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Visual Culture in Contemporary China: Paradigms and Shifts by Xiaobing Tang 9781107446373
RRP: €27.36€23.75Exploring a wealth of images ranging from woodblock prints to oil paintings, this beautifully illustrated full-color study takes up key elements of the visual culture produced in the People's Republic of China from its founding in 1949 to the present day... -
The Buddha's Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia by Johan Elverskog
RRP: €64.26€54.68A corrective to the contemporary idea that Buddhism has always been an environmentally friendly religion In the current popular imagination, Buddhism is often understood to be a religion intrinsically concerned with the environment. The Dharma, the name... -
The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China: The History of a Maritime Asian Trade Diaspora, 750-1400 by John W. Chaffee
RRP: €29.74€25.20In this major new history of Muslim merchants and their trade links with China, John W. Chaffee uncovers 700 years of history, from the eighth century, when Muslim communities first established themselves in southeastern China, through the fourteenth... -
Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History by Alexander C. Cook
RRP: €29.74€24.15Mao Zedong's Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao) - a compilation of the Chinese leader's speeches and writings - is one of the most visible and ubiquitous symbols of twentieth-century radicalism. Published for the first time in 1964, it... -
The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives by Timothy Cheek
RRP: €83.30€70.36Ten engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party. Detailing the life of ten people who led or engaged with the Chinese Communist Party,... -
Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992 by Shahid Amin
RRP: €29.75€22.82Taking Gandhi's statements about civil disobedience to heart, in February 1922 residents from the villages around the north Indian market town of Chauri Chaura attacked the local police station, burned it to the ground and murdered twenty-three... -
Honor and Shame in Early China by Mark Edward Lewis
RRP: €41.64€35.81In this major new study, Mark Edward Lewis traces how the changing language of honor and shame helped to articulate and justify transformations in Chinese society between the Warring States and the end of the Han dynasty. Through careful examination of a... -
(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia by Zoltan Biedermann
RRP: €32.12€27.13(Dis)connected Empires takes the reader on a global journey to explore the triangle formed during the sixteenth century between the Portuguese empire, the empire of Kotte in Sri Lanka, and the Catholic Monarchy of the Spanish Habsburgs. It explores nine... -
Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City by Peter Harmsen
RRP: €22.60€14.60The infamous Rape of Nanjing looms like a dark shadow over the history of Asia in the 20th century, and is among the most widely recognized chapters of World War II in China. By contrast, the story of the month-long campaign before this notorious... -
The Making of Song Dynasty History: Sources and Narratives, 960-1279 CE by Charles Hartman
RRP: €29.74€26.62In this ambitious work of political and intellectual history, Charles Hartman surveys the major sources that survive as vestiges of the official dynastic historiography of the Chinese Song dynasty (960-1279). Analyzing the narratives that emerge from... -
The Quest for Modern Assam: A History: 1942-2000 by Arupjyoti Saikia 9780670095704
RRP: €41.59€30.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670095704Author Arupjyoti SaikiaFormat HardbackPage Count 896Imprint Penguin Allen LanePublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm *... -
Islam's Black Slaves by Ronald Segal 9780374527976
RRP: €26.18€16.31An incisive study of the Islamic slave trade examines the tradition in terms of a centuries-old institution that survives into the modern world, discussing the differences between the Eastern and Western trades, the extent of the slave trade, and the... -
Shanghai Splendor: A Cultrual History, 1843-1945 by Wen-Hsin Yeh 9780520258174
RRP: €32.13€24.55Rich with details of everyday life, this multifaceted social and cultural history of China's leading metropolis in the twentieth century offers a kaleidoscopic view of Shanghai as the major site of Chinese modernization. Engaging the entire span of... -
East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute by David C. Kang 9780231153188
RRP: €99.96€76.83From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have... -
Swords Trembling in Their Scabbards: The Changing Status of Indian Officers in the Indian Army 1757-1947 by Michael Creese 9781909982819
RRP: €35.64€28.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982819Author Michael CreeseFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Patterns of East Asian History by Charles A. Desnoyers 9780199946464
RRP: €74.96€63.91Covering all of East Asian history from the Neolithic to the present--including Mongolia and Vietnam, alongside China, Japan, and Korea--Patterns of East Asian History uses recognizable and widely-accepted patterns of historical development as a... -
Mysteries of the Sacred Universe by Richard L Thompson 9780998187129
RRP: €18.98€17.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998187129Author Richard L ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Institute for Vaishnava StudiesPublisher Institute for Vaishnava... -
Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China by Thomas S. Mullaney 9780520272743
RRP: €35.70€27.16China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or minzu, as groups entitled to representation. This... -
Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943 by Emma Jinhua Teng 9780520276277
RRP: €29.75€22.82In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories... -
Silk Roads: From Local Realities to Global Narratives by Jeffrey D. Lerner
RRP: €65.45€53.17In recent decades, there has been a new surge of interest in the history and legacies of the Silk Roads both within academic and public discourses. A field of Silk Roads Studies has come into its own. Consciously mirroring the temperament of its subject,... -
Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security by Hugo Dobson 9780415587433
RRP: €57.11€49.75The latest edition of this comprehensive and user-friendly textbook provides a single volume resource for all those studying Japan's international relations. It offers a clear and concise introduction to the most important aspects of Japan's role in the... -
After Tiananmen: The Rise of China by Vijay Gokhale
RRP: €16.65€14.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356293045Author Vijay GokhaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 220mm... -
Ginseng and Borderland: Territorial Boundaries and Political Relations Between Qing China and Choson Korea, 1636-1912 by Seonmin Kim 9780520295995
RRP: €35.70€27.16At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Ginseng and Borderland explores the territorial boundaries... -
Traditional Chinese Medicine by Yuqun Liao
RRP: €23.79€18.12Traditional Chinese medicine is one of the most renowned and most controversial scientific achievements of ancient Chinese civilisation. Although Western medicine is often the basic method used to deal with medical problems, the techniques developed in... -
The Candidate's Dilemma: Anticorruptionism and Money Politics in Indonesian Election Campaigns by Elisabeth Kramer
RRP: €33.31€28.16In The Candidate's Dilemma, Elisabeth Kramer tells the story of how three political candidates in Indonesia made decisions to resist, engage in, or otherwise incorporate money politics into their electioneering strategies over the course of their... -
Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China by Jenny Huangfu Day
RRP: €36.88€28.32Prior to the nineteenth century, the West occupied an anomalous space in the Chinese imagination, populated by untamable barbarians and unearthly immortals. First-hand accounts and correspondence from Qing envoys and diplomats to Europe unraveled that... -
Colonialism as Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India by Michael Mann 9781843310921
RRP: €22.60€21.32Ranging from studies on sport and national education and pulp fiction to infanticide, psychiatric therapy and religion, these essays on the various forms, expressions and consequences of the British 'civilizing mission' in South Asia shed light on a... -
An Officer and His Holiness by Rani Singh 9780670089192
€20.59In 1959, the Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet to India, where he was granted refuge. To track his position and escort him to safety was a carefully calibrated operation that few know about. This book tells the story of how an Indian officer in the North... -
An Outline of a Theory of Civilization by Yukichi Fukuzawa
RRP: €33.32€25.42Yukichi Fukuzawa rose from low samurai origins to become one of the finest intellectuals and social thinkers of modern Japan. Through his best-selling works, he helped transform an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged international force. In... -
London: The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549 - 1689 by Robert K. Batchelor
RRP: €49.98€48.56If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trades... -
Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927-1934 by Joe Fewsmith
RRP: €41.64€35.81Forging Leninism in China is a re-examination of the events of the Chinese revolution and the transformation of the Chinese Communist Party from the years 1927 to 1934. Describing the transformation of the party as 'the forging of Leninism', Joseph... -
Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture by Susan B. Hanley
RRP: €32.13€24.55Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900 and its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. In an innovative discussion that posits the importance of physical well-being as a... -
The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan by Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang
RRP: €95.19€86.35Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai-shek's regime collapsed in 1949. Peeling back layers of Cold War ideological constructs, he tells a very... -
Contentious Kwangju: The May 18th Uprising in Korea's Past and Present by Gi-Wook Shin 9780742519626
RRP: €35.70€32.71One 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,... -
Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self by Laura Bear 9780231140027
RRP: €80.92€62.17Lines of the Nation radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the... -
India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation by George Perkovich
RRP: €36.89€28.50In May 1998, India shocked the world - and many of its own citizens - by detonating five nuclear weapons in the Rajasthan desert. Why did India bid for nuclear weapon status at a time when 149 nations had signed a ban on nuclear testing? What drove... -
Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives by Professor Evelyn Sakakida Rawski 9781107471528
RRP: €32.12€27.13In this revisionist history of early modern China, Evelyn Rawski challenges the notion of Chinese history as a linear narrative of dynasties dominated by the Central Plains and Hans Chinese culture from a unique, peripheral perspective. Rawski argues... -
By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 by Michael J. Green
RRP: €49.98€39.78Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to... -
Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai by Gail Hershatter
RRP: €41.65€33.57This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender... -
The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy by Fung Yu-Lan
RRP: €54.73€47.75First published in 1947.The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy covers the major philosophers and philosophical movements in China from Confucius to the middle of the twentieth century including: Confucius, Mencius, Yang Chu and Mo Ti, the Dialecticians and...