Asian Reads
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The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."—The Boston Globe"Not just a brilliant, well-researched, an...
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The Art of War
HardcoverOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The words held within these pages, written over two and a half thousand years ago, ring just as true today as they did in fifth century BC China. B...
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The Art of War
HardcoverOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /"There's not a dated maxim or vague prescription in it." — Newsweek. This classic of military strategy, now available in an elegant hardcover edi...
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Anime's Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In Anime’s Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. Beyond its immediate form of c...
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China's Next ACT: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /From solar panels to synthetic biology, an accessible-yet-authoritative overview of how climate change, the global Covid-19 pandemic, and emerging ...
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Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An audacious journalistic exploration of the present and future of beauty through the lens of South Korea's booming "K-beauty" industry and the cul...
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The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Keyu Jin is a brilliant thinker." --Tony Blair, former prime minster of the United Kingdom A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese e...
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Polished: How Nail Salons Saved Vietnamese-Americans
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /After the fall of Saigon in 1975, during a campaign for the repatriation of 130,000 refugees in the United States, actress Tippi Hedren, known best...
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Take Off Your Shoes: One Man's Journey from the Boardroom to Bali and Back
PaperbackOriginal price $16.50 - Original price $16.50Original price $16.50$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The Eat, Pray, Love for busy executives, Take Off Your Shoes invites the reader to join a journey of self-rediscovery. If 10% Happier made you more...
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Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ." --CNN SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by THE ECONOMIST and FINANCIAL TIMES This "powerful and distu...
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Beijing to Barbados in a Rowboat: The true story of how China and the West pulled together to row across the Atlantic
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /This is the true story of the first Dane and first Chinese to row across an Ocean, using a rowboat built in China. They did this in 2001, long befo...
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The China Question: Contestations and Adaptations
PaperbackOriginal price $139.99 - Original price $139.99Original price $139.99$153.99$153.99 - $153.99Current price $153.99| /The China Question: Contestations and Adaptations provides fresh perspectives on, and empirics about, China's international relations through the l...
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Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ." --CNN SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by THE ECONOMIST and FINANCIAL TIMES This "powerful and distu...
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Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured—and transformed—the world’s imagination...
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Unbound: A Woman's Guide to Power
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The ultimate guide to owning your power—and mastering how to use it.How can so many women feel "good and mad" yet still reluctant to speak up in ...
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China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths
PaperbackOriginal price $30.99 - Original price $30.99Original price $30.99$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Featuring a new foreword that brings the book up to dateRare earths are elements that are found in the Earth's crust, and are vital ingredients f...
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From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial...
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Etiquette Guide to Japan: Know the Rules that Make the Difference! (Third Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $10.95 - Original price $10.95Original price $10.95$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /Farewell to faux pas! Minding your manners is an acquired skill, but what serves you well elsewhere could trip you up in Japan. Save yourself pos...
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Japan - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Don’t just see the sights—get to know the people. The Japanese people have always seen themselves as a nation uniquely apart. Their exquisite art...
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The Great U.S.-China Tech War
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The United States and China are locked in a "cold tech war," and the winner will end up dominating the twenty-first century. Beijing was not consid...
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Bhutan - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Don't just see the sights--get to know the people. Often called the "Land of the Thunder Dragon," Bhutan was secluded for much of its history, its...
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Nepal - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Don’t just see the sights—get to know the people. Nestling in the foothills of the Himalayas, Nepal is a land of contrasts and incongruities not ...
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Neuorientierung Des Widerstands in Hongkong: Linkssein, Dekolonialität Und Internationalismus
PaperbackOriginal price $99.99 - Original price $99.99Original price $99.99$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /Dieses Buch versammelt Beiträge von Aktivisten und Wissenschaftlern, die sich mit linken und dekolonialen Formen des Widerstands befassen, die in d...
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Agricultural Trade Between China and the Greater Mekong Subregion Countries: A Value Chain Analysis
PaperbackOriginal price $65.80Original price $65.80 - Original price $65.80Original price $65.80Current price $54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /"This book provides new insights into the important and developing agricultural value chains, including on current constraints and the enormity of ...
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