Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /A fascinating history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to ...
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Korea: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /While popular trends, cuisine, and long-standing political tension have made Korea familiar in some ways to a vast English-speaking world, its re...
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Korea: A History
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$162.99$162.99 - $162.99Current price $162.99| /This book is a comprehensive account of Korean history from early times to December 2020. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781503629462 Media Type: Hardc...
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The Japanese Myths: A Guide to Gods, Heroes and Spirits
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /While people around the world love Japan's cultural exports--from manga and anime to Zen--not everyone is familiar with Japan's unique mythology th...
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The Chinese Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Legends
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This is a concise and entertaining guide to the complex tradition of Chinese mythology. While many around the world are familiar with some aspects ...
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Fifteen Lectures on Chinese Philosophy
HardcoverOriginal price $119.99 - Original price $119.99Original price $119.99$133.99$133.99 - $133.99Current price $133.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9789811984808 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Springer Publication Date: 02-05-2023 Pages: 279 Product Dimensions: 9.21h x...
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Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores h...
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Introspection and Insight: South Indian Minds in the Early Modern Era
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This is the first book of the New Ecology of Expressive Modes in Early-Modern South India (NEEM Series), edited by David Shulman.Introspection and ...
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The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913-1960
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world today. In China, a country with a vast array of regional and local vernaculars, ho...
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Technology in Southeast Asian History
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Explores the role of technology in the larger political and economic fabric of Southeast Asia.In Technology in Southeast Asian History, Suzanne Moo...
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India in the Second World War: An Emotional History
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /In 1940s India, revolutionary and nationalistic feeling surged against colonial subjecthood and imperial war. Two-and-a-half million men from undiv...
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Music in Colonial Punjab
HardcoverOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $130.00$151.99$151.99 - $151.99Current price $151.99| /This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and conc...
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A History of China in the 20th Century
HardcoverOriginal price $159.99 - Original price $159.99Original price $159.99$174.99$174.99 - $174.99Current price $174.99| /This book provides readers with rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China. Positioned a...
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Survey of Chinese History in the Twentieth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $119.99 - Original price $119.99Original price $119.99$133.99$133.99 - $133.99Current price $133.99| /This book presents a panoramic history of the Chinese nation spanning the twentieth century, with the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as i...
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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A fascinating history of China's relations with the West--told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translators The 1793 British embassy to ...
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Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A groundbreaking view of South Asian history in the twentieth century that underlines the similarities and intertwined cultures of India and Pakist...
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Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A timely, well-researched, and "illuminating" (The New York Times Book Review) new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the dive...
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fan...
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The Chinese in America: A Narrative History
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 quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselli...
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Tales of Old Singapore
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Old Singapore was an eclectic trade emporium, where an ethnically and culturally diverse populace coalesced, and sometimes clashed, under the aegis...
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The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This book traces an Afghan refugee's extraordinary journey-from his early life as a shepherd boy in the mountains of Northern Afghanistan to his fo...
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The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /One year before the protests in Tiananmen Square, Rosemary Mahoney participated in a teaching exchange between Harvard and Hangzhou University. At ...
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Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In Chains of Babylon, Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, showing how the move...
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Growing Up in San Francisco's Chinatown: Boomer Memories from Noodle Rolls to Apple Pie
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Chinese American baby boomers who grew up within the twenty-nine square blocks of San Francisco's Chinatown lived in two worlds. Elders implored...
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