Asian History

The cache of bamboo texts unearthed in the village of Guodian, Hubei Province, in 1993 is a rare and unique find in the history of Chinese philosop...

Internationally renowned samurai expert Dr Stephen Turnbull delves into a pivotal era of Japanese history in this highly illustrated account of The...

Tibet's enduring myth, animated by the tales of Himalayan adventurers, British military expeditions, and the novel, Lost Horizon, remains an inspir...

At the port of Yokohama in 1907, Okina Ky?in boarded the steamship Kaga Maru, bound for America. For this ambitious young man, Japanese-American ne...

The author of this Vietnam War memoir was drafted in November 1966 just before completion of his Ph.D. work in French history and entered the ar...

This singular collection of articles, essays, poems, criticism and personal recollections by a Vietnam veteran documents the author's reflection...

Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The EconomistChina's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and impe...

'A thrilling blow-by-blow account' The Times'A first-rate popular history of a fascinating and neglected battle... a veritable page-turner' BBC His...

Inspiration for the major film starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi and directed by Gurinder Chad...

Japan is a mysterious and beguiling country, steeped in the deepest of traditions yet strikingly modern. Here, Curator Emeritus Ian Bottomley sheds...

Winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year 2011 The story of one of the most brutal battles in modern history fought at a majo...

For centuries, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adv...

In The Origins of the Lost Fleet of the Mongol Empire, Randall Sasaki provides a starting point for understanding the technology of the failed Mong...

A gripping read as well as an important one. Rana Mitter, Guardian In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality n...

This volume contains translationsmany appearing for the first time in the English languageof major literary, critical, and historical essays from t...

His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authorit...

Shaping Modern Shanghai provides a new understanding of colonialism in China through a fresh examination of Shanghai's International Settlement. Th...

Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects examines the stories of ordinary people to explore the internal workings of colonial rule. Chinese, Indians, ...

Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female war...

When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start up the first full-time China bureau for Marketplace, the daily business a...

Beginning in the 1920s thousands of Chinese revolutionaries set out for Soviet Russia. Once there, they studied Russian language and experienced So...

The epic story of the British construction of the railways in India, as told by Britain''''s bestselling transport historian.''''Christian Wolmar i...

In the first half of the nineteenth century the Qing Empire faced a crisis. It was broadly perceived both inside and outside of government that the...

Reconstructions of Jesus occurred in Asia long before the Western search for the historical Jesus began in earnest. This enterprise sprang up in se...

Hardly more than a decade old, the twenty-first century has already been dubbed the Asian Century in recognition of China and Indias increasing imp...

In the opening days of World War II, a joint U.S.-Filipino army fought desperately to defend Manila Bay and the Philippines against a Japanese i...

Vietnam's Year of the Rat explores the lunar New Year 1960 and the dynamic relationship between two competing groups vying for control in the Re...

A Marine Corps recruiter returns to his old stamping grounds to speak with some of the men he enlisted, their families, and the families of othe...

C.M. (Mary) Turnbull's contributions to historical writing on Singapore extended from her 1962 thesis, published in 1972 as The Straits Settlements...

Assassination - in Japanese, ansatsu or dark murder - was instrumental in the samurai-led revolution known as the Meiji Restoration, by which the s...

In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his ret...

'An exciting, highly informative and also enjoyable read: Shepherd writes with clarity and verve this book should find its way into the hands of al...