Three Tigers, One Mountain
Three Tigers, One Mountain by Michael Booth delves deep into the complex web of relationships among three of East Asia's most influential nations: Japan, South Korea, and China. This vibrant and captivating travelogue seeks to uncover the historical tensions, cultural rivalries, and political grievances that keep these powerful neighbours at odds. Through his keen observations and in-depth interviews, Booth embarks...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
White Mughals
White Mughals by William Dalrymple is a captivating and heart-wrenching tale set in late 18th and early 19th century India. It chronicles the passionate love affair between James Achilles Kirkpatrick, the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad, and Khair un-Nissa, the enchanting great-niece of the Prime Minister of Hyderabad. Their romance defies the rigid cultural, religious, and political boundaries...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
On China
On China by Henry Kissinger offers a profound examination of the historical and contemporary intricacies of one of the world's oldest civilizations and its burgeoning role as a global superpower. Drawing from his extensive experience and personal involvement in Sino-American relations, Kissinger provides readers with an unparalleled perspective on China’s diplomatic traditions, strategic thinking, and its journey through centuries of...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Tower of Skulls
In 1937, the swath of the globe from India to Japan contained half the world's population, but only two nations with real sovereignty (Japan and Thailand) and two with compromised sovereignty (China and Mongolia). All other peoples in the region endured under some form of colonialism. Today, the region contains nineteen major, fully sovereign nations. Tower of Skulls is the...Hardback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Emperor of Japan
When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralised domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly antiforeign, and committed to the traditions of the past. Before long, the shogun surrendered to the emperor,...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Early Man Was a Woman
History is written by the victors, and the victors are men. This assumption colours our view of every past era: The fittest survive. The strongest rule. “Human nature” is intrinsically warlike. The record tells a different story. Across the globe, over millennia—immortalised in bone, stone, and fired clay—archaeologists find: women. From 40,000 years ago until the birth of Christ, statuettes...Hardback$7200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST 2026 A Best Book of the Year in the Financial Times, The Week, Spectator, BBC History Magazine, NPR, History Today, Waterstones and Daunts ‘A sparkling debut by an outstanding young historian’ PETER FRANKOPAN 'Remarkable … The prose is vivid, the storytelling cinematic' GUARDIAN A history of modern South Asia told through...Paperback$2399Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableOut 30 Dec 2026Pre-order
Samurai,The Greatest Battles and Warriors
An exciting visual record of the greatest battles and warriors in Japanese history! This book describes the momentous battles in Japanese history and the renowned Samurai who fought them, as seen in over 300 great works of art by leading artists, including Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige and Utagawa Kunisada. Art historian Andreas Marks has scoured museum archives and private collections...Hardback$7200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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The All-India 1932 tour of Britain came at a crucial moment in the history of the Indian subcontinent. As British and Indian politicians waged ferocious battles to control India's future, the fledgling cricket team became intertwined with the stormy politics of the British Raj. India's unlikely first captain, the conscientious Maharaja of Porbandar, had to steer a divided team through...Hardback$7150Unit price /UnavailableOut 17 Jan 2027Pre-order-
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The Ruling Elite of Singapore
Michael Barr explores both the political and the institutional logic behind the networks of power at work in one of Asia’s most prosperous countries, the city-state of Singapore. Barr charts the creation of a national elite in the 1960s, its consolidation as a multi-generational ruling elite in the 1980s, and the twists and turns of its trajectory thereafter. He argues...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableOut 24 Dec 2026Pre-order -
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The Ruling Elite of Singapore
Michael Barr explores both the political and the institutional logic behind the networks of power at work in one of Asia’s most prosperous countries, the city-state of Singapore. Barr charts the creation of a national elite in the 1960s, its consolidation as a multi-generational ruling elite in the 1980s, and the twists and turns of its trajectory thereafter. He argues...Hardback$15400Unit price /UnavailableOut 24 Dec 2026Pre-order -
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The Invention of Asia
