Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan'Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of Longitude'Fascinating and satisfying' Simon Winchester, author of The Map that Changed the World. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remote ...Show more
Imperial Twilight - The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Asian
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A Financial Times Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year ________________________________________ 'Entertaining and well-paced... Platt's compelling book is a sobering read that should focus the minds of those who like to talk of the achievements ...Show more
Asia's Reckoning by Richard McGregor
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'Stunningly good' Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 2017A Financial Times Best Book of 2017'A shrewd and knowing book.' Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal'A compelling and impressive read.' The Economist'Skillfully crafted and well-argued.' Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Financial Times ...Show more
Nothing to Envy: Life, Love and Death in North Korea by Barbara Demick
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
WINNER OF THE 2010 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION What if the world imagined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-four was real? What if everything around you was black and white except for the red letters on propaganda signs? Where spies like Orwell's Thought Police studied your facial expressions ...Show more
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
ORIENTALISM is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire and with each passing year its influence becomes if anything even greater. Edward Said, the not ...Show more
Japan’s past and present
$40.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Essay Ser.
Japanese civilisation and its unique culture has often represented an enigma to the rest of the world. In this anthology a large number of experts explore Japans history and aspects of the Japanese quest for a national identity and what it means to the rest of the world through topics like architecture, ...Show more
The Shortest History of Japan by Lesley Downer
$28.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Everyone who has ever visited Japan says it feels 'different'. It is a small island nation with few natural resources, limited space and a history of swinging between isolation and openness to the outside world. This past has produced an extraordinary aesthetic culture that has inspired artists, archit ...Show more
The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The diaries of the last British Governor, five weeks on the Sunday Times best-seller list In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not - as other British colonies over the decades - for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, fr ...Show more
Fight for Liberty and Freedom The origins of Australian Aboriginal activism by John Maynard
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Opposition to the British colonisation of Australia did not spring from the Mabo decision or the Native Title Act, nor was it born in the vibrant 1960s which culminated in the famous Aboriginal tent embassy in 1972.Rather, the first politically organised and united all-Aboriginal activist group was the ...Show more
The Light of Asia - A History of Western Fascination with the East by Christopher Harding
$65.00 AUD
Category: Asian
From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and monsters, of silk and spices shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away. By the twentieth century much of ...Show more
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
The Man Who Loved China : Joseph Needham : The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham--the brilliant Cambridge scientist, freethinking intellectual, and practicing nudist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, o ...Show more