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By: Gregory Rohlf
ISBN: 9781498519540
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Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This social and political history of resettlement and state building in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands examines the aims of Han and Hui Chinese settlers sent to Qinghai province, their impact on the land and the population, and the role of the resettlement in the industrialization of the China.
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By: Jasper Becker
ISBN: 9781426201165
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Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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No nation on Earth is as newsworthy as 21st-century Chinaand no book could be timelier than Dragon Rising
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By: James B. Wood
ISBN: 9780742553408
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Publication Date: Aug 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Challenges the wisdom that Japan's defeat in the Pacific was historically inevitable. This book shows how the Japanese army and navy had both the opportunity and the capability to have fought a different and more successful war.
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By: Noel Barber
ISBN: 9780304366712
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Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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'The story of the first all-out struggle in Asia between Communism and the West, vividly told in an exciting and engrossing book' Sunday Express
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By: Jonathan Clement
ISBN: 9780762438501
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Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
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By: James Hamilton-Paterson
ISBN: 9780571320189
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Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Helps you examine the Marcoses more closely - not to exonerate them but, rather, to explain the political and social roots of their regime, sustained for so long by support from Washington.
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By: Nathan Woolley
ISBN: 9780642278760
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Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: National Library of Australia
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By: Ann Paludan
ISBN: 9780500287644
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Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Tells the history of China and its 157 rulers from the early empire of 221BC to the revolution, detailing in special features such diverse subjects as the Great Wall of China, the Silk Roads, Buddhism, the Mongols, the Ming Tombs, the Forbidden City and the Opium Wars.
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By: Tom Fawthrop
ISBN: 9780868409047
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Publication Date: Dec 2004
Publisher: UNSW Press
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Twenty-five years after the overthrow of the Pol Pot regime, not one Khmer Rouge leader has stood in court to answer for their terrible crimes. Tom Fawthrop and Helen Jarvis show how governments that often speak the language of human rights shielded Pol Pot and his lieutenants from prosecution.
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By: Ann Jones
ISBN: 9780312426590
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Publication Date: Feb 2007
Publisher: Picador USA
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Soon after the bombs stopped falling on Kabul, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city. This is her report from the city where she spent the next four winters working in humanitarian aid.
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By: Margaret Shennan
ISBN: 9780719563317
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Publication Date: Jun 2003
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The gripping story of British Malaya from its days of promise to the end of Empire
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By: Nayan Chanda
ISBN: 9780374532253
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Publication Date: Feb 2010
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
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Presents the author's personal journey through Pakistan, a country in turmoil, reconstructing, largely in the voices of the key participants themselves - Generals Musharraf and Zia, and the assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto - the legacies haunting Pakistan in the aftermath of the US-sponsored jihad of the 1980s in Afghanistan.
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By: Philip Short
ISBN: 9780719566783
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Publication Date: Oct 2004
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A gripping and important biography of one of the 20th century's most reviled political monsters, who ravaged Cambodia.
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By: Tania Branigan
ISBN: 9781783352654
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Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution andhow it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers fortyyears of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness.
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By: Pat Barr
ISBN: 9780571276431
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Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.
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By: Dr. Michihiko Hachiya
ISBN: 9781800961500
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Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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The powerful and inspiring diary of a doctor who survived the atomic bomb and treated the people of Hiroshima only 1500m from the centre of the blast.
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By: Geremie Barme
ISBN: 9781846680267
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Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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An amazing portrait of the great walled palace compound of the Forbidden City in the heart of Beijing.
By: Maurice M. Cotterell
ISBN: 9780747271321
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Publication Date: Mar 2003
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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In 206BC, the first emperor of China, Shi Huang-te, decreed that after his death his body should be clothed in jade, cast adrift in a lake of mercury within a pyramid, and protected by an eternal army. In 1974, the first of 7000 life-size terracotta warriors were discovered, but why were they there
By: Maurice M. Cotterell
ISBN: 9780747271338
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Publication Date: Mar 2003
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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In 206BC, the first emperor of China, Shi Huang-te, decreed that after his death his body should be clothed in jade, cast adrift in a lake of mercury within a pyramid, and protected by an eternal army. In 1974, the first of 7000 life-size terracotta warriors were discovered, but why were they there
By: Mike Dash
ISBN: 9781862078468
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Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: Granta Books
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For nearly two centuries, Thugs haunted the roads of India, slaughtering travellers whom they met along the way. Mike Dahs tells the story of the Thugs' rise and fall from the cult's beginnings in the late seventeenth century to its demise at the hands of British East India Company officer William Sleeman in 1840.
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By: Ian Pfennigwerth
ISBN: 9781877058653
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Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Rosenberg Publishing
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While the Vietnam War loomed large over the region, the RAN played its part in creating the conditions for the peace and prosperity in Malaysia and Singapore, by bombarding terrorist positions, engaging Indonesian infiltrators in vicious firefights, providing support to land forces, or patiently laying the foundations for the regional navies.
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By: Bradley K. Martin
ISBN: 9780312323226
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Publication Date: Jan 2006
Publisher: Griffin Publishing
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Offers in-depth portraits of North Korea's two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim II-Sun and Kim Jong-II. Lifting North Korea's curtain of self-imposed isolation, this book take readers inside a society that, to a Westerner, will appear to be from another planet.
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By: Marte Kjr Galtung
ISBN: 9781442236226
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Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This engaging book highlights 49 prevalent myths about China's past, present, and future and weighs their truth or fiction. Leading a thoughtful and entertaining tour, the authors debunk widespread "knowledge" about Chinese culture, society, politics, and economy. Their timely work offers an illuminating window on a rising power we often misunderstand.
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By: Michael J. Seth
ISBN: 9780804851022
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Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 20th December 2019
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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