Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2019 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020 “An urgent book.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times During a centur...
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How China Sees the World: Han-Centrism and the Balance of Power in International Politics
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Han-centrism, a virulent form of Chinese nationalism, asserts that the Han Chinese are superior to other peoples and have a legitimate right to a...
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Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Over the last 25 years, India's explosive economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging major powers. India's middle clas...
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The Struggle for India's Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Over a billion Indians are alive today. But are some more Indian than others? To answer this question, central to the identity of all who belong ...
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Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In Narratives of Civic Duty, Aram Hur investigates the impulse behind a sense of civic duty in democracies. Why do some citizens feel a responsib...
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War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /As tensions continue to rise between the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan, numerous analysts and officials have warned of a growing risk of ...
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People's War People's Army: The Viet Cong Insurrection Manual for Underdeveloped Countries / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780898753714 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University Press of the Pacific Publication Date: 06-01-2001 Pages: 232 Prod...
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Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Winner of the European Essay Prize 2023The chant of "Azadi!"—Urdu for "Freedom!"—is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Ka...
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From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt against the West and the Remaking of Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A Financial Times and The Economist Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICT...
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Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Over the last 25 years, India's explosive economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging major powers. India's middle clas...
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The Ordeal of Change
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. ...
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Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /On September 30, 2006 gunfire echoed through the thin air near Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu Mountain. Frequented by thousands of climbers each ye...
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The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China tod...
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The Final Struggle: Inside China's Global Strategy
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"The Final Struggle shows, using the regime's own words, how Beijing's aspirations aren't regional-they're global, with grave implications not on...
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Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free their country f...
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The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state China was the world's leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in t...
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Last Days of the Mighty Mekong
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand,...
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The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“A masterful depiction of the party today. . . . McGregor illuminates the most important of the contradictions and paradoxes. . . . An entertaini...
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Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Violent movements that opposed the existing political order erupted all over Europe in the course of the 19th century. Nowhere was revolutionary ...
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Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMESFrom Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Poli...
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This Brave New World: India, China, and the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /“By turns alarming and encouraging…Manuel delineates with clarity [why] the US must attend closely to…harmonious future relations with China and ...
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Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
PaperbackOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /2018 Reprint of 1966 Edition. Mao’s work was originally compiled by an office of the PLA Daily (People's Liberation Army Daily) as an inspiration...
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By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Soon after the American Revolution, certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast ma...
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The Chinese Invasion Threat: Taiwan's Defense and American Strategy in Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Are war clouds gathering in Asia? Will China make good on threats to invade Taiwan? What would this conflict mean for America and the world? Expo...
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