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  • Nanking 1937

    Memory and Healing

    by Robert Sabella, Feifei Li, David Liu ...
    In recent years the international community has begun to scrutinize and, in many cases, condemn the atrocities that took place at Nanking in late 1937. This is all part of a larger worldwide movement in which both nations and multinational groups are attempting to reach closure regarding past atrocities and inhumanities. As represented by the contributors to this book, these activities have an ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    by Peter Hopkirk ...
    This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk here retraces Kim's footsteps across Kipling's India to see how much of it remains.To attempt this with a fictional hero would normally be pointless. But ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Sikhism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Eleanor Nesbitt ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide. However,events such as the verbal and physical attacks on Sikhs just after September 11, where Sikhs were being mistaken for Muslims, suggest that the Sikh faith still remains mysterious to many. This Very Short Introduction introduces newcomers to the meaning of the Sikh religious tradition, its teachings, practices, rituals ... Read more

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  • The Private World of Ottoman Women

    by Godfrey Goodwin ...
    Series Book 2 - Saqi Essentials
    Recovering the oft-neglected role of women in Ottoman high society and power politics, this book brings to life the women who made their mark in a male domain. Though historical records tend to favour the glitter of palaces over the trials of daily life, Goodwin also reconstructs ordinary women's domestic toil. As the Ottoman Empire first expanded and then shrank, women travelled its width and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tibet In a Nutshell

    by Jonathan Gregson ...
    To the Western imagination, Tibet has always been a mysterious place. For centuries its capital, Lhasa, was known as a Forbidden City: it was ruled by a priest-king, and its medieval society was not welcoming to foreigners. But the exile of the Dalai Lama and his followers half a century ago, the destruction of the monasteries, and the plight of the Tibetan people who remained, evoked continuing ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

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  • The Discourse of Race in Modern China

    by Frank Dikötter ...
    First published in 1992, The Discourse of Race in Modern China rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial categorisation became so widespread in China. After the country's devastating defeat against Japan in 1895, leading reformers like Yan Fu, Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei turned away from the Confucian classics to seek enlightenment ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Changing Face of China

    From Mao to Market

    by John Gittings ...
    Where is China heading in the 21st century? Can its Communist Party survive or is it being challenged by growing inequality and unrest? Will the US and China cooperate or compete in a dangerous future? Will China's economic boom be brought to a halt by environmental catastrophe? In this highly readable account, John Gittings provides the essential information to help answer these vital questions ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Revival: The Jews of Asia (1920)

    Especially in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    by Sidney Mendelssohn ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    The present publication is the first that has attempted to portray the separate and progressive history of the Jews in the different countries which they have made their homes, since their expulsion from the land which they had been identified for something like thirty centuries. In these pages the author has endeavoured to compile a narrative of a great part of what has occurred to the Jews of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • China at War 1901-1949

    by Edward L. Dreyer ...
    Series series Modern Wars In Perspective
    Few phases of history were as heavy with implications for the world at large than the turbulent years through which China moved from the overthrow of the last imperial dynasty in 1911, through anarchy, civil war and invasion, to the final triumph of the Communists in 1949 - yet few periods are as little known by the wider world, and so little understood. Professor Dreyer's impressive account of ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • India in the World Economy

    From Antiquity to the Present

    by Tirthankar Roy ...
    Series Book 10 - New Approaches to Asian History
    Cross-cultural exchange has characterized the economic life of India since antiquity. Its long coastline has afforded convenient access to Asia and Africa as well as trading partnerships formed in the exchange of commodities ranging from textiles to military technology and from opium to indigo. In a journey across two thousand years, this enthralling book, written by a leading South Asian ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Among the White Moon Faces

    An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands

    by Shirley Geok-lin Lim ...
    This "fascinating autobiography" from an award-winning Asian-American female author "reads like a novel" ( The Washington Post Book World).With insight, candor, and grace, Shirley Geok-lin Lim recalls her path from her poverty-stricken childhood in war-torn Malaysia to her new and exciting yet uncertain womanhood in America. Grappling to secure a place for herself in the United States, she is ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Red Earth

    A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation

    by Binh Tu Tran ...
    Translated by John Spragens ...
    Series series Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series
    Phu Rieng was one of many French rubber plantations in colonial Vietnam; Tran Tu Binh was one of 17,606 laborers brought to work there in 1927, and his memoir is a straightforward, emotionally searing account of how one Vietnamese youth became involved in revolutionary politics. The connection between this early experience and later activities of the author becomes clear as we learn that Tran Tu ... Read more

    $16.19 USD