The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives by Christopher Harding
$29.99 AUD
Category: Asian
From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
$22.99 AUD
Category: Asian
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international ...Show more
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
Koh-i-Noor by Anita Anand William Dalrymple
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world.On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old maharaja of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great fort in Lahore. There, in a public cer ...Show more
The Shanghai Factor by Charles McCarry
$51.00 AUD
Category: Asian
An American spy in China. Name: Unknown. Status: Sleeper. He's meant to be laying low, polishing his Mandarin and awaiting further instructions from Washington. But Shandhai is a difficult city to sleep in, especially when his nights are taken over by the seductive but enigmatic Mei - a woman with secre ...Show more
Golden Age of China: Qianlong Emperor, 1736-1795 by Ding and Pang
$29.95 AUD
Category: Asian
Bushido Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
$16.95 AUD
Category: Asian
A century ago, when Japan was transforming itself from an isolated feudal society into a modern nation, a Japanese educator queried about the ethos of his people composed this seminal work, which with his numerous other writings in English made him the best, known Japanese writer in the West during his ...Show more
Once a Jolly Hangman - True Stories from Singapore's Death Row by Alan Shadrake
$29.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Singapore has one of the highest execution rates per capita in the world. Its government claims that only the death penalty can deter drug dealers from using their country as a transport hub - but this hard-hitting investigation reveals disturbing truths about how and when the death penalty is applied. ...Show more
India: A Short History by Andrew Robinson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian
India's unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present day India has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants - whi ...Show more
Angkor and the Khmer Civilization by Michael D. Coe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Asian
From a carved mammoth tusk (ca. 40,000 BCE) to Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-1510) to Duchamp's Fountain (1917), a remarkable lexicon of astonishing imagery has imprinted itself onto the cultural consciousness of the past 40,000 years. Author Kelly Grovier devotes himself to illuminating thes ...Show more
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China by John Man
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Reading Level: very good
'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks: he conjures up an ancient people in an alien landscape in such a way as to make them live.' Guardian____________________ The people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated the heart of Asia for 400 years. ...Show more