Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Japan: Its History and Culture / Edition 4
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Once a star of postwar industrial production and methods,Japan has encountered serious trouble with market forces in recent years. Social changes...
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From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about th...
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Okinawa: The History of an Island People
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"The first full-length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language…a standard work."—Pacific Affairs Okinawa: The Hist...
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Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encount...
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Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it o...
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The Book of Tea Classic Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Now available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this "object d'art" will be sure to add grace and elegance to tea shelves, coffee tables ...
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Japanese Culture / Edition 4
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. ...
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The Chrysanthemum And The Sword
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Essential reading for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork explores the political, religious, and economic life of ...
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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a complete, two-volume set of one of the most outstanding books on 19th century Japanese history and culture. Tho...
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A Brief History of Vietnam: Colonialism, War and Renewal: The Story of a Nation Transformed
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A comprehensive guide to understanding Vietnam's long and tumultuous history A Brief History of Vietnam explores the turbulent history of a land ...
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A History of Japan: Revised Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a sing...
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A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that...
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The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of ...
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An Introduction to Japanese Society
PaperbackOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimo...
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In the Circle of the Dance: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Feeling initially aimless and out of place in rural Nepal where she accompanied her anthropologist husband for a year of fieldwork, Katharine Bjo...
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Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement Process
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Belonging in a House Divided chronicles the everyday lives of resettled North Korean refugees in South Korea and their experiences of violence, pos...
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Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians Between World Orders
HardcoverOriginal price $56.95 - Original price $56.95Original price $56.95$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /Border Conditions combines history and memory studies with literary and cultural studies to examine lives at the limits of contemporary Europe: R...
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The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /In The Promise of Piety, Arsalan Khan examines the zealous commitment to a distinct form of face-to-face preaching (dawat) among Pakistani Tablig...
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The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In The Promise of Piety, Arsalan Khan examines the zealous commitment to a distinct form of face-to-face preaching (dawat) among Pakistani Tablig...
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The Art of Fate Calculation: Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng
HardcoverOriginal price $145.00 - Original price $145.00Original price $145.00$167.99$167.99 - $167.99Current price $167.99| /From housewives to students and high-ranking officials, people from all social backgrounds in China and Taiwan visit fate calculation masters to l...
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Footprints in Paradise: Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The economic imperative of sustainable tourism development frequently shapes life on small subtropical islands. In Okinawa, ecotourism promises to...
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One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /One China, Many Taiwans shows how tourism performs and transforms territory. In 2008, as the People's Republic of China pointed over a thousand mis...
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Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Governing Death, Making Persons tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governanc...
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Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the c...
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