Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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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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Taiwan: A Political History / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This is a history that provides excellent background information for understanding the complexities of the current 'Taiwan problem.'. ― Foreign 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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Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second ...
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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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Great Pacific War: A History of the American-Japanese Campaign of 1931-33
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This blow-by-blow fictional account of a war between the United States and Japan was a forerunner of actual events, written 16 years before the J...
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A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
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 Book Review Editors' Choice - Winner of the 2018 Truman Book Award A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to...
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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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China and Japan: Facing History
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A Financial Times “Summer Books” Selection“Will become required reading.”—Times Literary Supplement“Elegantly written…with a confidence that come...
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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 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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Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A Booklist "Top 10 History Book of 2022" The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9,000-mile journey along it...
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze ...
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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Ja...
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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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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations f...
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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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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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Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman...
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Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen ex...
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The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /In this novel and intriguing book, Michael Schaller traces the origins of the Cold War in Asia to the postwar occupation of Japan by U.S. troops....
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India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present
PaperbackOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /A clear-eyed look at modern India's role in Asia's and the broader world One of India's most distinguished foreign policy thinkers addresses the ...
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The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $47.50 - Original price $47.50Original price $47.50$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imper...
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Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam
HardcoverOriginal price $53.00 - Original price $53.00Original price $53.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /In the annals of Vietnam War history, no figure has been more controversial than Ngo Dinh Diem. During the 1950s, U.S. leaders hailed Diem as "th...
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