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Chinese Mythology: An Introduction by Anne M. Birrell
RRP: £28.00£24.54In Chinese Mythology, Anne Birrell provides English translations of some 300 representative myth narratives selected from over 100 classical texts, many of which have never before been translated into any Western language. Organizing the narratives... -
The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan by Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang 9781108746878
RRP: £24.99£20.15Dominic 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... -
Geishas and the Floating World: Inside Tokyo's Yoshiwara Pleasure District Stephen Longstreet 9784805315439
RRP: £12.99£8.60Geishas and the Floating World returns readers to a lost world of sensuality and seduction, rich with hedonism, abandon, and sexual and personal politics."Floating World" refers to Japan's traditional Geisha pleasure districts, but also to the artistic... -
From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia by Dan Slater
RRP: £30.00£23.29Why some of Asia's authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer-and why others haven'tOver the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization-a spectacular record of development... -
The Red Earth: A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation by Bu Tran Binh
RRP: £12.99£11.77Phu Rieng was one of many French rubber plantations in colonial Vietnam; Tran Tu Binh was one of 17,606 laborers brought to work there in 1927, and his memoir is a straightforward, emotionally searing account of how one Vietnamese youth became involved... -
Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism by Mircea Raianu
RRP: £27.95£22.15An eye-opening portrait of global capitalism spanning 150 years, told through the history of the Tata corporation.Nearly a century old, the grand facade of Bombay House is hard to miss in the historic business district of Mumbai. This is the iconic... -
Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception by Irfan Habib 9781843310259
RRP: £19.99£19.61This volume brings together, for the first time, several of Professor Habib's essays, representing three decades of scholarship and providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history from the standpoint of Marxist... -
The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180 by Paul Magdalino
RRP: £37.99£34.83The reign of Manuel I (1143-1180) marked the high point of the revival of the Byzantine empire under the Comnenian dynasty. It was, however, followed by a rapid decline, leading to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204. This book, the... -
Corner of a Foreign Field :: The British Cemetery at Kathmandu by Mark F. Watson Andrew R. Hall
£36.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789937624145Author Mark F. WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vajra BooksPublisher Vajra BooksWeight(grams) 801gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 20mm -
Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War by Peter Wetzler 9781350120815
RRP: £100.00£55.96Informed Western understanding of Imperial Japan still often conjures up images of militarism, blind devotion to leaders, and fanatical pride in the country. But, as Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War reveals, Western imagination is often... -
China's Cold War Science Diplomacy by Gordon Barrett
RRP: £75.00£67.74During the early decades of the Cold War, the People's Republic of China remained outside much of mainstream international science. Nevertheless, Chinese scientists found alternative channels through which to communicate and interact with counterparts... -
Fear and Fortune: Spirit Worlds and Emerging Economies in the Mongolian Gold Rush by Mette M. High
RRP: £23.99£20.84Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. The widespread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing for a desperately poor and largely pastoralist country where people's lives were disrupted by the end of the... -
Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire by Prashant Kidambi
RRP: £19.49£16.73Cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the English, it has famously been said. But India was represented by a cricket team long before it became a nation. Conceived by an unlikely coalition of imperial and local elites, it took twelve... -
China in World History, Third Edition by Samuel Adrian M. Msamu Adshead 9780312225650
RRP: £44.99£44.97This new edition provides a new preface to this highly popular book. The theme of the book is China's relations with the non-Chinese world, not only political and economic, but cultural, social and technological as well. It seeks to show that China's... -
Hezbollah: Mobilisation and Power by Aurelie Daher
RRP: £30.00£27.35Forty years after its foundation, Lebanese Hezbollah remains an organization difficult to understand. An Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel or the first Arab national Resistance to have ever defeated Tel-Aviv's troops, a patriotic... -
Mountbatten's Samurai: Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Forces Under British Control in Southeast Asia, 1945-1945 by Stephen B. Connor 9780957630574
RRP: £23.99£23.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957630574Author Stephen B. ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Seventh CitadelPublisher Seventh Citadel -
The Social Life of Opium in China by Zheng Yangwen
RRP: £22.99£19.56In a remarkable and broad-ranging narrative, Yangwen Zheng's book explores the history of opium consumption in China from 1483 to the late twentieth century. The story begins in the mid-Ming dynasty, when opium was sent as a gift by vassal states and... -
Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War by Frank Ledwidge 9780300205268
RRP: £10.99£9.37In this follow-up to the extremely successful Losing Small Wars, Frank Ledwidge analyses the cost - both financial and human - of Britain's involvement in the Afghanistan war. With the aid of interviews, on-the-ground research and countless Freedom of... -
Sources of Chinese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600 by Wm. Theodore De Bary
RRP: £42.00£34.04A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1 has been widely used and praised for almost forty years as an authoritative resource for scholars and students... -
Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield 9780520281783
RRP: £25.00£19.99Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different... -
The Mongol Empire by Timothy May
RRP: £29.99£24.56This 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),... -
Life along the Silk Road: Second Edition by Susan Whitfield 9780520280595
RRP: £25.00£19.59In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support... -
Discovering the Ottomans by Ilber Ortayli 9781847740083
RRP: £9.99£6.75What was the significance of the Ottoman Empire? What kind of lives did people live? What lessons can be learnt from the civilization that the Ottomans created? What does the Ottoman Empire mean to us today? One of Turkey's leading historians, Ilber... -
Silk Road: Monks, Warriors & Merchants by Luce Boulnois
RRP: £17.95£9.92To the modern reader, the Silk Road conjures up images of fabled cities and exotic lands, of long-gone empires and great conquerors. Place names such as Samarkand, Bukhara, Khotan or Chang'an continue to fascinate with the richness of their past. In this... -
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or the After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering by W. Y. Evans-Wentz
RRP: £14.99£11.35The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that, according to legend, Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century. The guru hid his books in stones, lakes, and pillars because the Tibetans of that day and... -
The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy by Yasuo Yuasa 9780791416242
£25.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791416242Author Yasuo YuasaFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187 by Nicholas Morton 9780198824541
RRP: £95.00£81.65The Crusader States and their Neighbours explores the military history of the Medieval Near East, piecing together the fault-lines of conflict which entangled this much-contested region. This was an area where ethnic, religious, dynastic, and commercial... -
War and Secession: Pakistan, India, and the Creation of Bangladesh by Richard Sisson
RRP: £29.00£22.54A decade after the 1971 wars in South Asia, the principal decisionmakers were still uncertain why wars so clearly unwanted had occurred. The authors reconstruct the complex decisionmaking process attending the break-up of Pakistan and the subsequent war... -
India: The Ancient Past: A History of the Indian Subcontinent from c. 7000 BCE to CE 1200 Burjor Avari (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 9781138828216
RRP: £43.99£38.44India: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture nine thousand years ago up until the beginning of the... -
Bright Eyes of Danger: An Account of the Anglo-Sikh Wars 1845-1849 by Bill Whitburn 9781909982215
RRP: £45.00£32.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982215Author Bill WhitburnFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Taoist Experience: An Anthology by Livia Kohn 9780791415801
£28.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791415801Author Livia KohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception by Irfan Habib 9781843310617
RRP: £70.00£67.51This volume brings together, for the first time, several of Professor Habib's essays, representing three decades of scholarship and providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history from the standpoint of Marxist... -
The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India by Sheldon Pollock 9780520260030
RRP: £41.00£33.28In 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... -
Remembering the Forgotten War: The Korean War Through Literature and Art Philip West 9780765606976
RRP: £53.99£46.87In contrast to the many books that use military, diplomatic, and historic language in analyzing the Korean War, this book takes a cultural approach that emphasizes the human dimension of the war, an approach that especially features Korean voices. There... -
The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost by Lester W. Grau
RRP: £32.95£31.29The War in Afghanistan (1979-1989) has been called ""the Soviet Union's Vietnam War,"" a conflict that pitted Soviet regulars against a relentless, elusive, and ultimately unbeatable Afghan guerrilla force (the mujahideen). The hit-and-run bloodletting... -
Structure of the Seraglio: European Fantasies of Asiatic Despotism by Alain Grosrichard
RRP: £17.99£17.41Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) has justly attracted great respect and attention for its account of Western perceptions and representations of the Orient, but the English-speaking world has for too long been unaware of another classic in the same field... -
Kanji Pict-o-Graphix: Over 1,000 Japanese Kanji and Kana Mnemonics by Michael Rowley 9780962813702
RRP: £14.99£13.10"Kanji Pict-o-Graphix offers an engaging way to learn and memorize Kanji."-Rocky Mountain Region Japan Project "A fun book for studying kanji. The illustration reveals more of its contents and method than any description ever could."-Japan Times "It is... -
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... -
The Specters of Algeria by Hwang Yeo Jung
RRP: £13.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739822569Author Hwang Yeo JungFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Honford StarPublisher Honford Star -
The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia by Sheila Miyoshi Jager 9780674983397
RRP: £33.95£28.56A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars.In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games": one, well known, pitted...