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Conjuring Asia: Magic, Orientalism, and the Making of the Modern World by Chris Goto-Jones 9781107433823
RRP: $46.18$39.38The promise of magic has always commanded the human imagination, but the story of industrial modernity is usually seen as a process of disenchantment. Drawing on the writings and performances of the so-called 'Golden Age Magicians' from the turn of the... -
China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia by David C. Kang 9780231141895
RRP: $58.80$45.78Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year... -
The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan by Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang
RRP: $167.98$152.38Dominic 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... -
Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory by Lisa Yoneyama
RRP: $60.90$47.33Remembering Hiroshima, the city obliterated by the world's first nuclear attack, has been a complicated and intensely politicized process, as we learn from Lisa Yoneyama's sensitive investigation of the 'dialectics of memory.' She explores unconventional... -
The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919 by Vera Schwarcz
RRP: $73.50$59.09It is widely accepted, both inside China and in the West, that contemporary Chinese history begins with the May Fourth Movement. Vera Schwarcz's imaginative new study provides China scholars and historians with an analysis of what makes that event a... -
Writing the Mughal World: Studies on Culture and Politics by Muzaffar Alam
RRP: $63.00$49.75Between the mid-sixteenth and early nineteenth century, the Mughal Empire was an Indo-Islamic dynasty that ruled as far as Bengal in the east and Kabul in the west, as high as Kashmir in the north and the Kaveri basin in the south. The Mughals... -
Out of Afghanistan: The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal by Diego Cordovez 9780195062946
RRP: $91.33$69.91The Soviet withdrawal from Afganistan has been largely attributed to the bravery of the Afghan resistance reinforced by American weaponry and support. This book shows how it was infact years of persistent United Nations initiatives that proved crucial to... -
Dead Men Risen: An Epic Story of War and Heroism in Afghanistan by Toby Harnden 9781621572718
RRP: $69.28$44.04Dead Men Risen, winner of the prestigious Orwell Prize for Books, is the epic story of a beleaguered British battle group fighting desperately to prevent the Taliban from seizing Afghanistan's Helmand province just as the U.S. Marines arrive to take over... -
Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960 by Gina Anne Tam
RRP: $65.08$47.99Taking aim at the conventional narrative that standard, national languages transform 'peasants' into citizens, Gina Anne Tam centers the history of the Chinese nation and national identity on fangyan - languages like Shanghainese, Cantonese, and dozens... -
Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period by Mary Elizabeth Berry
RRP: $63.00$48.91A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators used the model of the land and cartographic surveys of the newly unified state to observe and order subjects such... -
By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 by Michael J. Green
RRP: $88.20$71.48Soon 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... -
Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China by David Palmer 9780231140669
RRP: $130.20$50.69Qigong--a regimen of body, breath, and mental training exercises--was one of the most widespread cultural and religious movements of late-twentieth-century urban China. The practice was promoted by senior Communist Party leaders as a uniquely Chinese... -
The History of Bukhara by R. N. Frye
RRP: $56.60$43.76Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Narshakhi of Bukhara wrote the history of his city and presented it to the Samanid ruler Nuh ibn Nasr in 943 C.E. (A.H. 332). This is the only book he is known to have written. Narshakhi's ""History of Bukhara"" is unusual among... -
Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line by Michael Szonyi 9780521726405
RRP: $71.38$59.60During the height of the Cold War in the 1950s the small island of Quemoy in the Taiwan Strait was the front line in the military standoff between Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China and Mao Zedong's People's Republic. Local society and culture were... -
Traditional Slovak Folktales by Terry L. Cooper
RRP: $79.78$72.87This delightful collection makes the rich but little-known Slovak folk culture available for English-language readers. Most of the fifty tales assembled here from the collections of folklorist Pavol Dobsinsky are translated into English for the first... -
Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern by Prasenjit Duara 9780742530911
RRP: $92.40$81.98In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the case of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in northeast China from 1932-1945, to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality... -
The Heritage of Central Asia: From Antiquity to the Turkish Expansion by Richard N. Frye 9781558761117
RRP: $52.40$41.52Central Asia in ancient and medieval times was the crossroads of civilization, connecting China with the West. What we now call Central Asia was part of the empires conquered by Cyrus, Alexander the Great, Timur, and their successors during antiquity and... -
(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia by Zoltan Biedermann
RRP: $59.83$50.42(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... -
Ginseng and Borderland: Territorial Boundaries and Political Relations Between Qing China and Choson Korea, 1636-1912 by Seonmin Kim 9780520295995
RRP: $63.00$48.91At 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... -
Nomads and Ottomans in Medieval Anatolia by Rudi Paul Lindner 9780933070127
