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Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives by Professor Evelyn Sakakida Rawski 9781107471528
RRP: €32.12€27.13In this revisionist history of early modern China, Evelyn Rawski challenges the notion of Chinese history as a linear narrative of dynasties dominated by the Central Plains and Hans Chinese culture from a unique, peripheral perspective. Rawski argues... -
Whose Islam?: The Western University and Modern Islamic Thought in Indonesia by Megan Brankley Abbas
RRP: €28.55€25.18In this incisive new book, Megan Brankley Abbas argues that the Western university has emerged as a significant space for producing Islamic knowledge and Muslim religious authority. For generations, Indonesia's foremost Muslim leaders received their... -
Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 by Gennifer Weisenfeld 9780520271951
RRP: €65.45€51.54Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation - the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923 - this fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the... -
Warlord: Yen Hsi-Shan in Shansi Province, 1911-1949 by Donald G. Gillin 9780691623481
RRP: €53.55€42.36This is an inquiry into the dynamics of local and regional government in China, as illustrated by the policies of the warlord Yen Hsi-shan. The schemes Hsi-shan tried to carry out in Shansi constitute one of the last systematic attempts in China to bring... -
Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: History, Culture, Memory by Ping-hui Liao 9780231137980
RRP: €73.78€57.86The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a... -
Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan by Richard J. Samuels 9780801489822
RRP: €28.55€25.66Two late-developing nations, Japan and Italy, similarly obsessed with achieving modernity and with joining the ranks of the great powers, have traveled parallel courses with very different national identities. In this audacious book about leadership and... -
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra
RRP: €22.61€14.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250037718Author Pankaj MishraFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 23mm -
Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War by Taomo Zhou
RRP: €49.98€43.95A Foreign Affairs "Best Books of 2020" Honorable mention for the Harry J. Benda Prize (Southeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies) The book is a delightful read and will be of great interest to scholars of Chinese migration, PRC history,... -
The First Amerasians: Mixed Race Koreans from Camptowns to America by Yuri W. Doolan 9780197534397
RRP: €22.60€19.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World by Aaron Herald Skabelund
RRP: €29.74€26.19In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his return to Shibuya Station. In May 1925 Ueno died while giving a lecture. Every day for over nine years the... -
Understanding Bangladesh by S. Mahmud Ali
RRP: €26.78€24.56Bangladesh, a Muslim majority nation with a population of some 154 million people, receives little notice in the West, other than when political upheaval or natural disasters bring it to our attention. In "Understanding Bangladesh", an account of the... -
Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development by Anto Mohsin 9780299345402
RRP: €95.20€94.49Electrifying Indonesia tells the story of the entanglement of politics and technology during Indonesia’s rapid post–World War II development. As a central part of its nation-building project, the Indonesian state sought to supply electricity to the... -
Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China by Brian DeMare
RRP: €28.55€25.18The rural county of Poyang, lying in northern Jiangxi Province, goes largely unmentioned in the annals of modern Chinese history. Yet records from the Public Security Bureau archive hold a treasure trove of data on the every day interactions between... -
Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan by Nayoung Aimee Kwon 9780822359258
RRP: €26.17€22.84In Intimate Empire Nayoung Aimee Kwon examines intimate cultural encounters between Korea and Japan during the colonial era and their postcolonial disavowal. After the Japanese empire's collapse in 1945, new nation-centered histories in Korea and Japan... -
Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market by Meng Zhang
RRP: €33.31€28.73Honorable Mention for the 2022 ISCLH First Biennial Book Prize, sponsored by the International Society for Chinese Law and HistoryTraces the sourcing of logs that fueled early modern urbanizationIn the Qing period (1644-1912), China's population tripled,... -
Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century China by Paul J. Bailey
€43.54Paul J. Bailey provides the first analytical study in English of Chinese women's experiences during China's turbulent twentieth century. Incorporating the very latest specialized research, and drawing upon Chinese cinema and autobiographical memoirs,... -
The Ravenous Hyenas and the Wounded Sun: Myth and Ritual in Ancient India by Stephanie W. Jamison 9780801424335
RRP: €55.93€49.50Vedic Sanskrit literature contains a wealth of material concerning the mythology and religious practices of India between 1500 and 500 B.C.E.-a crucial period in the formation of traditional Indian culture. Stephanie W. Jamison here addresses the... -
Harmony and War: Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics by Yuan-Kang Wang 9780231151405
€86.31Confucianism has shaped a certain perception of Chinese security strategy, symbolized by the defensive, nonaggressive Great Wall. Many believe China is antimilitary and reluctant to use force against its enemies. It practices pacifism and refrains from... -
Learning About Asia by Andrea Wang 9781467783477
RRP: €8.32€6.05Apologies 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 -
The Blood-Red Arab Flag: An Investigation Into Qasimi Piracy 1797-1820 by Charles E. Davies 9780859895095
RRP: €101.15€89.14During the years 1797-1820 the Qasimi Arabs or Qawasim, inhabitants of the present day United Arab Emirates, acquired an enduring reputation as ruthless pirates. Some of their victims flew the British flag, and thus their actions were to provide the... -
The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India by Harleen Singh 9781107042803
