Asian Reads
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The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying s...
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Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." —New York Times Book Review "Dazzling . . . a seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and futuristic ...
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Brown Boy: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Brown Boy is an uncompromising interrogation of identity, family, religion, race, and class, told through Omer Aziz's incisive and luminous prose. ...
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Bibliolepsy
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilli...
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Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent
HardcoverOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /POLITICIAN - PRISONER - PARENTA portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate a...
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The Man Who Remade India: A Biography of P.V. Narasimha Rao
HardcoverOriginal price $42.99 - Original price $42.99Original price $42.99$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /When P.V. Narasimha Rao became the unlikely prime minister of India in 1991, he inherited economic catastrophe, violent insurgencies and a nation a...
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I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Late one night in December 2008, police arrived at the home of Liu Xiaobo--China's leading dissident, a key figure in the prodemocracy manifesto Ch...
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Have the Mountains Fallen?: Two Journeys of Loss and Redemption in the Cold War
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /After surviving the blitzkrieg of World War II and escaping from two Nazi prison camps, Soviet soldier Azamat Altay was banished as a traitor from ...
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Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979: Development, Political Thought, Democracy, and Cultural Influence
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /The Republic of Korea achieved a double revolution in the second half of the twentieth century. In just over three decades, South Korea transformed...
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China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This audacious and illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, reflects on forty years of learning abo...
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The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan
PaperbackOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India. Seven years later Pakistan was created amidst a...
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A Critical Introduction to Mao
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Mao Zedong's political career spanned more than half a century. The ideas he championed transformed one of the largest nations on earth and inspire...
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Hong Kong Protest Leaders - Sick facts that Western countries do not know 2: Police Brutality; Controversial National Security Law; Democrats' Electio
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Hong Kong protesters receive majority supports from Western countries, but not from the locals. Award-winning author and Hong Kong citizen (dual ci...
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The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Few figures in modern India have enjoyed such acclaim and adoration as Jayaprakash Narayan. And yet, he has been equally vilified for all that went...
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Stay Alive, My Son
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In Stay Alive, My Son, Pin Yathay provides an unforgettable testament of the horror that ensued and a gripping account of personal courage, sacrifi...
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Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /The Impossible Indian offers a rare, fresh view of Gandhi as a hard-hitting political thinker willing to countenance the greatest violence in pursu...
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Makers of Modern Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Hardly more than a decade old, the twenty-first century has already been dubbed the Asian Century in recognition of China and India's increasing im...
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Stay Alive, My Son
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh to open a new and appalling chapter in the story of the twentieth century. On that day, Pin Y...
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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: China's Eternal First Lady
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Now in paperback, Madame Chiang Kai-shek is the first biography of one of history's most intriguing and controversial political figures. Beautiful...
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Mao: A Biography: Revised and Expanded Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Everyone who came in close contact with Mao was taken aback at the anarchy of his personal ways. He ate idiosyncratically. He became increasingly s...
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The World Odyssey of a Balinese Prince
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /**Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner** The true story of a prince from Bali, whose fascinating life was shaped by uncommon events and exotic places...
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Sugawara No Michizane and the Early Heian Court
PaperbackOriginal price $31.00 - Original price $31.00Original price $31.00$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Winner of the 1990 American Historical Association's James Henry Breasted Prize. A great book for anyone interested in the Heian period of Japan.Pr...
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Revolt in Paradise
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /This is K'tut Tantri's absorbing account of her life in Bali, first as a young artist and later as a resistance fighter for Indonesian independence...
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From Timor-Leste to Australia: Seven families, three generations tell their stories
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A collection of poignant stories and poems of seven East Timorese families living in Melbourne. Since 1975 to 1999, men, women and children, and ev...
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