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Russia: A Complete History

Russia: A Complete History

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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945

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A Short History of South-East Asia

A Short History of South-East Asia

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Unit 731: Japanese Army's Secret of Secrets

Unit 731: Japanese Army's Secret of Secrets

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24 Hours in Ancient China: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived

24 Hours in Ancient China: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived

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Spend 24 hours with the ancient Chinese. The year is AD 17. The Han dynasty is in power and we are in and around Chang'an, the capital and one of...
The Race to the Future: The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth

The Race to the Future: The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth

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'An incredible and stirring story . . . a mix of competition, camaraderie as well as a larky sense of adventure . . . Down goes the flag. Smash goes...
Alliana, Girl of Dragons

Alliana, Girl of Dragons

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For fans of Shannon Hale and Gail Carson Levine, comes an enchanting fairy tale retelling of the Japanese Cinderella, set in the magical world of Eva Evergreen, Semi-Magical Witch. Once...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

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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: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy

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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

The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China

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'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 New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy

The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy

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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...
Burma: The Turning Point

Burma: The Turning Point

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The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed

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

Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

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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...
At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China

At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China

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'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama'A splendid journey through eighty years of Chinese history ... Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a guide to China...
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy

The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy

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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

Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of the Raj

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Great State: China and the World

Great State: China and the World

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The Coasts of India

The Coasts of India

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China: Empire of Living Symbols

China: Empire of Living Symbols

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Sharpe's Triumph: The Battle of Assaye, September 1803 (The Sharpe Series, Book 2)

Sharpe's Triumph: The Battle of Assaye, September 1803 (The Sharpe Series, Book 2)

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* SHARPE'S COMMAND , the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Sergeant Richard Sharpe witnesses a murderous act of treachery and, with Sir...
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East

The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East

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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...
Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse: The True Story of a Woman Who Risked Everything to Bring Hope to Afghanistan

Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse: The True Story of a Woman Who Risked Everything to Bring Hope to Afghanistan

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Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar

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...
Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China

Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China

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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

Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin

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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

A Brief History of Khubilai Khan

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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

A Short History of India

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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

Nehru: The Debates that Defined India

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'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...
A Thousand Steps into Night

A Thousand Steps into Night

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Longlisted for the National Book Award From bestselling and award-winning author Traci Chee comes a fantasy perfect for fans of Studio Ghibli. When a girl who's never longed for adventure...
Take Me to Laolao

Take Me to Laolao

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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...
The Hong Kong Diaries

The Hong Kong Diaries

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The diaries of the last British Governor, published on the 25th anniversary of the handover In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to...
Boys in Zinc

Boys in Zinc

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Mesmerizing, haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War collected by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan...
Wild Grass: China's Revolution from Below

Wild Grass: China's Revolution from Below

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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

The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

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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 Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia

The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia

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New to PMC for this reissue in Modern Classics, with a NEW preface by Paul Theroux The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail...
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

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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...
Dinner: 120 vegan and vegetarian recipes for the most important meal of the day

Dinner: 120 vegan and vegetarian recipes for the most important meal

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The bestselling, multi-award winning, author of East, Fresh India and Made in India, Meera Sodha, is back with her much anticipated fourth book, Dinner FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF EAST,...
The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest's Sacrifice and A New Generation of Hope in Japan

The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest's Sacrifice and A New

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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

The Taiwan Story: How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future

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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

The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience

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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 Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition

The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great

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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

Mao: The Unknown Story

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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

Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future

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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

On China

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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 Dynasty

The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon

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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

India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765

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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...
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China

Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of

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The untold story of the first nomadic empire and the making of China. 'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks- he conjures up an ancient people in...