Where did the concept of ‘Asia’ come from? Was this a term coined by the many communities that spanned this great continent, or was it a Western invention, imposed upon those lands and populations that were so ‘other’ to themselves? This book argues that ‘Asia’ is a European creation, and goes back in time to show how and when this...Hardback$6100Unit price /UnavailableOut 24 Dec 2026Pre-order 
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A set of fast-play, mass battle wargames rules set during Japan's Sengoku period. During the mid-15th to early 17th Century, often known as the Sengoku period, Japan saw continuous warfare between the Daimyo – the great feudal lords – as they strove for power and domination. Daimyo is a mass battle wargame set during this Sengoku period. As Daimyo, players...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableOut 3 Nov 2026Pre-order
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How has fashion mirrored the social and cultural changes that have taken place in modern China? To what extent has fashion contributed to those changes? In the 15 years since the first edition of Chinese Fashion was published, China has surpassed the US as the world’s biggest fashion market and may continue to expand. With rapid urbanisation and increasing spending...Hardback$20900Unit price /UnavailableOut 15 Oct 2026Pre-order-
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Chinese Fashion
How has fashion mirrored the social and cultural changes that have taken place in modern China? To what extent has fashion contributed to those changes? In the 15 years since the first edition of Chinese Fashion was published, China has surpassed the US as the world’s biggest fashion market and may continue to expand. With rapid urbanisation and increasing spending...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableOut 12 Nov 2026Pre-order -
Young China
The Wall Street Journal: Engrossing... [Dychtwald] writes with an infectious energy. The Washington Post: Enlightening... we learn that Chinese millennials, unlike their jaded American counterparts, are still dreamers and strivers, and have faith that they can achieve their dreams. Christian Science Monitor: Fascinating... a remarkably revealing portrait of China's youngest generations. Randall Stross, author of Bulls in the China Shop...Paperback$6100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Ultimate Origami Challemge Kit Ofr Kids 8-12
Discover the magic of origami and learn key techniques to create animals, 3D shapes, or gifts for loved ones from paper! Packed with 30 unique projects, including an inflatable bunny, flapping crane, throwing star, and pyramid, Ultimate Origami Challenge Kit for Kids 8-12 takes budding paper-folding enthusiasts from novice to pro. With fun facts, step-by-step instructions, and all the folding...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Uncensored War
This book was finished in the tenth year after the end of the Vietnam War. The year 1985 was also the year of Rambo, and of a number of other celebrations of the Vietnam War in popular culture. It was the year Congress cut off aid to the "Contras" in Nicaragua, and then abruptly reversed itself and approved "humanitarian" aid...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Book Collectors of Daraya
There is no jail that can imprison the free word, nor is there a siege tight enough that can prevent the spread of information. MAZEN DARWISH, Syrian human rights activist, in a speech given on April 23, 2016, following his release from jail in 2015. In 2012, the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus was brutally besieged by Syrian government...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Spirits Abroad
Drawing inspiration from Asian myth, folklore and her own queer experience, the award-winning Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho will guide you from the mundane to the magical, to enchanted realms inhabited by dragons, vampires and incorrigible grandmothers. We'll meet an elderly ex-member of parliament, who recalls her youthful romance with an orang bunian. This was forbidden. Not because her lover...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Japanese Folk Magic
Folk Magic is a unique series analysing popular magical traditions from different eras and cultures through illustrated tables; it is perfect for true enthusiasts of esotericism and myths. It includes magical practices, healing techniques and popular divination methods, as well as portraits of influential historical figures and legendary characters, all of them shown in a practical yet beautifully illustrated format....Hardback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Pre-orderTreatise on Superfluous Things
The first complete English translation of a classic late Ming Chinese treatise on good taste. Written in the 17th Century by Chinese scholar Wen Zhenheng, Treatise on Superfluous Things offers a compelling glimpse into the tastes and cultural values of the educated elite in late Ming China. This guide to everyday items—from window frames and old master paintings to caged...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableOut 5 Jan 2027Pre-order-
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Gods, Guns and Missionaries
