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India: A Million Mutinies Now
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-73973-5 (0-307-73973-2)
Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s impassioned and prescient travelogue of his journeys through his ancestral homeland, with a new preface by the author.
Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many... Read more >
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-73973-5 (0-307-73973-2)
Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s impassioned and prescient travelogue of his journeys through his ancestral homeland, with a new preface by the author.
Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many... Read more >
India
A Wounded Civilization
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3075-0 (1-4000-3075-7)
In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in... Read more >
A Wounded Civilization
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3075-0 (1-4000-3075-7)
In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in... Read more >
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Maonomics
Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Translated by Stephen Twilley
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-431-2 (1-60980-431-7)
With the end of the Cold War, it was believed that Western capitalism had finally triumphed over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: we are now witnessing capitalism’s decline and the victory of “communism with a profit motive.” Maonomics charts... Read more >
Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Translated by Stephen Twilley
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-431-2 (1-60980-431-7)
With the end of the Cold War, it was believed that Western capitalism had finally triumphed over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: we are now witnessing capitalism’s decline and the victory of “communism with a profit motive.” Maonomics charts... Read more >
Maonomics
Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Translated by Stephen Twilley
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-341-4 (1-60980-341-8)
The end of the cold war was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: what we are witnessing instead is the beginning of the collapse of capitalism and the victory of “communism... Read more >
Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Translated by Stephen Twilley
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-341-4 (1-60980-341-8)
The end of the cold war was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: what we are witnessing instead is the beginning of the collapse of capitalism and the victory of “communism... Read more >
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The Elimination
A survivor of the Khmer Rouge confronts his past and the commandant of the killing fields
Written by Rithy Panh and Christophe Bataille
Translated by John Cullen
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-558-7 (1-59051-558-7)
From the internationally acclaimed director of S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a survivor’s autobiography that confronts the evils of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship.
Rithy Panh was only thirteen years old when the Khmer Rouge expelled his family from Phnom Penh in 1975. In the months and years that followed, his entire... Read more >
A survivor of the Khmer Rouge confronts his past and the commandant of the killing fields
Written by Rithy Panh and Christophe Bataille
Translated by John Cullen
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-558-7 (1-59051-558-7)
From the internationally acclaimed director of S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a survivor’s autobiography that confronts the evils of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship.
Rithy Panh was only thirteen years old when the Khmer Rouge expelled his family from Phnom Penh in 1975. In the months and years that followed, his entire... Read more >
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Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting
Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity
Written by Vijay Prashad
Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 18, 2002
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-5011-8 (0-8070-5011-3)
Selected as One of the Village Voice’s Favorite 25 Books of 2001
In this landmark work, historian Vijay Prashad refuses to engage the typical racial discussion that matches people of color against each other while institutionalizing the primacy of the white majority. Instead he examines more than five centuries of remarkable historical... Read more >
Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity
Written by Vijay Prashad
Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 18, 2002
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-5011-8 (0-8070-5011-3)
Selected as One of the Village Voice’s Favorite 25 Books of 2001
In this landmark work, historian Vijay Prashad refuses to engage the typical racial discussion that matches people of color against each other while institutionalizing the primacy of the white majority. Instead he examines more than five centuries of remarkable historical... Read more >
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To Uphold the World
A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India
Written by Bruce Rich
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: March 1, 2010
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0613-9 (0-8070-0613-0)
In 1991, Bruce Rich traveled to Orissa and gazed upon the rock edicts erected by the Indian emperor Ashoka over 2,200 years ago. Intrigued by the stone inscriptions that declared religious tolerance, conservation, nonviolence, species protection, and human rights, Rich was drawn into Ashoka’s world. Ashoka was a powerful conqueror who... Read more >
A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India
Written by Bruce Rich
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: March 1, 2010
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0613-9 (0-8070-0613-0)
In 1991, Bruce Rich traveled to Orissa and gazed upon the rock edicts erected by the Indian emperor Ashoka over 2,200 years ago. Intrigued by the stone inscriptions that declared religious tolerance, conservation, nonviolence, species protection, and human rights, Rich was drawn into Ashoka’s world. Ashoka was a powerful conqueror who... Read more >
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Fast Boat to China
High-Tech Outsourcing and the Consequences of Free Trade: Lessons from Shanghai
Written by Andrew Ross
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9554-4 (1-4000-9554-9)
Most Americans today are aware that jobs are being outsourced to China, India, and other nations at an alarming rate. From factory jobs to white-collar, high-tech positions, the exporting of labor is one of the most controversial issues in America.
