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In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast by Sanjib Baruah
RRP: £25.99£20.84In India, the eight states that border Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Tibetan areas of China are often referred to as just "the Northeast." In the Name of the Nation offers a critical and historical account of the country's troubled relations with... -
The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937 by Brian G. Martin
RRP: £53.00£41.79In a remarkable example of history as detective work, Brian Martin pieces together the fascinating and complex story of the Shanghai Green Gang and its charismatic leader, Du Yuesheng. Martin sifts through a variety of fragmentary and at times... -
The Forgotten Sons: Untold Stories of Indian Cricket by Trinanjan Chakraborty 9781648999642
RRP: £10.99£9.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648999642Author Trinanjan ChakrabortyFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Revisiting Japan's Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation by Timothy David Amos
RRP: £36.99£32.53This volume presents the reader with thirty-one short chapters that capture an exciting new moment in the study of the Meiji Restoration. The chapters offer a kaleidoscope of approaches and interpretations of the Restoration that showcase the strengths... -
Ming: Art, People and Places by Jessica Harrison-Hall 9780714124834
RRP: £9.99£6.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
China's Civil War: A Social History, 1945-1949 by Diana Lary
RRP: £22.99£19.56China's Civil War is the first book of its kind to offer a social history in English of the Civil War in 1945-9 that brought the Chinese Communist Party to power. Integrating history and memory, it surveys a period of intense upheaval and chaos to show... -
Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland
RRP: £18.95£11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643137698Author Erika FatlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War by George Hicks 9780393316940
RRP: £20.00£16.56Over 100,000 women across Asia were victims of enforced prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Forces during World War II. Until as recently as 1993 the Japanese government continued to deny this shameful aspect of its wartime history. George Hicks's book... -
The Essential Huainanzi by An Li 9780231159814
RRP: £28.00£21.80Compiled in the second century B.C.E, the Huainanzi clarifies a crucial period in the development of Chinese conceptions of the cosmos, human nature, and the social order. Outlining "all that a modern monarch needs to know," the text emphasizes rigorous... -
Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India by Ranajit Guha 9780674214835
RRP: £36.95£29.73What is colonialism and what is a colonial state? Ranajit Guha points out that the colonial state in South Asia was fundamentally different from the metropolitan bourgeois state which sired it. The metropolitan state was hegemonic in character, and its... -
Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR by Adeeb Khalid 9781501735851
RRP: £27.99£24.54In Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the... -
The Illustrated Baburnama by Som Prakash Verma 9780367177058
RRP: £43.99£39.44This book presents the Persian Baburnama, a key primary source and the earliest record of Babur`s memoirs. The authoritative translation uses paintings from the original work and draws on contemporary texts of the period to delve into the history of the... -
The Search for Ancient China by Corinne Debaine-Francfort
RRP: £7.95£5.76In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as China opened its doors, archaeologists introduced new field methods that led to important discoveries and the establishment of scientific research bodies. Now, the splendours of ancient China can be... -
The Chinese Opium Wars by Jack Beeching 9780156170949
RRP: £29.99£20.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156170949Author Jack BeechingFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books -
A Concise History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present by Michael J. Seth
£69.25Now in a fully revised and updated edition including new primary sources and illustrations, this comprehensive book surveys Korean history from Neolithic times to the present. Michael J. Seth explores the origins and development of Korean society,... -
Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution by Karl Gerth
RRP: £22.99£19.56What forces shaped the twentieth-century world? Capitalism and communism are usually seen as engaged in a fight-to-the-death during the Cold War. With the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end... -
Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture by Nina Cornyetz 9780415691437
RRP: £43.99£38.44How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? How does Natsume Soseki's canonical novel Kokoro pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development? What do we make of Jacques Lacan's infamous claim that because of the... -
Chinese Culture: Its Humanity And Modernity by Suoqiao Qian
RRP: £20.00£17.62Understanding China and the Chinese is of paramount importance in today's world. With China's rapid economic growth and increasing political influence, there has been significant interest in learning the Chinese language around the world. While we... -
Pali Grammar for Students by Steven Collins
RRP: £29.99£24.14This book is intended for modern students, inside or outside the classroom, as a work of reference rather than a "teach yourself" textbook. It presents an introductory sketch of Pali using both European and South Asian grammatical categories. In... -
The World of a Tiny Insect: A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and Its Aftermath by Zhang Daye 9780295993188
RRP: £23.99£20.84"From the cry of a tiny insect, one can hear the sound of a vast world. . . ." So begins Zhang Daye's preface to The World of a Tiny Insect, his haunting memoir of war and its aftermath. In 1861, when China's devastating Taiping rebellion began, Zhang... -
Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts by Ruth Yun-Ju Chen
