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This fascinating book tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought ...
Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing' , this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning ...
In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and ...
Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011
Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death ...
This illustrated introduction to the history of China offers a fresh understanding of China's progress from the Neolithic age to the present. Told in ...
Discover - or rediscover - the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization.
Great Books of China offers concise introductions - each of them accompanied by generous quotation ...
Coromandel was the name given by European traders to India's south-eastern seaboard, a corruption of the Tamil Cholamandalam, after the temple-building Chola kings who ...
India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. The waterway that has nourished more people than any on earth for ...
China's War of Resistance against Japan, as WWII is known in China, was never about the defeat of Japan alone. China was also at ...
Drawing on the newest historical research and scholarship in the field, Modern South Asia provides challenging insights into the history of this fascinating region over ...
The International Bestseller Barney White-Spunner's book stands out for its judicious and unsparing look at events from a British perspective.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times ...
'The product of many years of detailed archival research, Wilson's book is without question the best one-volume history of the Raj currently in print ...
A daughter of Cambodia remembers. Soon to be a Netflix original movie directed by Angelina Jolie.
Until age five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh ...
