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The Romance of Three Kingdoms

de Luo Guanzhong & C.H. Brewitt-Taylor

Romance of Three Kingdoms, dating to the 14th Century, is the legendary epic of the fall of Han and the founding of Jin. Dealing with plots, complex men, wars, intrigues, marriages and assassinations, this book,...

The Outlaws of the Marsh

de Luo Guanzhong & Sidney Shapiro

The legendary account of 108 "Stars from Heaven" who, faced with a corrupt bureaucracy, flee to Liangshan Marsh, from a fortress there thwarting minions of the evil regime while continuing to serve the emperor....

People Who Eat Darkness

de Richard Lloyd Parry

Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in...

A Single Shard

de Linda Sue Park

Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch’ulp’o, a potters’ village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become fascinated with the potter’s craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master...

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom inthe West

de Blaine Harden

The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped

North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s...

A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman

de Ida Pruitt

This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version of the same title.

My China Eye: Memoirs of a Jew and a Journalist

de Israel Epstein & H. D. Cooper

Final work of Israel Epstein, one of the very few Westerners to experience the Chinese Revolution.

Inventing Japan: 1853-1964

de Ian Buruma

In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course...

RETRIBUTION: The Story of the Sepoy Mutiny

de W.H. Fitchett

To many Indians, it was their First War of Independence. To the British, it was a military mutiny. Either way, neither country would be the same by the time it was over. In 1857, the soldiers (sepoys) belonging...

A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics

de Donald Richie

Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese

China: Ancient Culture, Modern Society

de Peter Xiaoming Yu & G. Wright Doyle

Synopsis: As the authors point out, China has arrived, big time. To ignore the Chinese is foolish. Yet, where does one begin? Getting a handle on China, with its sweeping history and vast cultural diversity,...

Inside Central Asia: A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran

de Dilip Hiro

From a critically acclaimed author-a comprehensive history of the part of the world currently making headlines

The former Soviet republics of Central Asia comprise a sprawling, politically pivotal, densely...

When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order: Second Edition

de Martin Jacques

Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese power

Soon, China will rule...

A Brief History of the Samurai

de Jonathan Clements

From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior. The Samurai emerged as a warrior caste in Medieval Japan and would have a powerful...

Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse

de David Budbill

New England mountain recluse's poems reminiscent of those of the great Chinese and Taoist poet-sages.

Through the Arc of the Rain Forest

de Karen Tei Yamashita

Through the Arc of the Rain Forest is a burlesque of comic-strip adventures and apocalyptic portents that stretches familiar truths to their logical extreme in a future world that is just recognizable enough...

Manners and Customs of the Japanese in the Nineteenth Century: From the Accounts of Dutch Residents in Japan and from the German Work of Dr. Philipp F

de Philipp Franz von Siebold & Terence Barrow

Manners and Customs of the Japanese in the Nineteenth Century is a delightful account of the Japanese of Tokugawa Japan. First published in New York in 1841, this small book is one of the earliest accounts of...

Genghis Khan

de James Chambers

Genghis Khan, the thirteenth century emperor, is known for his bloodthirsty, ruthless campaigns; however he was also one of the greatest commanders in history. Though a master of terror - his campaigns in northern...

Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2: People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand and Indonesia 1947-2009

de George Katsiaficas

The grassroots movements in nine places in East Asia in the 1980s and 1990s are empirically reconstructed in this volume. Asian history, especially radical history, is a subject often glossed over in the West....

The Manzoni Family: A Novel

de Natalia Ginzburg & Marie Evans

The classic account of a war correspondent trapped in the hot hell of the Pacific front. In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November...