Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HIS ...Show more
The Great Wonders of China by Jonathan Fenby
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
China is the oldest continuous civilization on earth and holds a unique global place in the twenty-first century. The Great Wonders of China's wide focus shows what makes China such a special country, with topics stretching from the natural wonders, including mountains and rivers, to the Silk Road; the ...Show more
The Doctor of Hiroshima: His heart-breaking and inspiring true life story by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
"With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care for her little baby? To conceal the fear and terror in my heart I left her, trying to put up a cheerful front. But no one could conceal from her the ominous ...Show more
Another India - The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947-77 by Pratinav Anil
$50.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Another India tells the story of the world's biggest religious minority. Weaving together vivid biographical portraits of a wide range of Indian Muslims--elite and subaltern, secular and clerical, activist and apolitical--it brings the experience of the country's Muslims under a single focus; and, by th ...Show more
Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy by Kishore Mahbubani
$29.99 AUD
Category: Asian
The twenty-first century's great geopolitical contest has begun. A major trade war has broken out. American and Chinese naval vessels are having close encounters in the South China Sea. American congressmen and businessmen are cheering their government's public attacks on China. China is standing firm a ...Show more
Australia's Pivot to India by Andrew Charlton
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A thoroughly absorbing, must-read examination of why Australia's relationship with India might hold the key to our future, by federal MP Andrew Charlton The time has come for Australia and India to forge closer ties - and reap the benefits. But will Australia seize the opportunity? India is on the rise ...Show more
The Rebel and the Kingdom - The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime by Bradley Hope
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'Propulsive . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar 'Jaw dropping even for North Korea . . . A terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all too real' Anna Fifield HOW DID A COLLEGE KID BECOME A GLOBAL FUGITIVE? In the early 2000s, Adrian Ho ...Show more
The Dean of Shandong - Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University by Daniel A. Bell
$55.00 AUD
Category: Asian
An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China's political system On January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University--the first foreign dean of a political science faculty in mainland China's history. ...Show more
Divided Isles: Solomon Islands and the China Switch by Edward Acton Cavanough
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A pacy must-read analysis of one of the most consequential geopolitical events in Australia's region.In 2019, Solomon Islands made international headlines when the country severed its decades-old alliance with Taiwan in exchange for a partnership with Beijing. The decision prompted international condemn ...Show more
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China - A History of Conflict by Lawrence James
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997.THE LION AND THE DRAGON reveals the part t ...Show more
Getting Out of Saigon - How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians by Ralph White
$50.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The gripping and remarkable true story of author Ralph White's desperate effort to save the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families before the city fell to the North Vietnamese Army.In April 1975, Ralph White was asked by his boss to transfer from the Bangkok branch ...Show more