Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Modern Chinese History: Revised and Expanded Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The second edition of Modern Chinese History provides a concise narrative of Chinese history from the period 1644 to the present. Organized aroun...
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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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The Korean War
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In December 1950 General Matthew B. Ridgway replaced General Walton Walker as commander of the Eighth Army, and in April 1951 he succeeded Dougla...
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When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the ""Riches of the ""East""
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /While European civilization stagnated in the "Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together...
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The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps: The Bloody Battles and Intrigues of the Shinsengumi
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Power to them meant everything. It was founded on courage, which begot honor. And by this courage and for this honor they fought to the death."T...
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Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /An NPR Book of the YearA Seattle Times Book of the YearWilliam E. Colby Award Winner“A beautifully written, deeply intelligent book about [a] cru...
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Vietnam Wars 1945-1990
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"This is the history of the war in Vietnam we have been waiting for. This is a marvelous achievement—meticulously documented, excitingly narrated...
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
PaperbackOriginal 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 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Pr...
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Hell In A Very Small Place: The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From the acclaimed scholar and reporter, a thorough and revealing account of the historic turning point in Vietnam's long struggle--the 1954 batt...
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Tarawa: The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, th...
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The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The concluding volume—following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation—in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Commun...
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Maoism: A Global History
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /*** WINNER OF THE 2019 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019SHORTLISTED FOR THE NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRI...
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Haunted by Chaos: China's Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping, With a New Afterword
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /An American Interest Book of the Year“Readers will not find a shrewder analysis as to why the Chinese act as they do.”—Robert D. Kaplan“An outsta...
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Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld ...
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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /“[The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war.”—Chicago Sun-TimesThis Pulitzer Prize–winning ...
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Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, Revised and Updated
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Since antiquity, the vast Central Eurasian region of Xinjiang, or Eastern Turkestan, has stood at the crossroads of China, India, the Middle East...
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Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /At the close of the nineteenth century, near the end of the Qing empire, Confucian revivalists from central China gained control of the Muslim-ma...
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India at War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War
HardcoverOriginal price $68.00Original price $68.00 - Original price $68.00Original price $68.00Current price $63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /World War II was a global catastrophe. Far broader than just the critical struggle between Allies and Axis, its ramifications were felt throughou...
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A Concise History of Modern Korea: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
PaperbackOriginal price $47.00 - Original price $47.00Original price $47.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Now in a fully revised and updated edition including new primary sources and illustrations, this comprehensive and balanced history of modern Kor...
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Afghanistan: A Military History from the Ancient Empires to the Great Game
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Afghanistan: A Military History from the Ancient Empires to the Great Game covers the military history of a region encompassing Afghanistan, Cent...
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Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /How succession in authoritarian regimes was less a competition of visions for the future and more a settling of scores “Joseph Torigian’s stella...
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A Concise History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present
PaperbackOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /Now in a fully revised and updated edition including new primary sources and illustrations, this comprehensive book surveys Korean history from N...
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Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99$62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /To fend off American and European imperialism in the nineteenth century, Japan strove to strengthen itself by drawing on the most updated ideas and...
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The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing unt...
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