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Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China by E. N. Anderson 9780812246384
RRP: €83.30€72.24Chinese food is one of the most recognizable and widely consumed cuisines in the world. Almost no town on earth is without a Chinese restaurant of some kind, and Chinese canned, frozen, and preserved foods are available in shops from Nairobi to Quito... -
Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists by Morris Rossabi 9780520244191
RRP: €39.27€31.67Land-locked between its giant neighbors, Russia and China, Mongolia was the first Asian country to adopt communism and the first to abandon it. When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, Mongolia turned to international financial agencies -... -
Diplomacy, Trade, and South Korea's Rise to International Influence by Dennis Patterson 9781498583107
RRP: €41.65€37.13This volume details how the diplomatic successes of South Korean presidents removed the country from the international isolation it experienced in the aftermath of the Korean War and also provided the necessary international connections for the... -
Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development by Emily T. Yeh
RRP: €33.31€29.18The violent protests in Lhasa in 2008 against Chinese rule were met by disbelief and anger on the part of Chinese citizens and state authorities, perplexed by Tibetans' apparent ingratitude for the generous provision of development. In Taming Tibet,... -
Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes: Glimpses of China's Hidden Past by Robert J. Antony 9781538169339
RRP: €29.75€25.93History has many untold stories. In Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes the author provides glimpses into China's hidden past through the native's point of view. Rather than simply writing about ordinary people, this book is written from the perspective of... -
Orientalism: A Reader by A. L. Macfie
RRP: €36.89€34.88In the period of decolonisation that followed the end of the Second World War a number of scholars, mainly Middle Eastern, launched a sustained assault on Orientalism - the theory and practice of representing 'the Orient' in Western thought -accusing its... -
Buddhas and Kami in Japan: Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm Fabio Rambelli 9781138965164
€62.32This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as honji suijaku (originals and their traces). It questions received, simplified accounts of the interactions... -
Daily Life in Ancient China by Mu-chou Poo
RRP: €32.12€27.61In this volume, Mu-chou Poo offers a new overview of daily life in ancient China. Synthesizing a range of textual and archaeological materials, he brings a thematic approach to the topic that enables a multi-faceted understanding of the ideological,... -
Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan by Maren A Ehlers
RRP: €32.07€25.87Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villagers, and people at the margins of society such as outcastes and itinerant entertainers. Most of these... -
Orientalism by Edward W. Said 9780394740676
€13.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394740676Author Edward W. SaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City by Lillian M. Li 9780230605275
RRP: €21.41€19.06Few world cities have a record as long, as fascinating, or as well-documented as Beijing's. A capital almost continuously for more than a thousand years, the city has been Khubilai Khan's Mongol headquarters, home to emperors of the Ming and Qing... -
Ming China, 1368-1644: A Concise History of a Resilient Empire by John W. Dardess 9781442204911
RRP: €41.65€36.83This engaging, deeply informed book provides the first concise history of one of China's most important eras. Leading scholar John W. Dardess offers a thematically organized political, social, and economic exploration of China from 1368 to 1644. He... -
Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China's Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands by Sulmaan Wasif Khan 9781469630755
RRP: €39.21€36.97In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, leaving the People's Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier. Sulmaan Wasif Khan tells the story of the PRC's response to that crisis and, in doing so, brings to life an extraordinary cast of... -
The Eurasian Core and Its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the History of the World by Ooi Kee Beng 9789814519854
RRP: €42.78€38.52With China's transformation into a republic after two millennia as an empire as the starting point, Ooi Kee Beng prompts renowned historian Wang Gungwu through a series of interviews to discuss China, Europe, Southeast Asia and India. What emerges is an... -
Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo by Jack Cheevers 9780451466204
RRP: €28.56€21.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Samuel Eliot Morison Prize 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780451466204Author Jack CheeversFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dutton CaliberPublisher Dutton... -
A Man Like Him: Portrait of the Burmese Journalist, Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung by Ma Thanegi
RRP: €28.55€24.80The story of eight years in the brief life of Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung, a courageous Burmese journalist and editor. His political analyses helped guide the nation during a turbulent era marked by internal struggles to establish a democracy independent... -
Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864 by James A. Millward 9781503600621
RRP: €33.31€29.65As analysis of the revenue available to Qing garrisons in Xinjiang reveals, imperial control over the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries depended upon sizeable yearly subsidies from China. In an effort to satisfy criticism of their... -
The Making of a New Rural Order in South China: Volume 2, Merchants, Markets, and Lineages, 1500-1700 by Joseph P. McDermott
RRP: €142.80€125.00This volume is written for anyone who has wondered about the growth of Chinese businesses and their relation to Chinese family and government institutions. Making full use of its partner volume's findings on village institutions in the southern... -
Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950 by Haiyan Lee 9780804773270
RRP: €29.74€26.19This book is an engagingly written critical genealogy of the idea of "love" in modern Chinese literature, thought, and popular culture. It examines a wide range of texts, including literary, historical, philosophical, anthropological, and popular... -
