The Future Is Asian - Global Order in the Twenty-First Century by Parag Khanna
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Five billion people, two-thirds of the world's mega-cities, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic growth, thirty of the Fortune 100, six of the ten largest banks, eight of the ten largest armies, five nuclear powers, massive technological innovation, the newest crop of top-ranke ...Show more
Great State: China and the World by Timothy Brook
$50.00 AUD
Category: Asian
China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at ...Show more
Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes by Susan Whitfield
$100.00 AUD
Category: Asian
As world powers realign their cultural, economic and political outlooks, there is no better time to consider how Afro-Eurasia's complex network of ancient trade routes - which spanned the vastness of the steppe, vertiginous mountain ranges, fertile river plains and forbidding deserts across the continen ...Show more
The Lion and the Dragon - Britain's Opium Wars with China 1839-1860 by Mark Simner
$65.00 AUD
Category: Asian
During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India. When ...Show more
The Opium Wars - A History from Beginning to End by Hourly History
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Opium WarsViolent confrontation between armed groups over the supply of illegal narcotics is something we commonly associate with criminal gangs in modern cities, but in the mid-nineteenth century Great Britain went to war with Imperial China in order to continue to supply Chinese addicts with opium. Th ...Show more
The Opium War - Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China by Julia Lovell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy, The Opium War explores the disastrous British foreign-relations move that be ...Show more
Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China after Tiananmen Square by Liao Yiwu
$45.00 AUD
Category: Asian
"A series of harrowing, unforgettable tales...Had [Liao Yiwu] not fled the country in 2011, they may never have emerged. An indispensable historical document." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)From the award-winning poet, dissident, and "one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our tim ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Rise and Fall of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India - A book of beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected ...Show more
Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers by Xuetong Yan
$60.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: The\Princeton-China Ser.
A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for the international orderWhile work in international relations has closely examined the decline of great powers, not much attention has been paid to the question of thei ...Show more
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present by Christopher Harding
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to the present, through the eyes of people who always had their doubts about modernity - who greeted it not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's familiar mode ...Show more
Shot Down: The Powerful Story of What Happened to MH17 over Ukraine and the Lives of Those Who Were on Board by Marianne van Velzen
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: MH17
The first full telling of what happened to MH17 and the stories of those who were killed on that tragic day.