RRP: £24.99£21.67How early print culture reshaped strategies for presenting medical knowledgeWhy and how did the strategy of documenting medical practices through personal experience rise to prominence in China? This question is at the heart of Good Formulas, the first... -
Trading Places: A photographic journey through Chinas former Treaty Ports by Nicholas Kitto
RRP: £60.00£40.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963929Author Nicholas KittoFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 2775g -
The Nagasaki British Consulate: 1859-1955 by Brian Burke-Gaffney 9784990824013
RRP: £5.55£5.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784990824013Author Brian Burke-GaffneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Flying Crane PressPublisher Flying Crane PressWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)... -
Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895 by Emma Jinhua Teng
RRP: £20.95£17.28Until 300 years ago, the Chinese considered Taiwan a "land beyond the seas," a "ball of mud" inhabited by "naked and tattooed savages." The incorporation of this island into the Qing empire in the seventeenth century and its evolution into a province by... -
A History of Inner Asia by Svat Soucek
RRP: £30.99£25.38Svat Soucek's book offers a short and accessible introduction to the history of Inner Asia. The narrative, which begins with the arrival of Islam, charts the rise and fall of the different dynasties right up to the Russian conquest. Dynastic tables and... -
Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan by Michael Wert
RRP: £17.95£14.60This book is about the "losers" of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy. Although the violence of the Meiji Restoration is typically downplayed, the trauma was real, and those who felt marginalized from the mainstream... -
Image Text Music by Catherine Taylor 9781916041257
£13.73Image Text Music by writer and editor Catherine Taylor is a series of textual and photographic essays that explore our encounters with the place where the visual meets the verbal. Taylor riffs on and subverts Roland Barthes' classic 1977 essay... -
History of Thailand: A Captivating Guide to the Thai People and Their History by Captivating History 9781637162101
RRP: £16.97£10.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637162101Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
The Korean War by Matthew B. Ridgway 9780306802676
£16.37In December 1950 General Matthew B. Ridgway replaced General Walton Walker as commander of the Eighth Army, and in April 1951 he succeeded Douglas MacArthur as supreme commander of the United Nations forces in Korea and supreme commander of the United... -
The Karate Way by Dave Lowry
RRP: £19.99£12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590306475Author Dave LowryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga's Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan by Thomas D. Conlan
RRP: £22.99£18.45In Little Need of Divine Intervention presents a fundamental revision of the thirteenth-century Mongol Invasions of Japan by revealing that the warriors of medieval Japan were capable of fighting the Mongols to a standstill without the aid of any "divine... -
The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy by Yuri Pines 9780691134956
RRP: £45.00£35.32Established in 221 BCE, the Chinese empire lasted for 2,132 years before being replaced by the Republic of China in 1912. During its two millennia, the empire endured internal wars, foreign incursions, alien occupations, and devastating rebellions--yet... -
A Man and A Motorcycle: How Hamid Karzai Came to Power by Bette Dam 9789077386132
RRP: £15.30£13.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789077386132Author Bette DamFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Ipso FactoPublisher Ipso FactoWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm -
How Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930-1975 by Ben Kiernan 9780300102628
RRP: £25.00£23.94How did Pol Pot, a tyrant comparable to Hitler and Stalin in his brutality and contempt for human life, rise to power? This authoritative book explores what happened in Cambodia from 1930 to 1975, tracing the origins and trajectory of the Cambodian... -
History and Repetition by Kojin Karatani
RRP: £28.00£21.80Kojin Karatani wrote the essays in History and Repetition during a time of radical historical change, triggered by the collapse of the Cold War and the death of the Showa emperor in 1989. Reading Karl Marx in an original way, Karatani developed a theory... -
Women in Modern India by Geraldine Forbes 9780521653770
RRP: £24.99£20.94In a compelling study of Indian women, Geraldine Forbes considers their recent history from the nineteenth century under colonial rule to the twentieth century after Independence. She begins with the reform movement, established by men to educate women,... -
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War by Jeremy A. Yellen
RRP: £108.00£93.80"The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere offers a lucid, dynamic, and highly readable history of Japan's attempt to usher in a new order in Asia during World War II." Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review In The Greater East Asia... -
Beautiful Hero: How We Survived the Khmer Rouge by Jennifer H Lau 9780998079899
RRP: £14.99£13.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998079899Author Jennifer H. LauFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Lotus Book GroupPublisher Lotus Book Group -
Borders and Conflict in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the Partition of Punjab by Lucy P. Chester 9780719091360
RRP: £19.99£17.61Borders and conflict in South Asia is the first full-length study of the 1947 drawing of the Indo-Pakistani boundary in Punjab. Using the Radcliffe commission as a window onto the decolonisation and independence of India and Pakistan, and examining the... -
Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation, and Power in Japan and Other Societies by Joy Hendry 9780198280286
£117.82Wrapping Culture is concerned with problems of intercultural communication and the possibilities for misinterpretation of the familiar in an unfamiliar context. Starting with an examination of gift-wrapping, Joy Hendry demonstrates how our expectations...