Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The Beautiful and the Damned presents an affecting, incisive portrait of the vast, fascinating, and incongruent country that is globalized India....
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Japan and the Shackles of the Past
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains ...
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North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /What is life in North Korea really like?This fascinating book by celebrated journalists Daniel Tudor and James Pearson explores that very questio...
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Queer Southeast Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Tang and Wijaya present a range of new and established scholarly voices, including local activists directly involved in developments in Southeast...
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Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $62.95 - Original price $62.95Original price $62.95$77.99$77.99 - $77.99Current price $77.99| /Japanese historian Louis Perez brings Mikiso Hane's rich and beloved account of early Japanese history up-to-date in this thoroughly revised Seco...
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International Relations of Asia, Third Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $49.00 - Original price $49.00Original price $49.00$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on the international relations of Asia and th...
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Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia: Divided Allies
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /This book explores the challenges which faced the United States and Taiwanese alliance during the Cold War, addressing a wide range of events and...
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Voices of the Korean Comfort Women: History Rewritten from Memories
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /An innumerable number of young women were taken from Korea during the Pacific War to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers. These women, inc...
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Beer in East Asia: A Political Economy
HardcoverOriginal price $160.00 - Original price $160.00Original price $160.00$193.99$193.99 - $193.99Current price $193.99| /Chambers, Nuangjamnong, and their contributors look at how the development of the beer industry in East Asia presents a unique opportunity for unde...
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Ancestral Genealogies in Modern China: A Study of Lineage Organizations in Hong Kong and Mainland China
PaperbackOriginal price $52.95 - Original price $52.95Original price $52.95$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /This book explores the remarkable phenomenon of Chinese lineages - groups of people connected through patrilineal kinship ties, which have existed ...
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Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea: Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814
PaperbackOriginal price $52.95 - Original price $52.95Original price $52.95$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /Historians of late premodern Korea have tended to regard it as a hermit kingdom, isolated from its neighbours and the wider world. In fact, as Ro a...
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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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Korean Film and History
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is made--a major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history. The re-enactments o...
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Clueless in Tokyo: An Explorer's Sketchbook of Weird and Wonderful Things in Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A perfect introduction to Japan and Japanese culture, this illustrated culture and travel guide contains loads of original drawings as well as th...
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Introduction to Japanese Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Featuring full-color photographs and illustrations throughout, this text is a comprehensive guide to Japanese culture. The richness of Japan's hi...
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Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, thre...
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The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies
HardcoverOriginal price $249.99 - Original price $249.99Original price $249.99$267.99$267.99 - $267.99Current price $267.99| /The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and transregional perspective on the Kashmir...
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The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in...
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