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ASIAN AND AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: 03/07/2017
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-1-101-91237-9
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics
On Sale: 12/06/2016
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-141-39257-8
Along with the Tale of Genji and One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, the Tales of Ise is considered one of the three most important works of Japanese literature. A poem-tale collection from the early Heian period, it contains many stories of amorous adventures, faithful friendship, and travels in exile, framing the exquisite poems at the work's...
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: 05/17/2016
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-41808-8
An unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a single street cutting through the heart of China’s most exhilarating metropolis, from one of the most acclaimed broadcast journalists reporting on China today.
Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas, and opportunity. Marketplace’s Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighborhood, forging deep...
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: 03/22/2016
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27166-2
The emergence of paper in the imperial court of Han China brought about a revolution in the transmission of knowledge and ideas, allowing religions, philosophies and propaganda to spread with ever greater ease. The first writing surface sufficiently cheap,...
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Verso
On Sale: 10/20/2015
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-781-68883-0
For three decades, Sri Lanka’s civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up about 300,000 civilians and killed more than 40,000. More than a million had been displaced by the conflict, and the resilient among them still dared to hope. But the next five years changed everything.
Rohini Mohan’s searing account of three lives caught up in the devastation looks beyond the heroism of wartime...
Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: 07/21/2015
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-807-08326-0
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: 01/06/2015
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-804-17337-7
In this gripping account, John F. Avedon draws on his work and travels with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama to bring us the...
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Verso
On Sale: 10/21/2014
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-781-68600-3
Rohini Mohan’s searing account of three lives caught up in the devastation looks beyond the heroism of wartime...
Format: Hardcover, 326 pages
Publisher: Verso
On Sale: 10/07/2014
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-781-68564-8
Twelve years later they were in power, and their ambitious plan of social transformation dominated the national agenda. How did this become possible? Adhikari’s narrative draws on a broad range of sources – including novels, letters and...
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: 09/09/2014
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45670-0
In 1852, at age sixteen, Cixi was chosen as one of Emperor Xianfeng’s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a coup against her son’s regents and placed herself as the true source of power—governing through a silk screen that separated her from her male officials.
Drawing on newly available sources, Jung Chang comprehensively overturns Cixi’s reputation as a conservative despot. Cixi’s...
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: 04/29/2014
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-609-80507-4
“An...
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books
On Sale: 03/18/2014
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-770-43573-8
