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Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present by Tomiko Yoda
RRP: $32.24$28.91The 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... -
To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914 by David Wolff
RRP: $79.98$69.63In 1898, near the projected intersection of the Chinese Eastern Railroad (the last leg of the Trans-Siberian) and China's Sungari River, Russian engineers founded the city of Harbin. Between the survey of the site and the profound dislocations of the... -
Babaylan Sing Back: Philippine Shamans and Voice, Gender, and Place by Grace Nono 9781501760099
RRP: $27.08$24.07Babaylan Sing Back depicts the embodied voices of Native Philippine ritual specialists popularly known as babaylan. These ritual specialists are widely believed to have perished during colonial times, or to survive on the margins in the present-day. They... -
The Master in Bondage: Factory Workers in China, 1949-2019 by Huaiyin Li 9781503635289
RRP: $32.24$27.95Drawing on a rich set of original oral histories conducted with retired factory workers from industrial centers across the country, this book provides a bottom-up examination of working class participation in factory life during socialist and reform-era... -
The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) by Bertil Lintner
RRP: $25.79$22.97A well-documented and extremely engaging account of the Burmese Communist Party that details the development of the Party and the events and forces that led to the 1989 Mutiny and subsequent fall of the CPB. This study explores the ethnic tensions that... -
Kashmir: History, Politics, Representation by Chitralekha Zutshi 9781108402101
RRP: $34.82$29.41On the seventieth anniversary of Indian independence, Partition, and the creation of Pakistan, this ground breaking collection brings together fourteen cutting-edge scholarly essays on multiple aspects of both the region and the issue of Kashmir. While... -
A History of Colonial India: 1757 to 1947 Himanshu Roy 9781032159676
RRP: $46.43$41.20This volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on British colonial rule in India. It draws on sociology, history, and political science to look at key events and social process, between 1757 to 1947, to provide a comprehensive understanding... -
Dangerous Strait: The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker 9780231135658
RRP: $36.12$28.12Today the most dangerous place on earth is arguably the Taiwan Strait, where a war between the United States and China could erupt out of miscalculation, misunderstanding, or accident. How and to what degree Taiwan pursues its own national identity will... -
Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India by David Arnold
RRP: $29.66$25.23Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India... -
The Geopolitical Power Shift in the Indo-Pacific Region: America, Australia, China, and Triangular Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century by Randall Doyle 9780739139257
RRP: $58.05$50.94As the twenty-first century progresses, the Indo-Pacific theater is experiencing an unprecedented transformation involving economic development, military build-ups, political reforms, social changes, and technological advancements. The region now... -
The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority by Emily Mokros
RRP: $36.11$31.14How news circulated from the Qing dynasty courtIn the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), China experienced far greater access to political information than suggested by the blunt measures of control and censorship employed by modern Chinese regimes. A tenuous... -
Chinese History and Culture: Seventeenth Century Through Twentieth Century, Volume 2 by Yu Ying-Shih
RRP: $79.98$62.72The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yu is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his... -
The Nanyang Revolution: The Comintern and Chinese Networks in Southeast Asia, 1890–1957 by Anna Belogurova 9781108458184
RRP: $32.24$28.86In this innovative reading, the development of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) is explored in the context of an emerging nationalism in Southeast Asia, the interplay of overseas Chinese networks and the Comintern. Based on extensive new archival... -
The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales by Haruo Shirane 9780231152457
RRP: $25.80$23.47Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese anecdotal (setsuwa) literature. These orally narrated and written tales drew on both local folk... -
Road to the Killing Fields 1970-75 by Wilfred Deac 9781585440542
RRP: $46.38$32.31In 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... -
Blood Red Sunset: A Memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ma Bo 9780140159424
RRP: $30.96$21.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140159424Author Ma BoFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 127mm *... -
Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects by Jordan Sand 9780520280373
RRP: $38.70$30.04Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid... -
China's Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New Order, 1927-1949 by Brian Tsui
RRP: $39.98$30.70In this ambitious examination of the complex political culture of China under Guomindang rule, Brian Tsui interweaves political ideologies, intellectual trends, social movements and diplomatic maneuvers to demonstrate how the Chinese revolution became... -
Reading North Korea: An Ethnological Inquiry by Sonia Ryang
RRP: $43.80$35.36Often depicted as one of the world's most strictly isolationist and relentlessly authoritarian regimes, North Korea has remained terra incognita to foreign researchers as a site for anthropological fieldwork. Given the difficulty of gaining access to the... -
Ho Chi Minh: A Biography by Pierre Brocheux 9780521850629
RRP: $65.79$58.01Ho Chi Minh is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century, considered an icon and father of the nation by many Vietnamese. Pierre Brocheux's biography of Ho Chi Minh is a brilliant feat of historical engineering. In a concise and highly... -
Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience by Rongbin Han
RRP: $36.12$28.12The Internet was supposed to be an antidote to authoritarianism. It can enable citizens to express themselves freely and organize outside state control. Yet while online activity has helped challenge authoritarian rule in some cases, other regimes have... -
Inside Thai Society: Religion, Everyday Life, Change by Niels Mulder 9789747551242
RRP: $20.63$18.65Thailand is often called the "Land of Smiles", a nickname which sounds at once pleasant and mysterious. It is said that the Thais have a smile for every emotion, and with so many nuances of smiling, the smile often hides more than it reveals. Inside Thai... -
The Clash of Cultures: The Dark Path to Genocide by Gursimran Singh 9781631321733
RRP: $23.22$15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631321733Author Gursimran SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Advanced Publishing LLCPublisher Advanced Publishing LLCWeight(grams)... -
The Way of the Samurai by Inazo Nitobe
RRP: $16.76$10.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398808751Author Inazo NitobeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal by Pika Ghosh 9780295746999
RRP: $79.98$72.43In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use them as shawls, covers,... -
Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity by Simon Avenell
RRP: $70.89$56.76War, defeat, and the collapse of empire in 1945 touched every aspect of postwar Japanese society, profoundly shaping how the Japanese would reconstruct national identity and reengage with the peoples of Asia. While "America" offered a vision of... -
Sun Tzu's Original Art of War: Special Bilingual Edition by Sun Tzu 9780981313733
$12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981313733Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Colors NetworkPublisher Colors NetworkWeight(grams) 178g -
First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia by Peter Bellwood 9781119251552
RRP: $50.25$44.63Incorporating research findings over the last twenty years, First Islanders examines the human prehistory of Island Southeast Asia. This fascinating story is explored from a broad swathe of multidisciplinary perspectives and pays close attention to... -
The Affair of the Madre de Deus: A Chapter in the History of the Portuguese in Japan. by C. R. Boxer
$143.98The fact that the Portuguese opened up the Far East to European maritime enterprise is well known, but the prosperity to which their trade attained in that region is less so, as historians have tended to dwell on the English or Dutch activities. The... -
The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy by Nicolas Tackett
RRP: $27.03$22.11Historians have long been perplexed by the complete disappearance of the medieval Chinese aristocracy by the tenth century-the "great clans" that had dominated China for centuries. In this book, Nicolas Tackett resolves the enigma of their disappearance,... -
The Indian Mutiny Letters of Colonel H. P. Pearson by H.P. Pearson 9780948092657
RRP: $15.48$11.07In 1858, Ensign Hugh Pearson embarked at Chatham for service with the 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment in India, little suspecting that within a few short months he would be taking part in the dramatic events of the Indian Rebellion. His letters to his... -
The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia During British Rule by Kumari Jayawardena
RRP: $59.33$51.77In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule. She tells the stories of many well-known women, including Katherine Mayo, Helena Blavatsky, Annie... -
A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia by Manduhai Buyandelger
RRP: $33.54$32.06A Thousand Steps to Parliament traces how the complicated, contradictory paths to political representation that women in Mongolia must walk mirror those the world over. Mongolia has often been deemed an "island of democracy," commended for its rapid... -
History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000 by Sumit Guha
RRP: $36.11$31.14In 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... -
The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods by Sun Zi 9780231133821
RRP: $25.80$23.47Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and occupies an important place in East Asian intellectual history. It... -
Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s by Evan N. Dawley 9780674237209
RRP: $70.89$57.28What does it mean to be Taiwanese? This question sits at the heart of Taiwan's modern history and its place in the world. In contrast to the prevailing scholarly focus on Taiwan after 1987, Becoming Taiwanese examines the important first era in the... -
Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India by Ritu Birla
RRP: $30.95$27.40In Stages of Capital, Ritu Birla brings research on nonwestern capitalisms into conversation with postcolonial studies to illuminate the historical roots of India's market society. Between 1870 and 1930, the British regime in India implemented a barrage... -
Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 by Mark Philip Bradley 9780807848616
$51.79This study of the encounter between Vietnam and the United States from 1919 to 1950 reconceptualizes the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam and the place of postcolonial Vietnam in the history of the 20th century. Among the first Americans granted a visa... -
Japan's Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism by Walter Skya
$38.22Japan's Holy War reveals how a radical religious ideology drove the Japanese to imperial expansion and global war. Bringing to light a wealth of new information, Walter A. Skya demonstrates that whatever other motives the Japanese had for waging war in... -
Imperiled Destinies: The Daoist Quest for Deliverance in Medieval China by Franciscus Verellen 9780674237247
RRP: $81.21$64.81Imperiled Destinies examines the evolution of Daoist beliefs about human liability and redemption over eight centuries and outlines ritual procedures for rescuing an ill-starred destiny. From the second through the tenth century CE, Daoism emerged as a...