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Mitter puts China at the heart of our understanding of the Second World War - a conflict that continues profoundly to shape China's view of ...
A History of Southeast Asia is a sweeping as well as a wide-ranging narrative of Southeast Asia's historical development told through key individuals and ...
From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown Story, the extraordinary story of the woman who single-handedly dragged China into the modern ...
Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world ...
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 ...
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 ...
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The flourishing of photography as a medium in the mid-19th century coincided with a rise in curiosity about China on the part of the Western ...
Ever since Korea was first divided at the end of World War II, the tension between its northern and southern halves has riveted,and threatened ...
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 ...