Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? by Graham Allison (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
$60.00 AUD
Category: Asian
CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece, th ...Show more
Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao by Ian Johnson (Department of Modern Languages, University of Dundee)
$53.00 AUD
Category: Asian
From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist: a revelatory portrait of religion in China today its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China s future. Following a century of violent antireligious campaigns, China is now awash with ne ...Show more
Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia by Michael R. J. Vatikiotis
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Thought-provoking and eye-opening, BLOOD AND SILK is a first-hand account of what it's like to sit at the table with deadly Muslim insurgents, or in the front room of a notorious political warlord - all in an effort to negotiate peace, and understand the reasons behind the violence. Peering beyond the b ...Show more
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikotter
$23.99 AUD
Category: Asian
An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China. "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 ...Show more
Deadly Dreams: Opium and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China by J. Y. Wong
$135.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature & Institutions
The Arrow War (1856-60) involved all the world's major powers, and could almost be called a world war because of the global economic and diplomatic issues driving it. For twenty-five years Dr John Wong has been trying to discover the true origins of the war. What began as a study of an alleged insult to ...Show more
The History of Central Asia: The Age of Islam and the Mongols: Volume 3 by Christoph Baumer
$89.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half of the thirteenth century it was also the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen. This third volume of C ...Show more
The History of Central Asia: Volume 1: The Age of the Steppe Warriors by Christoph Baumer
$89.99 AUD
Category: Asian
The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilization. Christoph Baumer's ambitious four-volume treatment of the region charts the 3000-year drama of Scythians and Sarmatian ...Show more
The Life of Sir Stamford Raffles (Classic Reprint) by Demetrius Charles Boulger
$45.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Excerpt from The Life of Sir Stamford Raffles When I learnt the name of the clergyman, on reaching that stage in the illness which is the deceptive convalescence between the worst stage of the fever and its after-consequences, I asked him, Are you any relative of one of my heroes, Stamford Raf es Having ...Show more
The Amazons by John Man
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of ruthless, hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legend has it they would cut off their breasts to improve their archery skills and routinely killed their boy childr ...Show more
China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay by Minxin Pei
$68.00 AUD
Category: Asian
When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build socialism with Chinese characteristics. More than three decades later, China s efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working people s paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient ...Show more
Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976: A People's History, 1962-1976 by Frank Dikotter
$20.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing' , this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine.After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 and 1962, an ageing Mao l ...Show more
China's Future by David Shambaugh
$33.95 AUD
Category: Asian
China's future is arguably the most consequential question in global affairs. Having enjoyed unprecedented levels of growth, China is at a critical juncture in the development of its economy, society, polity, national security, and international relations. The direction the nation takes at this turning ...Show more