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 Age of Confucian Rule
Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been favourably compared with the European Renaissance, which in many ways the Song transformation surpassed. With the chaotic...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 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$11300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Ghazal Eros
The old ghazal, i.e. the poetry of eros in Urdu, Persian and Arabic, has been read as great literature but seldom as a document of history. This book argues that there is one element – the expression of masculine passion for a masculine object – that has shaped the ghazal historically and across languages. The neglect of this element, which...Hardback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Genera of Orchidaceae in Hong Kong
First published in 1977, at a time when no comprehensive account of the genera of the orchids of Hong Kong had been attempted before, the work by Professor Shiu-ying Hu is a pioneering study. This illustrated treatise fills the vacuum of essential references on orchids and meets the need for a guide to identify the species growing in Hong Kong....Hardback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Early Chinese Empires
In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Art of Kaneoya Sachiko
The first English-language collection of the titular artist, The Art of Kaneoya Sachiko chronicles the creator's work and themes for nearly a decade, showcasing the monstrous, the romantic, and the mortal suffering of her subjects. Inspired by anime and manga from the 50s and 90s, Kaneoya's global contingent of fans has never had an easily-obtainable volume of her work... until...Hardback$7800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Indian Ocean Current
The rich history of the Indian Ocean has been much explored, though its present-day manifestations remain less studied. This catalogue for an exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, curated by Prasannan Parthasarathi and Salim Currimjee, brings together essays that contextualise the work of six contemporary artists from the region. Through a variety of mediums and forms—including watercolours, videos, collages,...Paperback$9000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
How to Read Buddhist Art
An indispensable introduction to the evolution of Buddhist imagery from its origins in India through its spread to China, Japan, and South Asia For more than 2,000 years, sublime works of art have been created to embody essential aspects of Buddhist thought, which developed and evolved as its practice spread from India to East Asia and beyond. How to Read...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Heaven Does Not Block All Roads
As the geopolitical importance of Taiwan grows, this history provides a guide to the country. Huang Chin-tao was born in 1926, when Taiwan was still part of the Japanese Empire. By the time he died in 2019, Taiwan was a bustling, high-tech democracy and Huang had lived through every twist and turn along the way. He served as a Japanese...Hardback$11300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
General Orders: Sengoku Jidai
Take command of feudal lords in tense battles for control during Japan's Sengoku period in an exciting sequel to General Orders: World War II. General Orders: Sengoku Jidai pits two competing daimyo against each other in a fight for control over crucial battlefields in 16th century Japan. Deploy your commanders to seize powerful advantages, secure valuable supply lines, and capture...Game$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Everyday Indian Aesthetic
Everyday Indian Aesthetic is a unique documentation of India, depicted through aesthetics as seen in architecture, adornments, objects, colours, textures, patterns, and typography. It celebrates the diversity of the country while highlighting the identities and functionality associated with everyday design. With more than 400 photographs taken during Sayali Goyal's travels around rural and small-town India, she invites you to take...Other book format$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
City of Kashmir
City of Kashmir offers readers a journey into the 2,000-year history of Srinagar, exploring its written history, legends and oral traditions to take a living pulse. In exploring the city's geography, it maps the daily rituals of life and the accompanying material culture, as well as the crafts for which Srinagar is justly famed worldwide. Based on twenty years' research...Hardback$12700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
China's Last Empire
In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with the conquered Ming gentry, though many of their social...Paperback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
China After Mao
_______________A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR‘A revolutionary book’ Sunday Times‘A pulsating account that makes clear how important it is to look beneath the surface when it comes to any period or region in history – but above all to China’ Peter Frankopan, TLS'Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what has shaped today's China and what...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Bringing Together China and the West (English/Chinese Edition)
On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2023, the University Library organized an exhibition and compiled this commemorative volume to record and contextualize its burgeoning collection of Western rare books about China. This splendid volume features books, maps, and manuscripts from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Among its treasures are...Hardback$10499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Bitter Wormwood
Kohima, 2007. A young man has just been gunned down in cold blood—the latest casualty in the conflict that has brutalised the people of Nagaland, in the neglected northeastern corner of India. Rich in culture and history, Bitter Wormwood traces the story of one man’s life from 1937 until 2007, offering poignant insight into the human cost behind the political...Paperback$4599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Ancient China
Richly illustrated with photographs of historical heritage, Ancient China chronicles significant events that led to the rise and fall of dynasties. The focus is also on historical figures such as a petty bureaucrat in the Qin dynasty, a writer who loved travelling, or a scholar-official devoted to calligraphy and painting. In this way, the authors, all young historians, narrate stories...Paperback$5700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China
Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemporary Chinese citizens understand themselves and their nation. Where history fails to address the consequences of man-made and natural atrocities, David Der-Wei Wang argues,...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Two Systems, Two Countries
As Hong Kong is integrated into the People’s Republic of China, ever fewer people in the city identify as Chinese. Two Systems, Two Countries explains why. Two Systems, Two Countries traces the origins of Hong Kong nationalism and introduces readers to its main schools of thought: city-state theory, self-determination, independence, and returnism. The idea of Hong Kong independence, Kevin Carrico...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Trading Locomotives
The proliferation of railroads around the world was integral to the emergence of a global market-based economy at the turn of the twentieth century. This deeply researched and comprehensive book examines the history of rail in Japan from a global perspective, offering new insight into the connections between the world economy and Japan's industrialization. Naofumi Nakamura traces the international locomotive...Paperback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The World Turned Upside Down
An authority on Asia and globalisation identifies the challenges China’s growing power poses and how it must be confronted. “Timely and thought-provoking. . . . An unsparing analysis of how Washington's elite fell into the grip of their China delusion.”—James Kynge, Financial Times “Prestowitz doesn’t just point out problems; he offers a detailed, 25-page 'Plan for America.' An excellent comprehensive...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Transpacific Flow
What happens when a US cultural institution is imported to China, the purported chief rival of the United States in the twenty-first century? The first book-length account of university-based creative writing programs in China, The Transpacific Flow reveals how Chinese intellectuals adapt American-style writing programs, such as the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the International Writing Program at Chinese universities, to...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Translocal Island of Okinawa
The Translocal Island of Okinawa reveals the underrepresented memories, visions and actions involved in the making of Okinawan resistance against its subordinated status under the US-Japan security system, beyond the narrowly defined political, cultural and geographical borders of locality. As Okinawa’s base politics is a problem deeply rooted in the context of East Asia, so is the history of the...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The State's Sexuality
The State's Sexuality uncovers how the lives and work of women engaged in prostitution, long considered the most abased members of society, have been strategically intertwined with the lofty purpose of building South Korea's postcolonial nation-state. Through a complicated, contradictory patchwork of laws and regulations, which Park Jeong-Mi conceptualises as a "toleration-regulation regime," the South Korean state did not merely...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History
With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the later thirteenth century, the Mongol states reconfigured the basic zones of Eurasian trade and contact. For those they conquered, and for those who later overthrew them, new histories and narratives were needed to account for...Paperback$9099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Japan–South Korea Identity Clash
Japan and South Korea are Western-style democracies with open-market economies committed to the rule of law. They are also U.S. allies. Yet despite their shared interests, shared values, and geographic proximity, divergent national identities have driven a wedge between them. Drawing on decades of expertise, Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder investigate the roots of this split and its ongoing...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Book of Swindles
This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers use charmed talismans for mind control and murder. A pair of dubious monks extorts money from a powerful official and then spends it on whoring. A rich student tries to...Paperback$9200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Strange Tales from Edo
In Strange Tales from Edo, William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan's engagement with Chinese fiction in the early modern period (1600–1868). Large-scale analyses of the full historical and bibliographical record—the first of their kind—document in detail the wholesale importation of Chinese fiction, the market for imported books and domestic reprint editions, and the critical role of manuscript practices,...Hardback$9999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Secrets of State
Two countries are brought to the brink of nuclear war in this breathtaking thriller from the author of The American Mission. Sam Trainor’s outspokenness left him marginalised in Washington. Formerly a top South Asia expert in the State Department, Sam's knowledge is now being used in the private sector, but he finds profits-driven consulting work difficult to adjust to. When...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Reform and Nation-Building
The Malaysian people have endured decades of economic decline, identity politics, and socio-political uncertainty. The country has also experienced a decline in international credibility due to the 1MDB corruption scandal of global proportions. Since obtaining independence in 1957, Malaysia has had two historic general elections, the first in 2018 (GE14), and the second in 2022 (GE15). GE14 brought the reformist...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Phoenix Kingdoms
This stunning exhibition unveils the remarkable art and historical legacy of two mysterious kingdoms of ancient China. Phoenix Kingdoms brings to life the distinctive Bronze Age cultures that flourished along the middle course of the Yangzi River in South Central China about 2,500 years ago. With over 150 objects on loan from five major Chinese museums, Phoenix Kingdoms explores the...Hardback$12399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Passport Entanglements
Passport Entanglements examines the problems with documents issued to Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong. Focusing on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, anthropologist Nicole Constable looks at how these instruments determine legal status and prescribe rights. The book explores the larger role that passports and other types of documentation play in gendered migration, precarious labour, and bureaucracy as...Hardback$18099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Nominal Things
How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia. This book opens in eleventh-century China, where scholars were the first in world history to systematically illustrate and document ancient artefacts. As Jeffrey Moser argues, the visual, technical, and conceptual mechanisms they developed to record these objects laid the foundations...Hardback$9499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Making China Modern
Thoughtful, probing a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China.-William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lead? It is tempting to attribute the rise of China to Deng Xiaoping and to recent changes in economic policy. But China has a long history of creative adaptation....Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Life and Dreams: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Media Art
Life and Dreams: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Media Art is the first extensive catalogue of works by Chinese artists represented in The Walther Collection. Showing visually inventive and emotionally compelling artworks by 44 groundbreaking artists, Life and Dreams demonstrates the remarkable speed with which photography and media art have occupied important positions within the field of experimental Chinese art since...Hardback$13000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Learning to Live with the Past
This essay examines the history of the Indian subcontinent and the Partition of 1947 from a pedagogical perspective. How does education shape political rivalry and hostility? The Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947—the violence that followed it, and its living legacy of rival nationalisms—has made a deep and pervasive impact on education in both India and Pakistan. In Learning...Hardback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Kingdoms in Peril, Volume 2
Translated in full for the first time, this second volume immerses readers in the power and drama of the electrifying classic Chinese novel. Lord Wen of Jin brings some temporary stability to the political scene when he returns after many years in exile. However, the grants of land and office to his longstanding supporters make them too powerful for his...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Infrastructure and Form
In the 1990s and 2000s, contemporary art in India changed radically in form, as an art world once dominated by painting began to support installation, new media, and performance. State-run institutions decreased the support they had given a modernist avant-garde, and art was cultivated instead by a booming market as well as new nonprofit institutions that combined strong local roots...Hardback$12399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Indonesia: History, Heritage, Culture
Indonesia: History, Heritage, Culture offers a concise, engaging introduction to the historical, political, and cultural dynamics of Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation and home to the world's largest and most diverse Muslim population. Interweaving brief, anthropologically-informed stories of aspects of everyday life in Indonesia with broader historical accounts of this region, Indonesia: History, Heritage, Culture provides textured insights...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
God's Chinese Son
Whether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of a great historian at his best, God's Chinese Son must be read. At the center of this history of China's Taiping rebellion (1845-64) stands Hong Xiuquan, a failed student...Paperback$6100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Flowers of Fire
Flowers of Fire was listed in the best books of 2023 by The Economist. "Invigorating debut... a full-throated rallying cry." - Publishers Weekly One of Ms. Magazine's "most-anticipated feminist books of 2023". An eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea—one that the world should be watching. Since the beginning of the #MeToo movement, tens...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Flexible India
Yoga has offered the Indian state unprecedented opportunities for global, media-savvy political performance. Under Modi, it has promoted yoga tourism and staged mass yoga sessions, and Indian officials have proposed yoga as a national solution to a range of social problems, from reducing rape to curing cancer. But as yoga has gone global, its cultural meanings have spiralled far and...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Elegies for Empire
Facing a transformed socio-political landscape after the An Lushan Rebellion (756–763), Tang dynasty elites questioned inherited understandings of tradition and anxiously reflected on their relations to both recent and ancient pasts. Du Fu (712–770), widely considered China's greatest poet, presciently addressed these concerns in his late work on memory and the means by which the past survives. In Elegies for...Hardback$9999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Eastern Encounters
The British royal family has had a long-standing intellectual and artistic relationship with India. Through the exploration of the history of Indian manuscripts in the Royal Collection, this publication offers the reader a new understanding of the developing relationship between the British Crown and India's royal courts. Drawing upon the Royal Library's world-class collection of manuscripts from the Indian subcontinent,...Hardback$11000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
East and Southeast Asia 2025–2026
The World Today Series: East & Southeast Asia 2025–2026 provides historical background on East & Southeast Asia to help readers gain a thorough understanding of contemporary developments in this region. Broad introductory chapters are followed by sections on each country in the region. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail make this an outstanding resource for researchers, practitioners in...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Designing Reform
Designing Reform investigates the rich architecture of post-Mao China and its broad cultural impact. In the years following China’s Cultural Revolution, architecture played an active role in the country’s reintegration into the global economy and capitalist world. Looking at the ways in which political and social reform transformed Chinese architecture and how, in turn, architecture gave structure to the reforms,...Hardback$11399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
China’s Crony Capitalism
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 modernise have yielded something very different from the working people's paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterised by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and growing social tensions. China's Crony...Hardback$8099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Bolihua
In this publication, the sinologist Rupprecht Mayer presents 143 Chinese reverse glass paintings from a private collection in southern Germany. Traditional motifs of happiness, scenes from plays and novels, landscapes, China's entrance into modernity, and the changing image of the Chinese woman define the central motifs. Production of reverse glass paintings began in Canton in the 18th century, of which...Hardback$10000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VII
Volume VII in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 34 through 37, devoted to woods. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518–1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and...Hardback$36299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume III
Volume III in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 12 through 14, devoted to mountain herbs and fragrant herbs. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518–1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered...Hardback$36299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
A Thousand Tiny Cuts
A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in northern Bangladesh and eastern India, Sahana Ghosh shows the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the making and management of threat in relation to mobility. Rather than focusing solely on border fences and border crossings, she demonstrates...Hardback$18099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Antifascism and the Avant-Garde
Leftist filmmakers of the 1960s revolutionized the art of documentary. Often inspired by the radical art of the Soviet 1920s, filmmakers in countries like France and Japan dared to make film form a powerful weapon in the fight against fascism, weaving fiction into nonfiction and surrealism with neorealism to rupture everyday ways of being, seeing, and thinking. Through careful readings...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
A New History of Southeast Asia
A new, comprehensive, one volume history of Southeast Asia that spans prehistory to the present. Ricklefs brings together colleagues at the National University of Singapore whose expertise covers the entire region, encompassing political, social, economic, religious and cultural history.Opening with an account of the ethnic groups and initial cultural and social structures of Southeast Asia, the book moves through the...Paperback$15900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
All under Heaven
In this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang, one of China’s most distinguished intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China’s story and also develops a Chinese worldview for the future. Over the past few decades, the question Where did China come from? has absorbed the thoughts of many of China's best historians. Zhao, keenly aware of the persistent...Paperback$10400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
A Historical Atlas of Tibet
Cradled among the world’s highest mountains—and sheltering one of its most devout religious communities—Tibet is, for many of us, an ultimate destination, a place that touches the heavens, a place only barely in our world, at its very end. In recent decades Western fascination with Tibet has soared, from the rise of Tibetan studies in academia to the rock concerts...Hardback$9199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Zhang Zhaoying
This volume marks the inaugural entry in a series dedicated to the new generation of Chinese contemporary artists, meticulously selected and curated by the esteemed critic and art historian Lü Peng. Focused on the rising star Zhang Zhaoying, this richly illustrated book traces the trajectory of his artistic journey, highlighting the path that has established him as a prominent figure...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Shape of Time
The Shape of Time is a lavishly illustrated overview of contemporary Korean art that offers new insight into the country’s tumultuous modern history and its multifaceted and vibrant art scene. Focusing on the work of 33 artists, this volume examines the ways contemporary Korean art reflects the dynamic changes in the country following the 1980 Gwangju Uprising and 1988 Seoul...Paperback$9599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Private World of Surimono
A detailed look at a genre that combines virtuoso printmaking techniques, sophisticated imagery, and engaging, playful poetry This beautiful volume celebrates the tradition of the Japanese surimono print. Produced from around 1800 until 1840, during the Edo period, surimono ("printed things" in Japanese) combine intricate artwork and playful poetry, and their small print runs and exclusive audiences allowed for lavish...Paperback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Sky Country
Finalist for the 2018 Paterson Poetry Prize Christine Kitano's second poetry collection elicits a sense of hunger — an intense longing for home and an ache for human connection. Channeling both real and imagined immigration experiences of her own family — her grandmothers, who fled Korea and Japan; and her father, a Japanese American who was incarcerated during WWII —...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Readings of the Gateless Barrier
The Gateless Barrier is one of the most cherished yet also one of the most enigmatic Chan or Zen texts of East Asian Buddhism. Compiled by the Chinese Chan master Wumen Huikai in 1228, it contains forty-eight Zen stories of spiritual awakening called "public cases" or gong'ans (known as kōans in Japanese and kongans in Korean). This book presents a...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Kingdoms in Peril, Volume 4
Translated in full for the first time, this fourth volume immerses readers in the power and drama of the electrifying classic Chinese novel. Many centuries of violence have forged a new political order, and seven great warring kingdoms are now established. However, old loyalties persist, and brave men are still determined to avenge their former lords. Even as their world...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Kingdoms in Peril, Volume 3
Translated in full for the first time, this third volume immerses readers in the power and drama of the electrifying classic Chinese novel. The three great southern states of Chu, Wu, and Yue are locked in conflict, and their kings feel a hatred for each other that transcends all bounds. Cruel humiliations are imposed on the vanquished each time a...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Kingdoms in Peril, Volume 1
Translated in full for the first time, this first volume immerses readers in the power and drama of the electrifying classic Chinese novel. Deep inside the Zhou royal palace, an ancient curse is released, and darkness spreads across the land. An incompetent king’s mad passion for a teenaged slave leads to the country being torn apart by civil war. As...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Grafted Arts
Grafted Arts conceptualises "graft"—the violent and creative processes of suturing arts—as a method of empire building in western eighteenth-century India. Grafted Arts focuses on Maratha military rulers and British East India Company officials who used the arts to engage in diplomacy, wage war, compete for prestige, and generate devotion as they allied with, or fought against, each other to control...Hardback$10799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Freedom Undone
What happens when liberal constitutional institutions are undone? Can freedom survive the loss of separation of powers with the associated legal and political accountability? The Chinese Communist Party has been at the forefront in its disdain for liberal institutions and promoting illiberal alternatives. This disdain placed Hong Kong people on the frontlines of the global struggle for freedom. Since its...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan
Crafts were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and how and from what materials they were made were matters of serious concern among all classes of society. In Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan, Christine M. E. Guth examines the network of forces—both material and immaterial—that supported Japan’s rich,...Hardback$9499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Bentu
Through a detailed look at twelve contemporary Chinese artists, this fascinating book offers a fresh assessment of the creative forces at work in a country whose economic, political, and cultural climates are of widespread and enduring interest. Viewed together, the featured artists, Cao Fei, Hao Liang, Hu Xiangqian, Liu Chang, Liu Shiyuan, Liu Wei, Liu Xiaodong, Qiu Zhijie, Tao Hui,...Paperback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume V
Volume V in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 18 through 25, devoted to creeping herbs, water herbs, herbs growing on stones, mosses, and cereals. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518–1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical...Hardback$36299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Bargaining with the State from Afar
In the early 1990s, when organisations representing the 2.6 million U.S. nationals living abroad appealed to Congress for their own non-voting representative, the response of one Senator was to dismiss these "moans of the mink-swathed Americans abroad." However, the image of a life of luxury abroad usually conceals a harsher reality complicated by income taxes, military duty, and legal jurisdiction....Paperback$6899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Three Kingdoms
“A material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history." — New York Times Book Review Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on histories, dramas, and poems portraying...Paperback$3399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Trouble with Taiwan
The Trouble with Taiwan: a place with its own flag, currency, government, and military, but which most of the world does not recognise as a sovereign country. An island that China regards as a ‘rebellious province’, but which has managed to survive defiantly for decades. Now with its neighbour China a major power on the world stage and ally United...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Cornucopian Stage
The long seventeenth century in China was a period of tremendous commercial expansion, and no literary genre was better equipped to articulate its possibilities than southern drama. As a form and a practice, southern drama was in the business of world-building—both in its structural imperative to depict and reconcile the social whole and in its creation of entire economies dependent...Hardback$9999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Passport Entanglements
Passport Entanglements examines the problems with documents issued to Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong. Focusing on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, anthropologist Nicole Constable looks at how these instruments determine legal status and prescribe rights. The book explores the larger role that passports and other types of documentation play in gendered migration, precarious labour, and bureaucracy as...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
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