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The Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281 Stephen Turnbull (Author) 9781846034565
RRP: £15.99£12.37From his seat in Xanadu, the great Mongol Emperor of China, Kubla Khan, had long plotted an invasion of Japan. However, it was only with the acquisition of Korea, that the Khan gained the maritime resources necessary for such a major amphibious operation... -
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel 9780674725867
RRP: £25.95£21.74Winner of the Lionel Gelber PrizeNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the Year | A Financial Times Book of the Year | A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year | A Washington Post Book of the Year | A Bloomberg News Book of... -
Defectors from the PRC to Taiwan, 1960-1989: The Anti-Communist Righteous Warriors by Andrew D. Morris 9781032221731
RRP: £39.99£35.06Defections from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were an important part of the narrative of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan during the Cold War, but their stories have previously barely been told, less still examined, in English.During the... -
How I Survived a Chinese Re-education Camp: A Uighur Woman Speaks Out by Gulbahar Haitiwaji
RRP: £18.99£12.27'An indispensable account' - Sunday Times 'Moving and devastating' - The Literary Review 'An intimate, highly sensory self-portrait' - Sunday Telegraph (Five Stars) FIRST MEMOIR ABOUT CHINA'A 'RE-EDUCATION' CAMPS BY A UYGHUR WOMAN Since 2017, one million... -
The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains by Choo Waihong
RRP: £14.99£10.04In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women'. A small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal... -
A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World by Rana Mitter
RRP: £16.99£13.34China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful... -
The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China by Samuel Hawley 9780992078621
£20.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992078621Author Samuel HawleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 684Imprint Conquistador PressPublisher Conquistador PressWeight(grams) 989g -
Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion by Humphrey Hawksley 9781468314786
RRP: £21.99£17.93In the sphere of future global politics, no region will be as hotly contested as the Asia-Pacific, where great power interests collide amid the mistrust of unresolved conflicts and disputed territory. This is where authoritarian China is trying to... -
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire by Henrietta Harrison 9780691225463
RRP: £17.99£14.38A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been... -
The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China by Xinran Xue 9781399406680
RRP: £25.00£17.62The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today. Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his... -
Ninja: Unmasking the Myth Stephen Turnbull 9781526796486
RRP: £14.99£10.95The ninja is a well-known phenomenon in Japanese military culture, a fighter who is widely regarded as the world's greatest exponent of secret warfare. He infiltrates castles, gathers vital intelligence and wields a deadly knife in the dark. His easily... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Transformation of China 1936-1997 by Robert Whitfield
£34.17Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining well-loved features from the previous editions,The Transformation of China... -
The War on the Uyghurs: China's Campaign Against Xinjiang's Muslims by Sean R. Roberts
RRP: £14.99£10.95The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes.This eye-opening book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. China's actions, it... -
Mao's Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China's Navy by Toshi Yoshihara 9781647122829
RRP: £28.00£26.94New details about the founding of China's Navy reveals critical historical context and insight into future strategy From 1949 to 1950, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) made crucial decisions to establish a navy and secure China's periphery. The... -
Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China by Louise Edwards 9781316509340
RRP: £22.99£19.56In this compelling new study, Louise Edwards explores the lives of some of China's most famous women warriors and wartime spies through history. Focusing on key figures including Hua Mulan, Zheng Pingru and Liu Hulan, this book examines the ways in which... -
Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions by Zongyuan Zoe Liu
RRP: £37.95£30.51The first in-depth account of the sudden growth of China's sovereign wealth funds and their transformative impact on global markets, domestic and multinational businesses, and international politics.One of the keys to China's global rise has been its... -
Cave Temples of Mogao at Dunhuang Roderick Whitfield 9781606064450
RRP: £26.00£22.10This book offers a revised and expanded look at a world-renowned artistic treasure and its conversation. The Mogao grottoes in China, situated near the town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world's most significant sites of... -
The Sino-Soviet Border War: Volume 2: Confrontation at Lake Zhalanashkol, August 1969 by Dimitry Ryabushkin 9781914377051
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377051Author Dimitry RyabushkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
RRP: £9.99£6.52"Typically wide-ranging, informative, and illuminating . . . a lovely book" Peter FrankopanWhen did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it... -
The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence 9780393934519
£57.27This text, the classic introduction to modern China for students and general readers, emerged from Spence's highly successful introductory course at Yale, in which he traced the beginnings of modern China to internal developments beginning in the early... -
