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Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History by Karl F. Friday 9780367581237
RRP: £43.99£38.84Scholarship on premodern Japan has grown spectacularly over the past four decades, in terms of both sophistication and volume. A new approach has developed, marked by a higher reliance on primary documents, a shift away from the history of elites to... -
Korea's Grievous War by Su-Kyoung Hwang
RRP: £62.00£53.96In 1948, two years before Cold War tensions resulted in the invasion of South Korea by North Korea that started the Korean War, the first major political confrontation between leftists and rightists occurred on the South Korean island of Cheju, where... -
Reading The Tale of Genji: Sources from the First Millennium by Thomas L. Harper 9780231166584
RRP: £62.00£56.17The Tale of Genji, written one thousand years ago, is a masterpiece of Japanese literature, is often regarded as the best prose fiction in the language. Read, commented on, and reimagined by poets, scholars, dramatists, artists, and novelists, the tale... -
Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China by Joseph W. Esherick
RRP: £30.00£23.29A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Yan'an is China's "revolutionary holy land," the heart of Mao Zedong's Communist movement from 1937 to 1947. Based on thirty years of archival and documentary... -
Patterns of East Asian History by Charles A. Desnoyers 9780199946464
RRP: £62.99£53.71Covering all of East Asian history from the Neolithic to the present--including Mongolia and Vietnam, alongside China, Japan, and Korea--Patterns of East Asian History uses recognizable and widely-accepted patterns of historical development as a... -
Singapore Eurasians: Memories, Hopes And Dreams by Alexius A. Pereira 9789813109599
RRP: £28.00£24.29Singapore Eurasians: Memories, Hopes and Dreams offers insight into the Singapore Eurasian community, one of Singapore's minority communities. Though small, the Eurasian community has undoubtedly played a big part in Singapore's nation-building. This... -
Mad Tales from the Raj: Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 by Waltraud Ernst 9781843318682
RRP: £25.00£23.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843318682Author Waltraud ErnstFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000 by Sumit Guha
RRP: £24.99£21.67In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the... -
Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics by Li Chen
RRP: £28.00£21.80How did American schoolchildren, French philosophers, Russian Sinologists, Dutch merchants, and British lawyers imagine China and Chinese law? What happened when agents of presumably dominant Western empires had to endure the humiliations and anxieties... -
Mountains of Blame: Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands by Will Smith
RRP: £24.99£21.67Swidden agriculture has long been considered the primary cause of deforestation throughout Southeast Asia, and the Philippine government has used this belief to exclude the indigenous people of Palawan Island from their ancestral lands and to force them... -
Learning About Asia by Andrea Wang 9781467783477
RRP: £6.99£4.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467783477Author Andrea WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Lerner Publishing GroupPublisher Lerner Publishing Group -
Road to the Killing Fields 1970-75 by Wilfred Deac 9781585440542
RRP: £35.95£24.80In 1970, the small nation of Cambodia was sucked into the vortex of Cold War geopolitics, a war whose denouement led to one of the worst bloodbaths in history. Road to the Killing Fields is the first book to deal exclusively with the military aspects of... -
1919 - The Year That Changed China: A New History of the New Culture Movement by Elisabeth Forster 9783110682731
RRP: £23.50£21.04The year 1919 changed Chinese culture radically, but in a way that completely took contemporaries by surprise. At the beginning of the year, even well-informed intellectuals did not anticipate that, for instance, baihua (aprecursor of the modern Chinese... -
Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence, 1945 by Ainslie T. Embree 9781469670799
RRP: £29.95£27.80Defining a Nation is set at Simla, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where the British viceroy has invited leaders of various religious and political constituencies to work out the future of Britain's largest colony. Will the British transfer power to... -
The Mughal Empire and British Raj: A Captivating Guide to the History of India, Starting from the Mughals to the British Empire by Captivating History 9781647488451
RRP: £18.97£13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647488451Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)... -
Hsun Tzu: Basic Writings by Hsun Tzu
RRP: £22.00£17.36Hsun Tzu set forth the most complete well-ordered philosophical system of his day. Although basically Confucian, he differed with Mencius, his famous predecessor in the Confucian school, by asserting that the original nature of man is evil. To counteract... -
A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche, Together with an Annotated Translation of the Paekche Annals of the Samguk Sagi by Jonathan W. Best 9780674019577
RRP: £50.95£40.96This volume presents two histories of the early Korean kingdom of Paekche (trad. 18 BCE-660 CE). The first, written by Jonathan Best, is based largely on primary sources, both written and archaeological. This initial history of Paekche serves, in part,... -
The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush 9780231172295
RRP: £25.00£19.59The Imjin War (1592-1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had... -
The Rey Chow Reader by Rey Chow 9780231149952
RRP: £28.00£21.80Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender,... -
Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women without Men in Song Dynasty China by Hsiao-wen Cheng
RRP: £24.99£21.67Female chastity stirs trouble in medieval ChinaA variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960-1279)-medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes-depict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong... -
Comrades and Strangers: Behind the Closed Doors of North Korea by Michael Harrold 9780470869765
RRP: £18.99£12.75In 1987 Michael Harrold went to North Korea to work as English language adviser on translations of the speeches of the late President Kim Il Sung (the Great Leader) and his son and heir Kim Jong Il (then Dear Leader and now head of state). For seven... -
Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present by June Teufel Dreyer 9780195375664
RRP: £34.99£26.61Japan and China have been rivals for more than a millennium. In more recent times, China was the more powerful until the late nineteenth century, while Japan took the upper hand in the twentieth. Now, China's resurgence has emboldened it even as Japan... -
To the End of Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949-1959 by Xiaoyuan Liu
RRP: £30.00£23.29The status of Tibet is one of the most controversial and complex issues in the history of modern China. In To the End of Revolution, Xiaoyuan Liu draws on unprecedented access to the archives of the Chinese Communist Party to offer a groundbreaking... -
A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic by Rohit De 9780691174433
RRP: £55.00£42.91It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on India's greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A... -
Genghis Khan: Makers of History Series Illustrated Edition by Jacob Abbott 9781611040043
RRP: £10.24£8.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611040043Author Jacob AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Readaclassic.comPublisher Readaclassic.comWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Nomads and Ottomans in Medieval Anatolia by Rudi Paul Lindner 9780933070127
RRP: £15.99£14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933070127Author Rudi Paul LindnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Research Institute for Inner Asian StudiesPublisher Research Institute for Inner... -
Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas by Karine Gagne 9780295744001
RRP: £24.99£21.67Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered the traditional agropastoralist economy. This in turn has led to social... -
The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand by Justin McDaniel 9780231153775
RRP: £28.00£21.80Stories centering on the lovelorn ghost (Mae Nak) and the magical monk (Somdet To) are central to Thai Buddhism. Historically important and emotionally resonant, these characters appeal to every class of follower. Metaphorically and rhetorically... -
Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor by Assistant Professor Juned Shaikh
RRP: £24.99£21.67Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolisOver the course of the twentieth century, Bombay's population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices... -
Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present by Tomiko Yoda
RRP: £24.99£22.07The prolonged downturn in the Japanese economy that began during the recessionary 1990s triggered a complex set of reactions both within Japan and abroad, reshaping not only the country's economy but also its politics, society, and culture. In Japan... -
Envisioning a Tibetan Luminary: The Life of a Modern Boenpo Saint by William M. Gorvine 9780199362356
RRP: £35.49£25.94Envisioning a Tibetan Luminary examines the religious biography of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), the most significant modern figure representing the Tibetan Boen religion-a vital minority tradition that is underrepresented in Tibetan studies. The... -
Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India by James W. Laine 9780195141269
RRP: £88.00£73.28Shivaji was a 17th-century hero in western India, where his legend is well known and an important part of Hindu nationalist ideology. His legend expresses deeply held convictions about what Hinduism is, and how it is opposed to Islam. James Laine traces... -
The Formation of the Chinese Communist Party by Ishikawa Yoshihiro 9780231158084
RRP: £62.00£48.62Official Chinese narratives recounting the rise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tend to minimize the movement's international associations. Conducting careful readings and translations of recently released documents in Russian, Japanese, and... -
The Second Sino-Japanese War: A Captivating Guide to Military Conflict That Began between China and Japan, Including Events Such as the Japanese Invasion of Manchuria and the Nanjing Massacre by Captivating History 9781647484033
RRP: £19.97£12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647484033Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)... -
Empire, Industry and Class: The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840-1940 by Anthony Cox 9781138948365
RRP: £43.99£38.44Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal. It analyses the trajectory of labour market formation, labour supervision,... -
Radicals: Resistance and Protest in Colonial Malaya by Syed Aljunied
RRP: £33.00£29.05Radicals tells the story of a group of radical Malay men and women from ordinary social backgrounds who chose to oppose foreign rule of their homeland, knowing full well that by embarking on this path of resistance, they would risk imprisonment or death... -
Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850-1950 by Rajnarayan Chandavarkar 9780521596923
RRP: £42.99£36.59In this series of interconnected essays, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar offers a powerful revisionist analysis of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence. Dr Chandavarkar rejects the 'Orientalist' view of Indian... -
Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950 by Odd Arne Westad 9780804744782
RRP: £108.00£93.80The Chinese Civil War was one of the key conflicts of the twentieth century. The Communist victory determined Chinese history for several generations, and defined international relations in East Asia during the Cold War and after. Despite its importance... -
Power and Prowess: The Origins of Brooke Kingship in Sarawak by J H Walker 9780824825003
RRP: £135.00£104.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824825003Author JH WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i Press -
Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s by Chien-Wen Kung
RRP: £48.00£41.72In Diasporic Cold Warriors, Chien-Wen Kung explains how the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) sowed the seeds of anticommunism among the Philippine Chinese with the active participation of the Philippine state. From the 1950s to the 1970s,...