Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 by Odd Arne Westad
$40.00 AUD
Category: Asian
As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relatio ...Show more
Buy Me the Sky: The Remarkable Truth of China's One-Child Generations by Xinran
$32.99 AUD
Category: Asian
With journalistic acumen and a novelist's flair, Xinran tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China's single-child policy. At a time when the country continues to transform at the speed of light, these generations of precious 'one an ...Show more
The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen
$34.95 AUD
Category: Asian
The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting--as revealed in ...Show more
A Kim Jong-Il Production - The Story of North Korea and the Most Audacious Kidnapping in History by Paul Fischer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Asian
This is a Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer - love, films and kidnapping in North Korea, the world's wildest regime. Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's film industry. He directed every film made in the country but knew they were nothing compared to Ho ...Show more
Japan 1941 - Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta
$32.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Vintage
A "Kirkus Reviews" Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific. When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, its leaders, in large part, understo ...Show more
Tinderbox : The Past and Future of Pakistan by M. J. Akbar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Asian
An historical whodunnit tracing a thousand years of conflict, here could be no better guide to the greatest political faultline of our times: the relationship between India and Pakistan. Tinderbox - It's defined as a small container holding flint, firesteel and tinder, used together to help kindle a fir ...Show more
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
$55.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China. A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the 'Wastepaper Queen'. Age of Ambition describes some of the billion individual lives that ...Show more
A History of the Vietnamese by K. W. Taylor
$82.95 AUD
Category: Asian
The history of Vietnam prior to the nineteenth century is rarely examined in any detail. In this groundbreaking work, K. W. Taylor takes up this challenge, addressing a wide array of topics from the earliest times to the present day - including language, literature, religion, and warfare - and themes - ...Show more
The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia
$46.95 AUD
Category: Asian
China's rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing's backyard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smouldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpowers grows ever more likely. This important book is the f ...Show more
Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You've Heard about China is Wrong by Ben Chu
$20.00 AUD
Category: Asian
THE CHINESE ARE THE MOST HARDWORKING PEOPLE ON EARTH...so why are the younger generation derided as spoiled and lazy? CHINESE PEOPLE DON'T CARE ABOUT POLITICAL FREEDOM...so why is the country's internet exploding with anti-regime dissent? CHINA WILL ONE DAY RULE THE WORLD...so why do the country's polit ...Show more
Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History by Alexander C. Cook (Editor)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Mao Zedong's Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao) - a compilation of the Chinese leader's speeches and writings - is one of the most visible and ubiquitous symbols of twentieth-century radicalism. Published for the first time in 1964, it rapidly became the must-have accessory for Red Guards an ...Show more
The Mongol Empire - Genghis Khan, his Heirs and the Making of Modern China by John Man
$32.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of Asia. Under his grandson, Kublai Khan, the vision evolved ...Show more