Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2019 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020 “An urgent book.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times During a centur...
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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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Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Over the last 25 years, India's explosive economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging major powers. India's middle clas...
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The Struggle for India's Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Over a billion Indians are alive today. But are some more Indian than others? To answer this question, central to the identity of all who belong ...
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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties — set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth ...
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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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War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /As tensions continue to rise between the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan, numerous analysts and officials have warned of a growing risk of ...
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Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In less that one hundred years, the British made themselves the masters of India. They ruled for another hundred, leaving behind the independent ...
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Winner of the Lionel Gelber PrizeNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the Year | A Financial Times Book of the Ye...
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Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /This global history as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especi...
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Japan at War in the Pacific: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire in Asia: 1868-1945
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"A lucid history of the rise and fall of militarism in Japan…" —New York Journal of BooksJapan at War in the Pacific recounts the dramatic story ...
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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great Famine An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death...
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Korea: The Impossible Country: South Korea's Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full st...
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Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Over the last 25 years, India's explosive economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging major powers. India's middle clas...
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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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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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The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China tod...
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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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Last Days of the Mighty Mekong
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand,...
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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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Women in the Language and Society of Japan: The Linguistic Roots of Bias
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Feminist critics have long considered language a primary vehicle for the transmission of sexist values in a society. This much-needed sociolingu...
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Games without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /By the author of Destiny Disrupted: An enlightening, lively, accessible, history of Afghanistan from 1840 to today, from the Afghan point of view...
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China's Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat and the Road to Equality
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century What must China do to become truly democratic and equitabl...
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