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Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China's Global City by Isabella Jackson 9781108419680
RRP: €110.66€99.57Shaping 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... -
Battle for Malaya: The Indian Army in Defeat, 1941-1942 by Kaushik Roy
RRP: €78.54€68.22The 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... -
A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal by Partha Chatterjee
RRP: €53.55€42.84In 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... -
The Bengal Diaspora: Rethinking Muslim migration Claire Alexander (University of Manchester, UK) 9781138592971
RRP: €52.35€46.58India's partition in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 saw the displacement and resettling of millions of Muslims and Hindus, resulting in profound transformations across the region. A third of the region's population sought shelter across new... -
Chinese Visions of World Order: Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics by Ban Wang
RRP: €28.55€25.18The Confucian doctrine of tianxia (all under heaven) outlines a unitary worldview that cherishes global justice and transcends social, geographic, and political divides. For contemporary scholars, it has held myriad meanings, from the articulation of a... -
The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom by P Sainath 9780670096923
RRP: €17.79€12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670096923Author P SainathFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India -
Asia's Unknown Uprisings Vol.2: People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand and Indonesia, 1947-2009 by George Katsiaficas 9781604864885
RRP: €33.31€22.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864885Author George KatsiaficasFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 622g -
Ming China and its Allies: Imperial Rule in Eurasia by David M. Robinson
RRP: €41.64€36.56On the eve of the early modern age, Ming emperors ruled around one-quarter of the globe's population, the majority of the world's largest urban centers, the biggest standing army on the planet, and the day's most affluent economy. Far from being... -
Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China by Thomas S. Mullaney 9780520272743
RRP: €35.70€27.72China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or minzu, as groups entitled to representation. This... -
History of Japanese Art after 1945: Institutions, Discourse, Practice by Kitazawa Noriaki 9789462703544
RRP: €48.79€39.96History of Japanese Art after 1945 is a compilation of essays that surveys the development of art in Japan since WWII. The original Japanese work, which has become essential reading for those with an interest in modern and contemporary Japanese art and... -
Modernization and Revolution in China by June Grasso 9781032124896
RRP: €42.83€37.71Extensively revised and fully updated in this sixth edition, this popular textbook conveys the drama of China's struggle to modernize against the backdrop of a proud and difficult history. Featuring a new analysis of the issues facing China's fifth... -
The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy by Yuri Pines 9780691134956
RRP: €53.55€42.36Established 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... -
Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta by David Andrew Biggs
RRP: €28.55€24.80Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental HistoryIn the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam's most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major... -
Frontline Afghanistan: The Devil's Playground by Mike Ryan 9780752452487
RRP: €15.46€11.75In the nine years since the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan has rarely been out of the news. Over a thousand coalition military fatalities have been reported, and many times that number of Afghan civilians. The country is in the process... -
Malaya: 500 Early Postcards by Cheah Jin Seng 9789814155984
RRP: €23.74€22.71This unique volume offers readers a rare glimpse into the changing landscapes, townscapes, and lifestyles of Malay, from the 19th century right up to 1963 when it formally became known as Malaysia.Divided into sections according to the region they... -
Asia After Versailles: Asian Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Interwar Order, 1919-33 Urs Matthias Zachmann 9781474441025
RRP: €28.55€23.60Asia After Versailles addresses an important watershed for Asian nations - the response to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. It marked the end of a conflict which, although intrinsically European, had globalized the world on many levels and stood at... -
Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers by Norman H. Rothschild
RRP: €41.65€33.49Wu Zhao (624-705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China as emperor over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she-in a predominantly patriarchal and androcentric society-ascend the dragon throne?... -
Ethical Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi and Business Leadership in Global Perspective by Patrick Fridenson 9781487522964
RRP: €30.93€27.18Shibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931) was a Japanese banker and industrialist who spearheaded the modernization of Japanese industry and finance during the Meji Restoration. He founded the first modern bank in Japan and his reforms introduced double entry... -
China Since 1949 Linda Benson 9781138999091
RRP: €44.02€42.53Exploring the remarkable story of China's rise to global prominence, China since 1949 provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of the events that have shaped the country since the middle of the twentieth century.Covering the Maoist era through the... -
Chiang Kai-Shek versus Tse-Tung: The Battle for China 1946 - 1949 by Philip Jowett 9781473874848
€18.61This volume in the Images of War series is the first photographic history of the Chinese Civil War, fought between Chiang Kai-sheks Nationalists and the Communists of Mao Tse-tung, which decided the future of modern China. A selection of over 200 archive... -
Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China by Jenny Huangfu Day
RRP: €36.88€28.32Prior to the nineteenth century, the West occupied an anomalous space in the Chinese imagination, populated by untamable barbarians and unearthly immortals. First-hand accounts and correspondence from Qing envoys and diplomats to Europe unraveled that... -
