The State and Governance in India
This book presents an innovative investigation of the policies of the Indian Congress during the late colonial period. Departing from the hitherto existing historiography of Indian nationalism, it analyses the extent to which Congress elites engaged in processes intended to foster nation-building in India.Hardback$61400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Rise and Fall of Imperial China
How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state China was the world's leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China's decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to...Paperback$10500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Mongol Empire
As the largest contiguous empire in history, the Mongol Empire looms large in history: it permanently changed the map of Eurasia as well as how the world was viewed. As the empire expanded, the Mongols were alternately seen as liberators, destroyers, and harbingers of apocalyptic doom. At the same time, they ushered in an era of religious tolerance and cross-cultural...Paperback$13800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World
This volume examines Judaism in Palestine throughout the Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great's conquest in 334 BC to its capture by the Arabs in AD 636. Under the Greek, Roman, and finally Christian supremacy which Hellenism brought, Judaism developed far beyond its biblical origins into a form which was to influence European history from the Middle Ages to the...Hardback$54800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Thailand in the Cold War
Thailand’s position during the Cold War was ambiguous: the country’s political leadership was very keen to maintain the country’s independence on the world stage, yet at the same time was anxious to establish the country’s credentials as staunchly anti-communist. However, as this book argues, Thailand, though never formally a client state of the United States, was very closely embedded in...Hardback$63900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Taming China's Wilderness
Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, historically known as Northern Manchuria, remained a sparsely populated territory on the northeastern frontier. For about two centuries, the rulers of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) - whose historical homeland was in Manchuria - enforced a policy that prohibited Chinese immigration and settlement and maintained the region’s reputation as...Hardback$62000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Subalterns and Raj
Subalterns and Raj presents a unique introductory history of India with an account that begins before the period of British rule, and pursues the continuities within that history up to the present day. Its coverage ranges from Mughal India to post-independence Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, with a focus on the ‘ordinary’ people of India and South Asia. Subalterns and...Paperback$52100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
State and Nation-Building in Pakistan
Religion, violence, and ethnicity are all intertwined in the history of Pakistan. The entrenchment of landed interests, operationalised through violence, ethnic identity, and power through successive regimes has created a system of ‘authoritarian clientalism.’ This book offers comparative, historicist, and multidisciplinary views on the role of identity politics in the development of Pakistan. Bringing together perspectives on the dynamics of...Hardback$61200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Sex in Japan's Globalization, 1870–1930
Based on archival research undertaken in Japan, Britain and the United States, Mihalopoulos offers a new perspective on the relations between gender hierarchies and the political economy in a newly modernised Japan.Hardback$61400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India
Investigating the aesthetics of the zenana – the female quarters of the Indic home or palace – this study discusses the history of architecture, fashion, jewellery and cuisine in princely Indian states during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Hardback$61400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Peace, Poverty and Betrayal
How can we explain Britain's long rule in India beyond the clichés of 'imperial' versus 'nationalist' interpretations? In this new history, Roderick Matthews tells a more nuanced story of 'oblige and rule', the foundation of common purpose between colonisers and powerful Indians. Peace, Poverty and Betrayal argues that this was more a state of being than a system: British policy...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
My Way by Vinne
Collecting the best of Vinne's art from 2018 to 2024, My Way by Vinne is Clover Press's latest high-end artbook. Boasting 160 pages of amazing art, this deluxe hardcover features many of Vinne's personal illustrations, concepts, and designs, collected all in one volume. Vinne's client list is vast, having worked with Pixiv, Vandy the Pink, Evangelion, Never Say Die Records,...Hardback$10600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Muslim Turkistan
This ethnography of Muslim life among the Kazaks of Central Asia describes the sacralisation of land and ethnic identity, local understanding of Islamic purity, the Kazak ancestor cult and domestic spirituality, and pilgrimage to the tombs of Sufi saints.Paperback$20800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Japan And Asian Modernities
