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Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008 by Guoqi Xu
RRP: €46.35€38.00Already the world has seen the political, economic, and cultural significance of hosting the 2008 Olympics in Beijing-in policies instituted and altered, positions softened, projects undertaken. But will the Olympics make a lasting difference? This book... -
Contentious Kwangju: The May 18th Uprising in Korea's Past and Present by Gi-Wook Shin 9780742519626
RRP: €35.70€31.75One of the largest political protests in contemporary Korean history, the May 1980 Kwangju Uprising still exerts a profound, often contested, influence in Korean society. Through a deft combination of personal reflections and academic analysis,... -
Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo by Janet Borland 9780674247833
RRP: €32.07€25.48Japan, as recent history has powerfully illustrated, is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. Today it is also one of the best prepared to face such seismic risk. This was not always the case.Earthquake Children is the first book to examine... -
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
RRP: €28.55€24.80Most histories of nineteenth-century Afghanistan argue that the country remained immune to the colonialism emanating from British India because, militarily, Afghan defenders were successful in keeping out British imperial invaders. However, despite these... -
Thailand: Shifting Ground Between the US and a Rising China by Benjamin Zawacki 9781350363878
€28.69In this authoritative modern history, Benjamin Zawacki tells the story of Thailand's changing role in the world order, chronicling the country's move from a key ally of the United States and a bulwark against communism in Southeast Asia after World War... -
China: A Modern History by Michael Dillon 9780755602612
RRP: €77.35€44.92In this complete guide to modern China, Michael Dillon takes students through its social, political and economic changes, from the Qing Empire, through the civil war and the Communist state, to its incarnation as a hybrid capitalist superpower. Key... -
Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet by Lester R. Brown 9780393314090
RRP: €19.04€16.17To feed its 1.2 billion people, China may soon have to import so much grain that this action could trigger unprecedented rises in world food prices. In Who Will Feed China: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet, Lester Brown shows that even as water becomes... -
A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement by Pierre Asselin 9780807854174
€42.49Demonstrating the centrality of diplomacy in the Vietnam War, Pierre Asselin traces the secret negotiations that led up to the Paris Agreement of 1973, which ended America's involvement but failed to bring peace to Vietnam. Because the two sides signed... -
Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet by Max Oidtmann
RRP: €73.78€57.38In 1995, the People's Republic of China resurrected a Qing-era law mandating that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. The Chinese Communist Party hoped to limit the ability of the Dalai... -
The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Law by Geoffrey MacCormack 9780820317229
€55.82This exploration of Chinese law studies the views held throughout the centuries on the role of law in government, the relationship between law and morality, and the purpose of punishment. Other topics examined include conservatism, symbolism and the... -
The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road, and the Rise of Modern China by Eric Enno Tamm 9781582438177
€21.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582438177Author Eric Enno TammFormat PaperbackPage Count 522Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 145mm *... -
Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War by Jayita Sarkar
RRP: €26.17€22.84India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty... -
Communication and Cooperation in Early Imperial China: Publicizing the Qin Dynasty by Charles Sanft
RRP: €30.36€26.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438450360Author Charles SanftFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Asia-Pacific: A History of Empire and Conflict by Thomas Crump 9781847252227
€41.14By the end of the twentieth century, China was on its way to becoming one of the greatest powers in the world. "Asia-Pacific" is an account of what happened throughout the whole region since 1900.This is the first authoritative history of a region rich... -
Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands by Sango Mahanty
RRP: €29.74€25.79Unsettled Frontiers provides a fresh view of how resource frontiers evolve over time. Since the French colonial era, the Cambodia-Vietnam borderlands have witnessed successive waves of market integration, migration, and disruption. The region has been... -
China in Revolution: The First Phase, 1900-1913 by Mary Clabaugh Wright 9780300014600
€37.85Essays by 12 historians, including Martin Bernal, Michael Gasster, P'eng-yuan Chang, John Fincher, Marie-Claire Bergere, Chuzo Ichiko, Mary Backus Rankin, Yoshihiro Hatano, Vidya Prakash Dutt, Ernest P. Young, and Harold Z. Schiffrin.Book InformationISBN... -
The Bengal Borderland: Beyond State and Nation in South Asia by Willem van Schendel 9781843311454
RRP: €23.79€23.34'The Bengal Borderland' constitutes the epicentre of the partition of British India. Yet while the forging of international borders between India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma (the 'Bengal Borderland') has been a core theme in Partition studies, these... -
The Aeroplane and the Making of Modern India by Dr Aashique Ahmed Iqbal 9780192864208
RRP: €116.62€110.91From airports crowded with refugees desperate to flee Partition violence to the mountainous battlefields of Kashmir, aircraft proved indispensable to newly independent India. The aeroplane played a small but significant role in India's transformation... -
A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State by Melvyn C. Goldstein
RRP: €58.31€46.83The 'Tibetan Question', the nature of Tibet's political status vis-a-vis China, has been the subject of often bitterly competing views while the facts of the issue have not been fully accessible to interested observers. While one faction has argued that... -
Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China's Borderlands by Judd C. Kinzley 9780226492292
RRP: €36.89€35.93China's westernmost province of Xinjiang has experienced escalating violence, cycles of interethnic strife, and state repression since the 1990s. Searching for the roots of these growing tensions, most of the research on the region has tended to zero in... -
Japan and the Wider World: From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present by Akira Iriye 9780582210530
€45.86Akira Iriye assesses Japan's international relations, from a Japanese perspective, in the century and a half since she ended her self-imposed isolation and resumed her place in the international community. The book is the author's own adaptation of two... -
Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay by Sheetal Chhabria
RRP: €33.31€28.73In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British... -
A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta by Tariq Omar Ali 9780691170237
RRP: €53.55€42.03Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed... -
Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China by Arunabh Ghosh
RRP: €53.55€42.36A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the People's Republic of China In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new People's Republic of... -
The Complete Lives of Camp People: Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity by Rudolf Mrazek
RRP: €32.12€28.66In The Complete Lives of Camp People Rudolf Mrazek presents a sweeping study of the material and cultural lives of twentieth-century concentration camp internees and the multiple ways in which their experiences speak to the fundamental logics of... -
From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China by Matthew W. Mosca 9780804797290
RRP: €33.31€29.20Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single "foreign" policy emerged as an... -
A Court on Horseback: Imperial Touring and the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680-1785 by Michael G. Chang 9780674024540
RRP: €49.92€40.46Between 1751 and 1784, the Qianlong emperor embarked upon six southern tours, traveling from Beijing to Jiangnan and back. These tours were exercises in political theater that took the Manchu emperor through one of the Qing empire's most prosperous... -
The ‘Early Medieval' Origins of India by Manu V. Devadevan 9781108748513
RRP: €35.69€31.34India is generally regarded as a civilization with a set of intrinsic attributes that emerged in the age of the Vedas or, better still, in the Harappan times. In recent decades, historical studies have moved away from rigid perspectives of singularity in... -
Heroic Shāktism: The Cult of Durgā in Ancient Indian Kingship by Bihani Sarkar 9780197266106
€105.24Heroic Saktism is the belief that a good king and a true warrior must worship the goddess Durga, the form and substance of kingship. This belief formed the bedrock of ancient Indian practices of cultivating political power. Wildly dangerous and serenely... -
Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past by Paul A. Cohen 9780231151931
RRP: €35.70€27.72Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early... -
Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform by Stephan Haggard
RRP: €33.32€25.94In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's... -
Delhi's Meatscapes: Muslim Butchers in a Transforming Mega City by Zarin Ahmad 9780199477807
RRP: €45.21€41.25Tracing the journey of meat from the farm to the meat shop and other workspaces of the butcher within the multi-sited margins in Delhi, the current volume intimately follows the lives of Qureshi butchers and other meat sector workers in this transforming... -
Rise and Fall of the Imperial Guptas by Ashwini Agrawal 9788120805927
€34.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120805927Author Ashwini AgrawalFormat HardbackPage Count 343Imprint Motilal Banarsidass,Publisher Motilal Banarsidass, -
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History by Susan L. Mann 9780521683708
RRP: €27.36€23.28Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that there is a massive amount of historical evidence on the subject. China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and... -
Chinese Women's Cinema: Transnational Contexts by Lingzhen Wang 9780231156752
RRP: €33.32€27.75The first of its kind in English, this collection explores twenty one well established and lesser known female filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. Sixteen scholars illuminate these filmmakers' negotiations of... -
Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean History by Michael Seth
RRP: €52.35€46.22Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century when Korea became entangled in the world of modern imperialism and the old social, economic and political order began to change; this handbook brings together cutting edge scholarship on major themes in Korean... -
Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry by Samita Sen 9780521453639
RRP: €107.10€96.90Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. Dr Sen demonstrates how - in contrast to the experience of their male counterparts -... -
Legends of the Samurai by Hiroaki Sato 9781590207307
RRP: €23.74€16.30In Legends of the Samurai, Hiroaki Sato confronts both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling the two to present an authentic picture of these legendary warriors. Through his masterful translations of original samurai tales, laws, dicta,... -
China and Taiwan Steven M. Goldstein (New York University School of Medicine) 9780745660004
RRP: €19.03€17.15Relations between Taiwan and the People s Republic of China have oscillated between outright hostility and wary detente ever since the Archipelago seceded from the Communist mainland over six decades ago. While the mainland has long coveted the island,... -
American Missionaries, Korean Protestants, and the Changing Shape of World Christianity, 1884-1965 William Yoo 9781032402406
RRP: €47.59€42.04This book examines the partnerships and power struggles between American missionaries and Korean Protestant leaders in both nations from the late 19th century to the aftermath of the Korean War. Yoo analyzes American and Korean sources, including a...