China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict by David Daokui Li 9780393292398
RRP: £22.99£18.12Recent rising tensions between China and the West largely stem from a basic misunderstanding of China's approach to governance, argues Dr David Daokui Li, who has served as an advisor to senior Chinese Communist Party leaders as well as major... -
The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century by Richard von Glahn 9781107615700
RRP: £30.99£27.17China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to... -
Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949 by Lucien Bianco
RRP: £20.99£18.37The original French edition of this book, published in 1967, was widely acclaimed as the best introduction to Chinese Communism ever published. A fresh, bold interpretative survey, it focuses on the dynamic social forces underlying the Chinese... -
The Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower--A Retelling for Our Times by Linda Jaivin
RRP: £16.95£10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615198207Author Linda JaivinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ExperimentPublisher ExperimentWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 22mm -
Captain on the Yangtze by Peter Mender 9789888769094
RRP: £13.99£12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888769094Author Peter MenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Earnshaw Books LtdPublisher Earnshaw Books LtdWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China by Timothy Brook 9780674023987
£30.07Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. In a bold new work, Timothy Brook breaks the silence surrounding the... -
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution by Jonathan D. Spence 9780140062793
£17.79“A milestone in Western studies of China.” (John K. Fairbank) In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants—the writers,... -
Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping by Francois Bougon
RRP: £17.99£16.14Xi Jinping wants to become the world's most powerful leader. To succeed, he must balance Mao's Little Red Book with the Analects of Confucius, and more. For Xi, the task ahead of China is to preserve the guiding ideology of Marxism, while challenging... -
Two Trees Make a Forest: On Memory, Migration and Taiwan by Jessica J. Lee
RRP: £10.99£7.40I have learned many words for 'island': isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always, by definition, I have understood them by their relation to water. But the Chinese word for island knows nothing of water. For a... -
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China by Jessica Rawson
RRP: £40.00£26.95A Prospect Book of the YearAn epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombsThe three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of... -
The Hidden History of Burma: A Crisis of Race and Capitalism by Thant Myint-U
RRP: £10.99£7.32A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020A New York Times Critic's Pick 2019'A sobering account, told elegantly and eruditely.' Financial Times'Thant Myint-U is the greatest living historian of Burma.' William DalrymplePrecariously positioned between China and... -
Book of Songs (Shi-Jing): A New Translation of Selected Poems from the Ancient Chinese Anthology by Confucius
RRP: £19.99£14.05Claimed by some to have been compiled by Confucius in the 5th century BCE, the Book of Songs is an ancient anthology of Chinese poetry. Collecting poems over a number of centuries, the anthology - sometimes known as the Classic of Poetry (or Shi-jing) -... -
China: A History in Objects by Jessica Harrison-Hall
RRP: £29.95£19.29This illustrated introduction to the history of China offers a fresh understanding of China's progress from the Neolithic age to the present. Told in six chapters arranged chronologically, through art, artefacts, people and places, and richly illustrated... -
The Chinese Civil War: 1945-49 Michael Lynch 9781472853141
RRP: £11.99£8.43In this fully illustrated introduction, Dr Michael Lynch provides a concise overview of the Chinese Civil War, a defining conflict in world history. Between the end of World War II and the dawn of the Cold War, one of the most important conflicts in... -
Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up by Xiaolu Guo
£11.67*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award* *Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award**Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize**Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018**A Sunday Times Book of the Year*Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first... -
Prosperity's Predicament: Identity, Reform, and Resistance in Rural Wartime China by Isabel Brown Crook 9781442252776
RRP: £45.00£41.44This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as well as the nature of state power, markets, the military, social relations, and religion. Built on extraordinarily intimate... -
Christian Social Activism and Rule of Law in Chinese Societies by Chris White 9781611463255
RRP: £36.00£33.39Although Christianity has been a minority religion in Chinese societies, Christians have been powerful catalysts of social activism in seeking to establish democracy and rule of law in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and diasporic communities. The... -
Women and China's Revolutions by Gail Hershatter 9781442215696
RRP: £35.00£31.35If we place women at the center of our account of China's last two centuries, how does this change our understanding of what happened? This deeply knowledgeable book illuminates the places where the Big History of recognizable events intersects with the... -
Tibetan Civilization by R. A. Stein
RRP: £24.99£21.67A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804709019Author R. A. SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 408g -
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
RRP: £16.99£12.28China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and perhaps the last time - the vast changes that have overtaken...