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From Yalta to Panmunjom: Truman's Diplomacy and the Four Powers, 1945-1953 by Qingzhao Hua
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34"Hua's riveting account of Truman's eight years from 1945 to 1953. Hua is a born storyteller.... He confers depth and sharpness on his writing by placing events within historical context." -China... -
Informal Empire in Crisis: British Diplomacy and the Chinese Customs Succession, 1927-1929 by Martyn Atkins
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.14The Inspector-General of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service was, without doubt, the highest-ranking foreigner in the Chinese Government. His position at the heart of China's fiscal, commercial and... -
Still Hear the Wound: Toward an Asia, Politics, and Art to Come-Selected Essays by Rebecca Jennison
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78Still Hear the Wound: Towards an Asia, Politics, Art To Come introduces English language readers for the first time to work by an emerging group of critics and artists addressing the legacies of... -
In Search of the Free Individual: The History of the Russian-Soviet Soul by Svetlana Alexievich 9781501726903
Booksplease Price: £5.03"I love life in its living form, life that's found on the street, in human conversations, shouts, and moans." So begins this speech delivered in Russian at Cornell University by Svetlana Alexievich,... -
Japan's Renaissance: The Politics of the Muromachi Bakufu by Kenneth Alan Grossberg 9781885445087
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37First published in 1981, Japan's Renaissance is a detailed and exhaustively researched account of the regime of Japan's second shogunate, and also an agile comparative analysis of the political... -
![Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series "Heshang" by Xiaokang Su 9780939657544](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1640876/5178212/9780939657544__46720.1724029035.jpg?c=1 "Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series "Heshang" by Xiaokang Su 9780939657544")
Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series "Heshang" by Xiaokang Su 9780939657544
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34Perhaps the most daring TV documentary series ever produced in mainland China, which directly affected the thinking of Chinese youth on the eve of the 1989 democracy movement. This richly-annotated... -
The Role of Central Banking in China's Economic Reform by Carsten Holz 9780939657599
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34"A thoroughly researched study of the banking system over the period from 1978 to early 1990.... Holz's work deserves to be read widely by analysts from both the traditional and econometric schools... -
The Naked Tree: A Novel by Wan-Suh Park
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58A coming-of-age novel set during the Korean War, by Pak Wan-Suh, one of Korea's leading contemporary writers. The award-winning author of more than twenty novels, and numerous short stories and... -
Transformation, Miracles, and Mischief: The Mountain Priest Plays of Kyogen by Morley 9780939657629
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.34This book is an introduction to the kyogen genre and includes translations of eight plays about the mountain priest character, as well as the history of the acting tradition and an analysis of kyogen... -
To Achieve Security and Wealth: The Qing Imperial State and the Economy, 1644-1911 by Jane Kate Leonard 9780939657568
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34The studies in this collection re-examine the role of the Qing state in the private economy. They show in a variety of cases how the interaction between the two helped the state achieve its goals of... -
Five Plays by Kishida Kunio by Kunio Kishida 9781885445513
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Although he has been touted as Japan's finest prewar playwright, few of Kishida Kunio's works have been translated into English. This volume brings together for the first time representative plays... -
Charisma and Community Formation in Medieval Japan: The Case of the Yugyo-ha (1300-1700) by S. A. Thornton 9781885445025
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37The Yugyo-ha achieved success by basing its religious authority on a combination of Pure Land mysticism and the practices of fundraising hijiri. Between 1300 and 1700, the Pure Land Buddhist... -
More Than A Momentary Nightmare: The Yokohama Incident and Wartime in Japan by Janice Matsumura
Booksplease Price: £15.68This work anayzes events surrounding the Yokohama incident (1942-1945), which led to the arrest of dozens of journalists and researchers in Japan during the Pacific War period. Utilizing government... -
Day-Shine: Poems by Hyon-Jong Chong
Booksplease Price: £11.66Powerfully inventive poems of love in contemporary life by Chong Hyon-jong, one of the most respected poets writing in Korea. The novelty of his poetic language with its narrative lyricism and... -
The Lioness Roars: Shrew Stories from Late Imperial China by Yenna Wu
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47This anthology offers translations of seven stories and one novella from the 17th and 18th centuries, with a critical introduction and bibliography. To date there are no translations from the... -
Across the Perilous Sea: Japanese Trade with China and Korea from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries by Charlotte Verschuer
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.05Originally published as Le commerce exterieur du Japon des origines au XVIe siecle in 1988, this new edition of the landmark French study chronicles Japan's transformation from an importer of... -
![Early One Spring: An Intermediate Chinese Reader to Accompany the Film Video "February" by Wang](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1345888/1345473/9781885445124__27429.1695297079.jpg?c=1 "Early One Spring: An Intermediate Chinese Reader to Accompany the Film Video "February" by Wang")
Early One Spring: An Intermediate Chinese Reader to Accompany the Film Video "February" by Wang
Booksplease Price: £8.14Adapted from the movie and screenplay of the same name by director Xie Tieli, this intermediate-advanced Chinese language film guide/reader helps students make the difficult transition from the... -
Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music by Andrew F. Jones 9780939657575
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58The first comprehensive study of Chinese popular music in a Western language. Drawing on extensive interviews with singers, songwriters and critics, as well as cultural, sociological, musical, and... -
Kojiki-den by Motoori Norinaga 9781885445872
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801) believed that the intersection of time, language, meaning, and culture in the Kojiki had the power ro reveal the voice of archaic Japan. Japan's self-image was changed... -
