Bend, Not Break A Life in Two Worlds by Ping Fu
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Born on the eve of China’s Cultural Revolution, Ping Fu was separated from her family at the age of eight. She grew up fighting hunger and humiliation and shielding her younger sister from the teenagers in Mao’s Red Guard. At twenty-five, she found her way to the United States; her only resources were $ ...Show more
Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project by Robert Boynton
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens - perhaps hundreds - of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos and forced to live in 'Invitation Only Zones', high-security detention-centres masked as exclusive areas, on the outskirts of Pyongyang. The objective? To brainwash the abductees wi ...Show more
The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom by Peter Popham
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
She was a heroine of our time, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, a symbol of supreme courage in the face of tyranny. Then, in 2010, Burma's generals opened the door a chink: Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest, and her country began to change. Suu Kyi's acclaimed biographer, Peter Popham, d ...Show more
Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires by Dominic Ziegler
$49.95 AUD
Category: Asian
Black Dragon River recounts a personal journey down one of Asia's great rivers. The world's ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area offers Economist journalist Dominic Ziegler a lens with which ...Show more
Celestial Empire: Life in China, 1644-1911 by Nathan Woolley
$50.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Celestial Empire shows the wealth and cultural richness of the Qing dynasty, which ruled China for nearly three centuries, as seen through rare materials from the National Library of China and the National Library of Australia. The book is illustrated with stunning images, from woodblock printed books t ...Show more
Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads - Revised Edition by Benedict Rogers
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
This is an updated version. For more than 50 years, Burma has been ruled by a succession of military regimes which rank among the most oppressive dictatorships in the world. Accused of crimes against humanity, they have brutally mistreated their people. Yet, in the last few years, the pace of change has ...Show more
The Brave Ones: East Timor, 1999: Short Black 5 by John Birmingham
$6.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Short Blacks
'As the convoy growled and squeaked to a halt in the dark, angry militiamen and soldiers began to shout and wave at the Australians, demanding they move aside. The Brave Ones' vanguard presented as a B-movie vision of some pirate biker gang from Hell, a rat bastard outfit in black tee-shirts, camouflage ...Show more
China Breakthrough: Whitlam Talks with China, 1971 by Billy Griffiths
$24.95 AUD
Category: Asian
In June 1971, Australian Opposition Leader Gough Whitlam left Sydney for a tour of Asia. At the time, the People's Republic of China was a forbidding unknown in Australia - the subject of heated debate, charged imagination, and Cold War paranoia. When Whitlam returned from his tour, the debate had irrev ...Show more
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
This book is the winner of the National Book Award 2014. A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China. A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the 'Wastepaper Queen'. Age of Ambi ...Show more
Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 by Odd Arne Westad
$40.00 AUD
Category: Asian
As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relatio ...Show more
Buy Me the Sky: The Remarkable Truth of China's One-Child Generations by Xinran
$32.99 AUD
Category: Asian
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 the speed of light, these generations of precious 'one an ...Show more
The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen
$34.95 AUD
Category: Asian
The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting--as revealed in ...Show more