Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian
From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown StoryIn this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all ...Show more
This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War by Samanth Subramanian
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
"In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stubborn and complicated civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years, the war's fingers had reached everywhere: into the bustle of Colombo, the Buddhist monasteries scattered across the ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present by Jonathan Fenby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
In 1850, China was the "sick man of Asia." Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim of oppression, war, and famine. This makes its current position as arguably the m ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present by Jonathan Fenby
$26.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Reading Level: near fine
In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern Chinashows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim to brutality on an unmatched scale, to oppression, to war and to famine. This make ...Show more
Singapore: The Ultimate Island Lee Kuan Yew's Untold Story by TS SELVAN
$55.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The Great Wall in 50 Objects by William Lindesay
$31.99 AUD
Category: Asian
The culmination of a lifetime's field work and research, William Lindesay selects fifty artefacts from around the world to tell the story of the Great Wall from the second century BC to the late-twentieth century. Abraham Ortelius' pioneering world atlas, the unexpected origins of 'wolf smoke', the prol ...Show more
Tales of Old Batavia: Treasures from the Big Durian by Kami Ehrich
$50.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Tales
The city of Jakarta, today the capital of Indonesia, has had other incarnations and other names, most notably as the regional headquarters of the Dutch East Indies when it was known around the world as Batavia. As the capital of the Netherlands highly unlikely empire in the far east of Asia, Batavia was ...Show more
Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road by Rob Schmitz
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas and opportunity. Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighbourhood, forging relationships with ordinary people who see a brighter future in the city's sl ...Show more
A Concise History of Japan by Brett L. Walker
$47.95 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan's relationships with its minoritie ...Show more
Badlands: Penguin Special by Paul French
$9.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Penguin Specials
An evocative account of the infamous nightlife district of pre-communist Beijing, from the internationally acclaimed author of the book Midnight in Peking. The Badlands, a warren of narrow hutongs in the eastern district of pre-communist Peking, had its heyday in the 1930s. Home to the city's drifters, ...Show more
North Korea Undercover by John Sweeney
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian
North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. It is Orwell's 1984 made reality. The regime controls the flow of information to its citizens, pouring relentless propaganda through omnipresent loud speakers. Free speech is an illusion: one word out of line and the gulag awaits. State spies are everywhere ...Show more
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Reading Level: very good
A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine peopl ...Show more