The Chief Witness: escape from China's modern-day concentration camps by Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes - and the story of one woman's fight to survive.I will never forget the camp. I cannot forget the eyes of the prisoners, expecting me to do something for them. They are innocent. I have to tell their story, to tell about the darkness they ...Show more
The Myth of Chinese Capitalism - The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World by Dexter Roberts
$45.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The untold story of how restrictive policies are preventing China from becoming the world's largest economy Dexter Roberts lived in Beijing for two decades working as a reporter on economics, business and politics for Bloomberg Businessweek. In The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, Roberts explores the reali ...Show more
Spies and Scholars - Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia's Quest for World Power by Gregory Afinogenov
$77.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The untold story of how Russian espionage in imperial China shaped the emergence of the Russian Empire as a global power. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire made concerted efforts to collect information about China. It bribed Chinese porcelain-makers to give up trade secr ...Show more
Brand New Nation - India in the Global Economy by Ravinder Kaur
$60.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: South Asia in Motion Ser.
The first book that examines India's mega-publicity campaigns to theorize the global transformation of the nation-state into an attractive investment destination. The early twenty-first century was an optimistic moment of global futures-making. The chief narrative was the emergence of the BRICS nations- ...Show more
Money for Nothing - The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism by Thomas Levenson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The South Sea Company was formed to trade with Asian and Latin American countries. But it had almost no ships and did precious little trade. Instead it got into financial fraud on a massive scale, taking over the government's debt and promising to pay the state out of the money received from the shares ...Show more
The Invention of China by Bill Hayton
$26.95 AUD
Category: Asian
A provocative account showing that "China"-and its 5,000 years of unified history-is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day. China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but "China" as a unified country and people, Bill Ha ...Show more
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives by Christopher Harding
$70.00 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 Invention of China by Bill Hayton
$41.95 AUD
Category: Asian
A provocative account showing that "China"--and its 5,000 years of unified history--is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but "China" as a unified country and people, Bill ...Show more
In the Dragon's Shadow by Sebastian Strangio
$26.95 AUD
Category: Asian
A timely look at the impact of China's booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia Today, Southeast Asia stands uniquely exposed to the waxing power of the new China. Three of its nations border China and five are directly impacted by its claims over the South China Sea. All dwell in the lengt ...Show more
Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala Perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 by Fiona Foley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The power of history written down can be both lethal and deceptive, and that has long-lasting effects, both for those writing and those being written about.In this groundbreaking work of Indigenous scholarship, nationally renowned visual artist Fiona Foley addresses the inherent silences, errors and inj ...Show more
The Story of China: A portrait of a civilisation and its people by Michael Wood
$60.00 AUD
Category: Asian
China's story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK's pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major new one-volume history of China that is essential for reading for anyone who wants to understand its burgeoning role in our world today.China is the oldest livi ...Show more
Stranger in the Shogun's City - A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of momentous change The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a l ...Show more