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The Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flowing south to the Bay of Bengal, is now little known outside of India. Yet for centuries it ...
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The magnificent wonders of China, ancient and modern, revealed by an international team of leading scholars from Asia and the West.
China is the oldest ...
Winner, The Lionel Gelber PrizeSilver Medal, Arthur Ross Book AwardFor decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would ...
In the Western mind, Afghanistan has come to mean many things in recent decades, most of them bad. Partly thanks to the relentless media coverage ...
Daring essays on democracy, history and the nation state by one of China's leading twentieth-century intellectuals
The power, anger and fluency of Liang Qichao ...
This book describes and analyses the Manchu, or Qing, army in all its aspects. The emphasis lays on the Qing army in the seventeenth and ...
Beautiful edition, and companion to Japanese Myths and Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Japanese society and culture. A gorgeous Collector's Edition covering the ...
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'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
This is the authoritative history of South Asia in the ...
With a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world's second largest economy, China is a major player in the world today, and ...
The fascinating account of two former British colonies with a shared past but vastly different identities today!
Singapore and Malaysia sit astride the sea lanes ...
"The relationship between China and Korea is one of the most important, and least understood, in Asia. With the wisdom and clarity we have come ...
"Gripping history, offering both drama and suspense." -Wall Street Journal
A riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile ...
Updated and revised, with all new images throughout, this is a complete study of the Chinese Civil War, a defining conflict in world history that ...
The story behind the mythic brutality of Genghis Kahn, one of the most successful leaders in human history. A new title in the series created ...
