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The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century by Peter Kornicki 9780824823375
RRP: £36.95£35.57The ten chapters of this exemplary monograph cover every major aspect of the book in traditional Japan: its place in Japanese history; books as material objects; manuscript cultures; printing; the Edo period book trade; authors and readers; importation... -
Sources of Japanese Tradition, Abridged: 1600 to 2000; Part 2: 1868 to 2000 by Wm. Theodore De Bary
RRP: £38.00£30.41For almost fifty years, Sources of Japanese Tradition has been the single most valuable collection of English-language readings on Japan. Unrivalled in its wide selection of source materials on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and... -
Genghis Khan and Mongol Rule by George Lane 9780872209695
RRP: £16.99£14.13Spawning an empire ranging from Persia to China, Genghis Khan united a nomadic warrior culture that had lived with their agrarian neighbors through controlled and limited extortion. This accessible book provides an introduction to the history and culture... -
China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom 9780190659073
RRP: £47.99£35.52In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (R), Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to the most urgent questions regarding the newest superpower, and... -
Contentious Kwangju: The May 18th Uprising in Korea's Past and Present by Gi-Wook Shin 9780742519626
RRP: £30.00£26.68One of the largest political protests in contemporary Korean history, the May 1980 Kwangju Uprising still exerts a profound, often contested, influence in Korean society. Through a deft combination of personal reflections and academic analysis,... -
Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England: The Three Wives of Ralph Rishton by L. R. Poos 9780192865113
RRP: £97.00£88.23Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century Lancashire gentry who was a child bridegroom and a serial wife-discarder, who bribed church officials to obtain a forged annulment,... -
Out of Afghanistan: The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal by Diego Cordovez 9780195062946
RRP: £43.49£33.29The Soviet withdrawal from Afganistan has been largely attributed to the bravery of the Afghan resistance reinforced by American weaponry and support. This book shows how it was infact years of persistent United Nations initiatives that proved crucial to... -
Dead Men Risen: An Epic Story of War and Heroism in Afghanistan by Toby Harnden 9781621572718
RRP: £32.99£20.97Dead Men Risen, winner of the prestigious Orwell Prize for Books, is the epic story of a beleaguered British battle group fighting desperately to prevent the Taliban from seizing Afghanistan's Helmand province just as the U.S. Marines arrive to take over... -
China's Foreign Policy and Practice: A Survey by Wenguang Shao
RRP: £39.99£35.06This 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... -
Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India by Sanjay Seth 9780822341055
RRP: £21.99£19.19Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge "traveled" to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India's British rulers funded schools and universities to... -
The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia by Michael Schaller 9780195051902
RRP: £19.99£13.33Michael Schaller argues that the reconstruction of postwar Japan not only shaped the future of that country, but also the future of U.S. policy throughout postwar Asia, leading up to the controversial interventions in China, Korea, and Vietnam. In this... -
Ideologies of the Raj by Thomas R. Metcalf 9780521395472
RRP: £90.99£77.09Ideologies 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... -
Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past by Patricia M. Pelley
RRP: £23.99£20.84New nations require new histories of their struggles for nationhood. Postcolonial Vietnam takes us back to the 1950s to see how official Vietnamese historians and others rethought what counted as history, what producing history entailed, and who should... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 3 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: £29.95£24.06The 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... -
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 by William Dalrymple 9780307948533
RRP: £23.00£17.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780307948533Author William DalrympleFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Vintage... -
Sources of Indian Tradition: Modern India and Pakistan by Ainslie T. Embree
RRP: £42.00£33.44Since 1958 Sources of Indian Tradition has been one of the most important and widely used texts on civilization in South Asia (now the nation-sates of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal). It has helped generations of students and lay... -
Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising by Linda S. Lewis 9780824825430
RRP: £22.95£21.86The Kwangju Uprising - ""Korea's Tiananmen"" - is one of the most important political events in late twentieth-century Korean history. What began as a peaceful demonstration against the imposition of military rule in the southwestern... -
M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism by Kris Manjapra
RRP: £36.99£32.53This is a work of South Asian intellectual history written from a transnational perspective and based on the life and work of M.N. Roy, one of India's most formidable Marxist intellectuals. Swadeshi revolutionary, co-founder of the Mexican Communist... -
Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India by Ronojoy Sen 9780231164900
RRP: £30.00£23.69Reaching as far back as ancient times, Ronojoy Sen pairs a novel history of India's engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and political development under monarchy and colonialism, and as an independent nation. Some sports that... -
The Democracy of the Dead: Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China by David L. Hall 9780812693942
RRP: £38.99£29.60Will democracy figure prominently in China's future? If so, what kind of democracy? In this insightful and thought-provoking book, David Hall and Roger Ames explore such questions and, in the course of answering them, look to the ideas of John Dewey and... -
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume II: The Basic Annals of the Han Dynasty by Ssu-ma Ch'ien
RRP: £39.00£34.52This second volume of the ongoing annotated translation of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Shih chi (The Grand Scribe's Records), widely acknowledged as the most important early Chinese history, contains the "basic annals" of five early Han-dynasty emperors. The annals... -
Let There Be Light: How Electricity Made Modern Hong Kong by Mark Clifford 9780231201698
RRP: £30.00£25.95The remarkable success of twentieth-century Hong Kong was driven by electricity. The British colony's stunning export-driven economic growth, its status as a Cold War capitalist dynamo, its energetic civil society, its alluring urban modernity-all of... -
Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860-1937 by Anne Reinhardt
RRP: £41.95£33.60China's status in the world of expanding European empires of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has long been under dispute. Its unequal relations with multiple powers, secured through a system of treaties rather than through colonization, has... -
The Emergence of China: From Confucius to the Empire by E. Bruce Brooks 9781936166756
RRP: £25.00£22.55The Emergence of China presents the classical period in its own terms. It contains more than 500 translated excerpts from the classical texts, linked by a running commentary which traces the evolution and interaction of the different schools of thought... -
By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 by Michael J. Green
RRP: £42.00£34.04Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to... -
Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization by Liel Leibovitz 9780393342307
RRP: £21.00£16.83In 1872, China-ravaged by poverty, population growth, and aggressive European armies-sent 120 boys to America to learn the secrets of Western innovation. They studied at New England's finest schools and were driven by a desire for progress and reform... -
An Outline of a Theory of Civilization by Yukichi Fukuzawa
RRP: £28.00£21.80Yukichi Fukuzawa rose from low samurai origins to become one of the finest intellectuals and social thinkers of modern Japan. Through his best-selling works, he helped transform an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged international force. In... -
Geocultural Power: China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century by Tim Winter 9780226658216
RRP: £73.00£70.05Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of... -
A History of Korea: From "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict by Jinwung Kim 9780253000248
RRP: £39.00£21.48Contemporary North and South Korea are nations of radical contrasts: one a bellicose totalitarian state with a failing economy; the other a peaceful democracy with a strong economy. Yet their people share a common history that extends back more than... -
A Japanese View of Nature: The World of Living Things by Kinji Imanishi by Kinji Imanishi
RRP: £43.99£38.44Although Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things), the seminal 1941 work of Kinji Imanishi, had an enormous impact in Japan, both on scholars and on the general public, very little is known about it in the English-speaking world. This book makes... -
Blood Red Sunset: A Memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ma Bo 9780140159424
RRP: £24.00£16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140159424Author Ma BoFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 127mm *... -
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War by Zhuqing Li
RRP: £21.99£17.84Scions of a once-great southern Chinese family that produced the tutor of the last emperor, Jun and Hong were each other's best friends until, in their twenties, they were separated by chance at the end of the Chinese Civil War. For the next thirty... -
A Treatise on Dharma by Yajnavalkya
RRP: £29.95£23.66A new English translation of the most influential legal text in medieval India.A Treatise on Dharma, written in the fourth or fifth century, is the finest example of the genre of dharmasastra-texts on religious, civil, and criminal law and the duties of... -
Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960 by Gina Anne Tam
RRP: £30.99£22.85Taking aim at the conventional narrative that standard, national languages transform 'peasants' into citizens, Gina Anne Tam centers the history of the Chinese nation and national identity on fangyan - languages like Shanghainese, Cantonese, and dozens... -
Minjian: The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals by Sebastian Veg
RRP: £25.00£19.59Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead of harking back to the traditional role of the literati... -
Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan by M J Akbar 9780062131799
RRP: £19.99£13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062131799Author M J AkbarFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference by Brian Russell Roberts
RRP: £21.99£19.19While Richard Wright's account of the 1955 Bandung Conference has been key to shaping Afro-Asian historical narratives, Indonesian accounts of Wright and his conference attendance have been largely overlooked. Indonesian Notebook contains myriad... -
Before the Killing Fields: Witness to Cambodia and the Vietnam War by Leslie Fielding
£55.27This is a gripping portrait of a country poised between peace and war. In the mid-1960s, Cambodia's position within South East Asia was highly vulnerable. The Americans were embroiled in war in Vietnam, the Viet Cong were gaining clandestine control over... -
China: A Modern History by Michael Dillon 9780755601851
RRP: £19.99£17.73In 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 History of Bukhara by R. N. Frye
RRP: £26.95£21.26Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Narshakhi of Bukhara wrote the history of his city and presented it to the Samanid ruler Nuh ibn Nasr in 943 C.E. (A.H. 332). This is the only book he is known to have written. Narshakhi's ""History of Bukhara"" is unusual among...