Secondhand Asian & Pacific History Bargain Book Box SP2972

Secondhand Asian & Pacific History Bargain Book Box SP2972

Fifteen books on the history and politics of Japan, China, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia — drawing on scholarship from Melbourne University Press, Cambridge, and the Pelican imprint. A serious collection for anyone interested in how the Asia-Pacific world was understood from the 1960s through the 1980s.

1. Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times — John Whitney Hall — Hall's comprehensive survey of Japanese history, from the earliest evidence of human habitation through the postwar economic miracle. Part of the Delacorte World History series.
2. Coming of Age in Samoa — Margaret Mead — Mead's celebrated 1928 study of adolescence and sexuality in Samoa, and what it suggested about the role of culture in human development. The Pelican edition.
3. Anthropology in Papua New Guinea — ed. Ian Hogbin — Readings from the Encyclopedia of Papua and New Guinea: a survey of the anthropological knowledge accumulated about PNG's remarkable cultural diversity.
4. Australia and Papua New Guinea — ed. W.J. Hudson — Essays on the relationship between Australia and its administered territory: policy, development, and the path to independence.
5. Alternative Strategies for Papua New Guinea — ed. A. Clunies Ross & J. Langmore — Policy essays examining the economic and political choices facing PNG at independence.
6. China and the Cold War — Michael Lindsay — Lindsay's analysis of China's position in the Cold War, written during a period when Western understanding of the People's Republic was still sharply limited. Published by Melbourne University Press.
7. Authority, Participation and Cultural Change in China — ed. Stuart R. Schram — Cambridge University Press essays on the political culture of the People's Republic: how authority was exercised, contested, and transformed.
8. People's China — Myra Roper — A journalist's account of life in the People's Republic in its early decades.
9. The Awakening Giant: China's Ascension in World Politics — Harish Kapur — Kapur's analysis of China's growing role in international affairs: the strategic and diplomatic implications of its emergence.
10. The Government and Politics of Communist China — D.J. Waller — A clear academic introduction to the institutions and processes of the People's Republic, from the Hutchinson University Library series.
11. The Road to Communism: China Since 1912 — Dun J. Li — A political history of China from the fall of the Qing dynasty through the establishment of the People's Republic.
12. Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution — Agnes Smedley — Smedley's portraits of women who participated in the Chinese revolutionary movement: a feminist press recovery of a neglected primary source.
13. Famous Chinese Short Stories — retold by Lin Yutang — Lin Yutang's translations and retellings of classical Chinese fiction, from the Tang dynasty romances to the Ming short story collections.
14. Indonesia: The Modern World — Malcolm Caldwell — Caldwell's analysis of Indonesia's political economy and its place in the postcolonial world.
15. Indonesia — Bruce Grant — A Penguin Special on Indonesia: its history, politics, and relationship with Australia. Grant was one of Australia's most perceptive foreign correspondents.