Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World by Alex Joske
$37.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Spies and Lies by Alex Joske is a groundbreaking exposé of elite influence operations by China’s little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of China’s past, prese ...Show more
China After Mao - The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'A leading historian of modern China. He is a rare scholar, adept in both Russian and Chinese . . . Combined with this linguistic skill, Dikutter has a writer's gift' EVENING STANDARD From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake ...Show more
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Yang Jisheng
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) marked t ...Show more
Diplomacy Ends at Midnight: The Last Years of British Hong Kong by Dalena Wright
$55.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The compelling story of the inescapable return of Hong Kong to China, published for the 25th anniversary of the handoverBritish Hong Kong ended in the last minutes of 30 June 1997. Diplomacy Ends at Midnight traces the extraordinary twists and turns of Hong Kong's long drawn out, but unavoidable, reunio ...Show more
Daring to Struggle - China's Global Ambitions under Xi Jinping by Bates Gill
$50.95 AUD
Category: Asian
Increasingly powerful, prosperous and authoritarian, China under the leadership of Xi Jinping has become a more intense competitor across the globe -- economically, technologically, diplomatically, militarily, and in seeking to influence people's hearts and minds. But what does Chinaultimately want in t ...Show more
Fragile Cargo: China's Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City by Adam Brookes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The gripping true story of the intrepid curators who saved China's finest art from the ravages of the Sino-Japanese War and World War IISpring 1933. The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking's Forbidden City are tense with fear and expectation. Japan's aircraft drone overhead; its troops and tanks are ...Show more
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Fredom by Ramachandra Guha
$37.99 AUD
Category: Asian
An extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian independence from Ramachandra Guha. Renegades tells the little known story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freed ...Show more
Decline of Empires in South Asia: How Britain and Russia lost their grip over India, Persia and Afghanistan by HEATHER A. CAMPBELL
$59.99 AUD
Category: Asian
The post-First World War period was pivotal in global history, international relations and geopolitics. And no more than in South Asia. where for decades the 'Great Game' in geopolitical rivalry of the two greatest modern empires - Britain and Russia - had dominated international relations. But with the ...Show more
Australia’s China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear by James Curran
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Australia’s relationship with China is one of the dominant geopolitical stories of our times. The need to understand the tectonic forces of history moving beneath the surface of these critical events has never been more pressing.In Australia’s China Odyssey, acclaimed historian James Curran explores thi ...Show more
The Lazarus Heist - From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Koreas Global Cyber War by White Geoffrey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Based on the No 1 hit podcast 'The Lazarus Heist' 'You'll never see North Korea the same way again' Oliver Bullough, Sunday Times bestselling author of Moneyland 'One of the most incredible cyber-espionage stories I've ever heard, told by one of the UK's best tech journalists' Jamie Bartlett, author of ...Show more
India - A History in Objects by Richard Blurton
$60.00 AUD
Category: Asian
An authoritative visualhistory of India, one of theworld's oldest and mostvibrant cultures, drawing onSouth Asian art and artifactsfrom prehistory to the present. India: A History in Objects presents a beautiful collection of material culture from South Asia and traces its history through a huge variet ...Show more
China Coup - The Great Leap to Freedom by Roger Garside
$39.95 AUD
Category: Asian
An expert's take on how a coup in China could launch a transition to democracy. This short book predicts--contrary to the prevailing consensus--that China's leader Xi Jinping will very soon be removed from office in a coup d'état mounted by rivals in the top leadership. The leaders of the coup will the ...Show more