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The Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation by Karl Greenfeld 9780060926656
RRP: $21.92$16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060926656Author Karl GreenfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Taliban: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond Ahmed Rashid 9780755647101
RRP: $20.63$17.58A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following the U.S-Taliban peace deal of February 2020 - and the U.S's promised withdrawal from Afghanistan - the Taliban began terrorizing Afghan security forces, civilians and the government in Kabul. By August 2021,... -
A Fleeting Moment in My Country: the Last Years of the LTTE De-Facto State by N. Malathy 9780984525546
RRP: $16.13$15.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984525546Author N. MalathyFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
Revolution and Counterrevolution in China: The Paradoxes of Chinese Struggle by Lin Chun
RRP: $32.25$26.60Over recent decades China has experienced massive change and development. China is the world's fastest growing economy, and has become a global superpower once again. But this development has thrown up a number of seemingly intractable contradictions,... -
China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay by Minxin Pei
RRP: $43.80$35.63When 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 Intellectual in Modern Chinese History by Timothy Cheek 9781107643192
RRP: $33.53$28.37This vivid narrative history of Chinese intellectuals and public life provides a guide to making sense of China today. Timothy Cheek presents a map and a method for understanding the intellectual in the long twentieth century, from China's defeat in the... -
Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China by Jin Xu
RRP: $29.03$24.96A thousand-year history of how China's obsession with silver influenced the country's financial well-being, global standing, and political stability"A wonderful book for understanding one thousand years of Chinese monetary history."--Debin Ma,... -
Singapore: A Modern History by Michael D. Barr
RRP: $25.79$22.72Singapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states. Yet its long and complex history reaches much farther back. Blending modernity and tradition, ideologies and ethnicities, a peculiar set of factors make Singapore what it is... -
A-1 Skyraider in Vietnam: The Spad's Last War by Wayne Mutza 9780764317910
RRP: $59.33$38.85Through its remarkable service during the war in Southeast Asia, the Skyraider became legendary. It served with distinction in the hands of U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and South Vietnamese Air Force pilots, who took the war to the enemy, often at low... -
The Making of the Indo-Islamic World: c.700–1800 CE by André Wink 9781108405652
RRP: $34.82$29.89In a new accessible narrative, Andre Wink presents his major reinterpretation of the long-term history of India and the Indian Ocean region from the perspective of world history and geography. Situating the history of the Indianized territories of South... -
Wild Wild about Walton & The Surrey Hills by Andrew Wilson 9781916485815
RRP: $30.95$27.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916485815Author Andrew WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Unity Print and Publishing LtdPublisher Unity Print and Publishing Ltd -
The Panthay Rebellion: Islam, Ethnicity and the Dali Sultanate in Southwest China, 1856-1873 David G. Atwill 9781804290545
RRP: $32.25$26.19The Panthay Rebellion of 1856-1873 held the armies of the Qing dynasty at bay for nearly two decades. This account by David Atwill offers a remarkable panorama of the cosmopolitan frontier society from which the rebellion sprang.The rebel leader, Du... -
Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs, 1800-1947 by Dr Radha Kapuria 9780192867346
$132.20This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and concluding at the Patiala royal darbar. It unearths new evidence for the centrality of female performers and... -
In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist by Raicho Hiratsuka 9780231138130
$43.34"In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person. Now she is the moon, a wan and sickly moon, dependent on another, reflecting another's brilliance."-Hiratsuku Raicho Raicho Hiratsuka (1886-1971) was the most influential figure in the... -
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India by David Gordon White 9780226894997
RRP: $42.57$41.86David Gordon White excavates and seeks to centre within its broader Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas. This comprehensive study draws upon the ancient Sanskrit and medieval Hindu materials and asserts medieval traditions of Hindu... -
The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of China's Instant City by Juan Du
RRP: $38.64$31.51An award-winning Hong Kong-based architect with decades of experience designing buildings and planning cities in the People's Republic of China takes us to the Pearl River delta and into the heart of China's iconic Special Economic Zone, Shenzhen... -
India 1885-1947: The Unmaking of an Empire by Ian Copland 9780582381735
RRP: $47.72$46.10The establishment of the Indian National Congress in 1885 marked a turning point in modern South Asian history. At the time, few grasped the significance of the event, nor understood the power that its leader would come to wield. From humble beginnings,... -
The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China by Philip C. C. Huang
RRP: $36.11$31.63The author presents a convincing new interpretation of the origins and nature of the agrarian crisis that gripped the North China Plain in the two centuries before the Revolution. His extensive research included eighteenth-century homicide case records,... -
Classical Bujutsu by Donn F. Draeger 9780834802339
RRP: $24.50$17.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834802339Author Donn F. DraegerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Weatherhill IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)... -
Ho Chi Minh: A Life by William J Duiker 9780786863877