Colonialism as Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India by Michael Mann 9781843310921
RRP: €22.60€22.12Ranging from studies on sport and national education and pulp fiction to infanticide, psychiatric therapy and religion, these essays on the various forms, expressions and consequences of the British 'civilizing mission' in South Asia shed light on a... -
The Heritage of Central Asia: From Antiquity to the Turkish Expansion by Richard N. Frye 9781558761117
RRP: €29.69€24.30Central Asia in ancient and medieval times was the crossroads of civilization, connecting China with the West. What we now call Central Asia was part of the empires conquered by Cyrus, Alexander the Great, Timur, and their successors during antiquity and... -
Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China by James M. Hargett
RRP: €33.31€28.73First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places. In Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools, the first book-length treatment in English of Chinese travel literature (youji), James M... -
Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement by Ronald M. Davidson 9780231126199
RRP: €41.65€33.49Despite the rapid spread of Buddhism-especially the esoteric system of Tantra, one of its most popular yet most misunderstood forms-the historical origins of Buddhist thought and practice remain obscure. This groundbreaking work describes the genesis of... -
Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial by Vinayak Chaturvedi
€30.18Inspired by Antonio Gramsci's writings on the history of subaltern classes, the authors in Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial sought to contest the elite histories of Indian nationalists by adopting the paradigm of 'history from below'. Later... -
Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Jacopo Galimberti
RRP: €107.10€94.26This is the first book to explore the global influence of Maoism on modern and contemporary art. Featuring eighteen original essays written by established and emerging scholars from around the world, and illustrated with fascinating images not widely... -
Silk Roads: From Local Realities to Global Narratives by Jeffrey D. Lerner
€83.15In recent decades, there has been a new surge of interest in the history and legacies of the Silk Roads both within academic and public discourses. A field of Silk Roads Studies has come into its own. Consciously mirroring the temperament of its subject,... -
A Fashionable Century: Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing by Rachel Silberstein
RRP: €73.78€68.04Clothing and accessories from nineteenth-century China reveal much about women's participation in the commercialization of textile handicrafts and the flourishing of urban popular culture. Focusing on women's work and fashion, A Fashionable Century... -
Migration and the European Convention on Human Rights by BaAak Aali 9780192895196
RRP: €121.98€110.34This edited collection investigates where the European Convention on Human Rights as a living instrument stands on migration and the rights of migrants. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of cases brought by migrants in different stages of... -
Self as Person in Asian Theory and Practice by Roger T. Ames 9780791417249
€33.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791417249Author Roger T. AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
O salutaris Hostia: 'Nimrod' from Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar 9780193560819
€3.88for SSATB unaccompanied In this sensitive choral arrangement of 'Nimrod' from Elgar's Enigma Variations, Michael Higgins sets the Eucharistic hymn 'O salutaris Hostia', written by St Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Christi. The familiar melody... -
Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s-1998 by John D. Wong
RRP: €60.63€48.74Commercial aviation took shape in Hong Kong as the city developed into a powerful economy. Rather than accepting air travel as an inevitability in the era of global mobility, John Wong argues that Hong Kong's development into a regional and global... -
The Chinese People at War: Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937-1945 by Diana Lary 9780521195065
RRP: €59.50€53.53Diana Lary, one of the foremost historians of the period, tells the tragic history of China's War of Resistance and its consequences from the perspective of those who went through it. Using archival evidence only recently made available, interviews with... -
China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy by Peter Hays Gries 9780520244825
RRP: €29.75€23.31Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and what Americans view as an appalling and tragic mistake, many Chinese see as a 'barbaric' and intentional 'criminal act,' the latest in a long series of Western aggressions against China. In... -
A Political Biography of Maharaja Ripudaman Singh of Nabha: Paramountcy, Patriotism, and the Panth by Professor J.S. Grewal 9780199481354
RRP: €47.59€43.83Maharaja Ripudaman Singh of Nabha (1883-1942) was an exceptional ruler, a princely 'rebel' who resisted the paramount power in different ways. Forced to abdicate in 1923 ostensibly on account of 'maladministration', Ripudaman Singh was sent to Kodaikanal... -
The Remembered Village by M. N. Srinivas
RRP: €36.89€28.60"The author has managed to combine successfully the professional approach of an anthropologist with that of a novelist to the description of an Indian village community...Srinivas has made a virtue out of the misfortune of losing all his field notes: The... -
Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya by Teren Sevea 9781108702126
RRP: €35.69€32.61In this ground-breaking new study, Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malay world. Through close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked... -
Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937 by Cole Roskam
RRP: €64.26€56.16For nearly one hundred years, Shanghai was an international treaty port in which the extraterritorial rights of foreign governments shaped both architecture and infrastructure, and it merits examination as one of the most complex and influential urban... -
After Tiananmen: The Rise of China by Vijay Gokhale
RRP: €16.65€14.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356293045Author Vijay GokhaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 220mm...