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Mad Tales from the Raj: Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 by Waltraud Ernst 9781843318682
RRP: $32.25$31.15Apologies 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 -
Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam by Merav Shohet
RRP: $38.70$30.04How do families hold together when turbulent forces tear them apart? Silence and Sacrifice explores what happens to generations of kin who survived anti-imperial and civil wars in Vietnam, only to be confronted with postcolonial transitions to communism... -
The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei by Chu T'ien-Hsin 9780231141123
$46.71Chu T'ien-hsin's The Old Capital is a brilliant evocation of Taiwan's literature of nostalgia and remembrance. The novel is centered on the question, "Is it possible that none of your memories count?" and explores the reliability of remembrances and the... -
A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule by Jonathan Schlesinger 9781503610118
RRP: $32.24$27.95In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu and Mongolian... -
Sojourners and Settlers: Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese by Anthony Reid (Professor, Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 9780824824464
RRP: $32.19$30.10Only recently has the role of Chinese minorities at the forefront of Southeast Asia's rapid economic growth attracted world attention. Yet interactions between Chinese and Southeast Asians are longstanding and intense, reaching back a thousand years and... -
The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Bryan J. Cuevas 9780195306521
RRP: $50.30$34.71In 1927, Oxford University Press published the first western-language translation of a collection of Tibetan funerary texts (the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo) under the title The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Since that time, the work has... -
The Musha Incident: A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan by Michael Berry
RRP: $38.70$35.33On October 27, 1930, members of six Taiwanese indigenous groups ambushed the Japanese attendees of an athletic competition at the Musha Elementary School, killing 134. The uprising came as a shock to Japanese colonial authorities, whose response was... -
The Story of Han Xiangzi: The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal by Erzeng Yang
RRP: $45.15$40.17In this seventeenth-century Chinese novel, Han Xiangzi, best known as one of the Eight Immortals, seeks and achieves immortality and then devotes himself to converting his materialistic, politically ambitious Confucian uncle-Han Yu, a real historical... -
Imagining Manila: Literature, Empire and Orientalism by Tom Sykes 9780755640393
$39.13The city of Manila is uniquely significant to Philippine, Southeast Asian and world history. It played a key role in the rise of Western colonial mercantilism in Asia, the extinction of the Spanish Empire and the ascendancy of the USA to global imperial... -
Humphrey Gibbs, Beleaguered Governor: Southern Rhodesia, 1929-69 by Alan J. Megahey 9780333721582
RRP: $116.09$115.93This is a biography of Sir Humphrey Gibbs, an upper-class Englishman who settled in Southern Rhodesia soon after it became a self-governing colony. He was a leading farmer and churchman, an MP, and eventually Governor of the country. In 1964 the... -
Sources of East Asian Tradition: The Modern Period by Wm. Theodore De Bary
RRP: $49.02$40.78In Sources of East Asian Tradition, Wm. Theodore de Bary offers a selection of essential readings from his immensely popular anthologies Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Korean Tradition, and Sources of Japanese Tradition so readers can... -
Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation by Christopher Gerteis
RRP: $43.86$38.56In Mobilizing Japanese Youth, Christopher Gerteis examines how non-state institutions in Japan-left-wing radicals and right-wing activists-attempted to mold the political consciousness of the nation's first postwar generation, which by the late 1960s... -
Losing Hearts and Minds: Race, War, and Empire in Singapore and Malaya, 1915–1960 by Kate Imy 9781503639850
RRP: $32.24$27.95Losing Hearts and Minds explores the loss of British power and prestige in colonial Singapore and Malaya from the First World War to the Malayan Emergency. During this period, British leaders relied on a growing number of Asian, European and Eurasian... -
Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927-1934 by Joe Fewsmith
RRP: $45.14$38.82Forging Leninism in China is a re-examination of the events of the Chinese revolution and the transformation of the Chinese Communist Party from the years 1927 to 1934. Describing the transformation of the party as 'the forging of Leninism', Joseph... -
The Indian Army and the End of the Raj by Daniel Marston 9780521899758
RRP: $135.45$88.52The Partition of British India in 1947 resulted in the establishment of the independent states of India and Pakistan and the end of the British Raj. The decision to divide British India along religious lines led to widespread upheaval and communal... -
Indians in Malaya: Some Aspects of their Immigration and Settlement (1786-1957) by Kernial Singh Sandhu 9780521148139
RRP: $58.04$49.20This book discusses the Indians who lived in Malaya and the effects of their presence on Malayan social and economic development between 1786 and 1957, the period of British rule. Professor Sandhu examines in detail the character and flow of Indian... -
The Woman Who Discovered Printing by T. H. Barrett 9780300204254
$26.11This beguiling book asks a set of unusual and fascinating questions - why is early Chinese printing so little acknowledged, despite anticipating Gutenberg by centuries? Why are the religious elements of early printing overlooked? And why did printing in... -
China's Urban Transition by John Friedmann 9780816646159
RRP: $19.34$17.57Though China's urban history reaches back over five thousand years, it is only in the last quarter century that urbanization has emerged as a force of widespread social transformation while a massive population shift from country to city has brought... -
Muslims and Matriarchs: Cultural Resilience in Indonesia through Jihad and Colonialism by Jeffrey Hadler 9780801446979
RRP: $64.50$56.00Muslims and Matriarchs is a history of an unusual, probably heretical, and ultimately resilient cultural system. The Minangkabau culture of West Sumatra, Indonesia, is well known as the world's largest matrilineal culture; Minangkabau people are also... -
