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Ahmedabad: A City in the World by Amrita Shah
RRP: $24.50$19.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789384898014Author Amrita ShahFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 321g -
The Scam That Shook a Nation: The Nagarwala Scandal by Rasheed Kidwai 9789356998629
RRP: $20.63$17.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356998629Author Rasheed KidwaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins India -
The History of Bukhara by R. N. Frye
RRP: $34.77$27.63Abu 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... -
Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line by Michael Szonyi 9780521726405
RRP: $43.85$36.61During the height of the Cold War in the 1950s the small island of Quemoy in the Taiwan Strait was the front line in the military standoff between Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China and Mao Zedong's People's Republic. Local society and culture were... -
In Search of the Way: Legal Philosophy of the Classic Chinese Thinkers by Wejen Chang
RRP: $43.85$41.27Analyses the influence of eight classic Chinese thinkers on the development of Chinese law: Confucius, Laozi, Mozi, Zhuangzi, Mencius, Xunzi, Shang Yang and Han Fei. These thinkers helped found the Confucian, Daoist, Mohist and Legalist schools of... -
Traditional Slovak Folktales by Terry L. Cooper
RRP: $49.01$44.76This delightful collection makes the rich but little-known Slovak folk culture available for English-language readers. Most of the fifty tales assembled here from the collections of folklorist Pavol Dobsinsky are translated into English for the first... -
Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern by Prasenjit Duara 9780742530911
RRP: $56.76$50.36In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the case of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in northeast China from 1932-1945, to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality... -
The Age of Openness: China Before Mao by Frank Dikotter 9780520258815
RRP: $45.09$39.38The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China's modern history. But in this book, Frank Dikotter shows that the first half of the twentieth century was characterized by unprecedented openness. He argues... -
Body, Subject and Power in China by Angela Zito 9780226987279
RRP: $38.70$37.73This volume brings to the study of China the theoretical concerns and methods of contemporary critical cultural studies. Written by historians, art historians, anthropologists and literary critics who came of age after the People's Republic resumed... -
Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan by Janet R. Goodwin 9780824884352
$39.36Landed estates (shoen) produced much of the material wealth supporting all levels of late classical and medieval Japanese society. During the tenth through sixteenth centuries, estates served as sites of de facto government, trade network nodes,... -
Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies by Rey Chow
RRP: $19.34$17.30" . . . this is no doctrinaire tract but rather a concerted attempt to look at important cultural problems from a fresh perspective. . . . Chow's book is an excellent example of its type."-Discourse & Society"I believe that Rey Chow has written a... -
Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination by Tamara T. Chin
RRP: $30.90$25.08Savage Exchange explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance ("Silk Road") markets... -
The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China by Rana Mitter
RRP: $74.82$58.28A powerful element in twentieth-century Chinese politics has been the myth of Chinese resistance to Japan's seizure of Manchuria in 1931. Investigating the shifting alliances of key players in that event, Rana Mitter traces the development of the... -
The Emergence of Modern Japan: An Introductory History Since 1853 by Janet Hunter 9780582494084
RRP: $70.94$67.70The main emphasis of this book is upon political, social and economic developments, as conditioned by Japan's interaction with the outside world, the advance of industrialisation and the emergence of the Japanese nation state.Unlike previous textbooks on... -
The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856-1877 by Veena Talwar Oldenburg 9780691612744
RRP: $58.05$45.92Examining the history of Lucknow, Veena Talwar Oldenburg shows how the results of its transformation after the Mutiny of 1857 continue to pervade the city even today. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
The Terracotta Army: The History of Ancient China's Famous Terracotta Warriors and Horses by Charles River Editors 9781503232990
RRP: $13.21$10.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503232990Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York by Sienna R. Craig
RRP: $36.11$31.14For centuries, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. Seasonal migrations to South Asian cities for trade as well as temporary wage labor abroad have shaped their experiences for decades. Yet,... -
Thai Ways by Denis Segaller
RRP: $20.63$18.65Thai Ways is a delightful collection of almost everything the curious visitor might want to know about Thai customs and beliefs, engagingly explained by a long-time English resident of Thailand. Compiled from a series of articles published in a popular... -
Stalin's Nomads: Power and Famine in Kazakhstan by Robert Kindler 9780822965435
$64.82Robert Kindler's seminal work is a comprehensive and unsettling account of the Soviet campaign to forcefully sedentarize and collectivize the Kazakh clans. Viewing the nomadic life as unproductive, and their lands unused and untilled, Stalin and his... -
An Owl's Life Cycle by Madeline Tyler 9781801551342
RRP: $7.73$5.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801551342Author Madeline TylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife PublishingWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 210mm... -
