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The Easter Offensive - Vietnam 1972 Voume 1: Volume 1: Invasion Across the DMZ by Albert Grandolini
RRP: $29.07$24.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294079Author Albert GrandoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture by Mr Geremie R. Barme 9780231106153
RRP: $60.04$47.36China, Geremie R. Barme notes, has become one of the greatest writing and publishing nations on the planet, and both cultural activists and the state are embroiled in debates about the production and distribution of its cultural products. But what... -
The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought by Cemil Aydin
RRP: $42.88$32.90In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in modern Asia is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western... -
Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History by Kiri Paramore
RRP: $46.30$40.84For more than 1500 years, Confucianism has played a major role in shaping Japan's history - from the formation of the first Japanese states during the first millennium AD, to Japan's modernization in the nineteenth century, to World War II and its still... -
Empire of Enchantment: The Story of Indian Magic by John Zubrzycki
RRP: $51.46$45.34India's association with magicians goes back thousands of years. Conjurors and illusionists dazzled the courts of Hindu maharajas and Mughal emperors. As British dominion spread over the subcontinent, such wonder-workers became synonymous with India... -
The Mongol Empire by Timothy May
RRP: $51.44$42.13This book explores the rise and establishment of the Mongol Empire under Chinggis Khan, as well as its expansion and evolution under his successors. It also examines the successor states (Ilkhanate, Chaghatayid Khanate, the Jochid Ulus (Golden Horde),... -
India by Diana L. Eck
RRP: $25.71$22.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385531924Author Diana L EckFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
India 1885-1947: The Unmaking of an Empire by Ian Copland 9780582381735
RRP: $63.45$61.30The establishment of the Indian National Congress in 1885 marked a turning point in modern South Asian history. At the time, few grasped the significance of the event, nor understood the power that its leader would come to wield. From humble beginnings,... -
Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia by Thant Myint-U
RRP: $22.28$14.68China and India have always been seperated not only by the Himalayas, but also by the impenetrable jungle and remote areas that once stretched across Burma. Now this last great frontier will likely vanish - forests cut down, dirt roads replaced by... -
A Short History of Modern Angola by Professor David Birmingham
RRP: $37.74$32.78This book begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labour, first as privately... -
A Friend in Deed: Lu Xun, Uchiyama Kanzo, and the Intellectual World of Shanghai on the Eve of War by Professor Joshua Fogel
RRP: $25.71$20.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304880Author Joshua FogelFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)... -
Cultural Curiosity: Thirteen Stories about the Search for Chinese Roots by Josephine M. T. Khu
$64.29This anthology of autobiographical essays reveals the human side of the Chinese diaspora. Written by ethnic Chinese who were born or raised outside of China, these moving pieces, full of the poignant details of everyday life, describe the experience of... -
Paradise Afire Volume 3: The Sri Lankan War, 1990-1994 by Adrien Fontanellaz
RRP: $29.07$24.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118624Author Adrien FontanellazFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs, 1800-1947 by Dr Radha Kapuria 9780192867346
$193.69This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and concluding at the Patiala royal darbar. It unearths new evidence for the centrality of female performers and... -
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by R. Takaki 9780316831307
RRP: $32.57$23.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316831307Author R. TakakiFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Time Warner Trade PublishingPublisher Time Warner Trade Publishing -
Atlas of Islamic History by Peter Sluglett
RRP: $73.74$64.48This Atlas provides the main outlines of Islamic history from the immediate pre-Islamic period until the end of 1920, that is, before most parts of the Muslim world became sovereign nation states. Each map is accompanied by a text that contextualises,... -
Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture by Nina Cornyetz 9780415691437
RRP: $75.46$65.94How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? How does Natsume Soseki's canonical novel Kokoro pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development? What do we make of Jacques Lacan's infamous claim that because of the... -
Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism by Louise Young
RRP: $53.17$41.08In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and... -
The Most Dangerous Moment of the War: Japan'S Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942 by John Clancy 9781612005331
$24.24'The kind of story you'd find in illustrated form in one of the 1960s boys' comics such as Warlord, or Commando. Absolutely enthralling.'Books Monthly'It is an interesting story . . . and I recommend it.'The Mariner's MirrorIn early April 1942, a... -
Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China by Bret Hinsch 9780520078697
RRP: $46.31$39.13The first detailed treatment of the Chinese homosexual tradition in any Western language, Passions of the Cut Sleeve shatters preconceptions and stereotypes. Gone is the image of the sternly puritanical Confucian as sole representative of Chinese sexual... -
Chiang Kai-Shek versus Tse-Tung: The Battle for China 1946 - 1949 by Philip Jowett 9781473874848
$27.08This volume in the Images of War series is the first photographic history of the Chinese Civil War, fought between Chiang Kai-sheks Nationalists and the Communists of Mao Tse-tung, which decided the future of modern China. A selection of over 200 archive... -
