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'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' Tom Holland
'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced ...
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 history of the Mongols as we have never seen them?not just conquerors but also city builders, diplomats, and supple economic thinkers who ...
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] 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 ...
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 ...
China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the ...
'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' Tom Holland 'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced ...
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 ...
The first edition of Southeast Asia: An introductory history was published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in a ...
The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller' (Guardian)
Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever ...
Korean culture developed on a 600-mile-long peninsula, bordered on the north by mountains and three sides by the sea, set apart from the Asian mainland ...
Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest Archipelago Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and one ...
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 ...