The effect of Japan on the challenges and complexities of the modernisation process that globalisation has brought to the fore in Asia are the subject of this interdisciplinary volume by leading scholars in the field. Using fascinating examples drawn from current business and organisational practice in Asia, it focuses on the impact that Japanese modernity has made in Asia as...Hardback$62000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Indonesia’s Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy in the 21st Century
This book examines the changes in Indonesian foreign policy during the 21st century as it seeks to position itself as a great power in the Indo-Pacific region. The rise of 21st-century Indonesia is becoming a permanent fixture in both the domestic and global discourses. Though there has been an increasing level of discussion on Indonesia’s emerging power status, there has...Paperback$18300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
India: The Ancient Past
India: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture nine thousand years ago up until the beginning of the second millennium of the Common Era. The book engages with methodological and controversial issues by examining key themes such as the...Hardback$64100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
India--Myanmar Relations
This book provides a comprehensive evaluation of India's multi-faceted relations with Myanmar. It unravels the mysteries of the complex polity of Myanmar as it undergoes transition through democracy after long military rule. Based on meticulous research and understanding, the volume traces the trajectory of India–Myanmar associations from ancient times to the present day, and offers a fascinating story in the...Hardback$63900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Gordon and the Sudan
The focus of this book is the leadership of Charles George Gordon, the governor-general of the Sudan, during the Turkiyya period (1821-85). The book analyses his administration and the political, economic and social developments under his leadership against a background of political unrest in Egypt and the weakening of Khedive Ismail's position in the face of increasing European financial imperialism....Hardback$74700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Constitution-making in Asia
Britain’s main imperial possessions in Asia were granted independence in the 1940s and 1950s and needed to craft constitutions for their new states. Invariably, the indigenous elites drew upon British constitutional ideas and institutions regardless of the political conditions that prevailed in their very different lands. Many Asian nations called upon the services of Englishman and Law Professor Sir Ivor...Hardback$61400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
China's Communist Revolutions
This volume presents papers by international scholars on the economic, social, and political environments out of which the PRC emerged and the socio-political impact of communist power since then. The contributions present interpretations of key aspects of reform such as economic structures, foreign policy, and political change, and the socio-political impact of communist power. The book challenges the accepted orthodoxy...Hardback$74700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
China-Malaysia Relations and Foreign Policy
When Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, paid an official visit to China in May 1974, it secured Malaysia a place in the annals of regional diplomatic history as the first ASEAN country to establish full diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. This book analyses the process of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Malaysia and China...Hardback$61200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Caste, Class and Catholicism in India 1789-1914
This is a study of the ways in which changing social expectations among Indian Catholics confronted the Roman Church with new questions, as well as giving fresh urgency to the old problem of the persistence of caste among Christians. Low-caste restiveness prompted different reactions among European missionaries and high-caste Indian priests, and the socio-economic significance of religious conversion became a...Hardback$72000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Behind The Japanese Mask
First published in 2005, Behind The Japanese Mask was written by His Majesty's Ambassador to Japan immediately before the outbreak of World War II. This book charts the sequence of events that led to the outbreak of the War, examining the intricacies of the struggle between the forces that favoured the war and those who opposed it. The book contains...Hardback$72000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
America's Vietnam War and Its French Connection
That America was drawn into the Vietnam War by the French has been recognised, but rarely explored. America's Vietnam War and Its French Connection analyses the years from 1945, with the French military reconquest of Vietnam, until 1963, with the execution of the French-endorsed dictator, Ngo Dinh Diem. It demonstrates how the US should not have followed the French into...Hardback$61400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Vietnam Airmobile Warfare Tactics
A Vietnam veteran explains the composition, capabilities, equipment and missions of the US Army and Marine Corps helicopter and airmobile units in the Vietnam war - and exactly how they carried out their missions. This compact, yet detailed volume centres on the classic airmobile assault mission: how it was planned and prepared; how the troop-carrying “slicks” and their “gunship” escorts...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Silk Roads
For more than 1500 years, across more than 4000 miles, the Silk Roads connected East and West. These overland trails and sea lanes carried not only silks, but also cotton textiles, dyes, horses, incense, spices, gems, glass, and ceramics along with religious ideas, governing customs, and technology. For The Silk Roads, Xinru Liu has assembled primary sources from ancient China,...Paperback$8295Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Retreat of the Elephants
This landmark account of China’s environmental history, written by an internationally pre-eminent China specialist, should stand for decades to come as a unique statement on motives, processes, perceptions and consequences of environmental change in China.” (Jennifer L. Mnookin, American Scientist) The Retreat of the Elephants is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand years for which there...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Making of Modern Japan
Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years' engagement with Japan and its history, it is the crowning work of our leading interpreter of the modern Japanese experience. Since 1600, Japan has undergone three periods of...Paperback$11700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932
In this history of Japanese involvement in northeast China, the author argues that Japan's military seizure of Manchuria in September 1931 was founded on three decades of infiltration of the area. This incremental empire-building and its effect on Japan are the focuses of this book. The principal agency in the piecemeal growth of Japanese colonisation was the South Manchurian Railway...Paperback$9000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Lost Generation
The Lost Generation is a vital component to an understanding of Maoism. Bonnin provides a comprehensive account of the critical movement during which seventeen million young "educated" city dwellers were supposed to transform themselves into peasants, potentially for life. Bonnin closely examines the Chinese leadership's motivations and the methods that it used over time to implement its objectives, as well...Hardback$14200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Last Samurai
The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai to national leadership, to his death as a rebel leader, has captivated generations of Japanese readers and now Americans as well. His life is the inspiration for a major Hollywood film, The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe. In this vibrant new biography,...Hardback$8400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Jewish War, Volume II
Josephus, a soldier, statesman, and historian, was a Jew born in Jerusalem around 37 CE. A man of high descent, he was early learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in Rome the cause of some Jewish priests, he returned to Jerusalem and in 66 tried to prevent a revolt against Rome, managing for...Hardback$9200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Great Wave
An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today’s world – from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth ‘A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world’ Ai Weiwei In the twenty-first century, a wave of political, cultural and technological change has capsized our old certainties and...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Book of Secrets
An extraordinary firsthand account of Communist Party machinery at its most brutal and paranoid -- Sunday Telegraph Picked as Hilary Spurling's Book of the Year in The Spectator. The spellbinding story of the secret life of a spy in modern China, drawn from an extraordinary archive of personal diaries and letters. Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Taiwan’s Imagined Geography
Until 300 years ago, the Chinese considered Taiwan a "land beyond the seas," a "ball of mud" inhabited by "naked and tattooed savages." The incorporation of this island into the Qing empire in the seventeenth century and its evolution into a province by the late nineteenth century involved not only a reconsideration of imperial geography but also a reconceptualization of...Paperback$7499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Taipei People
Widely acclaimed as a classic of contemporary fiction in Chinese, Taipei People has been frequently compared to James Joyce's Dubliners. Patrick Hanan praises the volume as "the highest achievement in the contemporary Chinese story." Henry Miller considers Pai Hsien-yung "a master of portraiture." Stories from this collection have already been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Hebrew, Japanese, and Korean....Paperback$7399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Samurai
The word 'samurai' stands for ideals of courage, honour, self-sacrifice and loyalty. Yet much of the common understanding is imaginative fiction. This book explores the concept from medieval reality, through early modern changes, to today's hugely varied popular culture, challenging preconceptions and exploding myths. The figure of the samurai is unique in its global intelligibility, read both as a symbol...Hardback$11000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Racing the Enemy
With startling revelations, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa rewrites the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By fully integrating the three key actors in the story—the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan—Hasegawa for the first time puts the last months of the war into international perspective. From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact...Paperback$8700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Japan's Total Empire
In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of empire building: how people at home imagined and experienced the empire they called Manchukuo. Contrary to...Paperback$7099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
How the Red Star Rose
Until the present day, Mao Zedong's biography has been the subject of an international mountain of commentary in China and elsewhere. Biographies praising Mao and those slandering him are all based on the American journalist Edgar Snow's (1905–1972) account in Red Star over China for the route Mao travelled from early childhood through his youth. How the Red Star Rose...Hardback$13399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Expanding Verse
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Expanding Verse explores experimental poetic practice at key moments of transition in Japan's media landscape from the 1920s to the present. Andrew Campana centres hybrid poetic forms in modern and contemporary Japan—many of which have never...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Burying Autumn
"Autumn wind, autumn rain, fill my heart with sorrow"—these were the last words of Qiu Jin (1875–1907), written before she was beheaded for plotting to overthrow the Qing empire. Eventually, she would be celebrated as a Republican martyr and China's first feminist, her last words committed to memory by schoolchildren. Yet during her lifetime she was often seen as eccentric,...Hardback$13000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese
This edited volume presents a multidisciplinary exploration of Chinese identity, bringing together contributions from philosophers, historians, and legal theorists. The book examines the question of what it means to be, or to become, Chinese, offering a rich collection of perspectives that span both historical and contemporary contexts. Through a series of thought-provoking chapters, the authors explore the complexities of "Chineseness,"...Hardback$9499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Another Lens
Another Lens: Photography and the Emergence of Image Culture, volume 4 in the India Since the 90s series, reframes lens-based practice in India through a fresh historical perspective. The book presents a new assemblage of well-known writing and image-making. From texts by historians to recent statements and interviews by practitioners of photography, the chapters in the book come together to...Hardback$12399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China
In this multidimensional analysis, Benjamin A. Elman uses over a thousand newly available examination records from the Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, 1315-1904, to explore the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the civil examination system, one of the most important institutions in Chinese history. For over five hundred years, the most important positions within the dynastic government were usually...Hardback$19099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Wing Chun In-Depth
AWARDS Winner - Sports, American Legacy Book Awards, 2023 Finalist - Sports, Best Books Awards, 2023 A rare, in-depth look at the history, teachings, and wider implications of Wing Chun. Wing Chun In-Depth offers a historical overview of the art’s development, examining how to properly approach training for fighting skills that give you an edge in street defence. It presents...Paperback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
What Is Religious Authority?
An anthropologist's groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labour of community building on the island of Java. This compelling book draws on Ismail Fajrie Alatas's unique insights as an anthropologist to provide a new understanding of Islamic religious authority, showing how religious leaders unite diverse aspects of life and contest differing Muslim perspectives to...Paperback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting
Chinese ink painters of the Republican period (1911–1949) creatively engaged with a range of art forms in addition to ink, such as oil painting, drawing, photography, and woodblock prints. They transformed their medium of choice in innovative ways, reinterpreting both its history and its theoretical foundations. Juliane Noth offers a new understanding of these compelling experiments in Chinese painting by...Hardback$15099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture
From the first century, when Buddhism entered China, the foreign religion shaped Chinese philosophy, beliefs, and ritual. At the same time, Buddhism had a profound effect on the material world of the Chinese. This wide-ranging study shows that Buddhism brought with it a vast array of objects, big and small—relics treasured as parts of the body of the Buddha, prayer...Paperback$21500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Dawn of the Warrior Age
The war between the Heike and Genji clans in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is among the most compelling and significant moments in Japan's history, immortalised in The Tale of the Heike. Beyond the events recorded in this canonical text, the conflicts of the surrounding years are crucial to medieval Japanese culture and history. In 1156, power began to slip...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Art of War
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The new and internationally acclaimed translation by Michael Nylan, accompanied by her detailed explanatory footnotes. A richly informative introduction by Michael Nylan. Fourteen illustrations. Seven interpretative essays on The Art of War's central themes by Michael Nylan and Shoufu Yin, Benjamin Daniels, Trenton Wilson, Joseph Passman, Alfreda Murck, Li Ling, and Richard Curt Kraus. A...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Rival Partners
Taiwan has been depicted as an island facing the incessant threat of forcible unification with the People's Republic of China. Why, then, has Taiwan spent more than three decades pouring capital and talent into China? In the award-winning Rival Partners, Jieh-min Wu follows the development of Taiwanese enterprises in China over twenty-five years and provides fresh insights. The geopolitical shift...Hardback$14099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
ReORIENT
Eurocentrism is abandoned in this text, as the author sees the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asian-centred world. In a challenge to received historiography and social theory, the author discounts the world according to Marx, Weber and other theorists, and explains the rise of the West in world economic...Paperback$11700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Poems of the First Buddhist Women
The TherXXXXgāthā is one of the oldest surviving literatures by women, composed more than two millennia ago and originally collected as part of the Pali canon of Buddhist scripture. These poems were written by some of the first Buddhist women—therXXXXs—honoured for their religious achievements. Through imaginative verses about truth and freedom, the women recount their lives before ordination and their...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Orientalism
The Orientalism debate, inspired by the work of Edward Said, has been a major source of cross-disciplinary controversy. Orientalism offers a re-evaluation of this vast literature by a historian of imperialism, giving it a historical perspective. The discussion tests the notion that the Western arts received genuine inspiration from the East by examining the visual arts, architecture, design, music, and...Paperback$10100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Negara
Combining great learning, interpretative originality, analytical sensitivity, and a charismatic prose style, Clifford Geertz has produced a lasting body of work with influence throughout the humanities and social sciences, and remains the foremost anthropologist in America. His 1980 book Negara analysed the social organisation of Bali before it was colonised by the Dutch in 1906. Here Geertz applied his widely...Paperback$15800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Mongolia
Mongolia remains a beautiful barren land of spectacularly clothed horse-riders, nomadic romance and windswept landscape. However, modern Mongolia is now caught between two giants: China and Russia. Known to be home to enormous mineral resources, they are keen to exploit these opportunities. China is expanding economically into the region, buying up mining interests and strengthening its control over Inner Mongolia....Paperback$6299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Kashmir
Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world—and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million strong, exceeds the total number of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, freedom of speech is non-existent, and human rights abuses and atrocities are routinely visited on its Muslim-majority population. In the...Paperback$5500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Islam in Pakistan
The first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in the world at the time of its establishment in 1947. Today it is the second-most populous, after Indonesia. Islam in Pakistan is the first comprehensive book to explore Islam's evolution in this region over the past century and a half, from...Paperback$12200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
DMZ Colony
Finalist for the US National Book Award for Poetry 2020 A powerful work of cultural memory that recovers voices from Korea's heartbreakingly violent postcolonial history. Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force of personal and political reckoning set over eight acts. Evincing the power of translation as a poetic device...Paperback$5900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament
Bathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors, and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions of ancient peoples, poems of mourning and texts of lament stand out in classical Chinese literature as brilliant and unique. Composed and celebrated over 3,000 years, they are central to the Chinese literary tradition but have been largely unknown to English readers....Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Chinese Empresses
Chinese Empresses highlights the stories of Chinese imperial women and how male authorities attempted to curb their power. It disputes the notion that Chinese empresses were simply hapless or powerless victims of the male-dominated political system. This book is not a compendium of biographies of Chinese empresses. The objective is more fundamental. By analysing details from the lives of representative...Paperback$8723Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
China
In this complete guide to modern China, Michael Dillon takes students through its social, political, and economic changes, from the Qing Empire, through the civil war and the Communist state, to its incarnation as a hybrid capitalist superpower. Key features of the new edition include: A brand new chapter on the Xi Jinping premiership Coverage of the recent developments in...Paperback$10000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Archipelago of Resettlement
What happens when refugees encounter Indigenous sovereignty struggles in the countries of their resettlement? From April to November 1975, the US military processed over 112,000 Vietnamese refugees on the unincorporated territory of Guam; from 1977 to 1979, the State of Israel granted asylum and citizenship to 366 non-Jewish Vietnamese refugees. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi analyses these two cases to theorise...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Anime Explosion!
"An excellent reference work on the subject." - Library Journal (starred review) For fans, culture watchers, and perplexed outsiders, this expanded edition offers an engaging tour of the anime megaverse, from older artistic traditions to the works of modern creators like Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Otomo, Satoshi Kon, and CLAMP. Examined are all of anime's major themes, styles, and conventions, plus...Paperback$9700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Analysis of Genuine Karate 2
Analysis of Genuine Karate 2 by Hermann Bayer explores the origins and evolution of Okinawan Karate. Initially developed as a fighting tool, genuine Okinawan Karate stands in contrast to non-Okinawan styles, which are often created for different purposes. Dr. Bayer's compelling work will captivate karate practitioners, scholars, and anyone interested in Asian martial arts and its culture. He provides substantial...Paperback$6200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan
Once the exclusive domain of the aristocracy, classical Japanese poetry (waka) underwent a remarkable transformation in the medieval period, becoming a dynamic tool for cultural education embraced by warriors, monks, merchants, and commoners alike. Ariel Stilerman investigates this evolution in Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan by examining not only poetic treatises but also overlooked genres such...Hardback$9999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Vit Nam Ca Con, Vit Nam Ca Cha (My Vietnam, Your Vietnam: Vietnamese Edition)
Kalynh Ng’s Vietnamese translation of the critically-acclaimed dual memoir, My Vietnam, Your Vietnam, by Christina Vo and her father, Nghia M. Vo. A chronicle of the divergent journeys of a Vietnamese father, who fled his home country in desperation, and his American-born daughter, who ventured to Vietnam as an adult, capturing the stark contrast between their perspectives as they strive...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Jewish War, Volume I
Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem around 37 CE. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in Rome the cause of some Jewish priests, he returned to Jerusalem and in 66 tried to prevent revolt against Rome, managing for the Jews the...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Tarawa
In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding throughout the Pacific theatre. In mid-November of that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, the most heavily fortified Japanese territory in the entire Pacific. They were fighting to wrest control of the island to stage the...Paperback$4900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
A Thirst for Empire
How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerism. Tea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonisation, and its cultivation brought about massive changes—in land use, labour systems, market practices, and social hierarchies—the effects of which are...Paperback$8800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world—and possibly the most volatile. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire now gives scholars and general readers a concise...Paperback$10000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Transcendental and the Mundane
Through investigation of Chinese cultural ideals and life practices, Prof. Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese spiritual life. Apart from focusing on the exalted subtleties of the scholarly elite, Prof. Hsu pays more attention to the everyday people's cultural idea. By examining their daily practices (including eating, living, medical practices, poems, songs, art, and literature) and "collective memory"...Hardback$10499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Generalissimo
One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and...Paperback$8500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
How the Red Sun Rose
This work offers the most comprehensive account of the origin and consequences of the Yan'an Rectification Movement from 1942 to 1945. The author argues that this campaign emancipated the Chinese Communist Party from Soviet-influenced dogmatism and unified the Party, preparing it for the final victory against the Nationalist Party in 1949. More importantly, this monograph shows in great detail how...Hardback$19300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
72 Ways of Saving Lives
How did lay people in old China save their lives when dealing with acute or chronic health issues? Conventional medicine was costly and might not have been an option for many. Instead, people in villages and towns relied on remedies drawn from a woodblock-printed illustrated booklet called the Seventy-Two Therapies, first published in 1847. The goal of 72 Ways of...Hardback$9499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Troubled Empire
The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire—a millennium and a half in the making—was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace...Paperback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Milk Tea Alliance
Why are activists in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Burma willing to court danger to help one another? The political situations in Burma, Thailand, and Hong Kong are radically different. Only Burma is in a state of civil war. Only Hong Kong has changed in just a few years from a place with virtually no political prisoners to one with many....Paperback$4900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The King's Plunder, The King's Bodies
Focusing on the King's rights of conquest and prize among other distinctive forms of royal jurisdiction, as well as laws of allegiance and subjecthood, this work establishes the monarchical form of the British empire between CE 1600 and 1900. Special attention is given to the East India Company in its administration and conquests in India as well as 'direct' Crown...Hardback$9499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Indian Caliphate
The remarkable story of the last Ottoman Caliph, exiled by Atatürk, who tried to recreate the Caliphate in the Indian princely state of Hyderabad. Abdulmejid II was a talented painter, music enthusiast and Francophile. He was also the last Ottoman Caliph, expelled from Istanbul in March 1924 when Turkey abolished the 1,300-year-old Caliphate. From his villa on the French Riviera,...Hardback$11700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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