The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia by James Bradley
$36.00 AUD
Category: Asian
"Bradley is sharp and rueful, and a voice for a more seasoned, constructive vision of our international relations with East Asia." --"Christian Science Monitor" James Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans--including FDR's grandfather, Warren Delano--who in the 1800s made their fortunes in the ...Show more
Mr Selden's Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart and the South China Sea by Timothy Brook
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian
In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an ...Show more
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story by Hyeonseo Lee; David John (As told to)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: North Korea
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of ...Show more
One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment by Mei Fong
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Since 1979, China has exercised unprecedented control over the reproductive habits of more than a billion people. At the end of the twentieth century the one-child policy lifted millions out of poverty, and now the Chinese economy is on the verge of becoming the largest in the world. But is their coloss ...Show more
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-76 by Frank Dikötter
$28.00 AUD
Category: Asian
After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 and 1962, an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the c ...Show more
Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road by Rob Schmitz
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas and opportunity. Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighbourhood, forging relationships with ordinary people who see a brighter future in the city's sl ...Show more
Walking Towards Ourselves: Indian Women Tell Their Stories by Catriona Mitchell
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Walking Towards Ourselves gets behind the headlines and finds out what it means to be an Indian woman today. Walk in the shoes of some of India's foremost women writers and thinkers, and go on a journey into their intimate lives, to places you haven't been. From the film sets of Bollywood to a closeted ...Show more
A Kim Jong-Il Production: Kidnap. Torture. Murder. Making Movies North Korean Style by Paul Fischer
$27.00 AUD
Category: Asian
It opens with a double kidnapping...Madame Choi, South Korea's most famous actress, is lured to Hong Kong, drugged and smuggled out on a ship. When her ex-husband, Shin Sang-Ok, Korea's most acclaimed director, goes to look for her, he vanishes too. The pair wake to find themselves in North Korea. There ...Show more
Bend, Not Break A Life in Two Worlds by Ping Fu
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Born on the eve of China’s Cultural Revolution, Ping Fu was separated from her family at the age of eight. She grew up fighting hunger and humiliation and shielding her younger sister from the teenagers in Mao’s Red Guard. At twenty-five, she found her way to the United States; her only resources were $ ...Show more
Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project by Robert Boynton
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens - perhaps hundreds - of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos and forced to live in 'Invitation Only Zones', high-security detention-centres masked as exclusive areas, on the outskirts of Pyongyang. The objective? To brainwash the abductees wi ...Show more
The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom by Peter Popham
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
She was a heroine of our time, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, a symbol of supreme courage in the face of tyranny. Then, in 2010, Burma's generals opened the door a chink: Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest, and her country began to change. Suu Kyi's acclaimed biographer, Peter Popham, d ...Show more
Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires by Dominic Ziegler
$49.95 AUD
Category: Asian
Black Dragon River recounts a personal journey down one of Asia's great rivers. The world's ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area offers Economist journalist Dominic Ziegler a lens with which ...Show more