RRP: €91.62€82.71Colonial texts often read the Indian woman warrior as a cultural anomaly, but Indian texts find recourse in the mythological examples of the female warrior. Rani Lakshmi Bai's remaking transforms the mythologically viable, yet socially marginal, figure... -
Victors' Justice: Tokyo War Crimes Trial by Richard H. Minear
RRP: €47.60€37.82The klieg-lighted Tokyo Trial began on May 3, 1946, and ended on November 4, 1948, a majority of the eleven judges from the victorious Allies finding the twenty-five surviving defendants, Japanese military and state leaders, guilty of most, if not all,... -
A Brief History of Christianity in Asia: Beginnings, Endings, and Reflections by R Lamon Brown 9789675073120
RRP: €11.89€11.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789675073120Author R Lamon BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Malaysia Baptist Theological SeminaryPublisher Malaysia Baptist Theological... -
Empire Ascendant: The British World, Race, and the Rise of Japan, 1894-1914 by Cees Heere 9780198837398
RRP: €101.15€80.61In 1902, the British government concluded a defensive alliance with Japan, a state that had surprised much of the world with its sudden rise to prominence. For the next two decades, the Anglo-Japanese alliance would hold the balance of power in East... -
Genghis Khan and Mongol Rule by George Lane 9780872209695
RRP: €20.22€17.08Spawning 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... -
Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self by Laura Bear 9780231140027
RRP: €80.92€63.27Lines of the Nation radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the... -
China Among Equals: The Middle Kingdom and Its Neighbors, 10th-14th Centuries by Morris Rossabi
RRP: €36.89€29.07Scholars have long accepted China's own view of its traditional foreign relations: that China devised its own world order and maintained it from the second century B.C. to the nineteenth century. China ruled out equality with any nation: foreign rulers... -
The Emergence of Indian Nationalism: Competition and Collaboration in the Later Nineteenth Century by Anil Seal 9780521096522
RRP: €53.54€45.39In this volume Dr Seal analyses the social roots of the rather confused stirrings towards political organisations of the 1870s and 1880s which brought about the foundation of the Indian National Congress. He is concerned not only with the politicians,... -
Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization by Mikkel Bunkenborg
RRP: €40.46€35.84Collaborative Damage is an experimental ethnography of Chinese globalization that compares data from two frontlines of China's global intervention-sub-Saharan Africa and Inner/Central Asia. Based on their fieldwork on Chinese infrastructure and... -
Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India by Sanjay Seth 9780822341055
RRP: €26.17€23.19Subject 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... -
Concubinage, Race and Law in Early Colonial Bengal: Bequeathing Intimacy, Servicing the Empire by Ruchika Sharma 9781032324647
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book analyzes the domestic relations which British men came to establish with native Indian women in early colonial Bengal. It provides a fresh look into the history of imperial expansion and colonial encounters by studying the large number of wills... -
A Brief History of Ancient China by Edward L Shaughnessy 9781350170414
RRP: €107.10€100.38A Brief History of Ancient China adapts a traditional Chinese historical format to present a multi-faceted account of the first two millennia of China’s earliest history: from the time of the legendary rulers Yao and Shun (c. 2000 BCE) down to the end of... -
Tales of Old Singapore by Iain Manley 9789881866738
RRP: €17.84€16.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881866738Author Iain ManleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Earnshaw BooksPublisher Earnshaw BooksWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Heaven Has Eyes: Law and Justice in Chinese History by Xiaoqun Xu
RRP: €36.88€27.67Heaven Has Eyes is a comprehensive but concise history of Chinese law and justice from the imperial era to the post-Mao era. Never before has a single book treated the traditional Chinese law and judicial practices and their modern counterparts as a... -
Privilege and Anxiety: The Korean Middle Class in the Global Era by Hagen Koo
RRP: €23.79€21.19In Privilege and Anxiety, Hagen Koo examines what has happened to the Korean middle class in the era of neoliberal globalization and demonstrates that global economic change brought more profound changes than mere economic decline and shrinking size to... -
Eye of the Tiger: Memoir of a United States Marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam John Edmund Delezen 9780786416561
RRP: €17.84€16.01We live together under the thick canopy, each searching for the other; the same leeches and mosquitoes that feed on our blood feed on his blood. John Edmund Delezen felt a kinship with the people he was instructed to kill in Vietnam; they were all at the... -
Yogaku: Japanese Music in the 20th Century by Luciana Galliano 9780810843257
RRP: €130.90€115.67"This book introduces us to the world of contemporary Japanese music and it guides us towards a better understanding of their world."-Luciano Berio Yogaku discusses over a century of musical activity in Japan, detailing, in particular, the music that... -
Escape From Shudder Mansion by R.L. Stine 9781407195858 [USED COPY]
€2.53In an old-fashioned "trapped-in-a-haunted-house" story, twins Riley and Scarlett receive an interesting assignment from their teacher, Mrs. Stermon. Everyone in class needs to do a documentary video about an adventure, something... -
Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa by Brenton Sullivan
RRP: €64.26€56.11The vast majority of monasteries in Tibet and nearly all of the monasteries in Mongolia belong to the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism, best known through its symbolic head, the Dalai Lama. Historically, these monasteries were some of the largest in the... -
India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation by George Perkovich
RRP: €36.89€29.07In May 1998, India shocked the world - and many of its own citizens - by detonating five nuclear weapons in the Rajasthan desert. Why did India bid for nuclear weapon status at a time when 149 nations had signed a ban on nuclear testing? What drove...