Non Fiction > History > Asia
The First Emperor of China by R. W. L. Guisco; David Miller; Canadian Museum of Civilization Staff (Contribution by); National Film Board of Canada Staff (Contribution by)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Street of Eternal Happiness - Big City dreams along a Shanghai Road by Rob Schmitz
$10.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas, and opportunity. Marketplace's Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighborhood, forging deep relationships with ordinary people who see in the c ...Show more
Morning Glory - The Story of the Imperial Japanese Navy by Stephen Howarth
$10.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: good-very good
The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D Spence
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good-very good
In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history.
The First Emperor of China - The greatest tomb find of our time by Arthur Cotterell
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Resonance - Songs of our Forefathers by G. Uma Devi
$25.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
The Good German Of Nanking - The diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The Mandarin Road to Old Hué - Narratives of Anglo-Vietnamese Diplomacy from the 17th Century to the Eve of the French Conquest by Alastair Lamb
$20.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Affinities and Extremes - Crisscrossing the Bittersweet Ethnology of East Indies History, Hindu-Balinese Culture, and Indo-European Allure by James A. Boon
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Examining representations of Balinese culture in complex contexts of Indonesia's colonial history, Hindu ritual practice as opposed to Islam, and comparative Indo-European hierarchies, Boon offers a powerful critique of doctrinal approaches to culture, religion, literature, politics, and the history of ...Show more
The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia by Peter Marius Veth (Editor); Matthew Spriggs (Editor)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: Terra Australis 22 | Reading Level: very good
This volume describes the results of the first archaeological survey and excavations carried out in the fascinating and remote Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia between 1995 and 1997. The naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who stopped here in search of the Birds of Paradise on his voyage through the Indo-Ma ...Show more
East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination by Paul Millar
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
At a time when China is being seen as the next superpower, both sweatshop and powerhouse for the global economy, political courtship on the part of interested governments is accompanied by grassroots hostility. Such ambivalence is not new. These essays discuss ways in which people of Chinese descent hav ...Show more
The Qin Dynasty Terra-Cotta Army of Dreams by Zhang Lin
$15.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good