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As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ...
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"[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy), this provocative account shows that "China"-and its 5,000 years of unified history-is a national ...
'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.'
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A riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the ...
The first volume in a landmark three-part biographical series chronicling Soeharto's rise to power
When a reluctant President Sukarno gave Lieutenant General Soeharto full ...
China's past is key to the modern world. This nimble history of rogues, revolutions and rebellions can be read in a day, but will ...
An illuminating and concise telling of the 5000 years of turbulent history that led India from the ruins of ancient civilisations to emerging global superpower ...
Impressive Fascinating Sunday TimesAn authoritative history Financial TimesGripping and richly researched Rana MitterA superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of ...
An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era Shanghai, 1936 ...
Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state.
In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a ...
A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully ...
"[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy). Bill Hayton tells the story of how 'China' came to think of itself as China- and ...