An ambitious and engaging history of the development of Hindu identity and nationalism in colonial and contemporary India. When European missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan mess. But it quickly became clear that this 'idolatry' was far more layered and complex than...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableOut 10 Nov 2026Pre-order 
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The sweeping cultural history of a spice so coveted it launched empires across oceans, reshaped global trade, and bound generations of Sri Lankan peelers to colonial rule. For millennia, cinnamon has been treasured for its healing powers and warm unmistakable aroma. But behind its familiar scent lies a tumultuous past steeped in conquest and rebellion. In Cinnamon, acclaimed historian Nira...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableOut 10 Nov 2026Pre-order
The Forgotten Home Front
As the Korean War (1950-1953) drew to a close and South Korea began to rebuild, American GI Roger Marshutz (1929-2007) was stationed in Pusan to photograph U.S. reconstruction efforts. In his spare time, Marshutz also wandered the streets, documenting the daily life of Korean civilians. The Forgotten Home Front: Roger Marshutz's Photographs of Pusan, South Korea, 1952-1954 offers both an...Hardback$9799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Race and Power in British India
By the nineteenth century, the British had ruled India for over a hundred years and had consolidated their power over the sub-continent. Until 1858, when Queen Victoria assumed sovereignty following the Indian Rebellion, the country was run by the East India Company—by this time a hybrid of state and commercial enterprises and eloquently and fiercely attacked as intrinsically immoral and...Paperback$7699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Mao’s Last Revolution
The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People's Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able to keep the population under control. But during the Cultural Revolution, in a move unprecedented in any...Paperback$9900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
China’s Cosmopolitan Empire
The Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age," a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections spanning from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. China’s Cosmopolitan Empire by Mark Edward Lewis captures this dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule. During this period, painting...Paperback$6799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Bali: Time, Rites, Art and Magic
Balinese rituals, art and a unique sense of time are what set Bali apart! This unique book describes the concept of time in Bali and the magical significance of religious rites and festivals that are bewilderingly complex yet endlessly intriguing. Authors Jean Couteau and Georges Breguet begin by unraveling the difficult Balinese calendar and making it accessible. This calendar forms...Hardback$6300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
A Brief History of the Philippines
A fascinating story of national resilience and pride through centuries of colonial rule, World War II, independence, dictatorship, People Power, and the global diaspora of Filipinos!A Brief History of the Philippines tells the sweeping story of a nation whose past is filled with epic struggles, improbable triumphs, and an enduring search for identity in a world that has too often...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Writing Empire and Self
China's early medieval period, from the fifth through the early seventh century, from the Northern and Southern Dynasties through the unified Sui, was a time of political fragmentation, military strife, and ethnic conflict. It also witnessed brilliant artistic creations as well as a full flowering of court culture, with poetry at its heart. How did poetry come to be regarded...Paperback$13800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Present Colonizes the Past
Short, rigorous intervention on history-writing in public life. How does the present reshape what a society chooses to remember as its past? Recent interpretations of India's history have replaced careful inquiry with narratives that mirror contemporary anxieties and ambitions, sidelining the evidence, debate, and plurality that once characterized India's long intellectual tradition. At stake is a shift from understanding history...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Pre-orderThe Camphor War
The First Opium War is remembered as the defining conflict between Britain and China in the nineteenth century. In stark contrast, the Camphor War of 1868 has faded into obscurity. Lasting for only a few weeks, the clash arose from British interests in breaking the Qing monopoly over the lucrative trade in camphor, which was cultivated in Taiwan and widely...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableOut 24 Nov 2026Pre-order-
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The Book of China
In the early sixteenth century, a Persian-speaking Muslim merchant named ʿAli Akbar Khatayi travelled to China and stayed for six years. There, he acquired inside knowledge of the Ming imperial court and gained familiarity with the government bureaucracy, the military, and the daily lives and culture of ordinary people. In a treatise presented to the rulers of the Ottoman Empire,...Paperback$6499Unit price /UnavailableOut 30 Oct 2026Pre-order 
Privileged but Powerless