Yet few people know much about the other end — about the... Read more >
High-Tech Outsourcing and the Consequences of Free Trade: Lessons from Shanghai
Written by Andrew Ross
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9554-4 (1-4000-9554-9)
Most Americans today are aware that jobs are being outsourced to China, India, and other nations at an alarming rate. From factory jobs to white-collar, high-tech positions, the exporting of labor is one of the most controversial issues in America.
Yet few people know much about the other end — about the... Read more >
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Orientalism
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 12, 1979
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-74067-6 (0-394-74067-X)
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Updated with a new Afterword in 1994. In this acclaimed and now-classic work, Said examines the way in which the West has discovered, invented, and sought to control the East. Orientalism is a subtle and far-reaching critique of the attitudes that the West has traditionally assumed... Read more >
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 12, 1979
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-74067-6 (0-394-74067-X)
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Updated with a new Afterword in 1994. In this acclaimed and now-classic work, Said examines the way in which the West has discovered, invented, and sought to control the East. Orientalism is a subtle and far-reaching critique of the attitudes that the West has traditionally assumed... Read more >
The China Reader
The Reform Era
Edited by Orville Schell and David Shambaugh
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76387-1 (0-679-76387-2)
Perhaps no nation in recent history has undergone as total a transformation as China has in the past twenty-five years. For Chinese leaders, the death of Mao Zedong, the rise of Deng Xiaoping, and unprecedented economic growth have spawned new complexities. For the country’s 1.3 billion citizens, changes have been equally... Read more >
The Reform Era
Edited by Orville Schell and David Shambaugh
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76387-1 (0-679-76387-2)
Perhaps no nation in recent history has undergone as total a transformation as China has in the past twenty-five years. For Chinese leaders, the death of Mao Zedong, the rise of Deng Xiaoping, and unprecedented economic growth have spawned new complexities. For the country’s 1.3 billion citizens, changes have been equally... Read more >
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Discos and Democracy
China in the Throes of Reform
Written by Orville Schell
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 22, 1989
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-26187-6 (0-385-26187-X)
In this arresting chronicle of one tumultuous year in China's love-hate relationship with the West, Orville Schell brings us a revealing analysis of the Chinese reform movement. Read more >
China in the Throes of Reform
Written by Orville Schell
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 22, 1989
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-26187-6 (0-385-26187-X)
In this arresting chronicle of one tumultuous year in China's love-hate relationship with the West, Orville Schell brings us a revealing analysis of the Chinese reform movement. Read more >
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From Heaven Lake
Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
Written by Vikram Seth
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 12, 1987
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-75218-1 (0-394-75218-X)
After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University, Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story of his remarkable journey. Read more >
Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
Written by Vikram Seth
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 12, 1987
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-75218-1 (0-394-75218-X)
After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University, Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story of his remarkable journey. Read more >
India Divided
Diversity and Democracy Under Attack
Written by Vandana Shiva
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: September 2, 2003
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-540-0 (1-58322-540-4)
In India Divided, environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world’s largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization, and charts the course of India’s war... Read more >
Diversity and Democracy Under Attack
Written by Vandana Shiva
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: September 2, 2003
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-540-0 (1-58322-540-4)
In India Divided, environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world’s largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization, and charts the course of India’s war... Read more >
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The Long March
The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
Written by Sun Shuyun
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27831-9 (0-307-27831-X)
In The Long March, Sun Shuyun uncovers the true story behind the mythic march of Mao's soldiers across China, exposing the famine, disease, and desertion behind the legend.
In 1934, in the midst of civil war, the Communist party and its 200,000 soldiers were forced from their bases by Chiang Kai-shek and... Read more >
The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
Written by Sun Shuyun
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27831-9 (0-307-27831-X)
In The Long March, Sun Shuyun uncovers the true story behind the mythic march of Mao's soldiers across China, exposing the famine, disease, and desertion behind the legend.
