Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Asian
'Ah, Xiaolu, you are so big now!' Then I heard my grandmother speaking behind the woman, 'This is your mother, call her mother!' I stared at the woman, perplexed. Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is six. They are strangers to her. When Xiaolu is born her parents hand her over to ...Show more
One Child: Life, Love and Parenthood in Modern China by Mei Fong
$20.00 AUD
Category: Asian
For over three decades, China exercised unprecedented control over the reproductive habits of its billion citizens. Now, with its economy faltering just as it seemed poised to become the largest in the world, the Chinese government has brought an end to its one-child policy. It may once have seemed a sh ...Show more
Images of the Canton Factories 1760-1822: Reading History in Art by Paul A. Van Dyke
$120.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Hundreds of Chinese export paintings of Canton trading houses and shopping streets are in museums and private collections throughout the world, and scholars of art and history have often questioned the reliability of these historical paintings. In this illustrated volume, Paul Van Dyke and Maria Mok exa ...Show more
The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia by Bill Hayton
$34.95 AUD
Category: Asian
A discerning account of simmering conflict in the South China Sea and why the world can't afford to be indifferent China's rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing's back yard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smoldered in the region, bu ...Show more
Hundred Year Marathon by Michael PIllsbury
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world's leading superpower. For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Ch ...Show more
The Phoenix Years : A History of Modern China by Madeleine O'Dea
$34.99 AUD
Category: Asian
If there is one lesson that can be drawn from our current times it is that the instinct be true to oneself, and to live an authentic life is a universal one, even in the face of autocracy or terrorism. From a young girl agitating for education in Pakistan, to idealistic filmmakers in Iran, from punk poe ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam by Christopher E. Goscha
$65.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The Vietnamese are in the unusual situation of being both colonizers themselves and the victims of colonization by others. Their country expanded, shrunk, split and sometimes disappeared, often under circumstances way beyond their control. Despite these often overwhelming pressures Vietnam has survived ...Show more
The Water Kingdom by Philip Ball
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
A secret history of China - a fresh new way of thinking about a people, a civilisation, an epic story. The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to grasp the overwhelming complexity and teeming energy of the countr ...Show more
The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts by Edmund De Waal
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first" A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de W ...Show more
Buy Me the Sky: The Remarkable Truth of China's One-Child Generations by Xinran
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
"Fast-paced and punchy ...accomplished". (Independent). With journalistic acumen and a novelist's flair, Xinran tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China's single-child policy. At a time when the country continues to transform at t ...Show more
The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia by James Bradley
$36.00 AUD
Category: Asian
"Bradley is sharp and rueful, and a voice for a more seasoned, constructive vision of our international relations with East Asia." --"Christian Science Monitor" James Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans--including FDR's grandfather, Warren Delano--who in the 1800s made their fortunes in the ...Show more
Mr Selden's Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart and the South China Sea by Timothy Brook
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian
In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an ...Show more