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Home Is Not Here by Wang Gungwu
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.67One of Asia's most important public intellectuals, Wang Gungwu is best-known for his explorations of Chinese history in the long view, and for his writings on the Chinese overseas. Here the historian... -
Wang Gungwu: Junzi: Scholar-Gentleman in Conversation with Asad-UL Iqbal Latif by Wang Gungwu 9789814311533
Booksplease Price: £41.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814311533Author Wang GungwuFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint ISEASPublisher ISEAS -
Home Is not Here by Wang Gungwu 9789813252905
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.88As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has always been some grand and even intimidating universe that I wanted to unpick and explain to... -
Nanyang: Essays on Heritage by Wang Gungwu 9789814786515
Booksplease Price: £24.62This volume is a book of reflections and encounters about the region that the Chinese knew as Nanyang. The essays in it look back at the years of uncertainty after the end of World War II and explore... -
Home Is Where We Are by Wang Gungwu 9789813251328
Booksplease Price: £22.35Does home have to be a country or a city? ... Or is home this house or that? We have been fortunate...We seemed always to have been home.Wang Gungwu, historian of grand themes and broad perspectives,... -
Wang Gungwu: Educator And Scholar by Kok Khoo Phua 9789814436625
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £50.53The name Wang Gungwu is iconic. He is one of the most eminent scholars and historians in Asia today and is renowned for his scholarship on the history of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, and... -
Chineseness And Modernity In A Changing China: Essays In Honour Of Professor Wang Gungwu by Yong-nian Zheng
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £79.50This book is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Wang Gungwu. Professor Wang is not only a great historian on Chinese history in general and the Chinese overseas in particular, but has much... -
Wang Gungwu: Educator And Scholar by Kok Khoo Phua 9789814439930
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.79The name Wang Gungwu is iconic. He is one of the most eminent scholars and historians in Asia today and is renowned for his scholarship on the history of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, and... -
Diasporic Chinese Ventures: The Life and Work of Wang Gungwu by Gregor Benton 9781138967656
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This collection of essays by and about Wang Gungwu brings together some of Wang's most recent and representative writing about the ethnic Chinese outside China giving the reader a deeper... -
China and International Relations: The Chinese View and the Contribution of Wang Gungwu by Zheng Yongnian 9780415625463
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.67Despite Beijing's repeated assurance that China's rise will be "peaceful", the United States, Japan and the European Union as well as many of China's Asian neighbours feel uneasy about the rise of... -
The Eurasian Core and Its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the History of the World by Ooi Kee Beng 9789814519854
Booksplease Price: £29.32With China's transformation into a republic after two millennia as an empire as the starting point, Ooi Kee Beng prompts renowned historian Wang Gungwu through a series of interviews to discuss... -
No Borders: Journeys Across Islands And Continents Gungwu Wang 9789819829071
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.76No Borders: Journeys Across Islands and Continents is the autobiography of eminent historian Professor Wang Gungwu. Respected the world over for his interpretation of the Sinic civilisation, he... -
No Borders: Journeys Across Islands And Continents Gungwu Wang 9789819829392
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54No Borders: Journeys Across Islands and Continents is the autobiography of eminent historian Professor Wang Gungwu. Respected the world over for his interpretation of the Sinic civilisation, he... -
Colonization and Epistemic Injustice In Higher Education: Precursors to Decolonization by Felix Maringe 9781032018911
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.95Providing coherence in understanding the role that education and higher education played in the colonizing purposes of the rich nations of the North, this book draws from multiple geopolitical spaces... -
Global Diasporas: An Introduction Robin Cohen (University of Oxford, UK) 9781032188454
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Following its initial publication in 1997, Global Diasporas: An Introduction was central to the emergence of diaspora studies and quickly established itself as the leading textbook in the field. This... -
In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama Eric Tagliacozzo 9780691264561
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern worldIn the centuries leading up to our... -
Burmese Administrative Cycles: Anarchy and Conquest, c. 1580-1760 by Victor B. Lieberman 9780691612812
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.90This book is the first detailed study of administration and politics in premodern Burma and one of the few works of its kind for mainland Southeast Asia. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton... -
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy by Kenneth Pomeranz
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.13A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the WestThe Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did... -
Global History And Migrations Gungwu Wang 9780813331249
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £54.65Humans have been on the move for millennia. They have done so slowly as well as quickly, sometimes involuntarily, sometimes transported by force, often relocated at great cost in lives, but they have... -
In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama by Eric Tagliacozzo
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.55A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern worldIn the centuries leading up to our... -
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy by Daniel A. Bell 9780691166452
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.00Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three... -
Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: War, Trade, Science and Governance by Gungwu Wang
