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Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500-1650 by S. Hall 9780691609911
RRP: $74.82$67.73These papers by leading specialists on sixteenth-century Japan explore Japan's transition from medieval (Chusei) to early modern (Kinsei) society. During this time, regional lords (daimyo) first battled for local autonomy and then for national supremacy... -
Local States in an Imperial World: Identity, Society and Politics in the Early Modern Deccan by Roy S Fischel
RRP: $33.53$30.42Explores the concept of the non-imperial state, taking a spatial approach to early modern political identitiesFocusing on the Deccan Sultanates of 16th- and 17th-century central India, Local States in an Imperial World promotes the idea that some... -
Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan by Michael Wert 9780674726703
RRP: $43.80$36.65This book is about the "losers" of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy. Although the violence of the Meiji Restoration is typically downplayed, the trauma was real, and those who felt marginalized from the mainstream... -
Cities Surround The Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China by Robin Visser
RRP: $30.95$26.88Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and... -
Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765-1793 by Robert Travers
RRP: $96.75$87.38In this deeply researched and revealing account, Robert Travers offers a new view of the transition from Mughal to British rule in India. By focusing on processes of petitioning and judicial inquiry, Travers argues that the East India Company... -
The Secret History of the Jungle Book: How Mowgli could save the world by Swati Singh 9780993523915
RRP: $9.02$8.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993523915Author Swati SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint The Real PressPublisher The Real PressWeight(grams) 127g -
Sufi Saints and State Power: The Pirs of Sind, 1843-1947 by Sarah F. D. Ansari 9780521522984
RRP: $51.59$42.91In this book, Dr Sarah Ansari examines the system of political control constructed by the British in Sind between 1843 and 1947. In particular, she explores the part of the local Muslim elite, the pirs or hereditary sufi saints. Using a wealth of... -
A Concise History of Hong Kong by John M. Carroll 9780742534216
RRP: $135.45$118.85When the British occupied the tiny island of Hong Kong during the First Opium War, the Chinese empire was well into its decline, while Great Britain was already in the second decade of its legendary "Imperial Century." From this collision of empires... -
Philosophy Beyond Spacetime: Implications from Quantum Gravity by Christian Wuethrich 9780198844143
RRP: $110.94$101.15Quantum gravity seeks a unified theory in which quantum matter is dynamically related to generally relativistic spacetime. Although a continuing work in progress, research programmes in the field such as string theory, loop quantum gravity, and causal... -
Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan by Daniel V. Botsman
RRP: $51.60$46.53The kinds of punishment used in a society have long been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. Focusing on Japan, and the dramatic revolution in punishments... -
Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China by Susan Naquin
RRP: $79.98$62.72Until now, China has been scarcely represented in the burgeoning comparative literature on pilgrimage. This volume remedies that omission, discussing the interaction between pilgrims and sacred sites from the tenth century to the present. From the... -
Decoding Subaltern Politics: Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics James C. Scott (Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA) 9780415540100
RRP: $69.65$60.46James C. Scott has researched and written on subaltern groups, and, in particular, peasants, rebellion, resistance, and agriculture, for over 35 years. Yet much of Scott's most interesting work on the peasantry and the state, both conceptually and... -
Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity: The Pahlavi Version of the Yasna Haptaŋhāiti by Arash Zeini
RRP: $39.99$37.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474442893Author Arash ZeiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Readings in Chinese Literary Thought by Stephen Owen 9780674749214
RRP: $43.80$36.65This dual-language compilation of seven complete major works and many shorter pieces from the Confucian period through the Ch'ing dynasty will be indispensable to students of Chinese literature. Stephen Owen's masterful translations and commentaries have... -
The Confucian Creation of Heaven: Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery by Robert Eno 9780791401910
$35.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791401910Author Robert EnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Third Chinese Revolutionary Civil War, 1945-49: An Analysis of Communist Strategy and Leadership Christopher R. Lew 9780415673860
RRP: $69.65$60.46This book examines the Third Chinese Revolutionary Civil War of 1945-1949, which resulted in the victory of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over Chiang Kaishek and the Guomindang (GMD) and the founding of The People's Republic of China in 1949. It... -
'This Culture of Ours': Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China by Peter K. Bol 9780804723619
RRP: $45.15$40.17This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries. The early T'ang definition of 'This Culture of Ours' combined literary and scholarly traditions from the previous five centuries. The late Sung... -
The Annals of King T'aejo: Founder of Korea's Choson Dynasty by Choi Byonghyon 9780674281301
RRP: $77.34$63.36Never before translated into English, this official history of the reign of King T'aejo-founder of Korea's long, illustrious Choson dynasty (1392-1910 CE)-is a unique resource for reconstructing life in late-fourteenth-century Korea. Its narrative of a... -
Modern China by Edwin E. Moise 9780582772779
$67.70The past hundred years in China have seen almost continuous transformation and upheaval. From Confucianist monarchy to warlordism, from fanatically doctrinaire socialist tyranny to almost doctrineless social-capitalism, China has experienced political,... -
Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan by Justin Jesty
$62.37Justin Jesty's Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan reframes the history of art and its politics in Japan post-1945. This fascinating cultural history addresses our broad understanding of the immediate postwar era moving toward the Cold War and... -
