsula gathered momentum, the development of... -
Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China by Li Jian
RRP: £35.00£30.57A richly illustrated book featuring recent revelations about China's first emperor, Ying Zheng, and his famous burial site containing an army of life-size terracotta soldiers and other artifacts First discovered by a farmer in 1974, the burial site of... -
Along the Southern Boundary: A Marine Police Officer's Frontline Account of the Vietnamese Boatpeople and Their Arrival in Hong Kong by Les Bird
RRP: £17.99£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887554738Author Les BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 540g -
Victors' Justice: Tokyo War Crimes Trial by Richard H. Minear
RRP: £40.00£31.53The klieg-lighted Tokyo Trial began on May 3, 1946, and ended on November 4, 1948, a majority of the eleven judges from the victorious Allies finding the twenty-five surviving defendants, Japanese military and state leaders, guilty of most, if not all,... -
'My' Self on Camera: First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualising China by Kiki Tianqi Yu 9781474474122
RRP: £21.99£17.97This book problematises how the sense of self and subjectivities are understood in contemporary China, and provides illuminating new insights on the changing notion of the individual through cinema.Book InformationISBN 9781474474122Author Kiki Tianqi... -
Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum by Janneke van Dijk
£43.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068327519Author Janneke van DijkFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 560g -
Oriental Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume 2 by Joseph Campbell
RRP: £27.00£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608687282Author Joseph CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
Sanctioned Violence in Early China by Mark E. Lewis 9780791400777
£27.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791400777Author Mark E. LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
RRP: £22.00£16.67The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war. Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French dare devil photographer, and Frances... -
China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay by Minxin Pei
RRP: £33.95£27.41When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build "socialism with Chinese characteristics." More than three decades later, China's efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the... -
The Shogun's Soldiers Volume 2: The Daily Life of Samurai and Soldiers in Edo Period Japan, 1603-1721 by Michael Fredholm von Essen
RRP: £29.95£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512500Author Michael Fredholm von EssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Selected Poems of T'Ao Ch'Ien by Tao Chien
RRP: £13.00£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590566Author Tao ChienFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 141g -
Russian Soldier vs Japanese Soldier by David Campbell
RRP: £15.99£13.33At 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...