Asia
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Politicized Society: Taiwan’s Struggle with Its One-Party Past
This book explores a relatively uncharted area of democratic transitions: the empirical study of intensely politicized transitional societies In...RM135.00 -
Portraiture in South Asia since the Mughals: Art, Representation and History
One of the most remarkable artistic achievements of the Mughal Empire was the emergence in the early seventeenth century of portraits of identifiable...RM427.90 -
Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China
A critical reconsideration of the history of photography that explores how commerce and conflict fueled its practice in nineteenth-century...RM307.00 -
Powerplay: The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia
While the American alliance system in Asia has been fundamental to the region's security and prosperity for seven decades, today it encounters...RM95.00 -
Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857
Between the years 1707 and 1857, the cultural center of Delhi in North India was the locus of a dramatic shift of power with the decline of the...RM200.00 -
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China
This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, in a society about to change beyond recognition It is...RM100.00 -
Pyre
Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love After meeting in a small southern Indian town, where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly...RM70.00 -
Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China
This very timely, well-written and insightful exploration of gay identity and queer activism in the People’s Republic of China today is more than a...RM122.00 -
Quicksand
A seductive psychological thriller about obsession, jealousy and deceit, and a Japanese classic Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady in an...RM60.00 -
Rama X: The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn
In the twilight years of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (1946–2016), changes to monarchic power were already set in motion Having been at the center of...RM150.00 -
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Ryünosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists—a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism,...RM58.00 -
Re-Orienting Cuisine: East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century
Foods are changed not only by those who produce and supply them, but also by those who consume them Analyzing food without considering changes over...RM123.00 -
Real World
In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes There's dependable...RM39.90 -
Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle — and the renewed threat of invasion...RM150.00 -
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom
WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY Rebels Against the Raj tells the little-known story of seven people who...RM70.00 -
Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China
This work illustrates the relationship between one group of Singaporean Chinese and their ancestral village in Fujian, China It explores the reasons...RM75.00 -
Record of a Night Too Brief
The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers: part of our Japanese novella...RM60.00 -
Recycling Reality: Mexico to Asia through a Photojournalist’s Lens
An ill-fated sojourn through Tijuana, Mexico, on the way to New York City results in a sharp turn towards Asia and a rollercoaster journey through...RM60.00