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Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex is an analysis of the role of Jin Yong's stories and characters in the constructi...
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The Suitcase: The Life and Times of Captain X
HardcoverOriginal price $30.99 - Original price $30.99Original price $30.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The Suitcase is a tour-de-force, an imagining of the autobiography of an opportunistic Czech playboy, who avoided legal troubles and subsequently, ...
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The Suitcase: The Life and Times of Captain X
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The Suitcase is a tour-de-force, an imagining of the autobiography of an opportunistic Czech playboy, who avoided legal troubles and subsequently, ...
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Red Friends: Internationalists in China's Struggle for Liberation
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The story of the friends and allies of the Chinese Revolution China's resistance to Imperial Japan was the other great internationalist cause of th...
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Vietnam War: From Saigon to Hanoi
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Introducing "Vietnam War: From Saigon to Hanoi," the definitive guide to one of the most complex and significant conflicts of the 20th century.This...
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Victims of the Cultural Revolution: Testimonies of China's Tragedy
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$76.99$76.99 - $76.99Current price $76.99| /The very purpose of history is to gather up what is about to be lost for ever. Between 500,000 to 2 million people died in the Cultural Revolution....
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Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The conventional story of Hong Kong celebrates the people who fled the mainland in the wake of the establishment of the People's Republic of China ...
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Of White Ashes: A WWII historical novel inspired by true events
HardcoverOriginal price $38.99Original price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The bombing of Pearl Harbor propels America into WWII and two Japanese Americans into chaos. Separated by the Pacific, each embarks on a tumultuous...
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Conquering the Maharajas: India's Princely States and the End of Empire, 1930-50
HardcoverOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $130.00$151.99$151.99 - $151.99Current price $151.99| /Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states,...
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Nine Lives of the Flying Tiger: Volume 1 - America's Secret Air Wars in Asia, 1945-1950
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Grandolini and Koelich look back in time with an excellent collection of photographs, profile drawings of aircraft, and maps in a magazine-sized b...
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When We Had Wings
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780785253044 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Harper Muse Publication Date: 07-04-2023 Pages: 432 Product Dimensions: 8.30...
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Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, C. 1966-97
HardcoverOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $130.00$151.99$151.99 - $151.99Current price $151.99| /This book is the first comprehensive archive-based study to explore governance, surveillance, political culture and public policymaking in colonial...
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The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913-1960
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world today. In China, a country with a vast array of regional and local vernaculars, ho...
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Let There Be Light: How Electricity Made Modern Hong Kong
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The remarkable success of twentieth-century Hong Kong was driven by electricity. The British colony's stunning export-driven economic growth, its s...
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Let There Be Light: How Electricity Made Modern Hong Kong
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$170.99$170.99 - $170.99Current price $170.99| /The remarkable success of twentieth-century Hong Kong was driven by electricity. The British colony's stunning export-driven economic growth, its s...
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Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /The Indian government, touted as the world's largest democracy, often repeats that Jammu and Kashmir-its only Muslim-majority state-is "an integral...
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Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /The Indian government, touted as the world's largest democracy, often repeats that Jammu and Kashmir-its only Muslim-majority state-is "an integral...
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Corregidor 1945: Repossessing the Rock
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A detailed and fascinating exploration of the 1945 US combined land, naval and air operation to retake Corregidor and the other Japanese-held islan...
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Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$107.99$107.99 - $107.99Current price $107.99| /For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading ...
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Mahakavi K. V. Simon: The Milton of the East
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /The first English study of poet K. V. Simon (1883-1944), with sample translations, including of his 12,000-line epic Vedaviharam, and a critical bi...
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The Impact of Coincidence in Modern American, British, and Asian History: Twenty-One Unusual Historical Events
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In 21 case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twent...
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Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Japan's contemporary struggle with low fertility rates is a well-known issue, as are the country's efforts to bolster their population in order to ...
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Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Japan's contemporary struggle with low fertility rates is a well-known issue, as are the country's efforts to bolster their population in order to ...
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Where Strange Gods Call: Harry Hervey's 1920s Hong Kong, Macao and Canton Sojourns
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /As a young American, Harry Hervey dreamt of traveling to Asia. In 1923, he arrived to spend time in Hong Kong, Macao and Guangzhou. His impressions...
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