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Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet Frances Garrett 9781138862258
RRP: €57.11€49.75This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature, and what this reveals about its medicine and religion. Filling a significant gap in the literature this is the first in-depth exploration of Tibetan... -
Great Books of China by Frances Wood 9781837930210
RRP: €13.08€8.72Discover - or rediscover - the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. Great Books of China offers concise introductions - each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in English) from the book in question - to sixty-six works in... -
A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949 by Lam Tong 9780520267862
RRP: €84.49€65.51In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the "culture of fact" in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues... -
Art of the Bedchamber: The Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics Including Women's Solo Meditation Texts by Douglas Wile 9780791408865
€32.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791408865Author Douglas WileFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue by Sarah Allan 9780791433867
RRP: €29.49€29.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791433867Author Sarah AllanFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Korea at War: Conflicts That Shaped the World Michael J. Seth 9780804854627
RRP: €19.03€13.01An engaging history covering a century of conflict on the Korean PeninsulaKorea at War recounts how two separate nations emerged on the Korean peninsula as the result of devastating conflicts involving provocative personalities and superpower intrigues... -
Empire of the Winds by Philip Bowring
RRP: €47.60€36.90Winner of the Penang Book Prize 2019 Nusantaria - often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' - is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. Nusantara, a Sanskrit, then Malay, word referring to... -
Rone: Street Art and Beyond by Rone 9781760760953
RRP: €35.70€27.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760760953Author Tyrone Wright (Rone)Format HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty LtdPublisher Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty... -
Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios by Gregory D. Booth 9780195327649
RRP: €41.04€28.20Beginning 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... -
Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding by Dorothy Ko 9780520253902
RRP: €35.70€27.72The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of China's medieval court and spread to gentry families, brothels, maid's quarters, and peasant households. Conventional views of... -
The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road by Xin Wen
RRP: €49.98€39.63An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for tradeThe King's Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a... -
The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India - Revised and Expanded Edition by C. J. Fuller
RRP: €49.98€39.63Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of... -
Kanji Pict-o-Graphix: Over 1,000 Japanese Kanji and Kana Mnemonics by Michael Rowley 9780962813702
RRP: €17.84€16.80"Kanji Pict-o-Graphix offers an engaging way to learn and memorize Kanji."-Rocky Mountain Region Japan Project "A fun book for studying kanji. The illustration reveals more of its contents and method than any description ever could."-Japan Times "It is... -
The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate by Edwin Bryant 9780195169478
RRP: €52.94€37.15Western scholars have argued that Indian civilization was the joint product of an invading Indo-European people-the "Indo-Aryans"-and indigenous non-Indo European peoples. Although Indian scholars reject this European reconstruction of their... -
Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train by Jessamyn Abel 9781503629943
RRP: €28.55€25.18A symbol of the "new Japan" displayed at World's Fairs, depicted in travel posters, and celebrated as the product of a national spirit of innovation, the Tokaido Shinkansen-the first bullet train, dubbed the "dream super-express"-represents the bold... -
Japanese Culture by H. Paul Varley 9780824821524
RRP: €30.88€29.37For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely used undergraduate text is now available in a new edition. Thoroughly updated, the fourth edition... -
Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World by Michael Schuman
€34.61We in the West routinely ask: 'What does China want?' The answer is quite simple: the superpower status it always had, but briefly lost. In this colorful, informative story filled with fascinating characters, epic battles, influential thinkers, and... -
Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform: Initial Steps toward a New Chinese Countryside, 1976-1981 Frederick C. Teiwes 9780367597351
RRP: €45.21€40.20The decollectivization of Chinese agriculture in the early post-Mao period is widely recognized as a critical part of the overall reform program. But the political process leading to this outcome is poorly understood. A number of approaches have... -
Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz by Sarah Fee
RRP: €41.65€39.10The story of India's exuberantly colored textiles that made their mark on design, technology, and trade around the world Chintz, a type of multicolored printed or painted cotton cloth, originated in India yet exerted influence far beyond its home shores:... -
Unlikely Partners by Julian Gewirtz
RRP: €45.16€37.07Unlikely Partners recounts the story of how Chinese politicians and intellectuals looked beyond their country's borders for economic guidance at a key crossroads in the nation's tumultuous twentieth century. Julian Gewirtz offers a dramatic tale of... -