Home and the World: Editing the "Glorious Ming" in Woodblock-Printed Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Yuming He
RRP: €24.93€20.09China's sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production and circulation of woodblock-printed books. What can surviving traces of that era's print culture reveal about the makers and consumers of these books? Home and... -
China and Her Neighbours: Asian Diplomacy from Ancient History to the Present by Michael Tai
RRP: €47.60€36.43For centuries, China was confident in its role as the 'Middle Kingdom', the undisputed cultural, economic and political powerhouse of Asia. Today, with China once again a leading player on the world stage, countries across the continent are facing an... -
British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941-45 by Brian Bond
RRP: €59.49€51.77Some sixty years after the Far Eastern War ended, this innovative new collection brings together five distinguished UK-based scholars and five from Japan to reappraise their respective country's leadership in the Malaya and Burma campaigns. This... -
Forty-Seven Samurai: A Tale of Vengeance & Death in Haiku and Letters by Hiroaki Sato
RRP: €17.84€12.07A remarkable and true tale of loyalty, vengeance, and ritual suicide. . . . In the spring of 1701, the regional lord Asano Naganori wounded his supervising official, Kira Yoshinaka, during an important ceremony in the ruling shogunate's Edo Castle and... -
Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge: Inside the Politics of Nation Building by Evan Gottesman 9780300105131
€37.02This fascinating book tells of the events and personalities that shaped Cambodian history during the turbulent period following the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979 and explains how the legacy of this period continues to influence events in... -
Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires: The Idea of Iran Vol. 10 by Charles Melville 9780755633777
€101.58The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the establishment of the new Safavid regime in Iran. Along with reuniting the Persian lands under one rule, the Safavids initiated the radical transformation of the religious landscape by introducing Imami... -
Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire by Mrinalini Sinha
RRP: €28.55€25.18Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the center of the book is the massive international controversy that followed the 1927 publication of... -
Ethical Life in South Asia by Anand Pandian
RRP: €26.17€22.84Breaking from prevailing conceptions of ethics and morality as matters of moral rule or principle, this volume calls attention to ethical life in South Asia-the moral dispositions at work in lived experience, and the embodied practices of ethical... -
Cultural Curiosity: Thirteen Stories about the Search for Chinese Roots by Josephine M. T. Khu
€45.77This anthology of autobiographical essays reveals the human side of the Chinese diaspora. Written by ethnic Chinese who were born or raised outside of China, these moving pieces, full of the poignant details of everyday life, describe the experience of... -
Changing Worlds: Vietnam's Transition from Cold War to Globalization by David W.P. Elliott 9780199377589
RRP: €49.97€32.50Throughout the entire Cold War era, Vietnam served as a grim symbol of the ideological polarity that permeated international politics. But when the Cold War ended in 1989, Vietnam faced the difficult task of adjusting to a new world without the... -
Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire by Kris Manjapra 9780674725140
RRP: €61.82€50.05Age of Entanglement explores patterns of connection linking German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra traces the intersecting ideas and careers of a diverse collection of... -
Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953 by Charles J. Hanley
RRP: €20.22€15.74Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a highly consequential and deeply destructive conflict. American forces dropped 635,000 tons of bombs over Korea --- more than the entire Pacific campaign of... -
The Japanese Consumer: An Alternative Economic History of Modern Japan by Penelope Francks 9780521699327
RRP: €27.36€23.28By the late twentieth century, Japanese people were renowned as the world's most avid and knowledgeable consumers of fashion, luxury and quality, while the goods that embodied their tastes and lifestyle were becoming a part of global culture. Penelope... -
The Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709-1876: Central Asia in the Global Age by Scott C. Levi 9780822965060
€55.67This book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In presenting the first English-language history of the Khanate of Khoqand (1709-1876), Scott C. Levi examines the rise... -
City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism by Se-Mi Oh
RRP: €26.17€23.19Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Choson dynasty (1392-1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897-1910), the city of Seoul posed unique challenges to urban reform and modernization under Japanese colonial rule in the early twentieth century, constrained... -
The East India Company, 1600-1858: A Short History with Documents by Ian Barrow 9781624665974
RRP: €59.50€48.65In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China's... -
Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India by Stephen Legg
RRP: €26.17€23.19Officially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution reform campaigns led by Indian, imperial, and international bodies were combining the social scientific insights of... -
Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident by Kate Wildman Nakai
RRP: €35.70€27.72In 1829, three women and three men were paraded through Osaka and crucified. Placards set up at the execution ground proclaimed their crime: they were devotees of the "pernicious creed" of Christianity. Middle-aged widows, the women made a living as... -
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War by Zhuqing Li
RRP: €26.17€21.37Scions 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... -
The Epic of Ram, Volume 3 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... -
Boundaries Undermined: the Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh/India Border by Delwar Hussain 9781849042321
RRP: €53.55€47.39When anthropologist Delwar Hussain arrived in a remote coal mining village on the Bangladesh/India border to research the security fence India is building around its neighbour, he discovered more about the globalised world than he had expected. The...