Asian Reads
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Orientalism
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publica...
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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” - Yeonmi Park"One of the most harrowing...
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Southeast Asia: A History in Objects
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Created in collaboration with the British Museum, this richly illustrated volume displays the arts, histories, and cultures of Southeast Asia from ...
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Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Violence of Democracy Ruchi Chaturvedi tracks the rise of India's divisive politics through close examination of decades-long confrontations in ...
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On the Paths of Enlightenment: The Myth of India in Western Culture 1808-2017
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00Original price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00Current price $60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /From the German Romantics to the Beats and beyond: how the West has imagined IndiaIn 1808, German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schlegel published...
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Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Genevieve Alva Clutario traces how beauty and fashion in the Philippines shaped the intertwined projects of imperial expansion and modern nation bu...
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Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"A material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history."--New York Times Book Review Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of ...
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE“Inspiring . . . extraordinar...
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Genghis Khan and the Making of 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| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led ...
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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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Lonely Planet Filipino (Tagalog) Phrasebook & Dictionary 6
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Lonely Planet Filipino (Tagalog) Phrasebook & Dictionaryis your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and usefu...
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a best...
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Chaat: Recipes from the Kitchens, Markets, and Railways of India: A Cookbook
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /“A sumptuous whistle-stop tour of India’s diverse food ways. Maneet has penned a love letter to the best of Indian food.”—Padma Lakshmi, host and...
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The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Winner of the 2022 Bancroft Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Cundill History Prize Finalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize How Chinese m...
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The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji. Exploring iterations ...
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Showa 1944-1953: A History of Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A sweeping yet intimate portrait of the legacy of World War II in JapanShowa 1944–1953: A History of Japan continues the award-winning author Shi...
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Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A fascinating period in Japanese history recounted by manga’s most distinguished authorShowa 1926–1939: A History of Japan lays the groundwork fo...
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A General History of Chinese Art: From the Qin Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties
PaperbackOriginal price $171.99Original price $171.99 - Original price $171.99Original price $171.99Current price $147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /This volume studies the evolution of Chinese art during the Qin and Han Dynasties, The Three Kingdoms, Eastern and Western Jin, and the Northern an...
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribu...
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporti...
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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2020 BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQThe hidden story of the wanton slaughter — in Indonesia, Latin America, an...
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We Have Tired of Violence: A True Story of Murder, Memory, and the Fight for Justice in Indonesia
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Named a Best Book of the Year by The EconomistA chilling work of true crime about the midair murder of a human rights activist, set against a riv...
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard Autumn 1944. World War II is nea...
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The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /2021 Cundill History Prize FinalistA Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Spectator Best Book of the YearA Five Books Best Book of the Year“Out...
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