$38.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lukas Prize Project (Lynton History Prize) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780786863877Author William J DuikerFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint... -
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire by Richard B Frank 9780141001463
RRP: $25.80$17.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780141001463Author Richard B. FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 212mm... -
A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel: Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China by Pin Ho 9781610392730
RRP: $36.12$25.83The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China's new president Xi Jinping.The scandalous story of the... -
Chinese Asianism, 1894-1945 by Craig A. Smith
RRP: $59.28$47.69Chinese Asianism examines Chinese intellectual discussions of East Asian solidarity, analyzing them in connection with Chinese nationalism and Sino-Japanese relations. Beginning with texts written after the first Sino-Japanese War of 1894 and concluding... -
Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE–800 CE by Robert Ford Campany 9780674293731
RRP: $36.06$29.03Practitioners of any of the paths of self-cultivation available in ancient and medieval China engaged daily in practices meant to bring their bodies and minds under firm control. They took on regimens to discipline their comportment, speech, breathing,... -
Power of Freedom: Hu Shih's Political Writings by Carlos Lin 9780472055265
$47.01Dr. Hu Shih (1891-1962) was one of China's top scholars and diplomats and served as the Republic of China's ambassador to the United States during World War II. As early as 1941, Hu Shih warned of the fundamental ideological conflict between dictatorial... -
The Lost Samurai School by Antony Cummins
RRP: $29.67$21.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623170875Author Antony CumminsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm)... -
China in One Village: The History of One Town and the Future of the World by Liang Hong
RRP: $21.92$18.47After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the... -
Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India by Roderick Matthews
RRP: $19.34$17.85How 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... -
Village China Under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008 by Huaiyin Li 9780804759748
RRP: $149.64$130.82Village China Under Socialism and Reform offers a comprehensive account of rural life after the communist revolution, detailing villager involvement in political campaigns since the 1950s, agricultural production under the collective system, family... -
A Few Planes for China - The Birth of the Flying Tigers by Eugenie Buchan
RRP: $42.57$36.33On December 7, 1941, a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into armed conflict with Japan. In the first three months of the war the Japanese seemed unbeatable as they seized American, British, and European territory across the... -
A Short History of the Mongols by George Lane
$21.97The Mongol Empire was the mightiest land empire the world has ever seen. At its height it was twice the size of its Roman equivalent. For a remarkable century and a half it commanded a population of 100 million people, while the rule of Chinggis... -
The Death Railway: The Personal Account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on the Thai-Burma Railroad by Kappe, Charles 9781399017770
RRP: $25.80$18.72They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British and American troops lifted when they were told that they would be transferred to another healthier location where conditions would be more benign... -
North Korea in a Nutshell: A Contemporary Overview by Kongdan Oh 9781538151389
RRP: $38.70$34.69This deeply knowledgeable book provides a concise introduction to North Korea. Two leading experts, Kongdan Oh and Ralph Hassig, trace the country's history from its founding in 1948 and describe the many facets of its political, economic, social, and... -
The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong by Jonathan Dimbleby 9781526701831
$25.191 July 1997 marked the end of British rule of Hong Kong, whereby this territory was passed into the hands of the People's Republic of China. In 1992, Chris Patten, former chairman of the Conservative Party, was appointed Hong Kong's last governor, and... -
India and the British Empire by Douglas M. Peers 9780198794615
$45.98South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history... -
India: The Ancient Past: A History of the Indian Subcontinent from c. 7000 BCE to CE 1200 Burjor Avari (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 9781138828216
RRP: $56.75$49.97India: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture nine thousand years ago up until the beginning of the... -
Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a 21st-Century Conflict by Sumantra Bose
RRP: $25.79$21.89An authoritative, fresh, and vividly written account of the Kashmir conflict-from 1947 to the present The India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir is one of the world's incendiary conflicts. Since 1990, at least 60,000 people have been killed-insurgents,... -
China: A History (Volume 1): From Neolithic Cultures through the Great Qing Empire, (10,000 BCE - 1799 CE) by Harold M. Tanner 9781603842020
RRP: $33.53$28.10Available in one or two volumes, this accessible, yet rigorous, introduction to the political, social, and cultural history of China provides a balanced and thoughtful account of the development of Chinese civilization from its beginnings to the present... -
Spying for the People: Mao's Secret Agents, 1949-1967 by Michael Schoenhals
RRP: $29.66$20.87Since the end of the Cold War, the operations of secret police informers have come under the media spotlight and it is now common knowledge that vast internal networks of spies in the Soviet Union and East Germany were directed by the Communist Party. By... -
The Last Tigers of Hong Kong: True Stories of Big Cats That Stalked Britain's Chinese Colony by John Saeki
RRP: $18.05$11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887554615Author John SaekiFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 284g