In 1934, in the midst of civil war, the Communist party and its 200,000 soldiers were forced from their bases by Chiang Kai-shek and... Read more >
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Emperor of China
Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi
Written by Jonathan D. Spence
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 22, 1988
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72074-4 (0-679-72074-X)
Spence offers a remarkable recreation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661 to 1772, assembled from contemporary documents. The result is an astonishing self-portrait, unmatched in the historical literature.
"For the first time in publishing history we non-scholars see the Emperor as a living man."--The New... Read more >
Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi
Written by Jonathan D. Spence
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 22, 1988
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72074-4 (0-679-72074-X)
Spence offers a remarkable recreation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661 to 1772, assembled from contemporary documents. The result is an astonishing self-portrait, unmatched in the historical literature.
"For the first time in publishing history we non-scholars see the Emperor as a living man."--The New... Read more >
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The Story of My Assassins
A Novel
Written by Tarun J. Tejpal
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-61219-162-1 (1-61219-162-2)
Based on actual events, The Story of My Assassins tells the story of a journalist who learns that the police have captured five hitmen on their way to kill him. Landing like a bombshell on his comfortable life, just as he’s started a steamy affair with a brilliant woman, the news... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Tarun J. Tejpal
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-61219-162-1 (1-61219-162-2)
Based on actual events, The Story of My Assassins tells the story of a journalist who learns that the police have captured five hitmen on their way to kill him. Landing like a bombshell on his comfortable life, just as he’s started a steamy affair with a brilliant woman, the news... Read more >
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China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc.
The Dynamics of a New Empire
Written by Willem Van Kemenade
Format: Trade Paperback, 476 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 30, 1998
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77756-4 (0-679-77756-3)
On the eve of June 30, Hong Kong was officially passed back to China. This event will mark what Willem van Kemenade sees as the start of an increasingly problematic -- and even dangerous -- reintegration of the old Chinese empire into a new world superpower. Since the early 1980s, investment... Read more >
The Dynamics of a New Empire
Written by Willem Van Kemenade
Format: Trade Paperback, 476 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 30, 1998
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77756-4 (0-679-77756-3)
On the eve of June 30, Hong Kong was officially passed back to China. This event will mark what Willem van Kemenade sees as the start of an increasingly problematic -- and even dangerous -- reintegration of the old Chinese empire into a new world superpower. Since the early 1980s, investment... Read more >
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The Enigma of Japanese Power
People and Politics in a Stateless Nation
Written by Karel Van Wolferen
Format: Trade Paperback, 524 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 10, 1990
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72802-3 (0-679-72802-3)
"The most forcefully and convincingly argued critique of Japan to appear...a learned study that encompasses Japanese political, economic and social life."--San Francisco Chronicle
"Never...have I read a single volume that provoked such a visceral response, or illuminated so many shadows in the Japanese political and social landscape...A groundbreaking work that will provide... Read more >
People and Politics in a Stateless Nation
Written by Karel Van Wolferen
Format: Trade Paperback, 524 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 10, 1990
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72802-3 (0-679-72802-3)
"The most forcefully and convincingly argued critique of Japan to appear...a learned study that encompasses Japanese political, economic and social life."--San Francisco Chronicle
"Never...have I read a single volume that provoked such a visceral response, or illuminated so many shadows in the Japanese political and social landscape...A groundbreaking work that will provide... Read more >
31 Days
Gerald Ford, the Nixon Pardon and A Government in Crisis
Written by Barry Werth
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7868-4 (1-4000-7868-7)
In 31 Days, acclaimed historian Barry Werth takes readers inside the White House during the tumultuous days of August 1974, following Richard Nixon's resignation and the swearing-in of America's "accidental president," Gerald Ford.
The Watergate scandal had torn the country apart. In a dramatic, day-by-day account of the new administration’s inner... Read more >
Gerald Ford, the Nixon Pardon and A Government in Crisis
Written by Barry Werth
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7868-4 (1-4000-7868-7)
In 31 Days, acclaimed historian Barry Werth takes readers inside the White House during the tumultuous days of August 1974, following Richard Nixon's resignation and the swearing-in of America's "accidental president," Gerald Ford.
