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The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan

by Ivan Morris

Ivan Morris’s definitive and widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious and melancholy world of ancient Japan.

Using The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan’s Heian period as a frame...


The Immobile Empire

by Alain Peyrefitte

In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats—entered Beijing on a mission to open China to British trade....


Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema

by Daw-Ming Lee

The Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema covers the history of Taiwan cinema during both the Japanese colonial period (1895–1945) and Chinese Nationalist period (1945–present). This is accomplished through...


Restless Valley

by Philip Shishkin

It sounds like the stuff of a fiction thriller: two revolutions, a massacre of unarmed civilians, a civil war, a drug-smuggling highway, brazen corruption schemes, contract hits, and larger-than-life characters...


Peking 1900: The Boxer Rebellion

by Peter Harrington & Michael Perry

Osprey's study of the violent Boxer Rebellion, which swept northern China in 1900. The Boxers were a secret society who sought to rid their country of the pernicious influence of the foreign powers who had...


Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries

by Jagdish Bhagwati & Arvind Panagariya

In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru’s pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s....


Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities

by Anna Sun

Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over...


Crime, Punishment, and Policing in China

by Børge Bakken

Crime has long been a silent partner in China's march to modernization, just as law and order has become increasingly important in legitimizing the Chinese regime. This groundbreaking volume offers the first...


Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Military

by Maria Rosa Henson

In April 1943, fifteen-year-old Maria Rosa Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution as a comfort woman. In this simply told yet powerfully moving autobiography,...


A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel: Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China

by Pin Ho & Wenguang Huang

The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China’s new president...


Samurai War Stories: Teaching and Tales of Samurai Warfare

by Antony Cummins & Yoshie Minami

Enter the world of seventeenth-century Japanese warfare and the warrior elite, the Samurai. Samurai War Stories: Teachings and Tales of Samurai Warfare is a collection of three major texts, published in an English...


New Girl Law: Drafting a Future for Cambodia

by Anne Elizabeth Moore

The engrossing report on young Cambodian women’s struggles for human rights and media justice continues in this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Cambodian Grrrl. This account explains how, in an attempt...


Gage Street Courtesan

by Christopher New

Franziska Goldmann, an opera singer fallen on hard times, has become the star courtesan in 19th century Hong Kong. A chance encounter with Queen Victoria’s musical second son seems to offer Franziska an opportunity...


Jungle Journal: Prisoners of the Japanese in Java, 1942-1945

by Frank Williams & Ronald Williams

This is the story of a young Royal Artillery officer, Lieutenant Ronald Williams, who was held as a prisoner of war in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies from 1942-45. It is a true account of the alternate...


Battle Story Tet Offensive 1968

by Andrew Rawson

By 31 January 1968 the US had been fighting the Vietnam War for more than ten years, but the American people never thought they wouldn't win. The Tet Offensive changed all that. Over seven bloody months the...


Fighting from a Distance: How Filipino Exiles Toppled a Dictator

by Jose V. Fuentecilla

A first-hand account of immigrants' resistance from the U.S. against the Marcos regime in the Philippines


Sources of Tibetan Tradition

by Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Matthew T. Kapstein & Gray Tuttle

The most comprehensive collection of classic Tibetan works in a Western language, this volume illuminates the complex historical, intellectual, and social movements of Tibetan civilization from its earliest...


Aikido Ground Fighting: Grappling and Submission Techniques

by Walther G. Von Krenner, Damon Apodaca & Ken Jeremiah

Aikido Ground Fighting presents effective ground techniques that remain true to aikido founder Morehei Ueshiba's teachings while addressing a potential weakness in the system: while aikido is renowned for its...


A History of Zhang Zhung and Tibet, Volume One: The Early Period

by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu & Donatella Rossi

A History of Zhang Zhung and Tibet, Volume One explores ancient Tibet's Zhang Zhung kingdom and Bon religion that preceded the advent of Buddhism in the seventh century. Countering the long-held idea that Tibet's...


Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II

by John Geoghegan

The riveting true story of Japan's top secret plan to change the course of World War II using a squadron of mammoth submarines a generation ahead of their time

 

In 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack...