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Worm-Eaten Hinges: Tensions and Turmoil in Shanghai, 1988-9
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Author: Joan Grantbinding: SoftbackPublished: Hyland House, 1991Condition: book: Good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Yellowed, markings: Signed with inscriptionThis book explores the political and social tensions in Shanghai during a...
Carrying Your Enemies on Your Shoulder: Indian Folk Wisdom from Tibet
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Author: Flickbinding: HardbackPublished: Indian Book Centre, 1996Condition: book: Fair, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Aging or marking, markings: No markingsThis book explores the rich tapestry of Indian folk wisdom, particularly...
A Witch-Hunt in an Indian Village
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Author: Baileybinding: HardbackPublished: Delhi Oxford University Press, 1997Condition: book: Good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Yellowed, markings: No markingsThis book explores the harrowing practice of witch-hunting in rural India, focusing...
The Great Reclamation: 'Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller
Author: Rachel Heng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 'Extraordinary . . . Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace 'Alive to...
See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea
Author: Travis Jeppesen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From ballistic missile tests to stranger-than-fiction stories of purges and assassinations, news from North Korea never fails to dominate the global...
A History of India: v. 2
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The Economy of Modern India: From 1860 to the Twenty-First Century
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24 Hours in Ancient China: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
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Author: Yijie Zhuang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Spend 24 hours with the ancient Chinese. Travel back to AD 17, during the fourth year of the reign of Wang...
Mr Selden's Map of China: The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea
Author: Timothy Brook Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden,...
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
Author: Chun Han Wong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary Review From one of the most admired...
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
Author: Chun Han Wong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary Review From one of the most admired...
The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern...
Life In Hanoi
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The Search for Ancient China
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Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent
Author: Wendy Law-Yone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENT A portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi,...
Dispatches
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Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
Author: Vaudine England Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have...
The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern...
The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern...
Trackers: The Untold Story of the Australian Dogs of War
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The Great Wall Through Time: A 2,700-Year Journey Along the World's Greatest Wall
Author: DK Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 A beautifully illustrated children's book detailing the fascinating history of the Great Wall of China Embark on an unforgettable time-travelling journey along...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's lives back...
Savage Beasts
Author: Rani Selvarajah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A beautiful and unique retelling of Medea. I loved it!' Sunday Times bestselling author Sophie Irwin 'Absorbing and thoughtful...full of page-turning...
Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
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Shinto: The Kami Spirit World of Japan
Author: Sokyo OnoFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 203mm, 144 pagesPublished: Tuttle Publishing, United States, 2024Japanese Shinto is the simple belief that the divine dwells in all things around us!Shinto: The Japanese...
Photorealistic Colored Pencil Drawing Techniques: Step-by-Step Lessons for Vibrant, Realistic Drawings! (With Over 700 illustrations)
Author: Cocomaru Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Learn how to create photorealistic colored pencil drawings that are convincing enough to fool the eye! This book shows you how to...
Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: The Definitive Collector's Edition (Woodblock Prints)
Author: Andreas Marks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A landmark book presenting the early 'deluxe' versions of Hiroshige's Edo prints for the first time! Utagawa Hiroshige's unique landscape series...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
The Yellow River: Five Thousand Year Journey Through China
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The House of Confucius
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The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
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Author: Kevin Rudd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The relationship between the US and China, the world's two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault-of cultural...
The First Emperor: China's Entombed Warriors
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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
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Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
Author: Vaudine England Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have...
Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
Author: Jeevan Vasagar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state. In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita...
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East
Author: Bernard Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Bernard Lewis has charted the great centuries of Islamic power and civilisation but also, in his recent books WHAT WENT WRONG?...
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution -- Shortlisted for the Bailie Gifford prize for Non-Fiction
Author: Tania Branigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Took my breath away.' BARBARA DEMICK'Haunting.' OLIVER BURKEMAN 'A masterpiece.' JULIA LOVELL A 13-year-old Red Guard revels in the great adventure,...
Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
Author: Vaudine England Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have...
Buy Me the Sky: The remarkable truth of China's one-child generations
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The Reporter and the Warlords: An Australian at large in China's republican revolution
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Four Thousand Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home
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Single Tear
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The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays: The Earliest Known Versions
Author: Stephen H. West Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 408 This is the first anthology of Yuan-dynasty zaju (miscellaneous comedies) to introduce the genre to English-speaking readers exclusively through translations...
Red China's Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune
China's dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment...