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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Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Revolutionary Nativism Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of fascist organizations that operated under the umbrella of th...
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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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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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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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Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton’s Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with Chin...
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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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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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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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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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The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
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 groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize–winning Mao...
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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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China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /In the quarter century after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against two formida...
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China's Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People's Republic, revised and updated
HardcoverOriginal price $87.00 - Original price $87.00Original price $87.00$104.99$104.99 - $104.99Current price $104.99| /The evolution of the the People's Republic of China in world politics is an epic story and one of the most important developments in modern world...
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Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on t...
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His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle Against Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The man whom Indian nationalists perceived as the "George Washington of India" and who was President of the Indian National Congress in 1938-1939 i...
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China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A blow-by-blow account ... An important corrective to the conventional view of China's rise."--Financial Times From internationally renowned histo...
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A Democracy Is Born: An Insider's Account of the Battle Against Terrorism in Afghanistan
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /In October 2004, more than eight million citizens of Afghanistan turned out to vote in the first democratic election in the turbulent, 5,000-year h...
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China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"An important corrective to the conventional view of China's rise."--Financial TimesFrom internationally renowned historian Frank Dikötter, winner...
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Monsoon Marketplace: Capitalism, Media, and Modernity in Manila and Singapore
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$145.99$145.99 - $145.99Current price $145.99| /Provides vivid accounts of commercial and leisure spaces that captivated the public imagination in the past but have since been destroyed, forgot...
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Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance
HardcoverOriginal price $57.95 - Original price $57.95Original price $57.95$75.99$75.99 - $75.99Current price $75.99| /In Selling the Future, Ryan Moran explains how the life insurance industry in Japan exploited its association with mutuality and community to com...
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Indonesia at the Crossroads: Transformation and Challenges
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /After a swift and bloody regime change in 1998, Indonesia established democratic institutions. Democratization over the first two decades of the 21...
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Under Stalin's Shadow: A Global History of Greek Communism
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Under Stalin's Shadow examines the history of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) from 1918 to 1956, showing how closely national Communism was rel...
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