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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister - Three Women- China by Jung Chang
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian
They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the centre of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history. Red Sister, Ching-ling, married the 'Father ...Show more
Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi by Rana Dasgupta
$34.99 AUD
Category: Asian
At the turn of the twenty-first century acclaimed novelist Rana Dasgupta arrived in the Indian capital with a single suitcase. He had no intention of staying for long. But the city beguiled him - he 'fell in love and in hate with it' - and, fourteen years later, Delhi has become his home. Capital tells ...Show more
Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism by Edgar Snow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorised account of Mao's life, as well as a history of the famous Long March and the men and women who were responsible for the Chinese revolution. Out of that experience came Red S ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
$29.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Reading Level: very good
THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India - A book of beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to ...Show more
Hiroshima by John Hersey
$8.99 AUD
Category: Asian
'The room was filled with a blinding light. She was paralysed by fear, fixed still in her chair for a long moment. Everything fell.'2015 is the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima, when, on 6 August at 8.15am, an atomic bomb was dropped, killing one hundred thousand men, women and children in its white fury. ...Show more
Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 by Frank Dikötter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian
"'The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a "liberation." In China the story of liberation and the revolution that followed is not one of peace, liberty, and justice. It is first and foremost a story of calculated terror and systematic violence.' So begins Frank Dikötter's stunning ...Show more
Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 instantly, mostly women, children and the elderly. Many hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries later, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Yet the bombs were "our least abhorrent choice," Am ...Show more
Bali : Heaven and Hell by Phil Jarratt
$29.95 AUD
Category: Asian
Phil Jarratt's critically acclaimed book, Bali: Heaven and Hell, is now in paperback and includes an additional chapter. Phil Jarratt shares his personal, first-hand experience from early-70s Bali and the stories and opinions collected through extensive interviews with Indonesian locals. Bali: Heaven a ...Show more
Imperial China: The Definitive Visual History by DK
$59.99 AUD
Category: Asian
From the clans and legends of prehistory to the last Qing emperor, this book brings China's imperial history to life through its pivotal events, political forces, and powerful people, in a stunning collaboration between British and Chinese publishing houses. Covering more than 5,000 years of history and ...Show more
A History of Southeast Asia by Arthur Cotterell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Asian
A History of Southeast Asia narrates the history of the region from earliest recorded times until today, covering present-day Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines, Indonesia and East Timor. Its scope is the whole of Southeast Asia and not just the mainla ...Show more
This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War by Samanth Subramanian
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
"In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stubborn and complicated civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years, the war's fingers had reached everywhere: into the bustle of Colombo, the Buddhist monasteries scattered across the ...Show more
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian
From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown Story In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually a ...Show more