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Prince Saionji Kinmochi: Japan by Jonathan Clements 9781905791682
RRP: €15.46€10.98The Japanese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference did not have the Japanese prime or foreign ministers with them as they had only just been elected and had plenty to do back home. The delegation was instead led by Prince Saionji Kinmochi (1849-1940),... -
Manual Of Standard Tibetan by Sangda Dorje
RRP: €102.34€68.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559391894Author Nicolas TournadreFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History by Ruth Mostern
RRP: €32.73€27.24A three-thousand-year history of China's Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape "No other scholar has produced such a systematic, comprehensive account of the long-term changes in the river's function and... -
Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China's Modern Icon by E. Elena Songster
RRP: €28.55€25.78A logo on products ranging from chopsticks and toilet paper to cell phones and automobiles, the panda is one of the most ubiquitous images in China and throughout the world. Yet the panda holds little notable historical significance in China. Although it... -
A Concise History of Modern Korea: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present by Michael J. Seth 9781538129043
RRP: €45.22€39.88Now in a fully revised and updated edition including new primary sources and illustrations, this comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political issues it has faced since being catapulted into the wider... -
Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road by Johan Elverskog
RRP: €36.89€32.81In 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... -
For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India by Anjali R. Arondekar
RRP: €24.98€22.21Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a... -
Landing in Hell: The Pyrrhic Victory of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, 1944 by Peter Margaritis 9781612006451
RRP: €29.75€25.16On September 15, 1944, the United States, in its effort to defeat the Japanese Empire, invaded a tiny island named Peleliu, located at the southern end of the Palau Islands. This island chain lay in the main line of the American advance eastward. The... -
Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family by Jennifer Lin 9781538121276
RRP: €23.79€20.96Within the next decade, China could be home to more Christians than any country in the world. Through the 150-year saga of a single family, this book vividly dramatizes the remarkable religious evolution of the world's most populous nation. Shanghai... -
China's Foreign Policy and Practice: A Survey Wenguang Shao 9781032293264
RRP: €47.59€42.04This book is one of the first wide-ranging surveys of China's foreign policy and practice from the 16th century to the present day from a Chinese perspective. A modern history of China's interaction with major powers, it throws new light on the events... -
Agrarian and Other Histories: Essays for Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri by Shubhra Chakrabarti
RRP: €29.75€27.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788193926970Author Shubhra ChakrabartiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 245mm * 159mm... -
Temple in the Clouds: Faith and Conflict at Preah Vihear John Burgess 9786167339542
RRP: €11.84€8.31Perched atop a five-hundred-meter cliff in the far north of Cambodia, Preah Vihear ranks among the world's holiest sites. It was built a millennium ago as a shrine to Hindu god Shiva by the same civilization that gave the world Angkor Wat. Sadly, it has... -
King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong by Jonathan Chamberlain 9789889979980
€15.16Apologies 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 -
China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision by Ban Wang
RRP: €24.98€22.21In China in the World, Ban Wang traces the evolution of modern China from the late nineteenth century to the present. With a focus on tensions and connections between national formation and international outlooks, Wang shows how ancient visions persist... -
Young Soeharto: The Making of a Soldier, 1921-1945 by David Jenkins 9789814881005
RRP: €66.64€63.24When a reluctant President Sukarno gave Lt Gen Soeharto full executive authority in March 1966, Indonesia was a deeply divided nation, fractured along ideological, class, religious and ethnic lines. Soeharto took a country in chaos, the largest in... -
History of Japan: A Captivating Guide to Japanese History, Including Events Such as the Genpei War, Mongol Invasions, Battle of Tsushima, and Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Captivating History 9781647480875
RRP: €35.69€22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647480875Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 345g -
The History of Sri Lanka by Patrick Peebles 9780313332050
€71.82Sri Lanka-an island nation located in the Indian Ocean- has a population of approximately 19 million. Despite its diminuative size, however, Sri Lanka has a long and complex history. The diversity of its people has led to ethnic, religious, and political... -
Emperor Huizong by Patricia Buckley Ebrey 9780674725256
RRP: €60.63€49.84China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. In his eventful twenty-six year reign, the artistically-gifted emperor guided the Song Dynasty toward cultural greatness. Yet Huizong would be known to... -
Many Lives by M. R. Kukrit Pramoj 9789747100679
RRP: €19.03€17.21"That night, the rain poured and wind howled, raindrops crashing like solid objects onto the ground and water. A passenger boat from Ban Phaen to Bangkok, packed with people, pressed on through the current amidst the rising clamor of the rain and storm. ... -
Celestial Women: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Song to Qing by Keith McMahon 9781538141434
RRP: €35.70€32.00This volume completes Keith McMahon's acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor's plural wives as mere victims or playthings, the book considers empresses and concubines as full-fledged... -
Savarkar (Part 2, Concluding Volume): A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966 by Vikram Sampath