Air Power in the Malayan Emergency: The RAF and Allied Air Forces in Malaya 1948 - 1960 by An Official History 9781526726124
€31.82As early as the 1920s, Communist Soviet and then Chinese agents had been infiltrating Malaya. Then in 1929 the Malayan Communist Party, or MCP, was formed with the intention of overthrowing the Malayan Administration and establishing a... -
Chinese Jade by Ming Yu
RRP: €23.79€18.12The Chinese people have honoured, revered and cherished jade for over 8,000 years. Consequently, jade has played a unique role in the development of Chinese culture. Jade carvings survive not simply as beautiful works of art, but also as cultural relics... -
In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India by Alpa Shah
RRP: €26.17€23.19In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in... -
Women and China's Revolutions by Gail Hershatter 9781442215696
RRP: €41.65€37.02If we place women at the center of our account of China's last two centuries, how does this change our understanding of what happened? This deeply knowledgeable book illuminates the places where the Big History of recognizable events intersects with the... -
Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture by David L. Hall 9780791436141
€32.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791436141Author David L. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Kwee Family of Ciledug: A Family, Status and Modernity in Colonial Java Visualising the Private Life of the Peranakan Chinese Sugar by Peter Post 9789460224928
RRP: €39.26€25.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789460224928Author Peter PostFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 814g -
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan by Professor Ivan Morris
RRP: €26.18€18.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345803900Author Ivan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Autobiography of a ZEN Monk by Roshi Taisen Deshimaru
RRP: €28.56€25.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942493723Author Roshi Taisen DeshimaruFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Hohm Press,U.S.Publisher Hohm Press,U.S. -
Risalo by Shah Abdul Latif
RRP: €35.64€29.07The greatest classic of Sindhi literature presented here in an authoritative and vivid modern English translation.Shah Abdul Latif's Risalo is acknowledged across Pakistan and the wider diaspora as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature. In this... -
Lost T'ai-chi Classics from the Late Ch'ing Dynasty by Douglas Wile 9780791426548
€30.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791426548Author Douglas WileFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Mao Jonathan Spence 9780753810712
RRP: €11.89€8.33'One of the greatest historians of China' Chris Patten'Balanced, reliable and drawing on the most up-to-date research ... Spence eschews any overall judgement. He lets the facts speak for themselves and they are extraordinary enough' LITERARY REVIEWA... -
Dubai: Gilded Cage by Syed Ali 9780300152173
RRP: €22.60€21.99In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure Gulf emirate into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. It is a fascinating case study in light-speed urban development, hyperconsumerism, massive immigration, and... -
The Luzon Campaign 1945: Macarthur Returns by Nathan N. Prefer 9781636244242
RRP: €39.21€28.30The Luzon campaign of 1945 was the longest island campaign of the Pacific War, lasting from January 1945 to September 1945, and only ended with the surrender of Imperial Japan. It is often overlooked or mentioned in passing by most histories of that war,... -
A History of India Hermann Kulke 9781138961159
RRP: €57.11€50.61Presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present, A History of India is a detailed and authoritative account of the major political, economic, social and cultural forces that have shaped the history of the Indian subcontinent... -
Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History by Alexander C. Cook
RRP: €29.74€24.85Mao Zedong's Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao) - a compilation of the Chinese leader's speeches and writings - is one of the most visible and ubiquitous symbols of twentieth-century radicalism. Published for the first time in 1964, it... -
Phnom Penh: A Cultural and Literary History by Milton Osborne 9781904955405
RRP: €17.85€16.49Forever linked in the public mind with the Pol Pot tyranny, Phnom Penh only became Cambodia's permanent capital in 1866. Long neglected by Western travellers, in the sixteenth century it was home to Iberian missionaries and freebooters who briefly held... -
Bahawalpur: The Kingdom that Vanished by Anabel Loyd
RRP: €32.12€16.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093779Author Anabel LoydFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House, IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 30mm -
The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China by Peter Thilly 9781503634107
RRP: €28.55€25.18From its rise in the 1830s to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in the Chinese political economy. Opium money was inextricably bound up in local, national, and imperial finances, and the people who piloted the trade were... -
Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution by Yuan Gao
RRP: €33.31€29.65Born Red is an artistically wrought personal account, written very much from inside the experience, of the years 1966-1969, when the author was a young teenager at middle school. It was in the middle schools that much of the fury of the Cultural... -
The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier by Benno Weiner 9781501772306
RRP: €28.55€25.18In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decade of the People's Republic of China: the Amdo region in the Sino-Tibetan borderland. Employing previously...