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The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture by Richard J. Smith 9781442221932
RRP: €53.55€48.18The Qing dynasty (1636-1912)-a crucial bridge between "traditional" and "modern" China-was remarkable for its expansiveness and cultural sophistication. This engaging and insightful history of Qing political, social, and cultural life traces the complex... -
Challenging China: Smart Strategies to Encourage China's Liberalization in the Xi Jinping Era by Sam Kaplan
€13.22Expertly researched and thought-out, yet approachable and witty, this book will immediately draw in anyone interested in global affairs, foreign policy and the future of America's role on the world stage.This book provides a fascinating insider's look at... -
Indian Army and the First World War: 1914-18 by Kaushik Roy 9780199485659
RRP: €45.21€41.25The Indian Army which was the bulwark of the British Empire in South Asia functioned as an imperial fire brigade force during the Great War. The 'brown warriors' of the Raj defended the British Empire from Belgium and France in the west to Singapore in... -
The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms by Sachiko Murata 9780674033252
RRP: €59.44€47.72Liu Zhi (ca. 1670-1724) was one of the most important scholars of Islam in traditional China. His Tianfang xingli (Nature and Principle in Islam), the Chinese-language text translated here, focuses on the roots or principles of Islam. It was heavily... -
To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics by Rahul Sagar
RRP: €35.70€27.72To Raise a Fallen People brings to light pioneering writing on international politics from nineteenth-century India. Drawing on extensive archival research, it unearths essays, speeches, and pamphlets that address fundamental questions about India's... -
Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China by He Bian
RRP: €49.98€39.32A cultural history of the concept of pharmacy, both the material nature of drugs and the trade in medicine, in early modern China Know Your Remedies presents a panoramic inquiry into China's early modern cultural transformation through the lens of... -
Asia's Unknown Uprising Volume 1: South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century by George Katsiaficas 9781604864571
RRP: €33.31€22.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864571Author George KatsiaficasFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 668g -
Korean Political and Economic Development: Crisis, Security, and Institutional Rebalancing by Jongryn Mo 9780674726741
RRP: €40.40€32.62How do poor nations become rich, industrialized, and democratic? And what role does democracy play in this transition? To address these questions, Jongryn Mo and Barry R. Weingast study South Korea's remarkable transformation since 1960. The authors... -
Monarchy, Revolution and Refugees: Laos - Thailand - Argentina - Kampuchea Walter Irvine 9786164510654
RRP: €20.22€13.93Walter Irvine's account places his personal experiences against the political and cultural changes that surrounded the Lao and Cambodian revolutions of the 1970s and 80s, giving particular attention to refugee movements and the impact. Irvine's... -
A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 by Kevin Peraino 9780307887245
RRP: €27.37€15.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307887245Author Kevin PerainoFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Broadway BooksPublisher Broadway BooksWeight(grams) 295g -
For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World by Wilson Chacko Jacob 9781503609631
RRP: €28.55€25.18Sayyid Fadl, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, led a unique life-one that spanned much of the nineteenth century and connected India, Arabia, and the Ottoman Empire. For God or Empire tells his story, part biography and part global history, as his... -
The Epic of Ram: Volume 7 by Tulsidas
RRP: €35.64€28.60The authoritative new translation of the epic Ramayana, as retold by the sixteenth-century poet Tulsidas and cherished by millions to this day. The Epic of Ram presents a new translation of the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas (1543-1623). Written in Avadhi, a... -
Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War by Myra Macdonald
RRP: €23.79€21.54When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on an intense competition that had begun with Partition. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger military. But the shield offered... -
Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866 1945 by Carter J. Eckert 9780674659865
RRP: €42.78€34.74For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times-a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J. Eckert... -
Japan from Anime to Zen: Quick Takes on Culture, Art, History, Food . . . and More by David Watts Barton
RRP: €16.65€14.95This friendly guide offers concise but detailed demystifications of more than 85 aspects of ancient and modern Japan. It can be read in sequence, or just dipped into, depending on the moment's need. Explanations go much deeper than a typical travel guide... -
Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China by Shellen Xiao Wu 9781503636842
RRP: €29.74€26.19From the 1850s until the mid-twentieth century, a period marked by global conflicts and anxiety about dwindling resources and closing opportunities after decades of expansion, the frontier became a mirror for historically and geographically specific... -
Possible Origins: A Cultural History of Chinese Martial Arts, Theater and Religion by Scott Park Phillips 9780692749012
RRP: €22.55€18.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692749012Author Scott Park PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Angry Baby BooksPublisher Angry Baby BooksWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Samurai! by Saburo Sakai 9781596874459
RRP: €41.59€40.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596874459Author Saburo SakaiFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Milk and Cookies PressPublisher ibooks IncWeight(grams) 706g -
China: A New Cultural History by Cho-yun Hsu 9780231159210
RRP: €45.22€36.19An internationally recognized authority on Chinese history and a leading innovator in its telling, Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese culture. Unlike most historians, Hsu resists centering his narrative on China's political evolution,... -
