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Traces The Founding Of Alibaba, The World's Second Largest Internet Company, By An English Teacher From Humble Origins, Drawing On Exclusive Interviews To E...

The definitive account of the wartime history of Hong Kong On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese c...

Shrouding themselves and their aims in deepest secrecy, the leaders of the Taliban movement control Afghanistan with an inflexible, crushing fundamentalism....

Japan's transformation from an isolated society to a military empire and, after a crushing defeat in World War II, into one of the world's foremost economi...

Edited And Introduced By Everett F. Bleiler. ... An Unabridges And Unaltered Republication Of The Work Originally Published By Fox, Duffield And Company In...

Boldly illustrated and superbly translated, Folk Legends from Tono captures the spirit of Japanese peasant culture undergoing rapid transformation into the ...

"From its creation in the early twentieth-century, policymakers used the discourse of international law to legitimate Japan's empire. Although the Japanese ...

Japan's Informal Empire In China, 1895-1937 : An Overview / Peter Duus -- The Changing Pattern Of Sino-japanese Trade, 1884-1937 / Mizoguchi Toshiyuki -- Ja...

This biography traces the career of Fukuzawa Yûkichi, who began life as a lower-level samurai and went on to become one of the leading figures in Japan a...

Here is the autobiography of a remarkable man. Yukichi Fukuzawa's life covered the 66 years between 1835 and 1901, a period which comprised greater and mor...

What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century? Peter Duus brings a new perspective ...

In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a tra...

Pt. 1. Beginnings -- Geology, Climate, And Biota -- From Origins To Agriculture -- Pt. 2. The Age Of Dispersed Agriculturalists, 400 Bce-1250 Ce -- Politica...

Illuminating A Pivotal Episode In East Asian History, Gordon Mark Berger Offers A Translation, With Informative Historical Notes, Of [japanese Foreign Minis...

This is the most comprehensive and authoritative introduction to Tibetan Buddhism available to date, covering a wide range of topics, including history, doc...

The true story of four siblings who lost their parents in the devastating Sri Lankan tsunami and how they turned tragedy into inspiration On December 26, 2...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’STEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE“Inspiring . . . extraordinary ....

An American Journalist Living In Beijing Offers An Odyssey Through Twenty-first-century China As Seen Through The Eyes Of A Handful Of Ordinary People. I: A...

To much of the world, North Korea is an impenetrable mystery, its inner workings unknown and its actions toward the outside unpredictable and frequently pr...

Explore the changing nature of the West Rather than looking at Western civilization only as the history of Europe from ancient times to the present, t...

Jung Chang, Jon Halliday. Originally Published In Great Britain By Jonathan Cape, London--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [739]-790) And...

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle ...

Product Description Through a distinctive analytical framework that focuses on the relations between countries rather than their individual histories, ...

New York Times bestseller, now adapted for young readers, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American...

With their thirtieth birthdays looming, Jen, Holly, and Amanda are feeling the pressure to hit certain milestones—score the big promotion, find a soul ma...

Writing A Few Months Prior To Her Assassination, Bhutto Explores The Complicated History Between The Middle East And The West. She Traces The Roots Of Inter...

Relates The Life Of The Mongol Leader And Emperor Of China Who Ruled At The Time Of Marco Polo, And Describes How The Grandson Of Genghis Khan Helped Change...

Best known for his academy award-winning role as Dith Pran in The Killing Fields, for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in war-to...

It was December 3, 1984. In the ancient city of Bhopal, a cloud of toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant, killing and injuring thousands of peo...

"[A] smart, evocative and sharply observed memoir . . . Giridharadas’s narrative gusto makes the familiar fresh."—The Wall Street Journal Anand Giri...

In this first US edition, the author of the The Map That Changed the World portrays the 19th-century eruption of a Javanese volcano that still has global r...

H.r. Mcmaster. Originally Published: New York: Harpercollins, 1997. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 419-434) And Index.Categories: Politics & So...

"Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story of Kore...

Decorated British foreign correspondent Robert Fisk has been based in the Middle East for the last twenty-five years, reporting from the world's worst troub...

The Story Of The Indian Subcontinent, One Of The World's Most Fascinating And Complicated Regions, The Home Of A Billion And A Half People, Several Major Re...

How different is Pakistan s culture from that of India? Exploring various aspects of the arts, literature and heritage of Pakistan, Raza Rumi argues that cu...

The Astonishing True Account Of John Chapman, Medal Of Honor Recipient And Special Ops Combat Controller, And His Heroic One-man Stand During The Afghan War...

Chronicles the history of America's secret counterterrorist unit, tells how members are recruited and trained, and explains its key role in the Iran hostage...

At the heart of the empire Japan won and then lost in the Pacific War was Manchukuo, a puppet state created in Northeast China in 1932. Not unlike India for...

This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. “For years,” says the Journal of the Buddhist Society, “the ne...

In the past decade the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of international politics and military strategies. Due to China’s rising economic and milita...

This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern concep...

Murugar Gunasingam. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 547-559) And Index.Categories: History AsiaSri Lanka

Frank Ching. Parallel Title In Chinese Characters. Map On Lining Papers. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 471-511.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences...

This classic study offers a compact and comprehensive account of the much-neglected history of south india--treated here as a single geographical entity--up...

Gandhi today is universally recognised as an international icon, but did his influence extend to the Vatican as well? The author unravels the answer by purs...

Joanna F. Handlin. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 231-246.Categories: History AsiaChina

Japanese history.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government International & World PoliticsAsian