RRP: $33.58$29.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933070127Author Rudi Paul LindnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Research Institute for Inner Asian StudiesPublisher Research Institute for Inner... -
History of Taiwan: A Captivating Guide to Taiwanese History and the Relationship with the People's Republic of China by Captivating History 9781950922833
RRP: $41.94$25.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922833Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm)... -
Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century Hanchao Lu 9780520243781
RRP: $69.30$63.82How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals--revolution, war, and again... -
Hong Kong: The Road to 1997 by Roger Buckley 9780521469791
RRP: $60.88$49.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Paper Tigers: China's Nuclear Posture Jeffrey G. Lewis (Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA) 9781138907140
RRP: $27.28$25.07China's nuclear arsenal has long been an enigma. The arsenal has historically been small, based almost exclusively on land-based ballistic missiles, maintained at a low level of alert, and married to a no-first-use doctrine - all choices that would seem... -
An Officer and His Holiness by Rani Singh 9780670089192
$37.11In 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... -
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid 9780300093452
$99.92Biological diversity is considered one of today's most urgent environmental concerns, yet the term was first coined only twenty-five years ago. Why did the concept of biological diversity so quickly capture public attention and emerge as a banner issue... -
A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China by Benjamin A. Elman
RRP: $176.40$159.83In this multidimensional analysis, Benjamin A. Elman uses over a thousand newly available examination records from the Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, 1315-1904, to explore the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the civil examination system,... -
The Politics of the Past in Early China by Vincent S. Leung
RRP: $65.08$45.97Why did the past matter so greatly in ancient China? How did it matter and to whom? This is an innovative study of how the past was implicated in the long transition of power in early China, as embodied by the decline of the late Bronze Age aristocracy... -
Across the Great Divide: The Sent-down Youth Movement in Mao's China, 1968-1980 by Emily Honig 9781108712491
RRP: $50.38$42.78The sent-down youth movement, a Maoist project that relocated urban youth to remote rural areas for 're-education', is often viewed as a defining feature of China's Cultural Revolution and emblematic of the intense suffering and hardship of the period... -
Patterns of East Asian History by Charles A. Desnoyers 9780199946464
RRP: $132.28$112.79Covering 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... -
Mad Tales from the Raj: Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 by Waltraud Ernst 9781843318682
RRP: $52.50$49.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843318682Author Waltraud ErnstFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Learning About Asia by Andrea Wang 9781467783477
RRP: $14.68$9.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467783477Author Andrea WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Lerner Publishing GroupPublisher Lerner Publishing Group -
Hsun Tzu: Basic Writings by Hsun Tzu
RRP: $46.20$36.46Hsun Tzu set forth the most complete well-ordered philosophical system of his day. Although basically Confucian, he differed with Mencius, his famous predecessor in the Confucian school, by asserting that the original nature of man is evil. To counteract... -
Nomads: Nomadic Material Culture in the Asian Collections of the Horniman Museum by Ken Teague 9780951814161
RRP: $42.00$34.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951814161Author Ken TeagueFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Horniman Museum & GardensPublisher Horniman Museum & Gardens -
A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949 by Lam Tong 9780520267862
RRP: $149.10$115.61In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the "culture of fact" in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues... -
The Making of Song Dynasty History: Sources and Narratives, 960–1279 CE by Charles Hartman
RRP: $262.50$189.59In 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... -
Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace by Sumantra Bose 9780674018174
RRP: $56.60$44.96In 2002, nuclear-armed adversaries India and Pakistan mobilized for war over the long-disputed territory of Kashmir, sparking panic around the world. Drawing on extensive firsthand experience in the contested region, Sumantra Bose reveals how the... -
Colonial Childhoods: The Juvenile Periphery of India 1850-1945 by Satadru Sen 9781843311782
RRP: $41.98$40.34'Colonial Childhoods' is about the politics of childhood in India between the 1860s and the 1930s. It examines not only the redefinition of the 'child' in the cultural and intellectual climate of colonialism, but also the uses of the child, the parent... -
China and Her Neighbours: Asian Diplomacy from Ancient History to the Present by Michael Tai 9781786997777
RRP: $31.48$17.81For centuries, China was confident in its role as the 'Middle Kingdom', the undisputed cultural, economic and political powerhouse of Asia. Today, with China once again a leading player on the world stage, countries across the continent are facing an... -
Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation, 1881-1919 by Nianshen Song
RRP: $65.08$49.98Until the late nineteenth century, the Chinese-Korean Tumen River border was one of the oldest, and perhaps most stable, state boundaries in the world. Spurred by severe food scarcity following a succession of natural disasters, from the 1860s, countless...