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Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier by David Brophy 9780674660373
RRP: £37.95£30.91The meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in the nineteenth century had dramatic consequences for Central Asia's Muslim communities. Along this frontier, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border... -
Chinese Wine by Zhengping Li
RRP: £19.99£15.23This illustrated introduction to Chinese wine explores the history of wine production in China, the legends and customs that surround it and its place in China today. Traditionally, Chinese wine and spirits were made from grain, and had three important... -
Thailand: A Short History; Second Edition (Revised) by David K. Wyatt 9780300084757
£34.00This highly acclaimed book, the standard history of Thailand for almost twenty years, has now been completely revised by the author. David K. Wyatt has also added new sections examining the social and economic changes that have transformed the country in... -
Hunted Through Central Asia: On the Run from Lenin's Secret Police by Paul Nazaroff
£26.77'My position was uncomfortable. Here was I, in an absolutely exposed place, with Red Guards and commissars on every side. I had very little money left and no means of transport at all.' Paul Nazaroff was the ringleader of a desperate plot to overthrow... -
The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam by A. Azfar Moin 9780231160377
RRP: £30.00£23.29At the end of the sixteenth century and the turn of the first Islamic millennium, the powerful Mughal emperor Akbar declared himself the most sacred being on earth. The holiest of all saints and above the distinctions of religion, he styled himself as... -
Singapore: 500 Early Postcards by Cheah Jin Seng
RRP: £19.95£18.80Presenting for the first time through the illustrations of 500 postcards from the author's private collection, this book offers a rare and comprehensive glimpse into the changing landscapes and lifestyles of Singapore's past, right up to the Second... -
Japan: A Short Cultural History by George Sansom 9780804709545
RRP: £35.00£31.14Japan: A Short Cultural History was first published in 1931 by the Cresset Press in London and D. Appleton in New York. Writing in the Journal of American Oriental Society in 1959, Edwin O. Reischauer, Harvard professor and leading scholar in Japanese... -
Chinese Among Others: Emigration in Modern Times by Philip A. Kuhn 9780742567498
RRP: £52.00£45.87In this book, distinguished historian Philip A. Kuhn tells the remarkable five-century story of Chinese emigration as an integral part of China's modern history. Although emigration has a much longer past, its "modern" phase dates from the sixteenth... -
Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka by Mythri Jegathesan
RRP: £23.99£20.84Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of the women, men, and children who have built their families and lives in line houses on tea plantations... -
The Life of a Lancer in the Wars of the Punjab, or, Seven Years in India, 1843-50 by James Gilling 9781909982239
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982239Author James GillingFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Chinese Mythology: An Introduction by Anne M. Birrell
RRP: £28.00£24.54In Chinese Mythology, Anne Birrell provides English translations of some 300 representative myth narratives selected from over 100 classical texts, many of which have never before been translated into any Western language. Organizing the narratives... -
From Kutch to Tashkent: The Indo-Pakistan War of 1965 by Farooq Naseem Bajwa 9781849042307
RRP: £30.00£27.35Decades of Pakistani resentment over India's stance on Kashmir, and its subsequent attempt to force a military solution on the issue, led to the 1965 war between the two neighbours. It ended in a stalemate on the battlefield, and after a mere twenty-one... -
An Ecological History of Modern China by Stevan Harrell
RRP: £27.99£24.14Is environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once government officials and the public are committed to doing so? These questions are at the heart of An Ecological History of Modern China, a... -
Modern Iran since 1797: Reform and Revolution by Ali Ansari 9781138281851
RRP: £37.99£37.08Modern Iran since 1797 offers a comprehensive analysis of political, social and economic developments in Iran since the end of the eighteenth century. Spanning two centuries, the book provides historical context for Iran's international relationships and... -
The Xi Jinping Effect Ashley Esarey 9780295752815
RRP: £24.99£21.67Assesses the broad impact of China's influential leaderThe Xi Jinping Effect explores the relationship between the People's Republic of China's current "paramount leader"—arguably the most powerful figure since Mao Zedong (1893–1976)—and multiple areas... -
The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan by Katsuya Hirano
RRP: £25.00£23.94In The Politics of Dialogic Imagination, Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day... -
The Back Blocks of China: The story of an epic journey through southwest China in 1900. With a new Preface by Graham Earnshaw by Logan Jack 9789888769025
RRP: £14.99£13.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888769025Author Logan JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Earnshaw Books LtdPublisher Earnshaw Books LtdWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Ideologies of the Raj by Thomas R. Metcalf
RRP: £22.99£19.56Ideologies of the Raj examines how the British sought to justify their rule over India. The author argues that two divergent strategies were devised to legitimate their authority: the one defined characteristics which the Indians shared with the British... -
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the Cia, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invas Ion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
RRP: £23.00£15.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lionel Gelber Prize and New York Times Notable Book and Pulitzer Prize (Non-Fiction).Book InformationISBN 9780143034667Author Steve CollFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History by Thomas R. Trautmann