RRP: €47.59€27.58Apologies 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 Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village by Henrietta Harrison 9780520273122
RRP: €35.70€27.72"The Missionary's Curse" tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the nation. Harrison recounts the popular folk tales of... -
The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History by Paul J. A. Clark
RRP: €30.93€25.06An intriguing study of cultural life during a turbulent and formative decade in contemporary China, this book seeks to explode several myths about the Cultural Revolution (officially 1966-76). Through national and local examination of the full range of... -
Taste of Control: Food and the Filipino Colonial Mentality Under American Rule by RenA (c) Alexander D. Orquiza
RRP: €33.31€28.73Winner of the 2021 Gourmand Awards, Asian Section & Culinary History Section Filipino cuisine is a delicious fusion of foreign influences, adopted and transformed into its own unique flavor. But to the Americans who came to colonize the islands in the... -
China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949 by Peter G. Zarrow 9780415364485
RRP: €47.59€42.20Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century. It explains how China's defeat by Japan in 1895 prompted an explosion of... -
Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1937-1945 by Chalmers A. Johnson
RRP: €28.55€25.18A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804700740Author Chalmers A. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 363g -
War and Faith: Ikko Ikki in Late Muromachi Japan by Carol Richmond Tsang 9780674025097
RRP: €40.40€33.34During the sengoku era-the period of "warring provinces" in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Japan-warlords vied for supremacy and sought to expand their influence over the realm. Powerful religious institutions also asserted their military might by... -
A Concise History of Premodern Korea: From Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century by Michael J. Seth
RRP: €45.22€39.88Now in a fully revised and updated edition including new primary sources and illustrations, this engaging text provides a concise history of Korea from the beginning of human settlement in the region through the late nineteenth century. Michael J. Seth's... -
The Economics of Religion in India by Sriya Iyer
RRP: €54.68€43.99Religion has not been a popular target for economic analysis. Yet the tools of economics can offer deep insights into how religious groups compete, deliver social services, and reach out to potential converts-how, in daily life, religions nurture and... -
Six Silent Men by Gary Linderer 9780804115674
RRP: €9.51€7.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804115674Author Gary LindererFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)... -
Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation by Ju rgen P. Melzer 9780674244429
RRP: €32.07€26.35The history of Japanese aviation offers countless stories of heroic achievements and dismal failures, passionate enthusiasm and sheer terror, brilliant ideas and fatally flawed strategies.In Wings for the Rising Sun, scholar and former airline pilot... -
The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History by Rian Thum 9780674598553
RRP: €48.73€39.85For 250 years, the Turkic Muslims of Altishahr-the vast desert region to the northwest of Tibet-have led an uneasy existence under Chinese rule. Today they call themselves Uyghurs, and they have cultivated a sense of history and identity that challenges... -
The Mughal Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Mughal Empire in South Asia and the Impact the Mughals Had on the History of India by Captivating History 9781647488031
RRP: €23.76€15.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647488031Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)... -
Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography Yuri Pines (Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem) 9780231196635
RRP: €29.75€26.69There is a stark contrast between the overarching importance of history writing in imperial China and the meagerness of historical texts from the centuries preceding the imperial unification of 221 BCE. However, recently discovered bamboo manuscripts... -
India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age by Gurcharan Das 9780385720748
RRP: €26.18€18.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720748Author Gurcharan DasFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Two Kinds of Time by Graham Peck
RRP: €33.31€29.20Graham Peck (1914-1968) made his first trip to China in 1935 and served with the U.S. Office of War Information in China throughout the 1940s. His memoir, Two Kinds of Time, first published in 1950, is witty and eloquent in both its words and the... -
This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History - Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by T. R. Fehrenbach
RRP: €30.93€24.20Updated with maps, photographs, and battlefield diagrams, this special fiftieth anniversary edition of the classic history of the Korean War is a dramatic and hard-hitting account of the conflict written from the perspective of those who fought it... -
Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture by Susan B. Hanley
RRP: €32.13€25.06Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900 and its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. In an innovative discussion that posits the importance of physical well-being as a... -
Political Continuity and Conflict in East Timor: A History of the 2006 Crisis by Ruth Nuttall 9780367674878
RRP: €45.21€39.72This book examines the history of political continuity and conflict in East Timor between 1974 and 2006, and the origins of an unexpected crisis in 2006 which caused an international military intervention and several more years of UN missions. ... -
Chinese Power and Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives and Challenges William C. Hannas (Georgetown University, Washington DC) 9781032081090
RRP: €44.02€39.01This book provides a comprehensive account of Chinese AI in its various facets, based on primary Chinese-language sources.China's rise as an AI power is an event of importance to the world and a potential challenge to liberal democracies. Filling a gap...