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The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong - The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea by Lady Hyegyong; JaHyun Kim Haboush (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life Shakespearean in its pathos, drama, and grandeur. Prese ...Show more
Princess Masako - Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne - The Tragic True Story of Japan's Crown Princess by Ben Hills
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good-very good
"There are two families in Japan which you can never leave - The Yakuza (crime gangs) and the royal family..." Diana, Princess of Wales, had it easy compared with another lonely princess, Crown Princess Masako of Japan. A thoroughly modern woman in collision with an ancient and unreformed system ...Show more
Maximum City - Bombay lost and found by Suketu Mehta
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Winner Of The 2005 Kiriyama Prize For Non-FictionSuketu Mehta Left Bombay At The Age Of 14. Twenty-One Years Later He Returned To Rediscover The City. The Result Is This Stunning, Brilliantly Illuminating Portrait Of The Megalopolis And Its People-A Book, Seven Years In The Making, That Is As Vast, As D ...Show more
The End Game - The Final Chapter in Britain's Great Game in Afghanistan by Susan Loughhead
$16.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Beginning by drawing parallels between the author's experiences at the British Embassy in Kabul from 2010 to 2013 and her grandfather's experiences of the same just after Indian Independence from 1948 to 1950, this book takes a thematic approach to analyse the role of Britain in Afghanistan since the co ...Show more
Sacred Mountains - How the Revival of Daoism is Turning China's Ecological Crisis Around by Allerd Stikker
$15.00 NZD
Category: Ecology | Reading Level: very good
Allerd Stikker witnessed and actively participated in the Daoist resurgence, together with the Alliance of Religions and Conservation. Stikker shares his fascination for Daoism, and explains how nature conservation is deeply rooted in its philosophy and practice. He tells the story of his cooperation wi ...Show more
Bushido - The way of the Samurai by Tsunetomo Yamamoto; Justin F Stone (ed.)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia
In the sixteenth-century Japan, Tsunetomo Yamamoto created the Hagakure which was secretly circulated among the "awakened" samurai-the samurai elite. In 1906, the book was first made available to the general Japanese public and, until 1945, its guiding principles greatly influenced the Japanese ruling ...Show more
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
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
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