Asian History

In 1938, with the Japanese army approaching from Nanking, Huan Hsu's great-great grandfather, Liu, and his five granddaughters, were forced to flee their hometown on the banks of the Yangtze...

This book offers a complete and concise history of China from earliest times right up to the present day. The author explores the geographical, cultural and political facets which have...

In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent...

The book titled The Sun at Noon: Anatomy of Modern Japan by the author Dick Wilson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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"Security and defence" provides a comprehensive in-depth study of Australia and the Asia--Pacific region, with a fresh approach which counters the traditional Euro- and American-centric view of strategy and defence...

The author emphasizes the selected nature of the facts provided by historical texts, and demonstrates the historicity of fiction. She calls into question assumptions about the end of nationalism implicit...

Celestial Empire: Life in China, 1644-1911 provides a unique insight into the diversity of life in China during the last imperial dynasty. Through the lives of the Chinese people-from the...

The Thousand and One Nights has captivated audiences for centuries, conveying universal messages through the adventures of historical and non-historical figures. Yet, since medieval times, it has not been considered...

The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global history. It continues...

Flying the notorious "Hump" route between India and China in 1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle, deep within Japanese-held territory. Among the...

In the heyday of Empire just before the First World War, Lord Cromer was second only to Lord Curzon in fame and public esteem. In the days when Cairo and...

Featuring breathtaking photographs of masks created by a renowned twenty-first-century craftsman, this book provides a unique perspective into noh and kyogen, two of the oldest surviving forms of theater in...

The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this...

The book titled The Rise of Modern Japan by the author W. G. Beasley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedSet against the vivid backdrop of Tang Dynasty China, Poets and Murder thrusts the brilliant magistrate Judge Dee into a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingLong before Afghanistan became a byword for conflict and geopolitical strife, the poet and classicist Peter Levi traversed its ancient landscapes and returned...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the closing, desperate chapters of the Pacific War, young Japanese pilots strapped themselves into aircraft laden with...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingLong before the dynasties of emperors and the chronicles of court historians, China's story was being written in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the vivid backdrop of newly independent India in the early 1950s, A Suitable Boy chronicles the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThrough the lens of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated photographers, Japan in Colour presents an breathtaking visual odyssey across one of the...

Focusing in particular upon Germany, Japan and Italy, this guide shows the design and firepower of fighter bombers during World War II. It describes the aircraft, their pilots and their...

The book titled Curzon: A Most Superior Person by the author Kenneth Rose. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively...

Unlike most writers, who give a European eye-view of a Turkey that mourns all that is lost, and consider it in the light of a holiday resort, this book explores...

A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes. Soon we will be able to say about...

The book titled On the Wire: An Australian Journalist on the Front Line in Asia by the author Louise Williams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

It is widely believed that Japan's opening gambit in World War II was conceived by Admiral Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of Imperial Japan. However, this book sets out to show that it...

Seeds of Terror is a groundbreaking triumph of reporting, a book that changed U.S. policy toward the Afghan heroin trade and the fight against terror. Gretchen Peters exposes the deepening...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew civilizations have produced artistic and cultural heritage as breathtaking in its scope and antiquity as China's, and Treasures of China by Michael Ridley...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of empire and ambition, The Rise of Russia in Asia presents a masterful...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark reference in entomology, Insects of Hong Kong presents a comprehensive survey of the remarkable insect...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAt the crossroads of ideology and identity, Turkism and the Soviets: The Turks of the World and Their Political Objectives presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the height of European power, when great nations carved the globe into colonies and protectorates, a new world order was being written —...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of empire and ideology, Soviet Empire: The Turks of Central Asia and Stalinism...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the twilight of the Qing dynasty to the seismic upheavals of the twentieth century, The Modern History...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn an age of absolute monarchs and rigid social hierarchies, the seventeenth century witnessed an explosive wave of peasant fury that shook the foundations...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of the Great Game — that shadowy contest of empires played out across the rooftop...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingSomewhere in the vast, unforgiving expanse of the Gobi Desert, a secret lies buried — and those who seek it may not...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the height of the Cold War, two communist giants stood at the centre of the world's most consequential geopolitical rivalry — and Philip Short...