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Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood by Martin Booth 9780312426262
RRP: $30.96$19.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312426262Author Martin BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan by Mikiso Hane
RRP: $32.25$28.93In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays... -
The Raiders of Arakan: V Force and the Battle for Burma in World War Two by C E Lucas Phillips 9781800552616
RRP: $14.18$12.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800552616Author C E Lucas PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Marching Through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea by Sandra Fahy
RRP: $28.38$25.66Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores... -
Sources of Korean Tradition: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries by Peter H. Lee 9780231105675
RRP: $49.02$39.23Drawn 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... -
The Great Wall in 50 Objects by William Lindesay
RRP: $24.50$17.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780734310484Author William LindesayFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Viking AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War, and Revolution Since 1945 by David P. Chandler 9780300057522
$38.71The political history of Cambodia between 1945 and 1979, which culminated in the devastating revolutionary excesses of the Pol Pot regime, is one of unrest and misery. This book by David P. Chandler is the first to give a full account of this tumultuous... -
Jallianwala Bagh: A Groundbreaking History of the 1919 Massacre by Dr. V.N. Datta 9780143450337
RRP: $18.05$13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143450337Author V.N. DattaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm -
Indian Troops in Europe by Santanu Das 9788189995478
RRP: $30.96$26.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189995478Author Santanu DasFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd -
Military Culture in Imperial China by Nicola Di Cosmo 9780674060722
$36.38This volume explores the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the Qing empire, with contributions by eminent scholars aiming to reexamine the relationship between military matters and law, government,... -
The Mongol World by Timothy May 9781032244839
RRP: $58.04$50.67Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Indian Princes and their States by Barbara N. Ramusack
RRP: $32.24$27.32Although the princes of India have been caricatured as oriental despots and British stooges, Barbara Ramusack's study argues that the British did not create the princes. On the contrary, many were consummate politicians who exercised considerable degrees... -
Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point by Gyan Prakash 9780691217369
RRP: $25.80$22.10The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern IndiaOn the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids... -
Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War by Carole McGranahan
RRP: $29.66$26.21In the 1950s, thousands of ordinary Tibetans rose up to defend their country and religion against Chinese troops. Their citizen army fought through 1974 with covert support from the Tibetan exile government and the governments of India, Nepal, and the... -
Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific by Howard Chiang
RRP: $32.25$25.27As a broad category of identity, "transgender" has given life to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the Western origins of the field have tended to limit its cross-cultural scope. Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing... -
History of the Mongols from the 9th to the 19th Century: Part 3 the So-Called Tartars of Russia and Central Asia by Henry Hoyle Howorth 9781605201351
RRP: $36.11$30.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605201351Author Henry Hoyle HoworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China by Hans J. Van de Ven 9780231137386
RRP: $70.95$56.64Between its founding in 1854 and its collapse in 1952, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service delivered one-third to one-half of all revenue collected by China's central authorities. Much more than a tax collector, the institution managed China's harbors,... -
Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West by Tonio Andrade
RRP: $28.38$23.26During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War - Europe's first war with China - the Dutch met their match in a... -
A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land: A Novel of Sihanouk's Cambodia by Suon Sorin 9789813250772
RRP: $20.58$15.04A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land traces the story of Sam, a young man who leaves the countryside for the capital after the death of his parents. Once there he is exposed to the hardships and injustice of the city's capitalist society. All Sam wants to... -
Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China's Global City by Isabella Jackson
RRP: $39.98$29.99Shaping Modern Shanghai provides a new understanding of colonialism in China through a fresh examination of Shanghai's International Settlement. This was the site of key developments of the Republican period: economic growth, rising Chinese nationalism... -
Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping - Updated Edition by Richard Baum
RRP: $92.88$73.08For almost two decades after Mao Zedong's death, an epic, no-holds-barred contest was waged in China between orthodox Marxists and reformers. With Deng Xiaoping's strong support, the reformers ultimately won; but they--and China--paid a heavy price... -
The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Shikibu Murasaki 9780486836652
RRP: $5.15$4.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486836652Author Shikibu MurasakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Dharma: The Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh Traditions of India by Veena R Howard
$32.96Dharma is central to all the major religious traditions which originated on the Indian subcontinent. Such is its importance that these traditions cannot adequately be understood apart from it. Often translated as "ethics," "religion," "law," or "social... -
Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic by Xu Xu 9781611720556
RRP: $19.34$13.08Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s. His popular urban gothic tales, his exotic spy fiction, and his quasi-existentialist love stories full of nostalgia and melancholy offer today's readers an... -
China in Revolution: History Lessons by Joseph W. Esherick 9781538162774
RRP: $49.02$43.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJoseph W. Esherick is professor emeritus of modern Chinese history at the University of California, San Diego. He is the holder of the Hwei-chih and Julia Hsiu... -
The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power by Jennifer Rudolph 9780674237520
RRP: $24.45$23.63"Cuts through the cacophony of information, misinformation, and nonsense on China that circulates in our modern world to give us reliable answers to crucial questions... Should be on the shelf of anyone seeking to understand this fast-rising superpower... -
A History of Bangladesh by Willem van Schendel 9781108473699
RRP: $122.55$110.75Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of... -
Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan by Karl F. Friday 9780804726962
RRP: $32.24$27.95Tracing the evolution of state military institutions from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, this book challenges much of the received wisdom of Western scholarship on the origins and early development of warriors in Japan.Reviews"A long overdue... -
China: A Modern History Michael Dillon 9780755601851
RRP: $25.79$23.23In this complete guide to modern China, Michael Dillon takes students through its social, political and economic changes, from the Qing Empire, through the civil war and the Communist state, to its incarnation as a hybrid capitalist superpower. Key... -
The Making of Japanese Manchuria 1904-1932 by Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka
RRP: $32.19$26.57In this history of Japanese involvement in northeast China, the author argues that Japan's military seizure of Manchuria in September 1931 was founded on three decades of infiltration of the area. This incremental empire-building and its effect on Japan... -
The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth by Arthur Waldron 9780521427074
RRP: $29.66$24.63The Great Wall of China is renowned as one of the most impressive and intriguing man-made structures on earth. It is also the subject of an awesome mythology, embedded in both learned and popular imaginations, which has grown up and now obscured the... -
The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand by Benedict Anderson
RRP: $16.77$15.33In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a demented Disneyland. One of the world's most bizarre... -
Superpower Interrupted: A Chinese History of the World by Michael Schuman
RRP: $24.50$15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541788336Author Michael SchumanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint PublicAffairs,U.S.Publisher PublicAffairs,U.S.Weight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm... -
The Timurid Century: The Idea of Iran Vol.9 by Charles Melville 9781838606886
$40.60The century after the conquests of Timur witnessed the division of eastern and western Iran between his Turko-Mongol successors, and a flowering of Persian culture in the great cities of Herat, Samarqand and Tabriz, among others. In this, the ninth... -
How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise by Ornit Shani
RRP: $43.85$36.61How India Became Democratic explores the greatest experiment in democratic human history. It tells the untold story of the preparation of the electoral roll on the basis of universal adult franchise in the world's largest democracy. Ornit Shani offers a... -
The Philosophy of the Mozi: The First Consequentialists by Chris Fraser 9780231149273
RRP: $45.15$35.78Mohism was an ancient Chinese philosophical movement founded in the fifth century BCE by the charismatic artisan Mozi, or "Master Mo." Its practitioners advanced a consequentialist ethics, along with fascinating political, logical, and epistemological... -
Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire by Wendy Matsumura 9781478025696
RRP: $28.37$24.76In Waiting for the Cool Moon Wendy Matsumura interrogates the erasure of colonial violence at the heart of Japanese nation-state formation. She critiques Japan studies’ role in this effacement and contends that the field must engage with anti-Blackness... -
A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan by Donald Richie 9780962813740
RRP: $20.63$16.22A masterfully written collection of short essays by the recognized Western expert on Japanese culture and film and the man Time magazine calls "the dean of art critics in Japan." Spanning more than thirty years, Richie interprets his adopted home's... -
India and South Asia: A Short History by David Ludden
RRP: $14.18$10.93Combining factual information with a critical approach which probes the nature of culture and identity, this concise yet authoritative account paints a graphic picture of an area stretching from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayan mountains. This new... -
Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680: Volume One: The Lands Below the Winds (Revised) by Anthony Reid 9780300047509
$43.86In The Lands below the Winds-the first volume of a two-volume set chronicling the rise of Southeast Asian culture during the years from 1450 to 1680-Anthony Reid vividly explores everyday life in the different societies of the region, from diet, housing,...