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
Victims of the Cultural Revolution: Testimonies of a Tragedy by Youqin Wang
$90.00 AUD
Category: Asian
China's Cultural Revolution ended less than fifty years ago, but already it is passing from memory. Its victims number in the millions, and yet their stories remain untold. For over forty years, Professor Wang Youqin of Chicago University has been working to gather oral testimony on the Cultural Revolut ...Show more
Fortune's Bazaar - The Making of Hong Kong by Vaudine England
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have made it a multicultural world metropolis - and whose lives are evolving today. Hong Kong has always been many cities to many people: a seaport, a gateway to an empire, a place ...Show more
A Brief History of Vietnam Colonialism, War and Renewal The Story of a Nation Transformed by Bill Hayton
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A comprehensive guide to understanding Vietnam's long and tumultuous history A Brief History of Vietnam explores the turbulent history of a land that has risen from the ashes of war to become the newest Asian tiger economy. This book expertly examines the history of a people and a nation with ancient ro ...Show more
Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
For several decades Chinese ascendancy has been supported by an astonishingly broad and deep portfolio of soft power. The stories of their reach are breathtaking - Chinese-sponsored reporting in national newspapers and academia; the gagging of sports stars and huge Western brands; Hollywood self-censor ...Show more
The Rupture: China and the Global Race for the Future by Andrew Small
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The gripping story of a turning point in global affairs, as politicians belatedly awaken to serious systemic threats. This is the inside story of a revolution in China policy, from Washington to Brussels, Berlin to New Delhi. The Ruptureexplains how many of the Western politicians, thinkers and business ...Show more
Southeast Asia - A History in Objects by Alexandra Green
$65.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A revealing volume on Southeast Asia's complex histories, expertly told through art objects and cultural artifacts dating from 6,000 years ago to the present. Created in collaboration with the British Museum, this richly illustrated volume displays the arts, histories, and cultures of Southeast Asia fr ...Show more
War on Corruption: An Indonesian Experience by Todung Mulya Lubis
$40.00 AUD
Category: Asian
What stands between Indonesia taking its rightful place in the world?For Indonesian society, corruption remains a huge problem. Some of the reasons for this are easy to identify, flowing on from the authoritarianism of the Soeharto New Order (1966-1998). Other factors are less well known and less able t ...Show more
Suva Stories: A History of the Capital of Fiji
$75.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Suva Stories explores a fascinating tapestry of histories in one of the Pacific's oldest and most culturally diverse urban centres, the capital of Fiji. Charting the trajectory of Suva from indigenous village to colonial hub to contemporary Pacific metropolis, it draws on a rich colonial archive and mov ...Show more
The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future by Jonathan E. Hillman
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
An expert on China's global infrastructure expansion provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks. From the ocean floor to outer space, China's digital Silk Road aims to wire the world and rewrite the global order. Taking readers on a journey inside China's surveilla ...Show more
Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World by Alex Joske
$37.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Spies and Lies by Alex Joske is a groundbreaking exposé of elite influence operations by China’s little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of China’s past, prese ...Show more
China After Mao - The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'A leading historian of modern China. He is a rare scholar, adept in both Russian and Chinese . . . Combined with this linguistic skill, Dikutter has a writer's gift' EVENING STANDARD From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wak ...Show more