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.43Chinese encounters with the British were more than merely those between two great powers. There was the larger canvas of the Empire and Commonwealth where the two peoples traded and interacted. In... -
China Under Mongol Rule by John D. Langlois 9780691615134
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £62.09Encompassing history, politics, religion, and art, this collection of essays on Chinese civilization under the Mongols challenges the previously held views that Mongol rule had only negative... -
Studies in the Social History of China and South-East Asia: Essays in Memory of Victor Purcell by Jerome Ch'en 9780521133746
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44Victor Purcell died in 1965 shortly after retiring from his teaching post in Cambridge. This 1970 memorial volume is a tribute to the wide range of his interests by friends, colleagues and former... -
East Asian Institute, The: A Goh Keng Swee Legacy by Jessica Loon 9789814740685
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.38This book record achievements of the East Asian Institute (EAI), one of the top five think tanks in Asia under the leadership of Dr Goh Keng Swee, Professors Wang Gungwu, John Wong and Zheng Yongnian... -
Reluctant Exiles?: Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese by Ronald Skeldon 9781563244322
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28This work presents an assessment of the migration from Hong Kong that has occurred since the second half of the 1980s. This pronounced outflow of highly educated people (a "brain drain") is having a... -
Singapore And Hong Kong: Comparative Perspectives On The 20th Anniversary Of Hong Kong's Handover To China by . Institute Of Advanced Studies, Ntu, S'pore 9789813237926
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.76Political, social and economic transformations have marked the 20 years since Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of China. To mark the historic handover, the Institute of Advanced... -
Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: War, Trade, Science and Governance by Gungwu Wang 9780521826396
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £70.20Chinese encounters with the British were more than merely those between two great powers. There was the larger canvas of the Empire and Commonwealth where the two peoples traded and interacted. In... -
East Asian Institute, The: A Goh Keng Swee Legacy by Jessica Loon 9789814725712
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £27.18This book record achievements of the East Asian Institute (EAI), one of the top five think tanks in Asia under the leadership of Dr Goh Keng Swee, Professors Wang Gungwu, John Wong and Zheng Yongnian... -
China and the New International Order by Gungwu Wang 9780415441117
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £92.67This book explores China's place in the 'new international order', from both the international perspective and from the perspective within China. It discusses how far the new international order, as... -
China and the New International Order by Gungwu Wang
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.95This book explores China's place in the 'new international order', from both the international perspective and from the perspective within China. It discusses how far the new international order, as... -
Historians' Autobiographies as Historiographical Inquiry: A Global Perspective by Jaume Aurell 9781009396905
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.52This Element analyses the autobiographies of historians from a global perspective and looks at all eras, from antiquity to the present day. It includes twenty autobiographies: Caesar's and Lucian of... -
Confucianism, Chinese History And Society by Sin Kiong Wong 9789814374477
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.39Confucianism, Chinese History and Society is a collection of essays authored by world renowned scholars on Chinese studies, including Professor Ho Peng Yoke (Needham Research Institute), Professor... -
ISEAS at 50: Understanding Southeast Asia Past and Present by Lee Hsien Loong 9789814818995
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.362018 marks the 50th anniversary of the ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute. The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, as it was then called, was established in 1968 by then Deputy Prime Minister Dr Goh... -
Lee Kuan Yew Through The Eyes Of Chinese Scholars by Gungwu Wang 9789813202313
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.34Lee Kuan Yew through the Eyes of Chinese Scholars is a compilation of essays by highly-respected Chinese scholars in which they evaluate the life, work and philosophy of Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime... -
Lee Kuan Yew Through The Eyes Of Chinese Scholars by Chen Ning Yang 9789813209374
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.82Lee Kuan Yew through the Eyes of Chinese Scholars is a compilation of essays by highly-respected Chinese scholars in which they evaluate the life, work and philosophy of Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime... -
Thailand: A Struggle for the Nation by Charnvit Kasetsiri 9789815011241
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £34.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsAs a historian, Charnvit Kasetsiri is not satisfied simply to have found an instructive angle from which to explore... -
Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours by Victor H. Mair 9789814620536
Booksplease Price: £24.62At a time when China-Southeast Asia relationships are undergoing profound changes, it is pleasing to have a volume which examines the interactions between China and the polities and societies to the... -
Living With Civilisations: Reflections On Southeast Asia's Local And National Cultures by Gungwu Wang 9789811285028
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Professor Wang Gungwu is the Institute of Policy Studies' 12th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of his four IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered from November... -
Living With Civilisations: Reflections On Southeast Asia's Local And National Cultures by Gungwu Wang 9789811284847
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.76Professor Wang Gungwu is the Institute of Policy Studies' 12th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of his four IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered from November...