Asia

This is the first complete English translation of Lushi chunqiu, compiled in 239 b. c. under the patronage of Lu Buwei, prime minister to the ruler of the state of Qin, who was to become the first emperor of a newly unified China fifteen years later. Lu...

Cross-cultural exchange has characterized the economic life of India since antiquity. Its long coastline has afforded convenient access to Asia and Africa as well as trading partnerships formed in the exchange of commodities ranging from textiles to...

Hardly more than a decade old, the twenty-first century has already been dubbed the Asian Century in recognition of China and India's increasing importance in world affairs. Yet discussions of Asia seem fixated on economic indicators--gross national...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887554752Author Harry HerveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 108g

For three decades, Sri Lanka's civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up about 300,000 civilians and killed more than 40,000. More than a...

In the mid-1910s, what historians call the "Golden Age ofChinese Capitalism" began, accompanied by a technologicaltransformation that included the drastic expansion of China's"Gutenberg revolution." Gutenberg in Shanghaiexamines this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611802160Author William Scott WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand epic of revolution centering on the ascent of Kim Il Sung to absolute power. Often overshadowed in this storyline, however, are the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791424001Author Nancy G. HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

In his classic study of the cultural history of Han China, Michael Loewe uses both archaeological discoveries and written records to sketch the conceptual background of various artifacts of the Han period, and shows how ancient Chinese thought is as much...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316196680Author James BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 430gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

Soon after the American Revolution, certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask...

In world history, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 ranks as a revolutionary watershed, on a par with the American and French Revolutions. In this volume, leading historians from North America, Europe, and Japan employ global history in novel ways to offer...

This extensively researched and elegantly written study offers a fine-grained analysis of the origins of the Chinese Communist Revolution in the countryside. Building on decades of research in newly available sources and multiple trips to Jiangxi,...

"This bold, intellectually ambitious, and wholly original book challenges the way in which Western social science understands China.... It will set the standard for all future comparative and theoretical research on China."-Timothy Brook, Stanford...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578890463Author Connie ShakespearFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Highlander PressPublisher Highlander PressWeight(grams) 336g

The Chinese Communist government has twice invoked large-scale military might to crush popular uprisings in capital cities. The second incident-the notorious massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989-is well known. The first, thirty years earlier in Tibet,...

India has the largest number of non-schoolgoing working children in the world. Why has the government not removed them from the labor force and required that they attend school, as have the governments of all developed and many developing countries? To...

In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the...

"In his new book, Ask a North Korean, Daniel Tudor-a former Economist journalist and current Korean beer entrepreneur- wants people to understand the true lives of everyday North Koreans. Using translated essays written by defectors, the book covers...

This book focuses on the spatial experiences of Indian indentured labourers in Mauritius and Fiji and reveals previously unexplored labour movements across the so-called Indentured Archipelago. It offers a historical geographical perspective of the lives...

Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily urban life under socialism in a rich social and political history of one of the world's most complex cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of society - from capitalists and...

Jahangir was the fourth of the six "Great Mughals," the oldest son of Akbar the Great, who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian Subcontinent, and the father of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal. Although an alcoholic and opium addict, his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250234902Author David GilmourFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 28mm

Available 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...

Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very histories that have sutured nations to territorial states. "India" and "Pakistan" were drawn onto maps in the midst of Partition's genocidal violence and one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838574345Author Geordie TorrFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

In spring of 1960, Japan's government passed Anpo, a revision of the postwar treaty that allows the United States to maintain a military presence in Japan. This move triggered the largest popular backlash in the nation's modern history. These protests,...

Created in 1945 when Korea was partitioned, North Korea or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea remains the world's most secretive nation. Even the few permitted visitors are tightly monitored by minders, so accounts of those who have escaped are...

South Korea a democratic high-tech Asian Tiger and flamboyant host of the 2002 World Cup; North Korea a secretive dictatorship on Bush's notorious axis of evil', with a controversial nuclear program and a poverty-stricken population. These two Koreas...

This book traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789810813031Author Ian WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Media MastersPublisher Media Masters

Nearly forty years after the outbreak of the "Minamata Disease," it remains one of the most horrific examples of environmental poisoning. Based on primary documents and interviews, this book describes three rounds of responses to this incidence of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761042126Author The ListiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint PuffinPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791404607Author Sarah AllanFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

The catalogue for the groundbreaking exhibition at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Nomads and Networks presents an unparalleled overview of the sophisticated culture of pastoral nomadic populations who lived on the...

David Chanderbali's book is a valuable addition to the small but growing literature concerning 19th century Indian indentured labour migration to plantation economies in the tropical world. It complements Hugh Tinker's (and others) studies of Indian...

Volume Four chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific in the critical period between 19 June and 8 September 1942. It can be read alone or as a continuation of the first three volumes that spanned the first six months of the Pacific War, culminating...

This unique history of Japanese armed martial arts-the only comprehensive treatment of the subject in English-focuses on traditions of swordsmanship and archery from ancient times to the present. G. Cameron Hurst III provides an overview of martial arts...

A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804706117Author Arthur WaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 308g