A compelling examination of North Korea's elites, their hidden discontent, and the role they may play in shaping the regime's future In her second book on North Korea, Privileged but Powerless, Jieun Baek offers a deeply researched and sharply analytical account of the grievances harboured by the country's elite. Drawing on hours of in-depth interviews with escapees from Pyongyang, Baek...Hardback$13200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Living with Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was an anticolonial activist, lawyer, and politician. Less famously, but no less importantly, he was also a back-to-the-land farmer, a founder of communes, and a seeker of utopia. Living with Gandhi: Experiments in Utopia tells the story of everyday life at four of Gandhi’s communities in India and South Africa. It explores who lived at each community alongside...Paperback$9300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Inside China's Secret Prisons
In 1991, the China analyst and journalist Orville Schell worked on an in-depth 60 Minutes investigation of the People's Republic of China's vast prison camp system, revealing that products made with forced labour were being surreptitiously and illegally sold to the United States. Inside China's Secret Prisons is his gripping account of this milestone exposé—and how its findings still reverberate...Hardback$5099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Exquisite Things and Strange Wonders
A defence of poetry from a towering figure of the medieval Persianate world. Written in 1294 as the introduction to a book of poetry, the Dībācha-yi dīvān-i ghurrat al-kamāl became a lauded work in its own right. Its author, Amir Khusraw Dihlavi (1253-1325), was a poet, historian, courtier, Sufi, and musician whose influence still resonates. In this extraordinary text, he...Hardback$9700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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Compelling and important - Rana Mitter, The Observer Few books qualify as essential reading but Ghost Nation is one of them - Clive Hamilton, bestselling co-author of The Hidden Hand The gripping story of Taiwan's rich past and precarious present from the country's top foreign correspondent. Taiwan is the geopolitical tinderbox of the 21st century, sitting at the heart of...Paperback$2399Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Oct 2026Pre-order-
Russian-Turkmen Encounters
In the mid-eighteenth century, the Russian tsar sent two expeditions across the Caspian Sea in response to an extraordinary plea for assistance from the recently subjugated Kalmyk Khan. The official journals of these expeditions, here translated into English for the first time, record the encounters of Captains Tebelev and Kopitovskii (in 1741 and 1745, respectively) with the Turkmen tribes of...Paperback$7499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Private Life Of Chairman Mao
For 22 years, Dr Zhisui Li was Mao Tse-tung's personal physician, confidant and companion. He saw Mao and his country through the years of "the Great Leap Forward" and the Cultural Revolution. In this book, Li reveals details of Mao's relations with Krushchev and other Soviet leaders, and the growing paranoia that led Mao to turn against the Chinese Communist...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Battle of Tassafaronga
The Battle of Tassafaronga, on 30 November 1942, was the fifth and last major night surface action fought off Savo Island during World War II's Guadalcanal campaign. It ended a string of Japanese victories but was a horrible embarrassment to the U.S. Navy, which had three heavy cruisers damaged and one sunk by enemy torpedoes. After the battle, American commanders...Paperback$6300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer is hailed as "the best biography of Gandhi... I was enthralled from the first page... it changed my life" — Sir Richard Attenborough. According to The Times, it is "a monumental yet intimate biography, a vivid portrait of the man, the statesman and the saint." Mahatma Gandhi became a legend in his...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
By More Than Providence
Soon after the American Revolution, certain of the founders began to recognise the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and whether to partner with China, at the centre of the continent,...Hardback$27499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Pre-orderThe Shortest History of Delhi
The essential introduction to a city that has captivated imaginations for millennia. Delhi, with its stories of intrigue and empire, decadence and artistry, destruction and rebirth, has been exhilarating travellers for centuries. Its history stretches back thousands of years, through invasions, empires and the struggle for independence. This many-layered history can be seen on the streets of Delhi today -...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order-
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Breakneck
From an indispensable voice on China (Evan Osnos) comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progress. America used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China has been busy building the future. Over the past six years, technology analyst Dan Wang lived through China's astonishing, messy progress and the dissolution of its relationship to the West....Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order 