RRP: £26.00£24.85Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations - such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China - kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular... -
A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia by Manan Ahmed Asif 9780674660113
£55.53The question of how Islam arrived in India remains markedly contentious in South Asian politics. Standard accounts center on the Umayyad Caliphate's incursions into Sind and littoral western India in the eighth century CE. In this telling, Muslims were a... -
The Making of the Indo-Islamic World: c.700–1800 CE by André Wink 9781108405652
RRP: £26.99£22.80In a new accessible narrative, Andre Wink presents his major reinterpretation of the long-term history of India and the Indian Ocean region from the perspective of world history and geography. Situating the history of the Indianized territories of South... -
The Great Wall: China Against the World, 1000 BC - AD 2000 by Julia Lovell 9780802142979
RRP: £12.99£12.89Legendarily 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, the Great Wall of China seems to make an overwhelmingly confident physical statement about the country it spans: about China's age-old sense of itself being an advanced civilization anxious to draw a... -
Marrow Jam by Susan A. King 9781785633218 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.29Some people would describe Beattie Bramshaw as a pillar of the community. Many would applaud her numerous successes in the bakery competition at the annual village show. A small number might say, if pushed, that they find her a little on the bossy side... -
The Invasion of the South: Army Air Force Operations, and the Invasion of Northern and Central Sumatra by Wim Remmelink
£82.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087283667Author Wim RemmelinkFormat HardbackPage Count 518Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press -
China's Response to the West: A Documentary Survey, 1839-1923, With a New Preface by Ssu-yu Teng 9780674120259
RRP: £36.95£29.73The present confrontation of Communist China and the United States, on which the future of peace in Asia hinges, is merely the latest phase in a continuing historical process--the remaking of China's ancient society under the stimulus of Western contact... -
A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal by Partha Chatterjee
RRP: £45.00£35.72In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal--a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of... -
Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928 by Edward J. M. Rhoads
RRP: £24.99£22.07Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295997483China's 1911-12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that... -
Kuan-yin: The Chinese Transformation of Avalokitesvara by Chun-Fang Yu 9780231120296
RRP: £42.00£33.44By far one of the most important objects of worship in the Buddhist traditions, the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara is regarded as the embodiment of compassion. He has been widely revered throughout the Buddhist countries of Asia since the early centuries of... -
Sources of Korean Tradition: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries by Peter H. Lee 9780231105675
RRP: £38.00£30.41Drawn from Peter H. Lee's Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Volume I, this abridged introductory collection offers students and general readers primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from ancient times through... -
A History of Modern South Asia: Politics, States, Diasporas by Ian Talbot
RRP: £27.50£22.89Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history of... -
The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia by David Sneath 9780231140546
RRP: £68.00£52.77In this groundbreaking work, social anthropologist David Sneath aggressively dispels the myths surrounding the history of steppe societies and proposes a new understanding of the nature and formation of the state. Since the colonial era, representations... -
The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past by Gail Hershatter 9780520282490
RRP: £30.00£23.69What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group--rural women--at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during... -
Chusan: The Forgotten Story of Britain's First Chinese Island by Liam James D'Arcy-Brown 9780956384775
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956384775Author Liam James D'Arcy-BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Takeaway (Publishing)Publisher Takeaway (Publishing) -
Changing Clothes in China by Antonia Finnane
RRP: £35.00£32.24Historians 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... -
Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road by Johan Elverskog
RRP: £31.00£27.36In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda... -
The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods by Sun Zi 9780231133821
RRP: £20.00£18.19Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and occupies an important place in East Asian intellectual history. It... -
Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China by Kai Jun Chen
RRP: £54.00£46.79A new perspective for understanding the technology behind goods "made in China"The exquisite ceramic ware produced at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory at Jingdezhen in southern China functioned as a kind of visual propaganda for the Qing dynasty... -
The History of Akbar: Volume 8 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: £29.95£23.66The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a... -
The Killing Wind: A Chinese County's Descent into Madness during the Cultural Revolution by Hacheng Tan 9780190622527
RRP: £33.99£30.10A spasm of extreme radicalism that rocked China to its foundations in the mid- to late 1960s, the Cultural Revolution has generated a vast literature. Much of it, however, is at a birds-eye level, and we have very few detailed accounts of how it worked...