Nine Paths: A Year in the Life of an Indian Village by Alexandra Stadlen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Lyrical, immersive non-fiction chronicling the stories of nine Muslim women on the margins of modern India, from anthropologist and ethnographer Dr Lexi StadlenRevelatory, lyrical and immersive, this is an extraordinary book that takes you deep into these ordinary women's worlds... Their stories are urg ...Show more
What Really Happened In Wuhan: A Virus Like No Other, Countless Infections, Millions of Deaths by Sharri Markson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia. The origins of Covid-19 are shrouded in mystery. Scientists and government officials insisted, for a year and a half, that the virus had a natural ori ...Show more
Gwangju Uprising - The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea by Hwang Sok-yong; Lee Jae-Eui; Jeon Yong-Ho
$60.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellion On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'état and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated violence, and over th ...Show more
Daughters of Durga: Dowries, Gender Violence and Family in Australia by Manjula Datta O'Connor
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
An incisive investigation of domestic violence in South Asian communities, and the resilience of women in the face of adversityIn the early 2010s a spate of domestic violence-related murders in the Victorian Indian community compelled psychiatrist Manjula Datta O'Connor to investigate the causes of patr ...Show more
Soldiers and Aliens: Men in the Australian Army's Employment Companies during World War II by June Factor
$40.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A forgotten history of the remarkable contribution of non-British subjects to Australia in World War II Four thousand Australian soldiers in World War II who signed up for service were never to fire a weapon. Their work was essential for the war effort, but they were 'aliens'-non-British subjects-all b ...Show more
Happy Together: Bridging the Australia-China Divide by David Walker, Li Yao, Karen Walker
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A fresh perspective on the Australia-China relationship told through the lens of memoir, culture and friendshipIn the late nineteenth century, as crippling famine devastated northern China, the Li family had no choice but to leave Shanxi province. Heading north, they began a new life, farming the remote ...Show more
Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win by Peter Schweizer
$53.00 AUD
Category: Asian
How the Biden family bagged some $31 million from individuals with direct ties to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence-and Joe Biden personally benefited while softening his position on China, How the families of congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle have secured hundreds of millions ...Show more
Deadly Quiet City: Stories From Wuhan, COVID Ground Zero by Murong Xuecun
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
From one of China's most celebrated and silenced literary authors, Murong Xuecun, Deadly Quiet City is an unforgettable collection of true stories from the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. On 23 January 2020, Wuhan was placed in total lockdown. The city of eleven million – the centre of ...Show more
No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs by Nury Turkel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
An Irish Times ‘Book to Look Out For in 2022’ A devastating account of China’s genocide of the Uyghurs, by a leading Uyghur activist and Time #100 nominee Nury Turkel was born in a ‘re-education’ camp in China at the height of the Cultural Revolution. He spent the first several months of his life in c ...Show more
Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China by Jing Tsu
$45.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the process What does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living language? China today is one of the world's most powerful nations, yet just ...Show more
In the Camps: Life in China's High-Tech Penal Colony by Darren Byler
$28.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A shocking insight into what is really happening to China's Uyghurs. In China's vast northwestern region, more than a million and a half Muslims have vanished into internment camps and associated factories. Based on hours of interviews with camp survivors and workers, thousands of government documents, ...Show more
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel
$45.95 AUD
Category: Asian
No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China's boldest strategist-the pragmatic, disciplined force behind China's radical economic, t ...Show more