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The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict
Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium...
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals a picture of a nation on...
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China
'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong The Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict
Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium...
Burma: The Turning Point
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Japanese Warrior Monks AD 949-1603
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The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
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Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
A definitive and ambitious new history of the Indian subcontinent - this is Tony Judt's Postwar for South Asia Shadows at Noon is an ambitious synthesis of decades of research...
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
This is a book of narrative reportage six years in the making. It describes how ideology and technological ambition have reshaped India's nascent democracy and follows a diverse cast of...
Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of the Raj
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Blood Against the Snows: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
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Bushido: The Way of the Samurai
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Great State: China and the World
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The Flame of Freedom: Corporal Ras Pagani's Escape from the Railway of Death
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The Coasts of India
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China: Empire of Living Symbols
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Ghee Happy Gods: A Little Board Book of Hindu Deities
A vibrantly illustrated board book inspired by Sanjay Patel's animated Netflix show, Ghee Happy, featuring Hindu deities as toddlers! In the world of Sanjay Patel, creator of the Oscar-nominated Pixar...
Wok On: Deliciously balanced Asian meals in 30 minutes or less
Winner for the UK in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2020 in the Easy Recipes category. 'As always, Ching's recipes are not only deliciously healthy but easy enough for anyone...
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the...
Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar
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One of Library Journal 's "Best Arts Books of 2020" The definitive biography of Ravi Shankar, one of the most influential musicians and composers of the twentieth century, told with...
The Shortest History of Japan
A definitive new history of Japan, where ancient meets cutting-edge in unique and startling ways Zen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games ... Japanese culture has long...
Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China
A riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the process What does it take...
Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin
An astonishingly wide-ranging history of Russian nationalism from a pre-eminent scholar of Eastern Europe In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world...
A Brief History of Khubilai Khan
His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming...
A Short History of India
The world's largest democracy and second-most populous country, 21st century India is a dynamicnation with a thrusting economy, made up of a variety of beliefs and peoples united under one...
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India
'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic...
Take Me to Laolao
Celebrate the Spring Lantern Festival! This gentle picture book explores the special bond between children and their grandmothers, all against the backdrop of Chinese mythology and holiday celebration. A must-read...
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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Wild Grass: China's Revolution from Below
A compelling history of Chinese resistance to state oppression, told through the stories of three remarkable individuals In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the...
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories...
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories...
The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest's Sacrifice and A New
The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, his sacrifice in Auschwitz, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever The remarkable true story of Saint...
The Taiwan Story: How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future
In this urgent book, we learn why a small island in the East China Sea will be central to the world's future An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters...
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience
A panoramic social history chronicling the lives of hundreds of British people of all classes in the most important territory of the British Empire The British in this book lived...
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great
The crucial book for understanding modern China, now updated to include the rule of Xi Jinping In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to...
Mao: The Unknown Story
The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, Jon Halliday. The most authoritative life of Mao ever written,...
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
An inspiring testament to China's dissident historians and activists, from the 1940s to the present A documentary filmmaker who uncovered a Mao-era death camp; an independent journalist who gave voice...
On China
The legendary ex-US Secretary of State on the world's foremost emerging superpower In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic step of reopening relations between China and the West, and since...
The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon
The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's pre-eminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East' The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of...
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765
A magisterial history of the Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast mountains and seas, it has created its own religions, philosophies and social...
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East
The untold story of one of WW2's most extraordinary and significant battles which marked the turning of the tide of the war in the jungles of Burma 'A thrilling blow-by-blow...
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking
Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the...
A New Voyage Round the World
A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round...
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival
A both definitive and highly enjoyable book on how modern Japan works - now fully updated to 2020 and the new 'Reiwa' Era Despite years of stagnation, Japan remains one...
A History of the Crusades I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of
Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics ''The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and delusion.' The Christian and Muslim empires of...
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present
A magical cultural history of modern Japan Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to...
Orientalism
The book that redefined our understanding of the legacy of European colonialism and empire, now reissued with a new PMC jacket 'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer In this highly acclaimed...
An Autobiography
Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography...