Asia
There are 37 books in this aisle.
 New: $9.95 Mass Market 
add to wish list |
|
Modern China: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Rana Mitter  Publisher Comments China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese "economic miracle." It is a country of contradictions and transitions: a...
|
||||||
New: $18.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Voice of Hope
by Aung San Suu Kyi Publisher Comments "The dialogues [in The Voice of Hope] express Aung San Suu Kyi's humor, erudition, wisdom and accessibility, and demonstrate why she has become a world spiritual leader."-The New York Times Book Review "Reading this book, one can well understand why...
|
||||||
New: $24.00 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared
by Christopher Robbins Publisher Comments A funny and revealing travelogue of Kazakhstan, a country rich with wild tulips, oil, nomads who hunt with golden eagles, and a disappearing landlocked sea. Closed to foreigners under Tsar and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the...
|
||||||
Sale: $10.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.95
add to wish list |
|
The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
by Shuyun Sun Publisher Comments The Long March is Communist China’s founding myth, the heroic tale that every Chinese child learns in school. Seventy years after the historical march took place, Sun Shuyun set out to retrace the Marchers’ steps and unexpectedly discovered...
|
||||||
Used: $13.95 Hardcover List Price $26.00
add to wish list |
|
What Does China Think?
by Mark Leonard Publisher Comments We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai need to be redrawn every two weeks. We know that China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backwardness into modernity in just...
|
||||||
New: $24.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Planet Shanghai
by John Krich Synopsis Shanghai the legendary Pearl of the East, architectural powerhouse, and home to the World Expo 2010 continues to fascinate people from around the globe. Photographer Justin Guariglia, whose work has appeared in National Geographic and Smithsonian...
|
||||||
New: $27.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Sustaining India's Growth Miracle
by Charles (edt) Calomiris Publisher Comments The economy of India is growing at a rate of 8 percent per year, and its exports of goods and services have more than doubled in the past three years. Considering these trends, economists, scholars, and political leaders across the globe are beginning to...
|
||||||
New: $19.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose
by Kenneth Pyle Publisher Comments Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Japan is quietly, stealthily awakening. As Japan prepares to become a major player in the strategic struggles...
|
||||||
Used: $16.95 Hardcover List Price $25.00
add to wish list |
|
The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up
by Yiwu Liao Publisher Comments The Corpse Walker is a compilation of twenty-seven extraordinary oral histories that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. Liao Yiwu (one of the best-known writers in China because he is also...
|
||||||
Sale: $22.00 Hardcover List Price $26.95
add to wish list |
|
China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society
by Daniel A Bell Publisher Comments What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In...
|
||||||
Used: $16.95 Trade Paper List Price $24.95
add to wish list |
|
Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's 100 Questions (Philip E. Lilienthal Books)
by Anne Marie Blondeau Publisher Comments The land of Tibet--its people, culture, and religion--has long been both an object of contention and a source of fascination. Since 1959, Tibet has also been at the center of controversy when China's peaceful liberation of the land of snows led to the...
|
||||||
New: $22.75 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History
by Paul Clark Publisher Comments A groundbreaking study of cultural life during a turbulent and formative decade in contemporary China, this book seeks to explode several myths about the Cultural Revolution (officially 1966-1976). Through national and local examination of the full range...
|
||||||
Used: $17.50 Hardcover List Price $24.00
add to wish list |
|
Socialism Is Great!: A Worker's Memoir of the New China
by Lijia Zhang Publisher Comments A spirited memoir by a former Chinese factory worker who grew up in Nanjing, participated in the Tiananmen Square protest, and ended up an international journalist. Lijia Zhang worked as a teenager in a factory producing missiles designed to reach North...
|
||||||
New: $19.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain
by Nicholas B Dirks Publisher Comments Many have told of the East India Companyandrsquo;s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one...
|
||||||
New: $21.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds
by David Lampton Publisher Comments Clear, comprehensive, and well-balanced, this unique assessment takes the measure of what is arguably the most important geopolitical change in today's world: the growth of China's power. In the only book on the subject to be based on extensive...
|
||||||
New: $29.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong
by Leo Ou Fan Lee Publisher Comments Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Leo Ou-fan Lee offers an insiderandrsquo;s view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so...
|
||||||
New: $25.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Empire of Lies: The Truth about China in the Twenty-First Century
by Guy Sorman Synopsis Before the totalitarian reign of Mao Zedong and his immediate successors, never in human history had an entire nation been under such intense surveillance. The Chinese not only had to speak alike; they had to think alike. Traveling to China regularly...
|
||||||
New: $34.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling
by Grant Hayter-Menzies Publisher Comments Imperial Masquerade is the first biography of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing cross-cultural personalities. Daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, educated like a boy in the Confucian classics, a baptized...
|
||||||
New: $29.25 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Death by a Thousand Cuts
by Timothy Brook Publisher Comments In a public square in Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin was executed before a crowd of onlookers. He was among the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi. Called by Western observers andldquo;death by a thousand cutsandrdquo;...
|
||||||
New: $16.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Two Days of Doubt: The Gate to Pusan Was Closed to the North Koreans, 1950
by Hugh Cort Synopsis Proclamations lit up the sky when Romans or Greeks were born and made history. At Buddy's birth nothing appeared. He was a nice towheaded kid with a speech defect and a flair for surviving usually killing accidents. Sent to California for speech therapy,...
|
||||||
