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Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary Review From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the...
Letters From Iwo Jima: The Japanese Eyewitness Stories That Inspired
Clint Eastwood was so moved by this account of the Japanese defence of Iwo Jima that he ended up making two films in 2006. Flags of Our Fathers, based on...
Yamato Dynasty: the Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family
The book titled Yamato Dynasty: the Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family by the author Sterling Seagrave. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
A Journey Through Ancient China
$25.00 AUD
The book titled A Journey Through Ancient China by the author Hubert Delahaye. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Fire Under The Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner
A wonderfully constructed account of bravery and resolve in the face of brutal injustice. In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces...
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF...
Stay Alive, My Son
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In Stay Alive, My Son , Pin Yathay provides an unforgettable testament of the horror that ensued and a gripping account of personal courage, sacrifice and survival. Documenting the 27...
Hokusai And Hiroshige: Great Japanese Prints From The James A. Michener Collection, Honolulu Academy Of Arts
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: DJ repaired with tapes. Otherwise, clean and bright copy. This authoritative volume presents a stunning collection of Japanese...
Vermilion Gate: A Family Story of Communist China
Aiping Mu was born to parents prominent in the Communist hierarchy - her father was Political Commissar for the Beijing region and her mother ran one of the city's universities...
India: from Midnight to the Millennium
$10.00 AUD
Few books in recent years, if any, offer such a comprehensive overview of what ails India, its politicians and its people; and few writers, apart from Nirad Chaudhury and V....
Angkor: Guide
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageUnknown
The Idea of India
Republished with a new introduction - one of the key books on modern India 'A rich analysis of contemporary India ... spirited, combative and insight-filled' Amartya Sen, TLS The Idea...
The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment To Children
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Small triangular cut on fep. This insightful sociological study, The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment To Children, meticulously...
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han
In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its...
The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history "Almost every page contains an eye-opening detail. . . . The Great Transformation evokes the multiple...
Korea: A New History of South and North
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day Korea has a long, riveting history-it is also a divided nation. South...
From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia
An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by...
The Japan Reader: Imperial Japan 1800-1945
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis comprehensive historical anthology, The Japan Reader: Imperial Japan 1800-1945, chronicles the complex and...
Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, From Angkor Wat To East Timor
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis comprehensive academic encyclopedia, Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia From Angkor Wat To East Timor, Volume Three R-Z, presents an authoritative collection...
Living Crafts Of Malaysia
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Slipcase:wornLiving Crafts Of Malaysia presents a vibrant panorama of the traditional artistry and cultural heritage of Malaysia. Mubin...
India
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsThis expansive photographic survey chronicles the architectural grandeur and cultural diversity of the Indian subcontinent through a series...
Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet
Exploring the significance of Tibetan mandalas from their ancient origins to the present day, this gorgeously illustrated volume provides a contemporary perspective on a centuries-old Buddhist model of the universe...
Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea
In Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea Namhee Lee explores memory construction and history writing in post-1987 South Korea. The massive neoliberal reconstruction of all...
Revisiting Women's Cinema: Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture
In Revisiting Women's Cinema , Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women...
Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture
In Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture , Alessandro Russo presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of...
Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China
$20.00 AUD
Begun by the author when he was eighty-seven years old and mourning the loss of his wife, Our Story is a graphic memoir like no other: a celebration of a...
Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year A BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year "Excellent...A fascinating, authoritative account of the paths for China's future explored during a...
Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
"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...
Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought
Even now something is missing from the history of Vietnam. Behind the burning sense of horror and betrayal the personal stories remain untold. No one has bothered to talk to...
Om: An Indian Pilgrimage
The book titled Om: An Indian Pilgrimage by the author Geoffrey Moorhouse. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Russian Album
$12.00 AUD
Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Award In The Russian Album , Michael Ignatieff chronicles five generations of his Russian family, beginning in 1815. Drawing on family diaries, on...
The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power
A vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the present The relationship between Britain and China has shaped the modern world. Chinese art, philosophy and...
The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history "Almost every page contains an eye-opening detail. . . . The Great Transformation evokes the multiple...
How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding
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...
China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
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,...
East Asia at the Center: Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the
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 Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to
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,...
I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo
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...
The Chinese Machiavelli: 3000 Years of Chinese Statecraft
$30.00 AUD
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...
Riding The Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
$35.00 AUD
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...
The Reluctant Superpower: Understanding India And Its Aspirations
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis insightful collection of essays, The Reluctant Superpower: Understanding India And Its Aspirations, presents...
The Brave Japanese
$50.00 AUD
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...
Trial And Error: The Autobiography Of Chaim Weizmann
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Protective covering over cloth boards (removable), light bumping to corners, front...
This Is Japan
$30.00 AUD
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...
A History Of Japanese Literature: The First Thousand Years
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis comprehensive academic work chronicles the rich tapestry of Japanese literary tradition from its earliest origins through its first millennium....
Kyoto: A Contemplative Guide
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsThis guide offers a reflective approach to exploring Kyoto, encouraging readers to engage with its rich culture...
Huang Naishang: A Chinese Christian Reformer in Late Qing and Early Republican China (SIGNED)
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Signed with inscriptionThis book explores the life and impact of Huang Naishang, a key figure in the Chinese Christian community during...
Plain Tales From The Raj
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsPlain Tales From The Raj chronicles the intricate tapestry of life during the British Raj, presenting a vivid mosaic of personal experiences...