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
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism- the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. 'A sparkling gem of a book. Beautifully written and masterfully researched, this has the makings of a classic' Peter Frankopan ...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 wake ...Show more
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Yang Jisheng
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) marked t ...Show more
Diplomacy Ends at Midnight: The Last Years of British Hong Kong by Dalena Wright
$55.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The compelling story of the inescapable return of Hong Kong to China, published for the 25th anniversary of the handoverBritish Hong Kong ended in the last minutes of 30 June 1997. Diplomacy Ends at Midnight traces the extraordinary twists and turns of Hong Kong's long drawn out, but unavoidable, reunio ...Show more
Daring to Struggle - China's Global Ambitions under Xi Jinping by Bates Gill
$50.95 AUD
Category: Asian
Increasingly powerful, prosperous and authoritarian, China under the leadership of Xi Jinping has become a more intense competitor across the globe -- economically, technologically, diplomatically, militarily, and in seeking to influence people's hearts and minds. But what does Chinaultimately want in t ...Show more
Fragile Cargo: China's Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City by Adam Brookes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The gripping true story of the intrepid curators who saved China's finest art from the ravages of the Sino-Japanese War and World War IISpring 1933. The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking's Forbidden City are tense with fear and expectation. Japan's aircraft drone overhead; its troops and tanks are ...Show more
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Fredom by Ramachandra Guha
$37.99 AUD
Category: Asian
An extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian independence from Ramachandra Guha. Renegades tells the little known story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freed ...Show more
Decline of Empires in South Asia: How Britain and Russia lost their grip over India, Persia and Afghanistan by HEATHER A. CAMPBELL
$59.99 AUD
Category: Asian
The post-First World War period was pivotal in global history, international relations and geopolitics. And no more than in South Asia. where for decades the 'Great Game' in geopolitical rivalry of the two greatest modern empires - Britain and Russia - had dominated international relations. But with the ...Show more