Family Power: Kinship, War and Political Orders in Eurasia, 500-2018 by Peter Halden 9781108495929
RRP: $45.14$39.33Since the seventeenth century, scholars have argued that kinship as an organizing principle and political order are antithetical. This book shows that this was simply not the case. Kinship, as a principle of legitimacy and in the shape of dynasties, was... -
A History of Modern Indonesia by Adrian Vickers 9781107624450
RRP: $32.24$25.16Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers' book, first published in... -
Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780691070308
RRP: $58.05$45.56Dipesh Chakrabarty combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship. Opposing a reductionist view of culture and consciousness, he examines the milieu of the jute-mill workers and the way... -
Singapore Eurasians: Memories, Hopes And Dreams by Alexius A. Pereira 9789813109599
RRP: $36.12$31.84Singapore 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... -
China 1945 by Richard Bernstein 9780307743213
RRP: $21.92$18.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307743213Author Richard BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 401gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China, 960–1279 CE by Charles Hartman 9781009235648
RRP: $148.35$133.61Charles Hartman presents an ambitious analysis of the workings of governance in Imperial China centered on the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Here he develops a new model for thinking about the deeper structures of governance in Song and pre-imperial China -... -
The Nehrus by Mushiral Hasan 9788174363909
$34.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788174363909Author Mushiral HasanFormat HardbackPage Count 319Imprint Roli Books Pvt LtdPublisher Roli Books Pvt Ltd -
Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R.Taggart Murphy
RRP: $27.08$19.79Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world history. Yet it has not been an easy path; military... -
The Independence of East Timor: Multi-Dimensional Perspectives — Occupation, Resistance, and International Political Activism by Clinton Fernandes
RRP: $32.19$28.88This book is a history of the struggle for independence after East Timor was invaded by Indonesia in 1975. The occupation, which lasted 24 years, was immediately resisted through guerrilla warfare and clandestine resistance. A continuum of effort between... -
Captive in Japan by Vasily Golovnin 9789492722256
RRP: $25.79$23.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492722256Author Vasily GolovninFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Toyo PressPublisher Toyo PressWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm -
Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past Yujie Zhu 9781032175942
RRP: $51.59$45.58Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past studies the impact of heritage policies and discourses on the Chinese state and Chinese society. It sheds light on the way Chinese heritage policies have transformed the narratives and cultural practices... -
Joseph Conrad's Eastern Voyages: Tales of Singapore and an East Borneo River Ian Burnet 9781915310309
RRP: $14.18$10.99The life of Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski reads like an adventure story, an adventure story written by somebody like Joseph Conrad. The young Conrad dreamed of a life at sea and eventually became a British merchant seaman, working his way up from... -
Sources of Japanese Tradition, Abridged: 1600 to 2000; Part 2: 1868 to 2000 by Wm. Theodore De Bary
RRP: $49.02$39.23For 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... -
Lady Nugent's East India Journal: A Critical Edition by Lady Maria Nugent
RRP: $103.20$94.25In 1811, Maria Nugent left her four young children behind in England to accompany her husband, General George Nugent, on his posting as commander-in-chief in India. After a dizzying six months at the head of Calcutta society, the couple embarked on a... -
The 1857 Indian Uprising and the Politics of Commemoration by Sebastian Raj Pender 9781316511336
RRP: $96.75$87.38The Cawnpore Well, Lucknow Residency, and Delhi Ridge were sacred places within the British imagination of India. Sanctified by the colonial administration in commemoration of victory over the 'Sepoy Mutiny' of 1857, they were read as emblems of empire... -
Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-First Century by Orville Schell 9780812976250
RRP: $24.51$18.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812976250Author Orville SchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint Random House TradePublisher Random House TradeWeight(grams) 404g -
The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals: Image, Monument, and Landscape in Ancient North Asia by Esther Jacobson-Tepfer 9780190202361
RRP: $141.90$104.39The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals offers an in-depth exploration of the changing traditions of belief in pre-Bronze and Bronze Age North Asia. Esther Jacobson-Tepfer centers her argument on a female deity and her evolution up until the... -
The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States by Brad Glosserman
RRP: $28.38$22.39Japan and South Korea are Western-style democracies with open-market economies committed to the rule of law. They are also U.S. allies. Yet despite their shared interests, shared values, and geographic proximity, divergent national identities have driven... -
The Red Mirror: Children of China's Cultural Revolution by Chihua Wen 9780813324883
RRP: $45.14$41.96These evocative stories bring to life the tragic personal impact of the Cultural Revolution on the families of China's intellectuals. Now adults, survivors recall their childhood during the tumultuous years between 1965 and 1976, when Mao's death finally... -
Odd Man out: Truman, Stalin, Mao, and the Origins of the Korean War by Richard C. Thornton 9781574883435
RRP: $27.08$24.46Odd Man Out is a novel assessment of the motives and strategies of Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong as they struggled to maneuver their countries into positions of advantage in the postwar world. Their successes and failures resulted in the... -
Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen 9780385720601
RRP: $28.38$20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720601Author Da ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Anchor BooksWeight(grams) 236g