Women, Wealth and the State in Early Colonial India
Few polities were more instrumental to the rise of the East India Company and the advent of British colonial rule in South Asia than the Mughal successor state of Awadh (c. 1722–1856). And few individuals influenced the making of the Awadh regime and its pivotal relationship with the Company more than the chief consorts, the begams. Women, Wealth and the...Paperback$10300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
We Are Soldiers Still
Lt. Gen. Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway return to Vietnam's Ia Drang Valley more than four decades after the battle they recalled in their #1 New York Times bestseller We Were Soldiers Once ...and Young. Renewing their relationships with ten American veterans of the fabled conflict—and with former adversaries—the authors explore how the war changed them all, as well as...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Unraveling Heart
Women's songs of the grind mill are among the oldest oral traditions in South Asia. They have been sung to accompany a daily household labour, making flour using a stone hand mill, for many centuries. Even today, grind mill songs are still well known in Maharashtra, testifying to the endurance of a remarkable genre. Yet these songs have long been...Hardback$46700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Traitor
In postwar Japan, a writer meets a small-town innkeeper who is obsessed with a tale from the nineteenth century. He relates the saga of Enomoto Takeaki, an admiral in the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate who regained authority under the Meiji government. A former member of imperial Japan's military police, the innkeeper dwells on the question of loyalty even...Hardback$33200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Sinostan
Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland. China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given to how China's geo-economic vision is playing out in the global economy, or how its technology is reshaping the planet, yet...Hardback$9600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Rajmata Kunti
This book is a combination of meticulous research and profound insights into the multifaceted character of Kunti. It is a laudable endeavour, establishing the persona of Rajmata Kunti—her philosophy, her contribution, and her indelible impact on Indian history. Kunti embodies strength, endurance, and grace. The book brings her to life with sensitivity and depth, highlighting how Kunti has inspired generations...Hardback$8500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Pakistan’s Ethnic Tensions
This book studies the ethnic tensions in Pakistan and their repercussions on its territorial integrity and stability as a multi-ethnic and pivotal state located at the trijunction of South Asia, South-West Asia, and Central Asia. It analyses the causes of the emergence of ethnic tensions in Pakistan since its inception and considers their likely course in the future. The study...Hardback$64800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Memoirs of Phạm Duy, a Vietnamese Musician in a Turbulent Century
Memoirs of Phạm Duy, A Vietnamese Musician in a Turbulent Century tells the story of the triumphs, scandals, and adventures of Vietnam's most prolific songwriter. Born in 1921, Phạm Duy came of age during colonial rule, joined the anti-French resistance, and later became a major voice of the southern Republic before coming to the United States as an exile after...Hardback$45200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Lyric Poetry As State Criticism in Modern Japan
Lyric Poetry as State Criticism in Modern Japan explores how seemingly apolitical verse became a subtle vehicle for political expression under censorship. In an era of intense state control, Japanese poets such as Kitahara Hakushū, Hagiwara Sakutarō, Yonezawa Nobuko, and Ōte Takuji turned to lyric poetry to discuss police censorship and surveillance of modern media, state-sponsored efforts at Western-style modernization,...Paperback$10800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Lyric Poetry As State Criticism in Modern Japan
Lyric Poetry as State Criticism in Modern Japan explores how seemingly apolitical verse became a subtle vehicle for political expression under censorship. In an era of intense state control, Japanese poets such as Kitahara Hakushū, Hagiwara Sakutarō, Yonezawa Nobuko, and Ōte Takuji turned to lyric poetry to discuss police censorship and surveillance of modern media, state-sponsored efforts at Western-style modernization,...Hardback$45200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan
Soon after independence in 1947, the Pakistani government adopted a language policy that promoted the use of Urdu. This provoked a strong reaction in provinces where languages such as Bengali, Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto, and Balochi were spoken by the majority, giving rise to movements that sought to protect them. In Punjab, provincial authorities decreed that Urdu would be the sole...Paperback$12300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan
Soon after independence in 1947, the Pakistani government adopted a language policy that promoted the use of Urdu. This provoked a strong reaction in provinces where languages such as Bengali, Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto, and Balochi were spoken by the majority, giving rise to movements that sought to protect them. In Punjab, provincial authorities decreed that Urdu would be the sole...Hardback$43700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Japanese-Russian Transnational Comparison
This book examines the transnational circulation of knowledge between Russia and Japan from the early Meiji era to the present day, reconfiguring the East-West paradigm both in terms of socio-geographical divides and cultural and political tensions within both cultures. Featuring chapters from the fields of literature, history, philosophy, film, and social and political thought, the case studies give interdisciplinary examples...Hardback$64800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Islam and Colonialism
Focusing on Indonesia and Malaysia, Islam and Colonialism examines how European colonial and Islamic modernising powers operated in the common and parallel domains of government and politics, law and education in the first half of the twentieth century. The book demonstrates that colonialisation was able to coexist with Islamisation, arguing that Islamic movements were not necessarily antithetical to modernisation, nor...Paperback$10300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
For a Just Republic
From the forging of a constitution for the post-independence republic to the reign of Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party today, the idea of India as a nation-state has predominated. Yet the country encompasses a vast diversity of communities, regions, languages, and cultures, calling into question any unitary identity. In this magisterial account of Indian politics over the past seventy-five years,...Hardback$43700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Empires of the Southern Ocean
Drawing on recent archaeological and historical research, this book presents the fascinating developments in the archaeology of prehistoric societies of mainland Southeast Asia. Empires of the Southern Ocean offers a sweeping and authoritative account of the emergence, expansion, and transformation of early state-level societies across the regions that today encompass Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Spanning from the...Hardback$28600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Emotional Filipinos
In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image—one fraught with racist notions of what it means to be civilized, developed, and worthy of self-rule. These imported notions of race and modernity left a profound imprint on the nation. More recently, we have seen a menacing...Hardback$40700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Critical Failures
Critical Failures revisits the overlooked messiness at the heart of Japan's early experiments with modern criticism. In the Meiji era, young intellectuals posited that mastering the art of critical reading – called hihyō – was essential for Japan's advancement on the world stage. Yet, while they made concerted efforts to theorize hihyō and proposed ambitious ideals, their actual reading practice...Hardback$45200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Critical Failures
Critical Failures revisits the overlooked messiness at the heart of Japan's early experiments with modern criticism. In the Meiji era, young intellectuals posited that mastering the art of critical reading – called hihyō – was essential for Japan's advancement on the world stage. Yet, while they made concerted efforts to theorise hihyō and proposed ambitious ideals, their actual reading practice...Paperback$12300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan's Empire
Ongoing arguments over how histories are honoured – as evidenced by the conflict between South Korea and Japan over the opening of Tokyo’s Heritage Information Centre in June 2020 – reveal the extent to which heritage processes enable states to assert legitimacy and power on a global stage. Here, Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan’s Empire shines a timely spotlight on...Paperback$13800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Concubines in Public
Moving beyond familiar narratives of abolition, Xia Shi introduces the contentious public presence of concubines in Republican China. Drawing on a rich variety of historical sources, Shi highlights the shifting social and educational backgrounds of concubines, showing how some served as public companions of elite men in China and on the international stage from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth...Hardback$27200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Appearance Politics
Appearance Politics, by Lex Lu, argues that crafting an appealing and powerful outward image has long been a critical political tool in China. This strategy is evident in historical records, imperial portraits, physiognomic assessments, photographs, posters, statues, and digital images. Using rare archival materials from Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing, Lu explores how political figures designed their images and examines the...Paperback$13200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Agrarian Superpower
