ASIAN AND AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
90 BOOKS IN THIS CATEGORY
A NEW HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: 03/07/2017
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-1-101-91237-9
Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent years. Frankopan teaches us that to understand what is at stake for the cities and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics
On Sale: 12/06/2016
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-141-39257-8
One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature—a beautiful collection of poems and tales that offers an unparalleled insight into ancient Japan
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...
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LIFE AMID THE RUINS OF SRI LANKA'S CIVIL WAR
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...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: 07/21/2015
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-807-08326-0
Lalu Nathoy’s father calls his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his “thousand pieces of gold,” yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloon keeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. Complete with photographs and documents, this biographical novel is the extraordinary story of a legendary pioneer’s fight for independence and...
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THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THE DALAI LAMA AND TIBET SINCE THE CHINESE CONQUEST
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: 01/06/2015
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-804-17337-7
Tibet, “the roof of the world,” had been aloof and at peace for most of its 2,100 years. But in 1932, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, in his final testament, warned: “It may happen that here, in the center of Tibet, religion and government will be attacked both from without and from within.” By the time his successor was enthroned in 1950, the Chinese occupation had begun.
In this gripping account, John F. Avedon draws on his work and travels with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama to bring us the...
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LIFE AMID THE RUINS OF SRI LANKA'S CIVIL WAR
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Verso
On Sale: 10/21/2014
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-781-68600-3
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...
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THE STORY OF NEPAL'S MAOIST REVOLUTION
Format: Hardcover, 326 pages
Publisher: Verso
On Sale: 10/07/2014
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-781-68564-8
The Bullet and the Ballot Box offers a rich and sweeping account of a decade of revolutionary upheaval. When Nepal’s Maoists launched their armed rebellion in the nineties, they had limited public support and many argued that their ideology was obsolete.
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...
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THE CONCUBINE WHO LAUNCHED MODERN CHINA
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: 09/09/2014
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45670-0
A New York Times Notable BookIn 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...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: 04/29/2014
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-609-80507-4
A novel of the black markets of the South Vietnamese city of Danang during the Vietnam War, based on the author’s experiences as a self-described South Korean mercenary on the side of the South Vietnamese. This is a Vietnam War novel that sees the war from all sides; scenes of battle are well told and the plot is thick with intrigue and complex subplots. Ultimately
The Shadow of Arms is a novel of the human condition rather than of the exploits and losses of one side or the other in war.
“An...
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JAPAN'S TOP SECRET SUBMARINES AND ITS PLAN TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF WORLD WAR II
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books
On Sale: 03/18/2014
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-770-43573-8
In 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raid--this time against New York City and Washington, DC. The classified Japanese program required developing a squadron of top secret submarines--the
Sen-toku or
I-400 class--which were the largest and among the most deadly subs of World War II. The subs were designed as underwater aircraft carriers, each equipped with three Aichi M6A1 attack bombers painted to look like...
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AN ARCHIVE OF ANTI-ASIAN FEAR
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Verso
On Sale: 02/11/2014
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 978-1-781-68123-7
The “yellow peril” is one of the most long-standing and pervasive racist ideas in Western culture–indeed, this book traces its history to the Enlightenment era. Yet while Fu Manchu evokes a fading historical memory, yellow peril ideology persists, animating, for example, campaign commercials from the 2012 presidential election.
Yellow Peril! is the first comprehensive repository of anti-Asian images and writing, pop culture artifacts and political polemic.
Written by two leading scholars and...
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THE OMNISCIENT DHARMA KING OF THE VAST EXPANSE
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Snow Lion
On Sale: 02/04/2014
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-559-39418-5
The first complete English-language life story of Longchenpa (1308-1364), one of the greatest masters in the history of Tibetan Buddhism.
Compiled from numerous Tibetan and Bhutanese sources, including Longchenpa’s autobiography and stories of his previous lives and subsequent rebirths,
The Life of Longchenpa is set in the kingdoms of fourteenth-century Tibet and Bhutan. It reveals for the first time details of his ten years of self-exile in Bhutan, stories that were unknown to his Tibetan...
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