Asia
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The Face: Strangers on a Pier
From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and The Harmony Silk Factory comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told...RM35.90 -
The Fall and Rise of China: Healing the Trauma of History
For over a century, from the First Opium War in 1839–42 to the end of the Second World War, China was repeatedly humiliated by Western imperial...RM115.00 -
The Far Field
An elegant, epic debut novel that follows one young woman's search for a lost figure from her childhood, a journey that takes her from Southern India...RM49.90 -
The Films of Akira Kurosawa
In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature...RM182.00 -
The Final Years Of British Hong Kong
This critical review of the British experience in Hong Kong focuses on the tenure of the last governor, Chris Patten, and the discourse he used in...RM30.00 -
The Flamboyant Mr Chinnery: An English Artist in India and China
At his best, George Chinnery was a splendid artist For a living he painted portraits of swaggering lieutenants, hoary governors and their beribboned...RM100.00 -
The Flowers of Buffoonery
For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human The Flowers of...RM80.00 -
The Food of Sichuan
A fully revised and updated edition of Fuchsia Dunlop's landmark book on Sichuan cookery Almost twenty years after the publication of Sichuan...RM169.90 -
The Frolic of the Beasts
The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers Koji, a young student, has fallen...RM64.50 -
The Garlic Ballads
The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations The Communist government has encouraged them to plant...RM50.00 -
The Genealogy of Kings (Sulalat al-Salatin)
A history of the Malay Peninsula and the islands of the Archipelago in a new translation by the National Laureate Muhammad Haji...RM78.00 -
The God of Small Things
More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest...RM64.00 -
The Goddess Chronicle
On an island in the shape of a teardrop live two sisters One is admired far and wide, the other lives in her shadow One is the Oracle, the other is...RM66.00 -
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation,...RM115.00 -
The Golden Thread
All textiles begin with a twist From colourful 30,000-year old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to what the linen wrappings of...RM66.00 -
The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority
Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in In...RM133.50 -
The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire
The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set...RM75.00 -
The Great Empires of Asia
Asian empires led the world economically, scientifically and culturally for hundreds of years, and posed a constant challenge to the countries of...RM49.90