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From Pankaj Mishra, author the successful Temptations of the West and Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, comes a provocative account of how China, India and the ...
Set against the turbulent background of China in the first half of the 20th century, this reads like a romantic novel; but it's a ...
An in-depth look at the strategy and tactics of the visionary commander who beat the United States in the Vietnam War General Vo Nguyen Giap ...
The flourishing of photography as a medium in the mid-19th century coincided with a rise in curiosity about China on the part of the Western ...
Brimming with verve and dramatic incident, Singapore: A Biography offers fresh insights into the life story of this island city-state through the personal experiences of ...
Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India ...
An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to ...
Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the ...
Ever since Korea was first divided at the end of World War II, the tension between its northern and southern halves has riveted,and threatened ...
Founded during the Gold Rush years, the Chinese community of San Francisco became the largest and most vibrant Chinatown in America. For those Chinese traveling ...
When the Japanese entered the war in 1941, some 20,000 British civilians in the European colonies in Asia were rounded up and marched off ...