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A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World by Rana Mitter
RRP: £17.49Booksplease Price: £13.80China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese... -
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.99Winner of the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when... -
The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China by Rana Mitter
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.49A powerful element in twentieth-century Chinese politics has been the myth of Chinese resistance to Japan's seizure of Manchuria in 1931. Investigating the shifting alliances of key players in that... -
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544334502Author Rana MitterFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £14.00A Foreign Affairs Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year"Insightful...a deft, textured work of intellectual history."-Foreign Affairs"A timely insight into how memories and ideas about the... -
Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination by Robert Bickers
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEThe extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful country it is today.Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be... -
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper 9780241957943
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.11SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021AN ECONOMIST AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Compelling and highly original ... The Asia that we see today is the product of the 'underground'... -
Modern China A Very Short Introduction Editor 9780198931102
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring China is a country of huge economic influence, with ambitions to alter the balance of power between East and West. At the same time, many of... -
Across the Blocs: Exploring Comparative Cold War Cultural and Social History Patrick Major 9780714684642
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80This book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high diplomacy, but as social and cultural history. It makes cross-cultural comparisons of the socio cultural... -
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 18: Sixth Series by Ian W. Archer 9780521429658
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £45.30The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians... -
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell 9781035091324
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26‘A gripping read as well as an important one’ – Rana Mitter, The GuardianIn The Opium War, professor of Modern Chinese History and Literature Julia Lovell offers a compelling account of the causes... -
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition by Jonathan Fenby
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years... -
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'A gripping read as well as an important one.' Rana Mitter, Guardian In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded... -
Tower of Skulls: From the Marco Polo Bridge Incident to the Fall of Corregidor, July 1937-May 1942 by Richard B. Frank
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.49In 1937 the swath of the globe from India to Japan contained half the world's population but only two nations with real sovereignty (Japan and Thailand) and two with compromised sovereignty (China... -
Radical: A Life of My Own by Xiaolu Guo 9781529920024
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.37The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - playful, provocative and original, it's her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her own'When it comes to spinning light... -
The China Questions 2: Critical Insights into US-China Relations Maria Adele Carrai 9780674299344
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £17.90"A timely book...An impressive roster of authors collectively provides a broad overview of the many aspects of the relationship, going well beyond diplomacy and politics. The essays also work... -
The Rule of Laws: A 4000-year Quest to Order the World by Fernanda Pirie
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'A fascinating, comprehensive study that forces us to think again about what law is, and why it matters ... For those who want to understand why human society has emerged as it has, this is essential... -
Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations by Odd Arne Westad 9780674292321
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.77"The relationship between China and Korea is one of the most important, and least understood, in Asia. With the wisdom and clarity we have come to expect from Westad, this book illuminates the long... -
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future Chun Han Wong 9781472158529
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary ReviewFrom one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and... -
China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed by Andrew G. Walder
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.63China's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise... -
Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation by Norman Smith
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Norman Smith reveals the literary world of Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo, 1932-45) and examines the lives, careers, and literary legacies of seven prolific Chinese women writers during the... -
Chinese Painting and Its Audiences by Craig Clunas 9780691171937
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.09What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon... -
The Gate and the Wall: A History of China and Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £6.00'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly... -
The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly... -
The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China by Timothy Brook 9780691250403
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.99How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history's mighty empiresIn 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians... -
Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937 by Maggie Clinton 9780822363620
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46In Revolutionary Nativism Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of fascist organizations that operated under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) during the 1920s and... -
Portraits: the forgotten idividuals who shaped history by Alastair Benn 9789189425699
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.00This selection of Portraits gives pride of place to the secondary figures who make the wheels of history whir and thrum. They include Churchill's half-forgotten right-hand man, a leading light of the... -
Grand Strategy and the Rise of China: Made in America by Dr Zeno Leoni
Booksplease Price: £25.25During four decades of fast-paced economic growth, China's ascent has reverberated across the full social spectrum, from international relations to technology, from trade to global health, from... -
Against Political Equality: The Confucian Case by Tongdong Bai 9780691195995
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.03How a hybrid Confucian-engendered form of governance might solve today's political problemsWhat might a viable political alternative to liberal democracy look like? In Against Political Equality,... -
Conceptions of Chinese Democracy: Reading Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo by David J. Lorenzo 9781421409177
Booksplease Price: £32.97"Conceptions of Chinese Democracy" provides a coherent and critical introduction to the democratic thought of three fathers of modern Taiwan-Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo-in a... -
Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937 by Maggie Clinton
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In Revolutionary Nativism Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of fascist organizations that operated under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) during the 1920s and... -
Against Political Equality: The Confucian Case by Tongdong Bai
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.53How a hybrid Confucian-engendered form of governance might solve today's political problemsWhat might a viable political alternative to liberal democracy look like? In Against Political Equality,... -
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future Chun Han Wong 9781472158512
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.37'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary ReviewFrom one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and... -
The Global and Regional in China's Nation-Formation by Prasenjit Duara
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66China's history tends to be studied from a national perspective only. The Global and Regional in China's Nation-Formation attempts to train our eyes to see the picture of China less as a... -
Norms, Storytelling and International Institutions in China: The Imperative to Narrate by Xiaoyu Lu 9783030567095
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book is a political ethnography of norm diffusion and storytelling through international institutions in China. It is driven by intellectual puzzles and realpolitik questions: are we converging... -
China and Japan: Facing History by Ezra F Vogel
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £20.30A Financial Times "Summer Books" Selection"Will become required reading."-Times Literary Supplement"Elegantly written...with a confidence that comes from decades of deep research on the topic,... -
The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam by Christopher E. Goscha
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S JOHN K. FAIRBANK PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017'This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English. It challenges... -
Haunted by Chaos: China's Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping, With a New Afterword by Sulmaan Wasif Khan 9780674271173
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.56An American Interest Book of the Year"Readers will not find a shrewder analysis as to why the Chinese act as they do."-Robert D. Kaplan"An outstanding contribution to our understanding of that most... -
Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers by Xuetong Yan 9780691190082
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.20A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for the international orderWhile work in international relations... -
A Short History of Beijing by Jonathan Clements 9781913368463
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Before China's capital became a sprawling megacity and international centre of business and culture, its fortunes fluctuated under a dozen dynasties. It has been a capital for several states,...