Asia

The volume opens with a brief original essay by Morris Rossabi, one of the world's foremost scholars on the Mongols. Rossabi's essay gives a historical and interpretive overview of the Mongols and charts their invasions and subsequent rule over the...

"I'll search you out, put my lips to your tender ear, and tell you...I'll tell you the real story--I swear I will."--from Little One by Toge Sankichi Three Japanese authors of note--Hara Tamiki, Ota Yoko, and Toge Sankichi--survived the atomic bombing of...

What history, pop culture, and diaspora can teach us about North and South Korea today.Korea is one of the last divided countries in the world. Twins born of the Cold War, one is vilified as an isolated, impoverished, time-warped state with an abysmal...

Burma has often been portrayed as a timeless place, a country of egalitarian Buddhist villages, ruled successively by autocratic kings, British colonialists and, most recently, a military dictatorship. The Making of Modern Burma argues instead that many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059230Author Dmitry RyabushkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

'Illuminating ... Johnson has not only lifted a corner of the curtain which covers China's reality beyond its glittering eastern cities; he has drawn the whole curtain' The Times Literary SupplementIn Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson...

Born 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375754555Author Christopher BenfeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House TradePublisher Random House TradeWeight(grams) 263g

Over 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,...

An informal yet informed journey through the classic works of Japanese cinema and their directors.This is a passionate, personal journey through one of the world's greatest national cinemas, beginning with the classic directors who came to the fore in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857285171Author Lionel KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062978066Author Ramachandra GuhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 992Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

Osprey's survey of the Long-Range Patrol Scouts of the US Army during the Vietnam War (1955-1975). The Vietnamese knew the Long-Range Patrol Scouts as "the men with green faces," a reference to the camouflage paint that they used. Operating in...

The partitioning of British India into independent Pakistan and India in August 1947 occurred in the midst of communal holocaust, with Hindus and Sikhs on one side and Muslims on the other. More than 750,000 people were butchered, and 12 million fled...

The summation of more than two thousand years of one of the world's most august literary traditions, this volume also represents the achievements of four hundred years of Western scholarship on China. The selections include poetry, drama, fiction, songs,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888769414Author Jaime FlorcruzFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Earnshaw Books LtdPublisher Earnshaw Books LtdWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

In 2012 the original Modern Chinese Warplanes set the standard as a uniquely compact yet comprehensive directory of modern Chinese air power, combining magnificent illustrations and in-depth analysis.Now almost six years later, much of the fascination...

In Habitations of Modernity, Dipesh Chakrabarty explores the complexities of modernism in India and seeks principles of humaneness grounded in everyday life that may elude grand political theories. The questions that motivate Chakrabarty are shared by...

Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of...

During the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted by all, but plans for the future of North Korea differed in their ideas about how everyday life should be organized. Daily...

Sources of Japanese Tradition is a best-selling classic, unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion in the Land of the Rising Sun. In this long-awaited second edition, the...

The Philippine Revolution of 1896-1905, which began against Spain and continued against the United States, took place in the context of imperial subjugation and local resistance across Southeast Asia. Yet scholarship on the revolution and the turn of the...

Seventy years after the Chinese Revolution of 1949, what remains of Mao's communist legacy?Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays from over fifty world-renowned scholars in the China field, from various disciplines and continents. It provides...

Historians have long regarded fashion as something peculiarly Western. In this surprising, sumptuously illustrated book, Antonia Finnane challenges this view, which she argues is based on nineteenth- and twentieth-century representations of Chinese dress...

Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their local collaborators as birangonas, ("brave women"). Nayanika Mookherjee demonstrates that while this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814385640Author William WarrenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Editions Didier Millet Pte LtdPublisher Editions Didier Millet Pte LtdWeight(grams)...

Here Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by Captain James Cook and his officers,...

The English edition of Liu Lihong's work is a milestone for the profession of Chinese medicine in the 21st century. Classical Chinese Medicine delivers a straightforward critique of the politically motivated 'integration' of traditional Chinese wisdom...

A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the People's Republic of China In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new People's Republic of...

andbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan spans the beginning of the Kamakura period in 1185 through the end of the Edo (Tokugawa) period in 1868. The medieval and early modern eras in Japan were largely shaped by the rise of the warrior class...

From one of the world's leading historians?a comprehensive narrative of the 3,000 years that have formed Asia's people, culture, and global destiny Tracing its origins in Mesopotamia to its modern role on the global geopolitical stage, historian Arthur...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934255247Author Mao ZedongFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Digital Pulse PublishingPublisher Digital Pulse PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898753417Author Deng XiaopingFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Muslims have been present in South Asia for 14 centuries. Nearly 40% of the people of this vast land mass follow the religion of Islam, and Muslim contribution to the cultural heritage of the sub-continent has been extensive. This textbook provides both...

This clear, and authoritative text surveys the history of the region from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the present day.It contains a general regional introduction, followed by a series of country-by-country analyses, and a section which places...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619028340Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Cultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances rigorous procedures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887554769Author Constance Gordon-CummingFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 105g

The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This Handbook provides a...

Why did the Chinese party state collapse so quickly after the onset of the Cultural Revolution? The award-winning author of China Under Mao offers a surprising answer that holds a powerful implicit warning for today's governments.By May 1966, just...