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  • Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century

    The House of Houqua and the Canton System

    by John D. Wong ...
    In this engaging new study, John D. Wong examines the Canton trade networks that helped to shape the modern world through the lens of the prominent Chinese merchant Houqua, whose trading network and financial connections stretched from China to India, America and Britain. In contrast to interpretations that see Chinese merchants in this era as victims of rising Western mercantilism and oppressive ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Hong Kong Takes Flight

    Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s–1998

    by John D. Wong ...
    Series Book 454 - Harvard East Asian Monographs
    Commercial aviation took shape in Hong Kong as the city developed into a powerful economy. Rather than accepting air travel as an inevitability in the era of global mobility, John Wong argues that Hong Kong’s development into a regional and global airline hub was not preordained. By underscoring the shifting process through which this hub emerged, Hong Kong Takes Flight aims to describe ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Tibetan Foothold

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    After her epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle in 1963, Dervla Murphy immersed herself in the life of the sub-continent, working for six months in an orphanage for Tibetan children in Northern India. She fell in love with the 'Tiblets' - the cheerful, uncomplaining, independent and affectionate children of the new Tibet-in-exile - but she also managed to explore India's Tibetan frontier, ... Read more

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  • The Nihongi

    Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697

    by Yasumaro no O ...
    The Nihon Shoki, translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second oldest book of classical Japanese history. The book is also called the Nihongi (The Japanese Chronicles). It is more elaborate and detailed than the Kojiki, the oldest book, and has proven to be an important tool for historians and archaeologists as it includes the most complete historical record of ancient Japan. The Nihongi ... Read more

    $2.67 USD

  • By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean

    The Birth of Eurasia

    by Barry Cunliffe ...
    By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century AD. An unashamedly 'big history', it charts the development of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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  • History of the Philippine Islands

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Colonial Tapestry: A Scholarly Journey through Philippine History

    by Antonio de Morga, Garrett Ewing ...
    Translated by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson ...
    In "History of the Philippine Islands," Antonio de Morga presents a pioneering and invaluable chronicle of the Philippines during the Spanish colonization, offering a rich tapestry of cultural, social, and historical insights. Written in a narrative style that intertwines meticulous observation with personal anecdotes, Morga's work serves as both a scholarly document and a vivid account of the ... Read more

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  • Viet Cong and NVA Tunnels and Fortifications of the Vietnam War

    by Gordon L. Rottman ...
    Series Book 48 - Fortress
    During the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong (VC) main forces and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) were forced to hide weapons and supplies underground and to dig protective shelters to counter massive US firepower.Their field works defended villages, hidden base camps, and fortified complexes, and took the form of trench systems, individual fighting positions, crew-served weapon positions, bunkers, caches, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A History of Bangladesh

    by Willem van Schendel ...
    Bangladesh is a new name for an old land whose history is little known to the wider world. A country chiefly famous in the West for media images of poverty, underdevelopment, and natural disasters, Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's history reveals the country's vibrant, colourful past and its diverse culture as it navigates the extraordinary twists ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road

    by Johan Elverskog ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also to reaffirm the stereotypes of Buddhism as a peaceful, rational philosophy and Islam as an inherently ... Read more

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  • Cuc: Flower of the Delta

    A Viet Kieu Odyssey

    by Peter Alphonse Geniesse ...
    CUC: Flower of the Delta is love story of two young Vietnamese refugees who survived the horrors of war in Southeast Asia, escaped by boat to the camps of Thailand and were resettled in the United States in 1981.It's a little-told story of the tragic fallout from the Vietnam War, one that millions of Southeast Asians-and Americans-can relate to.Most of the refugees found sponsors in United States ... Read more

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  • China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800

    Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions

    by John E. Wills, Jr, John Cranmer-Byng, Willard J. Peterson, Jr, John W. Witek ...
    China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important roles here. Although pieces of these stories have been told before, these chapters provide the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • On Friendship

    One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince

    by Matteo Ricci ...
    Translated by Timothy Billings ...
    "On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."-Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark text on friendship-the first book to be written in Chinese by a European-that instantly became a late Ming best seller ... Read more

    $31.99 USD