Kings of Shanghai by Jonathan Kaufman
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family intrigue, and political strategy on the world stage from colonialism to communism to globalized capitalism' Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth CollegeAn epic, multige ...Show more
Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia by Jeevan Vasagar
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state.In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After the Second World War and a sudden rupture with newly formed Malaysia, Singapore found itself independent - and f ...Show more
What Really Happened In Wuhan: A Virus Like No Other, Countless Infections, Millions of Deaths by Sharri Markson
$35.00 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. MORE THAN 109 MILLION INFECTIONS MORE THAN 2.7 MILLION DEATHS HOW DID IT HAPPEN? The origins of COVID-19 are shrouded in mystery and conspiracy theori ...Show more
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives by Christopher Harding
$30.00 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
Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant by Michael Vatikiotis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Asian
The story begins with a parting of the sands - the construction of the Suez Canal in 1869 that united the Mediterranean with the Arabian Sea. It opened the door of opportunity for people living insecurely on the fringes of a turbulent Europe. The Middle East is understood today through the lens of unend ...Show more
Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure by Tim Flannery
$24.95 AUD
Category: Asian
'An enthralling introduction to the mountain people of New Guinea - unimaginably remote, charming, cunning, cruel, subtle and appealing - and to their magnificent land.' New York Times Book Review 'This book combines an irresistible author with an irresistible subject: Tim Flannery, a great zoologist an ...Show more
The Last Correspondent: Dispatches from the frontline of Xi's new China by Michael Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
It was just after midnight when China’s notorious secret police came knocking. A late-night visit to his Shanghai laneway house by China’s notorious secret police triggered a diplomatic storm which abruptly ended Michael Smith’s stint as one of Australia’s last foreign correspondents in China. After fi ...Show more
China Panic: Australia's Alternative to Paranoia and Pandering by David Brophy
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
When he visited Australia in 2014, Chinese president Xi Jinping said there was an 'ocean of goodwill' between our country and his. Since then that ocean has shown dramatic signs of freezing over. Australia is in the grip of a China Panic. How did we get here and what's the way out?We hear, weekly, alarm ...Show more
The Beijing Bureau: Reporting China's Rise by Trevor Watson (Editor); Melissa Roberts (Editor)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The Beijing Bureau is a collection of essays from twenty-four of Australia's leading foreign correspondents revealing their experiences and insights into China, from the 1970s to present day: the lives of its people, its government and its culture, and what China's rise means for Australia and the world ...Show more
The Truth About China: Propaganda, patriotism and the search for answers by Bill Birtles
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'People abroad always thought things were much scarier in China than they really were. What threw me, though, was the urgency of the diplomats in Beijing. They live it, they get it. And they wanted me out.'Bill Birtles was rushed out of China in September 2020, forced to seek refuge in the Australian Em ...Show more
The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A compelling and timely inside account of the recent crisis in Burma and its troubled journey from dictatorship to democracy. 'A sobering account, told elegantly and eruditely.' - Financial Times 'Thant Myint-U is the greatest living historian of Burma.' - William Dalrymple Precariously positioned be ...Show more
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