Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Washington's China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /This book addresses a central question about the Cold War that has never been adequately resolved. Why did the United States go to such lengths n...
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The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book...
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The American War in Afghanistan: A History
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /A New York Times Notable BookWinner of 2022 Lionel Gelber PrizeThe first authoritative history of America's longest war by one of the world's lea...
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Year Of The Hawk: America's Descent into Vietnam, 1965
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From a celebrated military historian, a powerful, “highly recommended” (Library Journal, starred review) account of the most pivotal year of the ...
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Modern Chinese History: Revised and Expanded Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The second edition of Modern Chinese History provides a concise narrative of Chinese history from the period 1644 to the present. Organized aroun...
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A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - Winner of the 2018 Truman Book Award A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to...
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Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /An NPR Book of the YearA Seattle Times Book of the YearWilliam E. Colby Award Winner“A beautifully written, deeply intelligent book about [a] cru...
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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Ja...
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Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World Wa...
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The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The concluding volume—following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation—in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Commun...
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The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“The WikiLeaks of its day” (Time) is as relevant today in the time of Trump as it was a in the time of Richard Nixon. “The most significant leaks...
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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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The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /A major revision of our understanding of JFK’s commitment to Vietnam, revealing that his administration’s plan to withdraw was a political device...
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In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese America wit...
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Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /How succession in authoritarian regimes was less a competition of visions for the future and more a settling of scores “Joseph Torigian’s stella...
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became...
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The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Best History/Biography A saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human phys...
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"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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Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /As a transnational history of science, Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology focuses on the political a...
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A Slow Reckoning: The Ussr, the Afghan Communists, and Islam
HardcoverOriginal price $54.95 - Original price $54.95Original price $54.95$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /A Slow Reckoning examines the Soviet Union's and the Afghan communists' views of and policies toward Islam and Islamism during the Soviet-Afghan ...
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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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Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life: Workers of the Manchuria Film Association
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Following the Japanese invasion of northeast China in 1931, the occupying authorities established the Manchuria Film Association to promote film pr...
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Afghanistan 1979-88: Soviet Air Power Against the Mujahideen
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The first English-language book to examine the crucial part air power played in the Soviet-Afghan War. The Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan w...
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Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Award-winning author Edward S. Miller contends in this work that the United States forced Japan into international bankruptcy to deter its aggressi...
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