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A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their...

A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world,...

Bending Adversity is a superb work of reportage and the essential book even for those who already feel they know the country well. A both definitive and highly enjoyable book...

Long before the arrival of Western emissaries and powers, East Asian peoples and states were deeply involved in world affairs. In this sweeping account, Warren I. Cohen explores four millennia...

The Mongols, their khans, and the empire they built and ruled in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries exert an enduring fascination. Caricatured as a marauding horde that ravaged surrounding peoples,...

Late one night in December 2008, police arrived at the home of Liu Xiaobo-China's leading dissident, a key figure in the prodemocracy manifesto Charter 08-and took him away. When Liu...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: chipped and worn with some damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book explores 3000 years of Chinese political-military history, drawing parallels with Machiavelli's theories on power and...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: DamagedPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: tears along seam of dust jacketAn unforgettable journey across vast landscapes unfolds as a seasoned traveler boards trains that rattle...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsThis compelling historical account, The Brave Japanese, chronicles the harrowing experiences of Allied prisoners of war...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light shelf wear, minor tearing DJ spine, slight bumping top cornersThis compelling non-fiction work...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. no. 14 of 240 copiesThe Hindustan Way explores the historical and cultural...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsHalf The World: The History And Culture Of China And Japan presents a sweeping historical and...

Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive analysis of China's political and social developments following the 1911 revolution. It explores the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book explores the encounters between Western travelers and China over thirteen centuries, providing insights into the cultural exchanges and...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slipcase - faded. This comprehensive historical account, The Dynasties Of China, chronicles the vast and intricate history of imperial...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: Good Markings: No markingsLord Macartney's An Embassy To China presents a compelling historical account of the pivotal 18th-century British diplomatic mission to the Qing...

In Utopian Ruins Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and...

In 1968 a cohort of politically engaged young academics established the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS). Critical of the field of Asian studies and its complicity with the United...

In The Magic of Concepts Rebecca E. Karl interrogates "the economic" as concept and practice as it was construed historically in China in the 1930s and again in the 1980s...

Full description of Japanese fighting techniques of World War II. Detailed history of the development of Japanese offensive and defensive tactics. Full-colour Japanese uniform artworks. Detailed specifications for Japanese weapons...

Author: Ahmad J SiddiqiBinding: PaperbackPublisher: Self-published, 2021Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling narrative transports readers to the heart...

Author: Abe NaobumiBinding: PaperbackPublisher: IBC Publishing, 2017Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis comprehensive language guide, Furigana Japan: Japanese Texts...

Author: Katharine SimBinding: HardbackPublisher: MICHAEL JOSEPH LTD, 1946Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis evocative memoir, Malayan Landscape, transports readers to the vibrant, complex world of colonial Malaya...

Author: Bernard O'KaneBinding: HardbackPublisher: The American University in Cairo Press, 1995Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor nick/tear on fepStudies In Persian Art And...

Author: Thomas E. KingBinding: HardbackPublisher: Michael Boothy, 1978Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis captivating travelogue, India And The Subcontinent: Overland Odyssey, chronicles an extraordinary journey...

A 2nd revised, expanded and updated version of this book should be available for purchase in a few weeks so I would suggest prospective customers wait until it becomes available....

The Bodleian Library houses one of the oldest institutional collections of Japanese rare books and manuscripts in Europe, dating back to the first half of the seventeenth century. Leading scholars...

Author: Shashi TharoorBinding: PaperbackPublisher: PENGUIN BOOKS, 2017Inglorious Empire: What The British Did To India presents a searing indictment of British colonial rule, meticulously detailing the economic exploitation, cultural destruction, and...

It was one of the most significant developments of the post-war era: China finally abandoning its close relationship with the Soviet Union to begin detente with the USA. Astonishingly, the...

From the time of the Crimean War through the fall of the Tsar, the question of what to do about the Russian empire's large Muslim population was a highly contested...

In 1829, three women and three men were paraded through Osaka and crucified. Placards set up at the execution ground proclaimed their crime: they were devotees of the "pernicious creed"...

Author: Isabel Brown RoseBinding: HardbackPublished: THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETYCondition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis captivating historical novel, Red Blossoms: A Story Of Western India, transports readers to the...

Author: Marco Polo (with an introduction by John Masefield; fully illustrated by Adrian de Friston)Binding: HardbackPublished: J.M. Dent, London, 1929Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings:...

This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman's widely acclaimed study of Japan's environmental policies over the centuries....

The Dalai Lama meets The Player-from the Himalayas to Hollywood, a fantastic journey into the West's longstanding dream of Tibet. What has made remote, mountainous Tibet and its only real...

Author: Quentin CreweBinding: HardbackPublished: MICHAEL JOSEPH, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography, The Last Maharaja: A Biography Of Sawai Man Singh Ii Maharaja Of Jaipur, chronicles the...

Author: Richard AttenboroughBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head., 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling narrative chronicles Richard Attenborough's monumental quest to bring the life of Mahatma Gandhi to...

Author: Edward ArdizzoneBinding: HardbackPublished: Bodley Head., 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Top-edge discoloured from tanning. Indian Diary: 1952-53 chronicles Edward Ardizzone's vivid impressions and personal...

Author: Michel ConanBinding: PaperbackPublished: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2007Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Worn and rubbed spine....

China's resistance to Imperial Japan was the other great internationalist cause of the 'red 1930s', along with the Spanish Civil War. These desperate and bloody struggles were personified in the...

Contributors to this special issue investigate the current state of People's Republic of China (PRC) history, positing that the methods Anglophone, non-Chinese scholars have developed and deployed over the last...

An introduction to the causes and consequences of the Korean War, this history seeks to challenge presumptions about Korea favoured by American politicians and network news pundits. Through a judicious...

In 2019, the United States' trade war with China expanded to blacklist the Chinese tech titan Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The resulting attention showed the information and communications technology (ICT)...

On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and work, in a day-long peaceful protest of police brutality...

Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century communism's...

On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'etat and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces...

Red Silk is a history of China's Yangzi Delta silk industry during the wars, crises, and revolutions of the mid-twentieth century. Based on extensive research in Chinese archives and focused...