Strange Tales from Japan: 99 Chilling Stories of Yokai, Ghosts, Demons and the Supernatural by RETOLD BY KEISUKE NISHIMOTO
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Prepare to be spooked by these chilling Japanese short stories! Strange Tales from Japan presents 99 spine-tingling tales of ghosts, yokai, demons, shapeshifters and trickster animals who inhabit remote reaches of the Japanese countryside. 33 color woodblock prints and over 55 b&w illustrations of t ...Show more
Rising Water - The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue by Marc Aronson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian
The incredible true story of the twelve boys trapped with their coach in a flooded cave in Thailand and their inspiring rescue. On June 23rd, 2018, twelve members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach were exploring the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex in northern Thailand when disaster stru ...Show more
China in One Village: The History of One Town and the Future of theWorld by Liang Hong
$32.99 AUD
Category: Asian
After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village ...Show more
Fragile Cargo: China's Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City by Adam Brookes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The gripping true story of the intrepid curators who saved China's finest art from the ravages of the Sino-Japanese War and World War IISpring 1933. The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking's Forbidden City are tense with fear and expectation. Japan's aircraft drone overhead; its troops and tanks are ...Show more
The Tale of Genji: The Authentic First Translation of the World's Earliest Novel by Murasaki Shikibu
$16.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world's first novel--The Tale of Genji was written a thousand years ago and is one of the enduring classics of world literature. Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and even Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks the birth of the novel--and af ...Show more
Imperial China: The Definitive Visual History by DK
$59.99 AUD
Category: Asian
From the clans and legends of prehistory to the last Qing emperor, this book brings China's imperial history to life through its pivotal events, political forces, and powerful people, in a stunning collaboration between British and Chinese publishing houses. Covering more than 5,000 years of history and ...Show more
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Washburn, Dennis
$16.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Take a firsthand journey into a time, society and world full of intrigue. In the tenth century, Japan stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Sei Shonagon--a young courtesan of the Heian period--kept a diary, which provides a highly personal account of the intrigues, dal ...Show more
Typhoon Kingdom by Matthew Hooton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Based on the seventeenth-century journal of a shipwrecked Dutch sailor, and testimonies of surviving Korean 'Comfort Women,' Typhoon Kingdom is a story of war, romance, and survival that brings to life the devastating history of Korea at crucial moments in its struggle for independence. In 1653, the Dut ...Show more
The Great Empires of Asia by Jim Masselos; Jonathan Fenby
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Category: Asian
Asian empires led the world economically, scientifically and culturally for hundreds of years, and posed a constant challenge to the countries of Europe. How and why did those empires gain such power, and lose it? What legacies did they leave? This major book brings together a team of distinguished his ...Show more
Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes by Susan Whitfield
$100.00 AUD
Category: Asian
As world powers realign their cultural, economic and political outlooks, there is no better time to consider how Afro-Eurasia's complex network of ancient trade routes - which spanned the vastness of the steppe, vertiginous mountain ranges, fertile river plains and forbidding deserts across the continen ...Show more
Japanese Tales from Times Past: Stories of Fantasy and Folklore from the Konjaku Monogatari Shu by translator Koriyama (Naoshi)
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Category: Asian
This collection of translated tales is from the most famous work in all of Japanese classical literature--the "Konjaku Monogatari Shu." This collection of traditional Japanese folklore is akin to the "Canterbury Tales" of Chaucer or Dante's "Inferno"--powerfully entertaining tales that reveal striking a ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present by Jonathan Fenby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
In 1850, China was the "sick man of Asia." Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim of oppression, war, and famine. This makes its current position as arguably the m ...Show more