Metaphorical Circuit: Negotiations Between Literature and Science in 20th-Century Japan by Joseph A. Murphy 9781885445193
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Metaphorical Circuit argues that the division of knowledge between literature and science in the modern university produced a necessity to choose that became a central, animating tension for Japanese... -
Annotated Japanese Literary Gems: Stories by Natsume Soseki, Tomioka Taeko, and Inoue Yasushi by Kyoko Selden
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47This is the second volume of Annotated Japanese Literary Gems, which makes available representative examples of Japanese short stories and novellas from Meiji to the present. This multi-volume set of... -
Frozen Moments: Writings on Kabuki, 1966-2001 by Samuel L. Leiter 9781885445414
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47A collection of fifteen essays written over nearly four decades by one of America's best-known scholars of Japan's kabuki theatre. Illustrated with numerous photographs, prints, and line drawings, it... -
Japan's National Security: Structures, Norms and Policy Responses in a Changing World by Peter J. Katzenstein 9780939657582
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Japan's National Security offers a detailed examination of Japan's distinctive security policy. It traces in considerable detail the evolution of Japan's approach to the economic, political and... -
Pining Wind: A Cycle of No Plays by Royall Tyler 9780939657179
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34Translations of 19 noh and nine kyogen plays seeking to produce English poetry which reproduces the 'texture of the Japanese'... an experiment in translating the 'untranslatable' word play which... -
Visions for the Masses: Chinese Shadow Plays from Shaanxi and Shanxi by Chen 9781885445216
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47This collection of Chinese shadow plays contains seven selected traditional shadow plays from the Qing and early Republican periods from Shaanxi and Shanxi. A minor operatic genre, the Chinese shadow... -
The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster and the Future of Renewable Energy by Naoto Kan 9781501726934
Booksplease Price: £5.03In a speech delivered in Japanese at Cornell University, Naoto Kan describes the harrowing days after a cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami led to the meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima... -
Twelve Plays of the Noh and Kyogen Theaters by Karen Brazell 9780939657001
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56"This remarkable anthology of... plays is a harbinger of a new age in Japanese theatre studies and will be considered a pivotal work in the future.... The closing essay by editor Karen Brazell on... -
Land of Volcanic Ash: A Play in Two Parts by Sakae Kubo 9780939657834
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Kubo Sakae's Land of Volcanic Ash (Kazanbaichi) is recognized as the major socialist realist drama of pre-war Japan. The play, which describes the struggles of a reform-minded intellectual in the... -
Nanking Letters 1949 by Knight Biggerstaff 9780939657230
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81First printed in 1979, this series of illuminating letters was written between April and August, 1949, describing Nanking before, during and immediately after the Communist takeover. The author was... -
International Perspectives on Yanagita Kunio and Japanese Folklore Studies by J. Victor Koschmann 9780939657377
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.65A collection of essays by North American and Japanese scholars on the life, work and influence of Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962), the founder of Japanese Folklore Studies. In addition to providing... -
Warrior Ghost Plays from the Japanese Noh Theater by Chifumi Shimazaki 9780939657605
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.14Translations of six shura (battle)-Noh that have for the main character the ghost of a warrior whose story is told in the Tale of Heike. Each Noh has a detailed introduction and footnotes.About the... -
Takeuchi Yoshimi: Displacing the West by Richard F. Calichman 9781885445209
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91This work focuses on the writings of the postwar Japanese thinker and sinologist Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977). It presents itself less as an intellectual biography than as a series of explorative... -
Playing with Fire: A Novel by Chong-Rae Cho 9781885445858
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58In this work, the smoldering hatred of the Korean War period resurfaces decades later in the form of a ruthless quest for justice. The main character, a successful Seoul businessman, has a secret... -
Piercing the Structure of Tradition: Flute Performance, Continuity, and Freedom in the Music of Noh Drama by Mariko Anno
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £48.32What does freedom sound like in the context of traditional Japanese theater? Where is the space for innovation, and where can this kind of innovation be located in the rigid instrumentation of the... -
Kitahara Hakushu: His Life and Poetry by Margaret Benton Fukusawa 9780939657650
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34The first full-length work in English on Kitahara Hakushu (1885-1942), a leading poet of modern Japan. In addition to a thorough recounting of the poet's life and times, the author provides numerous... -
Backed against the Sea: A Novel by Wang 9780939657674
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.87Written as the ludicrous and disturbing ramblings of an errant, pseudo-intellectual urbanite secluding himself from the underworld in an impoverished coastal village of Taiwan in the early 1960s,... -
The Prophet and Other Stories by Chong-Jun Yi 9781885445018
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34Yi Ch'ong-Jun was born in 1939 and graduated from the department of German language and literature at Seoul National University in 1966. He has long been recognized as one of Korea's most prolific... -
The Prophet and Other Stories by Chong-Jun Yi 9781885445612
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.34Yi Ch'ong-Jun was born in 1939 and graduated from the department of German language and literature at Seoul National University in 1966. He has long been recognized as one of Korea's most prolific... -
Sending the Ship Out to the Stars: Poems of Park Je-chun by Chang Soo Ko
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Park Je-chun is a major poet in Korea today. His works are marked by a poetic imagination and a sensibility which draw largely on Korean Buddhist and Taoist traditions, as well as Korean classical... -
Ode to Stone by Shiro Hara
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34Coming from the country where short, concise poetry is celebrated, Hara Shiro's Ode to Stone is an unusually lengthy contribution to modern Japanese poetry. A recent winner of the Gendai Shijin Sho,...