Wish You Happy Forever: What China's Orphans Taught Me about Moving Mountains by Jenny Bowen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Asian
In the summer of 1998, Jenny Bowen looked out her kitchen window onto her garden, and her life changed forever. Her three-year-old daughter Maya, whom she and her husband had adopted months earlier from an orphanage in China, had transformed from a vacant-eyed, sickly little girl into a joyous being thr ...Show more
Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century by Hamish McDonald
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Indonesia, a nation of thousands of islands and almost 250 million people, straddles the junction of the Pacific and Indian oceans. The world's biggest Muslim nation has long been one of Australia's important strategic partners, and the relationship has become closer - if occasionally fraught - under Pr ...Show more
Genghis Khan - Life, Death and Resurrection by John Man
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Genghis Khan - creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen - is one of history's immortals. In Central Asia, they still use his name to frighten children. In China, he is honoured as the founder of a dynasty. In Mongolia he is the father of the nation. In the USA, Time magazine, voted Genghis ...Show more
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival by David Pilling
$39.99 AUD
Category: Asian
This is a pacy, fresh and surprising portrait of Japan and the Japanese - from David Pilling, award-winning writer and Asia Editor of the Financial Times. Despite years of stagnation, Japan remains one of the world's largest economies and a country which exerts a remarkable cultural fascination. David P ...Show more
Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan by Tamim Ansary
$22.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The history of modern Afghanistan is an epic drama, a thriller, a tragedy, a surreal farce. Every forty years or so, over the last two centuries, some great global power has attempted to take control of Afghanistan, only to slink away wounded and bewildered. Games without Rules recounts this strange sto ...Show more
Dear Leader: North Korea's Senior Propagandist Exposes Shocking Truths Behind the Regime by Jang Jin-Sung
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'The General will now enter the room.' Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my head, I direct my eyes to a point halfway up the archway where Kim Jong-il's face will soon appear. As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions, a travel pass, access to strictl ...Show more
The Contest of the Century - The New Era of Competition with China by Geoff Dyer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Asian
By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it begins to translate its considerable economic heft into a bigger role on the world stage, challenging America's recent supremacy. With its new na ...Show more
The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed by Michael Meyer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Asian
A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes. Soon we will be able to say about old Beijing that what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the marke ...Show more
A History of Modern Indonesia by Adrian Vickers
$34.95 AUD
Category: Asian
Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers' book, first published in 2005, traces the history of an island country, compris ...Show more
India: A Short History by Andrew Robinson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
In ten incisive chapters Andrew Robinson provides a clear focus to each segment of the unfolding story of Indian history, from the remarkable cities of the Indus Valley civilization four millennia ago to the Hindu dynasties, from the Mughal Empire to the British Raj, and from Indian independence to the ...Show more
Midnight's Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day by John Keay
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The first modern history of all South Asia's peoples. If British India had not been partitioned in 1947, its population would today be the world's largest. At c1.5 billion, Midnight's Descendants (the offspring of those affected by 'the midnight hour' Partition) already outnumber Europeans and Chinese; ...Show more
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter
$49.99 AUD
Category: Asian
In Rana Mitter's tense, moving and hugely important book, the war between China and Japan - one of the most important struggles of the Second World War - at last gets the masterly history it deserves. Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps th ...Show more