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Chinese Publishing by Hu Yang 9780521186759
RRP: £19.99£15.23As the birthplace of moveable-type printing, China has some claim to being the homeland of publishing. China's ancient civilisation has nurtured a distinctively Chinese publishing industry, and this industry has done much to spread Chinese ideas and... -
The China Journals: Ideology and Intrigue in the 1960s by Hugh Trevor-Roper
RRP: £15.99£12.46These private journals, made available here for the first time, record Hugh Trevor-Roper's visit to the People's Republic of China in the autumn of 1965, shortly before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, and describe the controversial aftermath of... -
The Most Dangerous Moment of the War: Japan'S Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942 by John Clancy 9781612005331
£13.57'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... -
Frontline Afghanistan: The Devil's Playground by Mike Ryan 9780752452487
RRP: £12.99£9.62In the nine years since the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan has rarely been out of the news. Over a thousand coalition military fatalities have been reported, and many times that number of Afghan civilians. The country is in the process... -
Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns by David Lamb
£18.09When he left war-ravaged Vietnam some thirty years ago, journalist David Lamb averred "I didn't care if I ever saw the wretched country again." But in 1997, he found himself living in Hanoi, in charge of the Los Angeles Times's first peacetime bureau... -
Chiang Kai-Shek versus Tse-Tung: The Battle for China 1946 - 1949 by Philip Jowett 9781473874848
£15.16This 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... -
Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution by Karl Gerth
RRP: £22.99£19.56What forces shaped the twentieth-century world? Capitalism and communism are usually seen as engaged in a fight-to-the-death during the Cold War. With the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end... -
The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China by Susan L. Shirk
RRP: £33.00£30.39In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that... -
Chinese Food by Junru Liu
RRP: £19.99£15.23This illustrated gastronomic tour traces the development of the unique food and drink culture found in China. From ancient to modern times, the Chinese have celebrated an epicurean lifestyle, believing that food is not just meant to fill the stomach, but... -
Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia by Jennifer Siegel
£60.63By the early 1900s both Britain and Russia, suspicious of Imperial Germany, decided to stabilize their relations and replace their rivalry in Central Asia - the 'Great Game' - with rapprochement. But as Jennifer Siegel here demonstrates, reality in the... -
The Meiji Restoration by W. G. Beasley
RRP: £79.00£69.71For Japan, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has something of the significance that the French Revolution has for France: it is the point from which modern history begins. In this now classic work of Japanese history, the late W. G. Beasley offers a... -
Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security by Hugo Dobson 9780415587433
RRP: £47.99£41.81The 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... -
Impact Evaluation of Development Interventions: A Practical Guide by Asian Development Bank 9789292610586
RRP: £22.95£20.95This book offers guidance on the principles, methods, and practice of impact evaluation. It contains material for a range of audiences, from those who may use or manage impact evaluations to applied researchers.Impact evaluation is an empirical approach... -
The History of Indonesia by Steven Drakeley 9780313331145
£60.35Culturally and politically, Indonesia is one of the more complex countries in the world, with 336 ethnic groups speaking 583 languages and dialects. It is only recently that these people have been contained within one political framework. Throughout most... -
Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times by Miriam Silverberg
RRP: £31.00£24.43This history of Japanese mass culture during the decades preceding Pearl Harbor argues that the new gestures, relationship, and humor of ero-guro-nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) expressed a self-consciously modern ethos that challenged state... -
Pan-Asianism: A Documentary History, 1850-1920 by Sven Saaler 9780810895386
RRP: £35.00£29.22This first volume in a two-volume set provides the only comprehensive, Western-language history of Pan-Asianism through primary sources and commentaries. The book argues that Pan-Asianism, often-though unfairly-associated with the Yellow Peril, has been... -
Anarchy or Chaos: M. P. T. Acharya and the Indian Struggle for Freedom by Ole Birk Laursen
RRP: £45.00£39.82In this fascinating biography of the Indian revolutionary M. P. T. Acharya (1887-1954), Ole Birk Laursen uncovers the remarkable transnational networks, movements and activities of India's most important anticolonial anarchist in the twentieth century. ... -
The Tao of the Tao Te Ching: A Translation and Commentary by Michael LaFargue 9780791409862
£25.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791409862Author Michael LaFargueFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The British in the Levant: Trade and Perceptions of the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century by Christine Laidlaw 9780755600618
£34.23For more than two centuries following its formation in 1581, the Levant Company enjoyed a monopoly of British trade with the Ottoman Empire and provided Britain's diplomatic representation at the Sultan's court and throughout the Ottoman territories... -
Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China's Cultural Revolution by Daniel Leese 9780521152228
RRP: £24.99£19.99Although many books have explored Mao's posthumous legacy, none has scrutinized the massive worship that was fostered around him during the Cultural Revolution. This book is the first to do so. By analyzing secret archival documents, Daniel Leese traces... -
Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora Communities of Shanghai by Marcia Reynders Ristaino
RRP: £24.99£21.67This book examines two large and generally overlooked diaspora communities, one Jewish and the other Slavic, which found refuge in Shanghai during the period 1900-1950. Victims of discrimination and persecution in their own lands-Central and Eastern... -
A Brief History of Khubilai Khan: Lord of Xanadu, Founder of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor of China Jonathan Clements 9781472143204
RRP: £12.99£8.60His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of a Mongol federation that... -
The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought by Cemil Aydin 9780231137782
RRP: £55.00£42.91In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western... -
Confronting Colonialism: Resistance and Modernization under Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan by Irfan Habib 9781843310242
RRP: £16.99£16.49These essays, devoted to the history of Mysore under Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan, underscore the need to defend the memory of two rulers, who were indomitable opponents of the colonial regime; they also emphasize the centrality of Haider Ali and Tipu... -
Rethinking China's Rise: A Liberal Critique by Jilin Xu
RRP: £30.99£21.89China's rise to power is the signal event of the twenty-first century, and this volume offers a contemporary view of this nation in ascendancy from the inside. Eight recent essays by Xu Jilin, a popular historian and one of China's most prominent public... -
A History of Modern Tibet, volume 2: The Calm before the Storm: 1951-1955 by Melvyn C. Goldstein 9780520259959
RRP: £36.00£28.89It 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... -
Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations by Katharine H. S. Moon 9780231106436
RRP: £30.00£23.29This study examines and illuminates how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as the invisible underpinnings to US-Korean military policies at the highest level.This study examines and illuminates how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the... -
In Search of Personal Welfare: A View of Ancient Chinese Religion by Mu-chou Poo 9780791436301
£27.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791436301Author Mu-chou PooFormat PaperbackPage Count 331Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
A Soldier King: Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of Rama X by Supalak Ganjanakhundee 9789814951548
£22.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorSupalak Ganjanakhundee was Visiting Fellow in the Thailand Studies Programme at the ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. He was the former editor of The... -
Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration by Marius B. Jansen
RRP: £35.00£27.74Exploring a tumultuous time in Japanese 19th-century history, when the country began to emerge from self-imposed exile, this study profiles activists such as Sakamoto Ryoma and Nakaoka Shintaro, who played an important role in the development of a... -
Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching by Livia Kohn 9780791436004
£27.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791436004Author Livia KohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 by Gennifer Weisenfeld 9780520271951
RRP: £55.00£43.31Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation - the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923 - this fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the... -
Ming China and its Allies: Imperial Rule in Eurasia by David M. Robinson
RRP: £34.99£30.49On the eve of the early modern age, Ming emperors ruled around one-quarter of the globe's population, the majority of the world's largest urban centers, the biggest standing army on the planet, and the day's most affluent economy. Far from being... -
Odd Man out: Truman, Stalin, Mao, and the Origins of the Korean War by Richard C. Thornton 9781574883435
RRP: £20.99£18.29Odd Man Out is a novel assessment of the motives and strategies of Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong as they struggled to maneuver their countries into positions of advantage in the postwar world. Their successes and failures resulted in the... -
China and Maritime Europe, 1500-1800: Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions by Mr. John E. Wills 9780521179454
RRP: £26.99£22.80China and Maritime Europe, 1500-1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and... -
The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East by Kishore Mahbubani 9781586486716
RRP: £16.99£15.60For two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defencelessly to the surges of Western commerce, thought, and power. That era is over. Asia is returning to the centre stage it occupied for eighteen centuries before the rise of... -
Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects: Canon, Commentary and the Classical Tradition by Daniel Gardner 9780231128650
RRP: £25.00£19.59The Analects is a compendium of the sayings of Confucius (551-479 b.c.e.), transcribed and passed down by his disciples. How it came to be transformed by Zhu Xi (1130-1200) into one of the most philosophically significant texts in the Confucian tradition... -
Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History by Scott Nygren 9780816647088
RRP: £20.99£18.77Until 1951, when Kurosawa's Rashomon won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival, Japanese cinema was isolated from world distribution and the international discourse on film. After this historic event, however, Japanese cinema... -
Honor and Shame in Early China by Mark Edward Lewis
RRP: £34.99£30.09In 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... -
Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World by John Larner 9780300079715
£47.58After many years in Asia, Marco Polo wrote one of the most influential books of the past millennium. No mere travel account, Polo's Book is a work that played a key role in the development of European overseas expansion. In this engaging and...