Radicals: Resistance and Protest in Colonial Malaya by Syed Aljunied
RRP: $42.57$37.47Radicals tells the story of a group of radical Malay men and women from ordinary social backgrounds who chose to oppose foreign rule of their homeland, knowing full well that by embarking on this path of resistance, they would risk imprisonment or death... -
Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45 by Bill Sewell 9780774836531
RRP: $38.69$34.19Civilians play crucial roles in building empires. Constructing Empire shows how Japanese urban planners, architects, and other civilians contributed - often enthusiastically - to constructing a modern colonial enclave in northeast China, their visions... -
The Worship of Confucius in Japan by James McMullen 9780674237261
RRP: $91.53$73.57How has Confucius, quintessentially and symbolically Chinese, been received throughout Japanese history? The Worship of Confucius in Japan provides the first overview of the richly documented and colorful Japanese version of the East Asian ritual to... -
Power and Prowess: The Origins of Brooke Kingship in Sarawak by J H Walker 9780824825003
RRP: $174.15$135.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824825003Author JH WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i Press -
Zongmi on Chan by Jeffrey Broughton 9780231143929
RRP: $79.98$62.72Japanese Zen often implies that textual learning (gakumon) in Buddhism and personal experience (taiken) in Zen are separate, but the career and writings of the Chinese Tang dynasty Chan master Guifeng Zongmi (780-841) undermine this division. For the... -
A Path Twice Traveled: My Journey as a Historian of China by Paul A. Cohen 9780674237292
RRP: $36.06$28.57The Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies collaborated on publishing this memoir by Paul A. Cohen, one of the West's preeminent historians of China. Cohen traces the development of his work from its inception in the... -
The Language of the Taj Mahal: Islam, Prayer and the Religion of Shah Jahan by Michael D. Calabria
$128.05The Taj Mahal, built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1592-1666 CE) as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal (1593-1631 CE), is considered exceptional in the history of world architecture.This book provides a deeper understanding of the Taj Mahal and... -
Marco Polo's China: A Venetian in the Realm of Khubilai Khan Stephen G. Haw 9780415546003
RRP: $69.65$60.46Marco Polo's famous book about his journey to China, written in 1298, continues to be a subject of considerable controversy. One recent work on the subject argues that Marco Polo never went to China at all, and other scholars have pointed out apparent... -
Shi'a Islam in Colonial India: Religion, Community and Sectarianism by Justin Jones 9781107004603
RRP: $76.11$68.23Interest in Shi'a Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shi'ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shi'a minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely under... -
Hokkaido: A History of Ethnic Transition and Development on Japan's Northern Island Ann B. Irish 9780786444496
RRP: $51.59$43.83Japanese people have lived on the country's other three main islands--Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku--for many centuries, but ethnic Japanese, or Wajin, began coming to Hokkaido in large numbers only in the latter half of the nineteenth century. This... -
In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire by Eiichiro Azuma 9780520304383
RRP: $38.70$30.56In Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese America with Japan's colonial empire through the exchange of migrant bodies, expansionist ideas, colonial expertise, and... -
Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910 1945 by E. Taylor Atkins 9780520266742
RRP: $38.70$30.04This remarkable book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. E. Taylor Atkins focuses on past and present Japanese fascination with Korean culture as he... -
Remembrances by Mir Taqi Mir
RRP: $38.64$31.00A rare and remarkable example of Indo-Persian autobiography by the poet Mir Taqi Mir.Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir (1723-1810) is the author of six collections of Urdu poetry and widely regarded as the finest ghazal poet in that language. However, he also wrote... -
Imperial Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands by Bradley Camp Davis
RRP: $36.11$31.14The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against other armed migrants and uplands communities for the control of commerce, specifically opium, and natural... -
Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Early Chinese Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts by Sarah Allan 9781438457789
RRP: $34.79$30.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438457789Author Sarah AllanFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Uzbekistan: An Experience of Cultural Treasures of Colour by Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva 9781526750198
$37.11Like the fascinating culture that comes to life between its pages, UZBEKISTAN: an experience of cultural treasures to colour will take you on a journey of discovery from the blue and gold splendours of Samarkand to the intricacy of sacred mosaics. It’s... -
The Military Collapse of China's Ming Dynasty, 1618-44 by Kenneth M. Swope 9781138652330
RRP: $54.17$47.41This book examines the military collapse of China's Ming Dynasty to a combination of foreign and domestic foes. The Ming's defeat was a highly surprising development, not least because as recently as in the 1590s the Ming had managed to defeat a Japanese... -
Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, C.1500-1937 by Margherita Zanasi
RRP: $38.69$35.35In this major new study, Margherita Zanasi argues that basic notions of a free market economy emerged in China a century and half earlier than in Europe. In response to the commercial revolutions of the late 1500s, Chinese intellectuals and officials... -
Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India by Venkat Dhulipala 9781107052123
RRP: $105.77$96.66This book examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how popular enthusiasm was generated for its successful achievement, especially in the crucial province of UP (now Uttar Pradesh) in the last decade of... -
Sources of East Asian Tradition: The Modern Period by Wm. Theodore De Bary 9780231143059
RRP: $49.02$40.00In 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...