The United States's superpower status is often associated with its industrial, financial, and military might. Yet its global power after the Second World War hinged in part on something often seen as backward: agriculture. In contrast to Britain, the predominant global power of the nineteenth century, which depended on its current and former colonies for food and raw materials, the...Hardback$45200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
A Confucian theory of power
In the book's lead essay, Sungmoon Kim offers a comprehensive analysis of Confucian power. Through a blend of philosophical, political, and historical analysis, Kim challenges the dominant idea that Confucianism is primarily centred on virtue ethics. Instead, he argues that Confucianism perceives power through the prism of responsibility. Kim not only traces this perspective throughout history but also demonstrates its...Hardback$38800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Venice and the Mongols
A global history of commercial and cultural exchange between two great powers of the medieval age. In the mid-thirteenth century, Europe was shaken by the Mongol invasions. Realising the immense potential for accessing remote markets in the East, Venetian merchants, diplomats, and seafarers established far-flung commercial networks with the Mongol Empire. Venice and the Mongols tells the story of this...Hardback$12300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Park Chung Hee Era
In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee's presidency. Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator...Paperback$6199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Sons of Heaven
Sons of Heaven is the first accessible, newly researched account in English of the imperial family who ruled Ming China (1368-1644), one of the country's most dynamic and influential eras. Beginning with a fresh look at what a dynasty really was, the book follows the lives of emperors, empresses, relatives and those who came into the imperial orbit. Uniquely drawing...Hardback$8100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Hideyoshi
Here is the first full-length biography in English of the most important political figure in premodern Japan. Hideyoshi—peasant turned general, military genius, and imperial regent of Japan—is the subject of an immense legendary literature. He is best known for the conquest of Japan's sixteenth-century warlords and the invasion of Korea. He is known, too, as an extravagant showman who rebuilt...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
From Life Itself
'A gripping portrait of a crisis-ridden Turkey' — PANKAJ MISHRA 'A dizzying tour de force that leaves the reader with a sense of wonder' — ELIF BATUMAN 'Intimate and revealing' — MOHSIN HAMID Pulitzer finalist Suzy Hansen chronicles the age of authoritarianism in Turkey through an intimate portrait of its people. In the midst of a world in upheaval, Erdogan...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Empires of the Southern Ocean
Drawing on recent archaeological and historical research, this book presents the fascinating developments in the archaeology of prehistoric societies of mainland Southeast Asia. Empires of the Southern Ocean offers a sweeping and authoritative account of the emergence, expansion, and transformation of early state-level societies across the regions that today encompass Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Spanning from the...Paperback$12099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Contemporary China
The fourth edition of this concise textbook offers students a comprehensive introduction to the politics, economy, culture, and society of modern China, while grounding all of these areas in the context of China’s recent history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Fully up to date, this accessible text examines key developments that are shaping China's place in the world today,...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Approaching the Buddha
Through images of 28 sculptures created over the course of 15 centuries, this book sheds light on how different cultures have depicted the Buddha over time. Approaching the Buddha: Transmission and Transformation highlights works from the Xuzhou Collection of Buddhist Art, a private collection of masterpieces from major Buddhist cultures across the Asian continent. These works tell the life story...Hardback$8200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Gurkha Way
In the 18th century in the town of Gorkha, just north of Kathmandu, ruler Prithvi Narayan fought campaigns against his neighbours and the British. During the fighting, his warriors, renowned for their aggression and courage, gained the respect of the British, who appreciated that the steadfast warriors would make excellent soldiers. Upon the declaration of peace in 1816, a partnership...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week-
From the Blitz to the Burmese Jungle and Beyond: a Memoir by Hennessy
One man's memoir of World War II which took him from the Blitz to the jungles of Burma, to the devastation of Hiroshima. I consider myself lucky to have survived the global carnage still myself - a reluctant soldier who had to go to war, who only ever wanted peace for everyone. - Brian Hennessy Brian immigrated to New Zealand...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
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