When China Rules the World by Martin Jacques
$40.00 AUD
Category: Asian
China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China in western terms but only through its own history and culture. To this end, he introduces a powerful se ...Show more
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo
$28.00 AUD
Category: Asian
WINNER OF THE 2012 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2012 US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving to ...Show more
Mao's Great Famine - The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe 1958-62 by Frank Dikötter
$21.99 AUD
Category: Asian
"Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of live ...Show more
There Goes the Neighbourhood Australia and the Rise of Asia by Michael Wesley
$32.95 AUD
Category: Asian
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The Path of Infinite Sorrow : The Japanese on the Kokoda Track by Craig Collie and Hajime Marutani
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Two armies, Japanese and Australian, each in turn pushing the other back along a muddy, precipitous track over the mountainous spine of New Guinea. Few prisoners were taken, most were shot. War conventions were routinely flouted, by both sides. Troops were reduced to a primal level, such were the inhuma ...Show more
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Secondhand. In the 1800s, Britain was making a mint selling Indian opium to China. In return, they were buying tea, silks and ceramics. When eventually China decided that the drug trade was ruining her people, the British declared war, declaring China 'protectionist', 'backwards-looking' and 'superstit ...Show more
Shooting Balibo: Blood and Memory in East Timor by Tony Maniaty
$32.95 AUD
Category: Asian
In 1975, journalist Tony Maniaty flew to the Portuguese colony of East Timor looking for a war to film. He found it at a dusty outpost called Balibo. Maniaty and his ABC News crew were shelled and five other television newsmen who followed were murdered by Indonesian troops. Maniaty reported the Balibo ...Show more
What Does China Think? by Mark Leonard
$28.00 AUD
Category: Asian
An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We all know about the fast pace of change in this country. This book brings us the ideas being fought over in the country itself -- from democracy to the idea of a 'peaceful rise'. It challenges all of our assumptions about China. We know ever ...Show more
Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
$24.95 AUD
Category: Asian
An account of the life of Nien Cheng, who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, and who was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 accused of being a British spy. This is a first hand account of China's cultural revolution.
The Old Shanghai A-Z by Paul French
$39.95 AUD
Category: Asian
This richly anecdotal guide to every street in Shanghai details many landmarks and stories associated with its best-known avenues. A definitive index to the street names of Shanghai, some of which have disappeared or been removed, allows historians, researchers, tourists, and the just plain curious to n ...Show more
The Party - The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor
$24.95 AUD
Category: Asian
China's Communist Party is the largest, most powerful political machine in the world. Here, for the first time, Richard McGregor delves deeply into its inner sanctum, revealing how this secretive cabal keeps control of every aspect of the country - its military and media, legal system and businesses, ev ...Show more