Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Representative of the Fachia, or Legalist, school of philosophy, the writings of Han Fei Tzu (280?-233 B.C.) confront the issues of preserving an...
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Ho / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $31.00 - Original price $31.00Original price $31.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam provides a window into traditions and culture tha...
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Han Feizi: Basic Writings / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Trenchant, sophisticated, and cynical, Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever concern...
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Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last Communist political leader to be revered...
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History and Repetition
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Kojin Karatani wrote the essays in History and Repetition during a time of radical historical change, triggered by the collapse of the Cold War a...
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China from Empire to Nation-State
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /This translation of the Introduction to Wang Hui’s Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2004) makes part of his four-volume masterwork available to En...
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Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism
HardcoverOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime's political agenda As improbable ...
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Tibet's Fate
HardcoverOriginal price $39.00 - Original price $39.00Original price $39.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Tibet's Fate examines the issue of the political fate of Tibet. It is told by Tibetans themselves as well as by the author from his own experiences...
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Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A provocative defense of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and difference Historically, the Western encounter with difference has been catas...
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The Emergence of China's Smart State
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /Reviews the evolution of China's emergence as a digital power, particularly their government's role in this process, addressing the evolution of go...
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Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /While the United States battled Vietnamese Communists in the 1960s and 1970s, in neighboring Cambodia dictator Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge declar...
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Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"My purpose," Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am." Satyagraha...
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The Art of War (Pocket Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A classic work on military strategy in a pocket-size format. Written in the 6th century BCE, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is still used as a book o...
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Two Countries: My Taiwanese American Immigrant Story
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Born under the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, coming of age under the Kuomingtang (KMT) suppression, Li-Pei Wu fled the KMT's atrocities against th...
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Two Countries: My Taiwanese American Immigrant Story
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Born under the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, coming of age under the Kuomingtang (KMT) suppression, Li-Pei Wu fled the KMT's atrocities against th...
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Templer and the Road to Malayan Independence: The Man and His Time
PaperbackOriginal price $44.85Original price $44.85 - Original price $44.85Original price $44.85Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Dr Comber's account of General Templer's administration in Malaya as High Commissioner and Director of Operations (1952-54) during the Malayan Emer...
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George Yeo on Bonsai, Banyan and the Tao
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Since his undergraduate days in Cambridge, George Yeo has spoken and written much in and out of government. Many remember the things which he said ...
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Goh Keng Swee: A Legacy of Public Service
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$138.99$138.99 - $138.99Current price $138.99| /Dr. Goh Keng Swee's extensive career as a public servant was dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decisively instrumental in the making o...
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From Insurgent to Citizen: World War, Insurgency, and Confrontation in Malaya and Singapore
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /This is a first-person account of an overseas Chinese who was involved in the armed struggle for the independence of Malaya and Singapore and who e...
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From Insurgent to Citizen: World War, Insurgency, and Confrontation in Malaya and Singapore
HardcoverOriginal price $48.00 - Original price $48.00Original price $48.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /This is a first-person account of an overseas Chinese who was involved in the armed struggle for the independence of Malaya and Singapore and who e...
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Who Is Bharat Mata? On History, Culture and the Idea of India: Writings by and on Jawaharlal Nehru
PaperbackOriginal price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /An unprecedented and timely collection of writings by and on Jawaharlal Nehru--the man who shaped newly independent India; and the icon whose legac...
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Freedom's Battle Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation
PaperbackOriginal price $12.21 - Original price $12.21Original price $12.21$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This book "" Freedom's Battle Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation "", has been considered important ...
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Secrets of the Ccp's United Front Work Department: Memoir of a United Front Cadre
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This is an insider's account of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s United Front apparatus written by a former cadre of the CCP who worked as a Uni...
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The Prisoner: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A sweeping account of imprisonment--in time, in language, and in a divided country--from Korea's most acclaimed novelist In 1993, writer and democr...
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