In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama by Eric Tagliacozzo
RRP: $51.46$39.83A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern worldIn the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes-an... -
The History of the Mongol Conquests by J. J. Saunders
RRP: $51.44$49.09The Mongol conquests, culminating with the invasion of Europe in the middle of the thirteenth century, were of a scope and range never equaled. These nomadic peoples from central Asia briefly held sway over an empire that stretched across Asia to the... -
China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation by David Shambaugh 9780520260078
RRP: $42.88$32.90Few issues affect the future of China - and hence all the nations that interact with China - more than the nature of its ruling party and government. In this timely study, David Shambaugh assesses the strengths and weaknesses, durability, adaptability,... -
Empire of the Winds by Philip Bowring
RRP: $68.61$51.82Winner of the Penang Book Prize 2019 Nusantaria - often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' - is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. Nusantara, a Sanskrit, then Malay, word referring to... -
Viceroys: The Creation of the British by Christopher Lee 9781472124753
RRP: $51.46$11.89Between 1858 and 1947, twenty British men ruled millions of some of the most remarkable people of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.From the Indian Mutiny to the cruel religious partition of India and the newly formed and named Pakistan, the Viceroy... -
The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India by Sheldon Pollock 9780520260030
RRP: $70.33$56.06In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces the two great moments of its transformation: the first around the beginning... -
Lost Over Laos: A True Story Of Tragedy, Mystery, And Friendship by Horst Faas 9780306812514
RRP: $30.86$27.44In 1971, as American forces hastened their withdrawal from Vietnam, a helicopter was hit by enemy fire over Laos and exploded in a fireball, killing four top combat photographers: Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Henri Huet of Associated Press, Kent... -
Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding by Dorothy Ko 9780520253902
RRP: $51.46$39.14The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of China's medieval court and spread to gentry families, brothels, maid's quarters, and peasant households. Conventional views of... -
Zen and Japanese Culture by Daisetz T. Suzuki 9780691182964
RRP: $37.74$32.20Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced generations of readers and played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts. In simple and poetic language, Daisetz Suzuki describes Zen and its... -
The Classic of the Way and Virtue: A New Translation of the Tao-te Ching of Laozi as Interpreted by Wang Bi by Richard John Lynn
RRP: $37.74$29.14The essential Taoist book and one of a triad that make up the most influential religious and philosophical writings of Chinese tradition, the Tao-te Ching is the subject of hundreds of new interpretive studies each year. As Taoism emerges as one of the... -
Chopsticks: A Cultural and Culinary History by Q. Edward Wang 9781107023963
RRP: $46.30$36.71Chopsticks have become a quintessential part of the Japanese, Chinese and Korean culinary experience across the globe, with more than one fifth of the world's population using them daily to eat. In this vibrant, highly original account of the history of... -
A History of Modern Tibet, volume 2: The Calm before the Storm: 1951-1955 by Melvyn C. Goldstein 9780520259959
RRP: $61.75$48.63It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened - and why - during the 1950s. In a book that continues the story of Tibet's history that he began in his acclaimed "A... -
Chinese Jade by Ming Yu
RRP: $34.29$26.12The Chinese people have honoured, revered and cherished jade for over 8,000 years. Consequently, jade has played a unique role in the development of Chinese culture. Jade carvings survive not simply as beautiful works of art, but also as cultural relics... -
Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War by Carole McGranahan
RRP: $42.87$36.42In the 1950s, thousands of ordinary Tibetans rose up to defend their country and religion against Chinese troops. Their citizen army fought through 1974 with covert support from the Tibetan exile government and the governments of India, Nepal, and the... -
A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean by Jeremy Black 9781472146731
RRP: $22.28$14.75This brilliantly concise history of the Pacific Ocean nevertheless succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands and Western control or influence over the its islands and shores. There is a particular focus on the period from the... -
Royal Hue: Heritage of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam by Vu Hong Lien
RRP: $34.22$23.55Hue, the ancient, royal capital of Vietnam, is a city remarkable in its strive for greatness and to achieve breathtaking beauty. Despite its many dramatic historic events, from conflicts between ancient Vietnam and the now extinct kingdoms of Champa to... -
The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800 by Christopher S. Celenza
RRP: $65.16$52.71Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious new book focuses on the body of knowledge which we now call the humanities, charting its roots in the Italian Renaissance and exploring its development up... -
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Gananath Obeyesekere
RRP: $68.61$53.07Here Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by Captain James Cook and his officers,... -
Asia: A Concise History by Arthur Cotterell
RRP: $42.88$28.78From one of the world's leading historians?a comprehensive narrative of the 3,000 years that have formed Asia's people, culture, and global destiny Tracing its origins in Mesopotamia to its modern role on the global geopolitical stage, historian Arthur...