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'Lucid and lyrical...a vivid history of Japan's turbocharged (and painful) modernisation.' The Daily Telegraph In A History of Modern Japan, cultural historian Christopher ...
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'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan ...
These private journals, made available here for the first time, record Hugh Trevor-Roper's visit to the People's Republic of China in the autumn ...
Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons-- the ...
Six years ago, Burma seemed to be in the midst of a miraculous transformation, from the darkest of dictatorships to a peaceful liberal democracy. Yet ...
The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian
Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and ...
Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20th Century to present day.
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Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the 'power behind the throne' - these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai's long and varied, but always pivotal, political career in the ...
November 12, 1941: war and revolution are in the air. At the Shanghai Race Club, the city's elite prepare to face off their best ...
As world powers realign their cultural, economic and political outlooks, there is no better time to consider how Afro-Eurasia's complex network of ancient trade ...
Assessments of Singapore's history invariably revolve around Sir Stamford Raffles' arrival in 1819. Before this date - we've been told - "nothing very much appears ...
For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a depression from which it had ...
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 ...
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 ...
Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March. In the autumn of 1934, the Chinese Nationalists under Chiang ...