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Kawai Koume (1804-1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family in the provincial castle town ...
The magnificent wonders of China, ancient and modern, revealed by an international team of leading scholars from Asia and the West.
China is the oldest ...
In this ground-breaking, posthumous study, the late Lo Jung-pang discusses the geographic, political, and commercial factors that led to the emergence of seapower and a ...
Winner, The Lionel Gelber PrizeSilver Medal, Arthur Ross Book AwardFor decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would ...
The entire fascinating story of Japan told in one exciting manga-style volume!
A History of Japan in Manga tells the action-packed saga of Japan from ...
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day
Korea has a long, riveting history-it is ...
Originally published in Japanese as a call to preserve disappearing facets of Japan's rich and ancient culture, this book takes its inspiration from the ...
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'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
This is the authoritative history of South Asia in the ...
An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975 ...
With a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world's second largest economy, China is a major player in the world today, and ...
The fascinating account of two former British colonies with a shared past but vastly different identities today!
Singapore and Malaysia sit astride the sea lanes ...
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 ...
The story behind the mythic brutality of Genghis Kahn, one of the most successful leaders in human history. A new title in the series created ...
'The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, for which reason they have been grouped under ...
Dynamic and meticulously researched, A History of Korea continues to be one of the leading introductory textbooks on Korean history. Assuming no prior knowledge, Hwang ...