Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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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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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, "a compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies ...
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The 2018 and 2019 Indonesian Elections: Identity Politics and Regional Perspectives
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /The 2018/2019 Indonesian elections were among the most divisive elections in Indonesian history, where identity politics and ethno-religious sent...
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Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War
HardcoverOriginal price $56.95 - Original price $56.95Original price $56.95$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /Ambassadors of Social Progress examines the ways in which blind activists from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe entered the postwar internatio...
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Electoral Strategies under Authoritarianism: Evidence from the Former Soviet Union
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This book explores the factors that explain incumbent and opposition behavior in electoral authoritarian regimes. It focuses on states in the post-...
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The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its people Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) h...
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Political Islam and Democracy in Central Asia: The Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /Political Islam and Democracy in Central Asia is a study of moderation of political Islam in Central Asia. It analyses the only Islamic political p...
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Textual Cacophony: Online Video and Anonymity in Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Textual Cacophony explores the behaviors and routines of communication within anonymous internet culture in Japan. Focusing on the video sharing we...
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Textual Cacophony: Online Video and Anonymity in Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Textual Cacophony explores the behaviors and routines of communication within anonymous internet culture in Japan. Focusing on the video sharing we...
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Political Selection in China: Rethinking Foundations and Findings
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Political selection is about how individuals are selected to political office - and this substantially determines the quality of governance. The ev...
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
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 recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, an impassioned and inspiring memoir of a career spent holding power to account, with an introduct...
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Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this so...
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Cover Point: Impressions of Leadership in Pakistan
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Jamsheed Marker's lifetime in the diplomatic service of Pakistan gave him a unique vintage point. In cricket terms, he was at cover point, near e...
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Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Government wrongdoing or negligence harms people worldwide, but not all victims are equally effective at obtaining redress. In Accidental Activis...
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Japan's Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /Why has Japan emerged from the "lost decades" unscathed from the populist wave and a far more consequential actor in the geopolitics of the Indo-Pa...
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Japan's Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Why has Japan emerged from the "lost decades" unscathed from the populist wave and a far more consequential actor in the geopolitics of the Indo-Pa...
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