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The Silk Road - Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia by Frances Wood
$20.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
The Silk Road, a series of ancient trade routes stretching across Central Asia to Europe, evokes exotic images of camel trains laden with bales of fine Chinese silk, spices, and perfume, of desert oases surrounded by snow-capped mountains, of bustling markets thronging with travellers buying and selling ...Show more
Xi Jinping - The Backlash by Richard McGregor
$6.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: Pengun Special | Reading Level: very good
Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats, and abroad from an emerging coalition of Western nations that seem de ...Show more
China's Great Wall of Debt - Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle by Dinny McMahon
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
'One of the clearest and most thorough statements of an argument often made about the country: that its government has relied on constant stimulus to keep growth strong, an addiction that is bound to backfire. Second, he comes closer than any previous writer to covering the Chinese economy as Michael Le ...Show more
China - A Concise Cultural History by Arthur Cotterell
$16.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Jan Compagnie in Japan 1600-1817 by C R Boxer
$20.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints | Reading Level: good
The Christian Century in Japan 1549-1650 by C R Boxer
$60.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: Aspects of Portugal | Reading Level: very good
Four hundred and fifty years ago, on 23September 1543, three Portuguese merchants travelling on a Chinese junk were blown by a storm onto the south-western tip of Japan. So at last was discovered to the West that fabled country which Marco Polo reported and Columbus sought. The chief Japanese trade link ...Show more
Visions of China - Stories from Macau by David Brookshaw (ed.)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Visions of China: Stories from Macau is an anthology of stories from the Portuguese, set against the backdrop of that former colony and, to a slightly lesser degree, its close neighbor Hong Kong during the second half of the twentieth century.
The Proudest Day - India's Long Road to Independence by Anthony Read; David Fisher
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good-very good
"At midnight on 14 August 1947, Britain finally granted independence to the peoples of India. Throughout the world, the end of the colonial era was in sight. India was the first great domino to fall, setting off a train of events that was so spread across Asia and Africa, culminat-ing in the collapse of ...Show more
The Great Successor - The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
'Packed with the fascinating and frequently bizarre anecdotal detail' The Times'Superb...a model of investigative diligence and rigour' New Statesman'Astonishing and insightful - the inside story of the mercurial man now making headlines, and history. Essential reading' Lyse Doucet 'By far the most comp ...Show more
Daughters of the Samurai - A journey from East to West and back by Janice P Nimura
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassador ...Show more
The Bully of Asia - Why China's Dream Is the New Threat to World Order by Steven W Mosher
$16.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
THE ONCE AND FUTURE HEGEMON In a world bristling with dangers, only one enemy poses a truly mortal challenge to the United States and the peaceful and prosperous world that America guarantees. That enemy is China, a country that invented totalitarianism thousands of years ago whose economic powe ...Show more
The Mekong - Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future by Milton Osborne
$20.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good