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Neoliberalism, Urbanization and Aspirations in Contemporary India by Sujata Patel 9780190132019
RRP: £57.00£51.48This volume brings together scholarship from different disciplines on the theme of neoliberalism. Contemporary neoliberal economic policy, it argues has increased inequalities and exclusions while providing opportunities to the upper sections of the... -
Ganbare!: Workshops on Dying by Katarzyna Boni 9781948830423
RRP: £12.99£10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948830423Author Katarzyna BoniFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open Letter -
Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China by Frank Dikotter 9780231113700
£77.05In 1995 the People's Republic of China passed a controversial Eugenics Law, which, after a torrent of international criticism, was euphemistically renamed the Maternal and Infant Health Law. Aimed at "the implementation of premarital medical checkups" to... -
South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers by Scott A. Snyder 9780231185486
£36.94Against the backdrop of China's mounting influence and North Korea's growing nuclear capability and expanding missile arsenal, South Korea faces a set of strategic choices that will shape its economic prospects and national security. In South Korea at... -
An Encouragement of Learning by Yukichi Fukuzawa 9780231167147
£64.11The intellectual and social theorist Yukichi Fukuzawa wrote An Encouragement of Learning (1872-1876) as a series of pamphlets while completing his critical masterpiece, An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (1875). These closely linked texts illustrate... -
The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society by Pierre Francois Souyri 9780231118422
£99.23In the late twelfth century, Japanese people called the transitional period in which they were living the "age of warriors." Feudal clans fought civil wars, and warriors from the Kanto Plain rose up to restore the military regime of their shogun,... -
Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China by Dong Wang 9781538141113
RRP: £35.00£30.95This thoroughly researched book provides the first comprehensive history of how a UNESCO World Heritage site on the Central China Plain, Longmen's caves and the Buddhist statuary of Luoyang, was rediscovered in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries... -
Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879-2000 by Tze May Loo 9781498550536
RRP: £43.00£37.78Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879-2000 is a study of Okinawa's incorporation into a subordinate position in the Japanese nation-state, and the role that cultural heritage, especially Okinawa's iconic... -
An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Trans-Pacific Trade, 1500-1950 by Xiaolin Duan 9781793614902
RRP: £81.00£71.06In 1573, 712 bales of Chinese silk arrived in New Spain in the cargos of two Manila galleons. The emergence and the subsequent rapid development of this trans-Pacific silk trade reflected the final formation of the global circulation network. The first... -
The Beijing Young Women's Christian Association, 1927-1937: Materializing a Gendered Modernity by Aihua Zhang 9781793608147
RRP: £81.00£71.06By exploring the interplay among gender, religion, and modernity, this book exposes the part Chinese Christian women played in China's quest for a strong nation in general and in Republican Beijing's modern transformation in particular. Focusing on the... -
Citizen Refugee: Forging the Indian Nation after Partition by Uditi Sen 9781108425612
RRP: £90.00£81.43This innovative study explores the interface between nation-building and refugee rehabilitation in post-partition India. Relying on archival records and oral histories, Uditi Sen analyses official policy towards Hindu refugees from eastern Pakistan to... -
The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200-2000 by Cynthia Talbot 9781107118560
RRP: £90.00£81.43This fascinating new study traces traditions and memories relating to the twelfth-century Indian ruler Prithviraj Chauhan; a Hindu king who was defeated and overthrown during the conquest of Northern India by Muslim armies from Afghanistan. Surveying a... -
Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 by Alvin D. Coox
£74.25From May to September 1939 Japan and the Soviet Union fought a fierce, large-scale undeclared war on the Mongolian plains that ended with a decisive Soviet victory with two important results: Japan reoriented its strategic emphasis towards the south,... -
Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia, 1750-1950 by Claude Markovits
RRP: £115.00£104.99The idea of an 'eternal India', based on stable and unchanging villages, has been in disarray for at least two decades. However, having demolished this myth, historians have been rather less able to construct an alternative vision. This volume sets out... -
The Cultural Revolution on Trial: Mao and the Gang of Four by Alexander C. Cook 9780521135290
RRP: £24.99£21.18The trial of Cultural Revolution leaders, including Mao's widow and her Gang of Four, was the signal event in China's post-Mao transition. In its wake, Chinese socialism emerged from the rubble of the Cultural Revolution to create the China that we know... -
A History of Nepal by John Whelpton 9780521800266
RRP: £75.00£61.97Nepal emerged as a unified state over two hundred years ago, centred on the Kathmandu Valley with its two thousand years of urban civilisation. While John Whelpton's history focuses on the period since the overthrow of the Rana family autocracy in... -
Moon Princess: Memories of the Shan States by Sanda Simms
RRP: £16.95£11.91Narrated by the eldest daughter of Sao Shwe Thaike, the Prince of Yawnghwe, The Moon Princess recounts both the story of her early life and at the same time provides a fascinating memoir of her father who, in 1948, became first President of the Union of... -
Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy by Judith M. Brown 9780198731139
£42.05This second edition of this widely used text covers the last two centuries of Indian history, concluding with an epilogue written from the perspective of the 1990s. It thematically and analytically discusses the emergence of India as one of the world's... -
Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India by Ranajit Guha
RRP: £23.99£20.84Foreword by James ScottThis classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present in rebel consciousness during the Indian colonial period. Ranajit Guha-intellectual founder of the groundbreaking and influential Subaltern Studies... -
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire by Richard B Frank 9780141001463
RRP: £20.00£12.20Apologies 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... -
King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong by Jonathan Chamberlain 9789889979980
£12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789889979980Author Jonathan ChamberlainFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 442g -
War and State Building in Medieval Japan by John A. Ferejohn
RRP: £18.99£16.72The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast territorial control emerged in Japan at around the same time as it did in Europe, through the process of mobilizing fiscal resources and... -
The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation by Thomas Lamarre
RRP: £19.99£18.88Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history of cinema, film theorists have focused on live-action motion pictures and largely ignored hand-drawn and computer-generated movies. Thomas Lamarre contends that the history,... -
The Social World of Batavia: Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia by Jean Gelman Taylor 9780299232146
£30.16In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Indonesian site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the next three centuries, the flourishing economic and political nucleus... -
City Of Lingering Splendour by John Blofeld 9781570626371
RRP: £24.61£20.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570626371Author John BlofeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China by Rao Pingru
RRP: £25.00£18.88A graphic memoir like no other: the true story of a marriage in China that spanned the twentieth century, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose.WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARDRao Pingru was a twenty-six-year-old soldier when he first saw the... -
Great Chinese Revolution (1800-1985) by John King Fairbank 9780060390761
RRP: £18.99£11.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060390761Author John King FairbankFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine by Jasper Becker 9780805056686
RRP: £26.99£17.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805056686Author Jasper BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)... -
Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar by Jacques Bertrand
RRP: £25.99£22.49Winning by Process asks why the peace process stalled in the decade from 2011 to 2021 despite a liberalizing regime, a national ceasefire agreement, and a multilateral peace dialogue between the state and ethnic minorities. Winning by Process argues... -
A Fleeting Moment in My Country: the Last Years of the LTTE De-Facto State by N. Malathy 9780984525546
RRP: £12.50£12.12Apologies 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 -
Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges between China and Japan, 839–1403 CE by Yiwen Li 9781009303101
RRP: £85.00£76.60Between 839 and 1403 CE, there was a six-century lapse in diplomatic relations between present-day China and Japan. This hiatus in what is known as the tribute system has led to an assumption that there was little contact between the two countries in... -
Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World by Benjamin R. Young
RRP: £23.99£20.84Far from always having been an isolated nation and a pariah state in the international community, North Korea exercised significant influence among Third World nations during the Cold War era. With one foot in the socialist Second World and the other in... -
Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age by Susan Bayly 9780521798426
RRP: £30.99£25.44The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to the... -
Mao by Jonathan Spence
RRP: £9.99£6.80'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... -
Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War by Noriko Kawamura
RRP: £24.99£21.67This reexamination of the controversial role Emperor Hirohito played during the Pacific War gives particular attention to the question: If the emperor could not stop Japan from going to war with the Allied Powers in 1941, why was he able to play a... -
India, China, and the World: A Connected History by Tansen Sen 9781538111727
RRP: £38.00£35.58This pathbreaking study provides the first comprehensive examination of India-China interactions in the broader contexts of Asian and world history. By focusing on material exchanges, transmissions of knowledge and technologies, networks of exchange... -
An Illustrated History of Cambodia by Philip Coggan 9781912081974
RRP: £25.00£18.02Beginning with a definition of who the Cambodians are, this fully illustrated history then tracks back to the earliest kingdoms before 800 AD, followed by an investigation of the creation of the magnificent city of Angkor and Cambodia's centuries of... -
Savarkar (Part 2, Concluding Volume): A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966 by Vikram Sampath
RRP: £39.99£22.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670090310Author Vikram SampathFormat HardbackPage Count 712Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams) 1045gDimensions(mm) 240mm *... -
The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security by Andrew J. Nathan 9780393317848
RRP: £20.00£16.84Many see China and the United States on the path to confrontation. The Chinese leadership violates human rights norms. It maintains a harsh rule in Tibet, spars aggressively with Taiwan, and is clamping down on Hong Kong. A rising power with enormous... -
The Tenth Karmapa & Tibet's Turbulent Seventeenth Century by Karl Debreczeny 9781932476811
RRP: £45.00£30.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932476811Author Karl DebreczenyFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint Serindia Publications, IncPublisher Serindia Publications, Inc