Category: Asia

The only book available on wartime Japan's secret police. Contains first-hand accounts from former members and their victims, and identifies former high-ranking Kempeitai officers who became prominent businessmen and politicians.
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Made in China

By: Robert Lawrence Kuhn

Price: $5.95

Publisher: TV Books: December 2000

Seller ID: 170489

ISBN: 1575001349

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The world's largest country with over 1.2 billion inhabitants, China's economy is undergoing the fastest change in history. To understand the transformation, author and business consultant Robert Lawrence Kuhn has devoted the past ten years of his life to interviewing new Chinese entrepreneurs, private business leaders, government officials, and the heads of state-owned factories, as well as everyday workers and families, capturing China in change as no other chronicler has.

American and Chinese trade officials recently concluded thirteen years of negotiations by signing one of the largest t...
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Indian Art (World of Art)

By: Roy C. Craven

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Thames & Hudson: October 1997

Seller ID: 366228

ISBN: 0500203024

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This engaging book tells the story clearly and vividly from the first, still mysterious, beginnings in the Indus valley, through the great masterpieces of Buddhist and Hindu art to the coming of Islam, the eclectic culture of the Mughal court, and the golden age of miniature painting. Much of Indian art is immediately accessible to the outsider, but much is also enigmatic, needing interpretation and guidance before it can be enjoyed in depth: the strange pantheon of the Hindu gods, the subtle insights of Buddhist mysticism, or the complex symbolism of the miniatures. For this edition, the late...
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Sources of the Japanese Tradition

By: Rysaku et al eds TSUNODA

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Columbia University Press: January 1960

Seller ID: 315673

ISBN: B000GKPXSI

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Sources of Japanese Tradition, Two Volume Set

By: Ryusakku Tsunoda

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Columbia University: January 1967

Seller ID: 315674

ISBN: B001BADJYW

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bridge of the Brocade Sash, Travels and Observations in Japan

By: Sacheverell Sitwell

Price: $9.95

Publisher: The World Publishing Company: 1959

Seller ID: 274476

ISBN: B0000CKGIO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - LikeNew

New Emperors: China...

By: Salisbury, Harrison E.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: May 1993

Seller ID: 396565

ISBN: 0380720256

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Journey between two Chinas (A Cass Canfield book)

By: Seymour Topping

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harper & Row: January 1972

Seller ID: 315619

ISBN: 0060143290

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

India

By: Stanley Wolpert

Price: $7.95

Publisher: University of California Press: October 1999

Seller ID: 332047

ISBN: 0520221729

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The history of India is the engrossing story of an ancient civilization, reborn as a modern nation. More a continent than a single nation, India is home to over one-fifth of humanity, yet it remains a mystery to most non-Indians, barely appreciated and poorly understood. Stanley Wolpert'sIndia provides a much-needed, concise overview of Indian history and culture. His new preface brings the book up to date, discussing national elections, the economic effects of the new globalization, and the consequences of joining the nuclear arms race.
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The Soong Dynasty

By: Sterling Seagrave

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Smithmark Pub: November 1987

Seller ID: 333280

ISBN: 0060153083

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

China: Fragile Superpower

By: Susan L. Shirk

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: August 2008

Seller ID: 328101

ISBN: 0195373197

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Once a sleeping giant, China today is the world's fastest growing economy--the leading manufacturer of cell phones, laptop computers, and digital cameras--a dramatic turn-around that alarms many Westerners. But in China: Fragile Superpower, Susan L. Shirk opens up the black box of Chinese politics and finds that the real danger lies elsewhere--not in China's astonishing growth, but in the deep insecurity of its leaders. China's leaders face a troubling paradox: the more developed and prosperous the country becomes, the more insecure and threatened they feel. Shirk, a former Deputy Assistant Se...
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Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West

By: T.R. Reid

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Vintage: March 2000

Seller ID: 305879

ISBN: 0679777601

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"Fascinating...clearly stated, interesting and provoking.... A plainspoken account of living in Asia." --San Francisco Chronicle

Anyone who has heard his weekly commentary on NPR knows that T. R. Reid is trenchant, funny, and deeply knowledgeable reporter and now he brings this erudition and humor to the five years he spent in Japan--where he served as The Washington Post's Tokyo bureau chief. He provides unique insights into the country and its 2,500-year-old Confucian tradition, a powerful ethical system that has played an integral role in the continent's "postwar miracle."...
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Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West

By: T.R. Reid

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Vintage: March 2000

Seller ID: 374268

ISBN: 0679777601

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"Fascinating...clearly stated, interesting and provoking.... A plainspoken account of living in Asia." --San Francisco Chronicle

Thunder Out of China

By: Theodore H. White, Annalee Jacoby

Price: $7.95

Publisher: William Sloane: January 1946

Seller ID: 247945

ISBN: B0026PUVUQ

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (History of Imperial China)

By: Timothy Brook

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press: March 2013

Seller ID: 378976

ISBN: 0674072537

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire--a millennium and a half in the making--was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace the Ming dynasty with yet another foreign occupation. The Troubled Empire explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invasions. If anything defined the complex dynamics of this period, it was changes in the weat...
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Lu Hsun and His Predecessors

By: V.I. Semanov,C.J. Alber

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Routledge: August 1980

Seller ID: 315704

ISBN: 0873321537

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The tale of a Southern black who became a congressman during the Reconstruction period that followed the American Civil War. This edition also contains primary source documents from the Reconstruction.
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China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know

By: Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: April 2010

Seller ID: 396575

ISBN: 0195394127

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions regarding the newest superpower and offers a framework for understanding its meteoric rise.
Focusing his answers through the historical legacies--Western and Japanese imperialism, the Mao era, and ...
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