Category: Asia

Image and Representation: Stories of Muslim Lives in India

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : January 2001

Seller ID: 166077

ISBN-13: 9780195651416

Bringing together short stories that have Muslims and intercommunity relationships in the Indian subcontinent as their subject, this anthology includes India's most sensitive and thought-provoking writers from across various Indian languages and eras: from the prolific and compassionate Saratchandra to the social realist Prem Chand; from the bold and controversial Ismat Chughtai to contemporary writers like Shama Futehally. Including a variety of writers with distinctive styles, all of whom are widely read and have made significant contributions, this collection is an important work both in te...
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Homer Lea, Sun Yat-Sen and the Chinese Revolution

By: Anschel, Eugene

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Praeger Publishers Inc : February 1985

Seller ID: 46060

ISBN-13: 9780030000638

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

India Unveiled

By: Arnett, Robert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Atman Press : July 2006

Seller ID: 169928

ISBN-13: 9780965290043

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Independent Publisher Award for Best Travel Book of the Year; Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Travel Essay of the Year; India Unveiled by Robert Arnett has been internationally acclaimed as one of the most revealing compendiums ever written about the country. The stunning photography and engaging text with an insightful portrait of its people, landscape, and diverse culture truly captures the essence of India, one of the oldest continuously surviving civilizations on earth. This book is a stunning pictorial record of Robert Arnett's pilgrimage....Recommended for all collections. - Library Jou...
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Cambodia Now: Life In the Wake of War

By: Coates, Karen J.

Price: $19.98

Publisher: McFarland & Company : March 2005

Seller ID: 94284

ISBN-13: 9780786420513

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Cambodia has never recovered from its Khmer Rouge past. The genocidal regime of 1975-1979 and the following two decades of civil war ripped the country apart. This work examines Cambodia in the aftermath, focusing on Khmer people of all walks of life and examining through their eyes key facets of Cambodian society, including the ancient Angkor legacy, relations with neighboring countries (particularly the strained ones with the Vietnamese), emerging democracy, psychology, violence, health, family, poverty, the environment, and the nation's future. Along with print sources, research is drawn fr...
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Kundun: A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama

By: Craig, Mary

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Counterpoint : October 1997

Seller ID: 170854

ISBN-13: 9781887178648

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Kundun is a story of reincarnation, coronation, heartbreaking exile, and finally, the tenacious efforts of a holy man to save a nation and its people.

This is the first work to focus on the Dalai Lama's family -- his parents, four brothers, and two sisters. Particularly compelling are Mary Craig's portraits of the Dalai Lama's siblings, who have negotiated with China on behalf of their country, enlisted the aid of international allies to spearhead Tibetan Resistance, and worked tirelessly to help thousands of sick and starving refugee children.
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

By: Dower, John W.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : March 1999

Seller ID: 179859

ISBN-13: 9780393046861

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. Dower, whom Stephen E. Ambrose has called "America's foremost historian of the Second World War in the Pacific," gives us the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted, from top-level manipulations concerning the...
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Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China

By: Ebrey, Patricia Buckley

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : October 1991

Seller ID: 44201

ISBN-13: 9780691031507

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

To explore the historical connections between Confucianism and Chinese society, this book examines the social and cultural processes through which Confucian texts on family rituals were written, circulated, interpreted, and used as guides to action. Weddings, funerals, and ancestral rites were central features of Chinese culture; they gave drama to transitions in people's lives and conveyed conceptions of the hierarchy of society and the interdependency of the living and the dead. Patricia Ebrey's social history of Confucian texts shows much about how Chinese culture was created in a social se...
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Trade and diplomacy on the China coast;: The opening of the treaty ports 1842-1854

By: Fairbank, John King

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Stanford University Press : January 1969

Seller ID: 139320

ISBN: B0006BYJXW

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (Harper colophon books)

By: Fischer, Louis

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Harpercollins : January 1983

Seller ID: 105156

ISBN-13: 9780060910389

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

By: Fischer, Paul

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Flatiron Books : February 2015

Seller ID: 184857

ISBN-13: 9781250054265

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"The 1978 abductions of the South Korean actress Choi-Eun-hee and her ex-husband, the director Shin Sang-ok, in Hong Kong is the true crime at the center of Paul Fischer's gripping and surprisingly timely new book." -The New York TimesBefore becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's Ministry for Propaganda and its film studios. Conceiving every movie made, he acted as producer and screenwriter. Despite this control, he was underwhelmed by the available talent and took drastic steps, ordering the kidnapping of Choi Eun-Hee (Madam Choi)-South Korea's most famous...
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Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China

By: French, Paul

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : April 2013

Seller ID: 90242

ISBN-13: 9780143123361

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampan...
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Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan

By: Friday, Karl

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Stanford University Press : April 1992

Seller ID: 43752

ISBN-13: 9780804719780

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

China's New Rulers: The Secret Files; Second, Revised Edition

By: Gilley, Bruce,Nathan, Andrew

Price: $8.48

Publisher: New York Review Books : October 2003

Seller ID: 143340

ISBN-13: 9781590170724

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

At the Chinese Communist Party's 16th Congress in November 2002, a group of new leaders took over the world's most populous country. Their accession as the Fourth Generation of rulers of the People's Republic--following the generations of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Zemin--signaled the end of a long, complex struggle for power. Yet little has been known outside high Party circles about either that struggle or the men who emerged victorious from it. China's New Rulers, based on confidential Party files leaked to a Chinese writer abroad, offers an unprecedented glimpse into the most ord...
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No Good Men Among the Living (American Empire Project)

By: Gopal, Anand

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Picador Paper : May 2015

Seller ID: 189160

ISBN-13: 9781250069269

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTWINNER OF THE RIDENHOUR PRIZEEssential reading for anyone concerned about how America got Afghanistan so wrong. A devastating, well-honed prosecution detailing how our government bungled the initial salvo in the so-called war on terror, ignored attempts by top Taliban leaders to surrender, trusted the wrong people, and backed a feckless and corrupt Afghan regime . . . It is ultimately the most compelling account I've read of how Afghans themselves see the war. --The New York Times Book Review In a breathtaking chronicle, acclaimed journalist A...
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Tanuma Okitsugu, 1719-1788, forerunner of modern Japan.

By: Hall, John Whitney

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : January 1955

Seller ID: 46056

ISBN: B001LR6DT8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law (Law, Meaning, And Violence)

By: Hussain, Nasser

Price: $25.00

Publisher: University of Michigan Press : August 2019

Seller ID: 157512

ISBN-13: 9780472037537

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Jurisprudence of Emergency examines British rule in India from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, tracing tensions between the ideology of liberty and government by law used to justify the colonizing power's insistence on a regime of conquest. Nasser Hussain argues that the interaction of these competing ideologies exemplifies a conflict central to all Western legal systems--between the universal, rational operation of law on the one hand and the absolute sovereignty of the state on the other. The author uses an impressive array of historical evidence to demonstrate how qu...
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Understanding Vietnam

By: Jamieson, Neil L.

Price: $12.99

Publisher: University of California Press : March 1995

Seller ID: 7091

ISBN-13: 9780520201576

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this tragic episode remains superficial because, then and now, we have never grasped the passionate commitment with which the Vietnamese clung to and fought over their own competing visions of what Vietnam was and what it might become. To understand the war, we must understand the Vietnamese, their culture, and their ways of looking at the world. Neil L. Jamieson, after many years of living and working in Vietnam, has wri...
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Hua Song: Stories of the Chinese Diaspora (Chinese Edition)

By: Lim, Christine

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Long River Press : January 2005

Seller ID: 43755

ISBN-13: 9781592650439

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This book is a rich photographic record of the history of overseas Chinese communities throughout the world. Christine Lim shows how the Chinese came to settle in North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Southeast Asia, India, Europe, South America, and all parts of the globe. Lim has assembled oral histories, remembrances, testimonials, and hundreds of rare photographs to form a fascinating yet intimate historical tapestry immense in both breadth and scope. These are the stories of a migration of a people, their hopes, fears, aspirations, and dreams for a better life. Presented in...
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Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles

By: Mehta, Ved

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Yale University Press : April 1993

Seller ID: 15445

ISBN-13: 9780300055399

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this book, the renowned author Ved Mehta brings Gandhi to life in all his holiness and humanness, shedding light on his principles and his purposes, his ideas and his actions. Through interviewing disciples of Gandhi in five countries, Mehta reconstructs in precise detail Gandhi's daily routine, recounts the story of his life, and presents the beliefs and practices of his apostles. Mehta's book, widely praised when it was first published in 1977, is a biographical portrait of Gandhi unlike any other. A remarkable examination of the life and work of a human being who has been extolled around...
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Castles of the Samurai: Power and Beauty

By: Mitchelhill, Jennifer

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Kodansha International : January 2004

Seller ID: 43753

ISBN-13: 9784770029546

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Castles of Japan are both technical and aesthetic marvels. They are technical marvels in that they are perfectly suited to their roles of defensive fortresses and administrative centers in time of war. They are aesthetic marvels in that every curve and line reflects an extraordinary sense of beauty. How these castles came about, how they were built, and what their ultimate fate was, all this is depicted in sensitive prose and eye-opening photography. The book is divided into four parts. The first deals with the question of who built these castles and why, taking a incisive look at Japanese...
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Category: Asia