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This various, rich and enjoyable book tells the story of the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of ...
A definitive new history of Japan, where ancient meets cutting-edge in unique and startling ways
Everyone who has ever visited Japan says it feels 'different ...
'This is a remarkable book. It combines a spellbinding account of the first forgotten half of the English encounter with India with a fascinating history ...
The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, his sacrifice in Auschwitz, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever
The ...
A gripping account of the past and future of Taiwan
In the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one ...
An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire
By the mid-fourteenth century ...
The dramatic true story of the betrayal of hundreds of Indian princely states by both the departing British and the new Congress government. In July ...
'The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb' Sunday Telegraph
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of ...
A true masterpiece of narrative history and the definitive story of the revolution that ignited the end of colonialism worldwide
A story of staggering scope ...
'John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples he describes' Dan Snow ...
Japanese civilisation and its unique culture has often represented an enigma to the rest of the world. In this anthology a large number of experts ...
WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE
A SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR
A profound and ground-breaking ...
An immersive, magisterial portrait of Myanmar, told through the story of its hidden railways
In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond ...
The declaration of the Republic of China in 1912 signalled an entirely new era. Not only did the revolution of 1911-12 bring about the fall ...
An inspiring testament to China's dissident historians and activists, from the 1940s to the present
A documentary filmmaker who spent years uncovering a Mao-era ...