Japan before Perry: A Short History, 25th Anniversary Edition by Conrad Totman 9780520254077
RRP: €35.70€28.19By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely populated land of nonliterate tribal peoples into an elaborately structured commercial society sustaining massive cities and a varied array of sophisticated cultural production. In this authoritative... -
The Chinese Art of Tea by John Blofeld 9780367673338
RRP: €34.50€29.86First published in 1985, The Chinese Art of Tea is an exploration into the history of tea and the Chinese art of tea, known as ch'a-shu. The book begins by delving into the history and legends surrounding tea before moving on to a study of the Emperor... -
Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company by Chris Mason 9781538169575
RRP: €41.65€36.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorChris Mason is professor of national security affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College.AwardsWinner of SAHR Templer Medal/Chapple... -
Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South Asia by Srinath Raghavan
RRP: €38.08€29.65In Fierce Enigmas, prize-winning historian Srinath Raghavan argues that we cannot understand the US's entanglement in South Asia without first understanding the long sweep of American interaction with the nations and peoples who comprise it. Starting... -
The India Museum Revisited by Arthur MacGregor 9781800085725
RRP: €71.40€63.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085725Author Arthur MacGregorFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1070gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 37mm -
In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture by Mr Geremie R. Barme 9780231106153
RRP: €41.65€33.49China, Geremie R. Barme notes, has become one of the greatest writing and publishing nations on the planet, and both cultural activists and the state are embroiled in debates about the production and distribution of its cultural products. But what... -
China in Transformation: 1900-1949 by Colin Mackerras 9781405840583
€42.86The first half of the 20th century was a fascinating and tragic period for China. There were accomplishments, such as the strengthening economy, the improvements in the education system and the status of women, but these were overshadowed by continuing... -
Gandhi: Selected Political Writings by Mahatma Gandhi 9780872203303
RRP: €21.41€17.74Based on the complete edition of his works, this new volume presents Gandhi's most important political writings arranged around the two central themes of his political teachings: satyagraha (the power of non-violence) and swaraj (freedom). Dennis... -
Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820-1980 by Gregor Benton 9780520298439
RRP: €35.70€27.72Qiaopi is one of several names given to the "silver letters" Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in... -
Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan by Soren Stark 9780691154800
RRP: €71.40€57.20The 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... -
The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future by Elizabeth C. Economy 9780801476136
RRP: €19.03€17.21China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health... -
China's Millennials: The Want Generation by Eric Fish 9781442248830
RRP: €70.21€57.39In 1989, students marched on Tiananmen Square demanding democratic reform. The Communist Party responded with a massacre, but it was jolted into restructuring the economy and overhauling the education of its young citizens. A generation later, Chinese... -
Collecting and Displaying China's "Summer Palace" in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France by Louise Tythacott 9780367432782
RRP: €52.35€45.74In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China-the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site... -
Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II by J. Megan Greene 9780674278318
RRP: €60.63€48.27Building a Nation at War argues that the Chinese Nationalist government's retreat inland during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), its consequent need for inland resources, and its participation in new scientific and technical relationships with the... -
The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival by Lisa M Hamilton 9780316415897
RRP: €35.70€27.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316415897Author Lisa M HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Imaginative Mapping: Landscape and Japanese Identity in the Tokugawa and Meiji Eras by Nobuko Toyosawa 9780674241121
RRP: €60.63€48.65Landscape has always played a vital role in shaping Japan's cultural identity. Imaginative Mapping analyzes how intellectuals of the Tokugawa and Meiji eras used specific features and aspects of the landscape to represent their idea of Japan and produce... -
Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China by Ian M. Miller
RRP: €38.08€33.57A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLERestores China's place in forest historyThe disappearance of China's naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country's history, one often blamed on imperial demand for... -
Pandemic India: From Cholera to Covid-19 by David Arnold
RRP: €41.65€37.46Covid-19 has given renewed, urgent attention to 'the pandemic' as a devastating, recurrent global phenomenon. Today the term is freely and widely used-but in reality, it has a long and contested history, centred on South Asia. Pandemic India is an... -
Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 by Hildi Kang
RRP: €23.79€21.19In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence... -
Battle for Malaya: The Indian Army in Defeat, 1941-1942 by Kaushik Roy 9780253044174
RRP: €33.31€28.73The defeat of 90,000 Commonwealth soldiers by 50,000 Japanese soldiers made the World War II Battle for Malaya an important encounter for both political and military reasons. British military prestige was shattered, fanning the fires of nationalism in... -
Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War by Angelina Chin
RRP: €35.70€27.72The conventional story of Hong Kong celebrates the people who fled the mainland in the wake of the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. In this telling, migrants thrived under British colonial rule, transforming Hong Kong into a...