Ancient Chinese Warfare by Ralph D. Sawyer 9780465021451
RRP: $49.02$39.24The history of China is a history of warfare. Rarely in its 3,000-year existence has the country not been beset by war, rebellion, or raids. Warfare was a primary source of innovation, social evolution, and material progress in the Legendary Era, Hsia... -
Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History by Alastair Iain Johnston
RRP: $54.18$42.96Cultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances rigorous procedures... -
The Body Adorned: Sacred and Profane in Indian Art by Vidya Dehejia
RRP: $79.98$62.72The sensuous human form-elegant and eye-catching-is the dominant feature of premodern Indian art. From the powerful god Shiva, greatest of all yogis and most beautiful of all beings, to stone dancers twisting along temple walls, the body in Indian art is... -
Central Asia: Context for Understanding by David Montgomery
$87.84Central Asia is a diverse and complex region of the world often characterized in the West as being difficult to access. Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding offers the most comprehensive introduction to the region available. Combining thematic... -
The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
RRP: $27.09$18.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531164Author Thant Myint-UFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci by Tracy Miller
RRP: $48.96$40.96Built around three sacred springs, the Jin Shrines complex (Jinci), near Taiyuan in Shanxi province, contains a wealth of ancient art and architecture dating back to the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). The complex's 1,500-year-long textual record... -
Japan: The Intellectual Foundations by Tetsuo Najita 9780226568034
RRP: $34.83$34.15Historians have long been aware of the richness and complexity of the intellectual history of modern Japanese politics. Najita's study, however, is the first in a Western language to present a consistent and broad synthesis of this subject. Najita... -
Dalit Studies by Ramnarayan S. Rawat
RRP: $29.66$26.21The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography trace the strategies through which Dalits have been marginalized as well as the ways Dalit intellectuals and leaders have shaped emancipatory politics in modern India. Moving beyond... -
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI: The Memoirs of Han China, Part IV by Ssu-ma Ch'ien
RRP: $64.50$56.51The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI presents the final nine memoirs of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's history, continuing the series of collective biographies with seven more prosopographies on the ruthless officials, the wandering gallants, the artful favorites,... -
The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan by Katsuya Hirano
RRP: $32.25$30.88In The Politics of Dialogic Imagination, Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day... -
Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State by Justin M. Jacobs 9780295742649
$40.69Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295806570Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui,... -
How East Asians View Democracy by Yun-han Chu 9780231145343
RRP: $122.55$95.60East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian... -
Armies of the Raj: From the Great Indian Mutiny to Independence, 1858-1947 by Byron Farwell 9780393308020
RRP: $27.74$24.38"The stories are glorious and told with zest and verve."-Washington TimesAbout the AuthorDuring the Second World War, Byron Farwell (1921-1999) served as a captain of engineers attached to the Mediterranean Allied Air Force in the British Eighth Army... -
Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology by Bruce Fulton
RRP: $41.28$32.46To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges cultural norms, and crosses political borders. By inlcuding stories from neglected female, North Korean, and wolbuk writers (those who... -
Japan in the Muromachi Age by Hall 9781885445094
RRP: $29.66$24.82The Muromachi age may well emerge in the eyes of historians as one of the most seminal periods in Japanese history. So concluded the participants in the 1973 Conference on Japan. The proceedings, as edited for this volume, reveal this new interpretation... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 4 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $38.64$31.51The 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... -
Thailand: The Politics of Despotic Paternalism by Thak Chaloemtiarana
RRP: $28.37$25.66In 1958, Marshal Sarit Thanarat became prime minister of Thailand following a bloodless coup. This book offers a comprehensive study of Sarit's paternalistic, militaristic regime, which laid the foundations for Thailand's support of the US military... -
A Matter of Rats: A Short Biography of Patna by Amitava Kumar 9780822357049
RRP: $25.79$23.49It is not only the past that lies in ruins in Patna, it is also the present. But that is not the only truth about the city that Amitava Kumar explores in this vivid, entertaining account of his hometown. We accompany him through many Patnas, the myriad... -
The Moon Year - A Record of Chinese Customs and Festivals by Igor Mitrophanow 9780981271774
RRP: $28.32$20.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981271774Author Igor MitrophanowFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Soul Care PublishingPublisher Soul Care PublishingWeight(grams) 762g -
The Communist Party of China: A Concise History by Bian Jizu
RRP: $38.69$27.08The Communist Party of China was founded in Shanghai in July 1921. From humble beginnings it has marched through war, revolution and reform to arrive at the helm of the most populous nation on the planet, commanding a membership of 92 million citizens.In...