The Shortest History of China by Linda Jaivin
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A pacy history of China that can be read in an afternoon, but will transform your perspective for a lifetime. From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics and philosophy across the world for thousands of years. Chinese hi ...Show more
Red Zone: China's Challenge and Australia's Future by Peter Hartcher
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
China is a key nation for Australia's future - for our security, economy and identity. But what are China's intentions when it comes to Australia? And what lies behind the recent chill in relations between the two countries? In this gripping book, Peter Hartcher shows how Australia woke up to China's c ...Show more
China's Grand Strategy and Australia's Future in the New Global Order by Geoff Raby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Disruption has blown the old world apart. The rise of China, Trump's America First policies, division within Europe and successful defiance by authoritarian states are affecting the shape of the emerging new order. Human rights, rule of law, free media and longstanding global institutions all seem set t ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international ...Show more
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian
They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the centre of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history. Red Sister, Ching-ling, married the 'Father ...Show more
Imperial Twilight - The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Asian
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A Financial Times Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year ________________________________________ 'Entertaining and well-paced... Platt's compelling book is a sobering read that should focus the minds of those who like to talk of the achievements ...Show more
Asia's Reckoning by Richard McGregor
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'Stunningly good' Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 2017A Financial Times Best Book of 2017'A shrewd and knowing book.' Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal'A compelling and impressive read.' The Economist'Skillfully crafted and well-argued.' Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Financial Times ...Show more
Nothing to Envy: Life, Love and Death in North Korea by Barbara Demick
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
WINNER OF THE 2010 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION What if the world imagined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-four was real? What if everything around you was black and white except for the red letters on propaganda signs? Where spies like Orwell's Thought Police studied your facial expressions ...Show more
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
ORIENTALISM is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire and with each passing year its influence becomes if anything even greater. Edward Said, the not ...Show more
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping by Steve Tsang, Olivia Cheung
$56.95 AUD
Category: Asian
An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"--now the official dogma of the Chinese Communist Party--that marshals Xi's personal words and writings to reveal his plan to make "the China Dream of national rejuvenation" a reality in the coming decades.Over the course of the last half dozen years, ...Show more
Japan’s past and present
$40.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Essay Ser.
Japanese civilisation and its unique culture has often represented an enigma to the rest of the world. In this anthology a large number of experts explore Japans history and aspects of the Japanese quest for a national identity and what it means to the rest of the world through topics like architecture, ...Show more
The Shortest History of Japan by Lesley Downer
$28.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Everyone who has ever visited Japan says it feels 'different'. It is a small island nation with few natural resources, limited space and a history of swinging between isolation and openness to the outside world. This past has produced an extraordinary aesthetic culture that has inspired artists, archit ...Show more