The Watergate scandal had torn the country apart. In a dramatic, day-by-day account of the new administration’s inner... Read more >
Tokyo Underworld
The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
Written by Robert Whiting
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 26, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72489-3 (0-375-72489-3)
"A fascinating look at some fascinating people who show how democracy advances hand in hand with crime in Japan."--Mario Puzo
In this unorthodox chronicle of the rise of Japan, Inc., Robert Whiting, author of You Gotta Have Wa, gives us a fresh perspective on the economic miracle and near disaster that is... Read more >
The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
Written by Robert Whiting
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 26, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72489-3 (0-375-72489-3)
"A fascinating look at some fascinating people who show how democracy advances hand in hand with crime in Japan."--Mario Puzo
In this unorthodox chronicle of the rise of Japan, Inc., Robert Whiting, author of You Gotta Have Wa, gives us a fresh perspective on the economic miracle and near disaster that is... Read more >
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The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts
A Graphic Novel
Written by Sean Michael Wilson and Issai Chozanshi
Illustrated by Michiru Morikawa
Translated by William Scott Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-61180-021-0 (1-61180-021-8)
A graphic novel version of this classic collection of martial arts parables, written by Issai Chozanshi, an 18-century samurai, brings these tales alive in a captivating and accessible way. The stories, which feature demons, insects, birds, cats, and numerous other creatures, may seem whimsical, but they contain essential teachings that offer... Read more >
A Graphic Novel
Written by Sean Michael Wilson and Issai Chozanshi
Illustrated by Michiru Morikawa
Translated by William Scott Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-61180-021-0 (1-61180-021-8)
A graphic novel version of this classic collection of martial arts parables, written by Issai Chozanshi, an 18-century samurai, brings these tales alive in a captivating and accessible way. The stories, which feature demons, insects, birds, cats, and numerous other creatures, may seem whimsical, but they contain essential teachings that offer... Read more >
The Life-Giving Sword
Secret Teachings from the House of the Shogun
Written by Yagyu Munenori
Translated by William Scott Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-990-2 (1-59030-990-1)
The legendary seventeenth-century swordsman Yagyu Munenori was the sword instructor and military and political adviser to two shoguns–and was a rival to the great Miyamoto Musashi. Despite his martial ability and his political power, Munenori spent his life immersed in Zen teachings and practice. These teachings formed the framework for his... Read more >
Secret Teachings from the House of the Shogun
Written by Yagyu Munenori
Translated by William Scott Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-990-2 (1-59030-990-1)
The legendary seventeenth-century swordsman Yagyu Munenori was the sword instructor and military and political adviser to two shoguns–and was a rival to the great Miyamoto Musashi. Despite his martial ability and his political power, Munenori spent his life immersed in Zen teachings and practice. These teachings formed the framework for his... Read more >
Red China Blues
My Long March From Mao to Now
Written by Jan Wong
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 19, 1997
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-48232-5 (0-385-48232-9)
Jan Wong delivers an insider's view of the recent upheaval and reform in China. As one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University in 1972, she offers a startling and ironic memoir of her ill-fated six-year romance with Maoism, her dramatic firsthand account of the Tiannanmen Square uprising... Read more >
My Long March From Mao to Now
Written by Jan Wong
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 19, 1997
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-48232-5 (0-385-48232-9)
Jan Wong delivers an insider's view of the recent upheaval and reform in China. As one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University in 1972, she offers a startling and ironic memoir of her ill-fated six-year romance with Maoism, her dramatic firsthand account of the Tiannanmen Square uprising... Read more >
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China's Great Leap
The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights
Edited by Minky Worden
Photographed by Ladir Van Lohuizen
Introduction by Nicholas Kristof
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-843-2 (1-58322-843-8)
With contributions from some of the most well respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China’s Great Leap examines the People’s Republic of China as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games.
When Beijing first sought the Games, China was still recovering from the upheavals... Read more >
The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights
Edited by Minky Worden
Photographed by Ladir Van Lohuizen
Introduction by Nicholas Kristof
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-843-2 (1-58322-843-8)
With contributions from some of the most well respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China’s Great Leap examines the People’s Republic of China as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games.
When Beijing first sought the Games, China was still recovering from the upheavals... Read more >
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Hard Travel to Sacred Places
Written by Rudolph Wurlitzer
Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: September 11, 1995
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-57062-117-8 (1-57062-117-9)
Wurlitzer records a personal odyssey through Southeast Asia: he and his wife Lynn Davis confront heavy Westernization, sex clubs, aging hippies and expatriates, and political dissidents in vivid contrast to the peace they seek, reeling from the death of their son. As Davis, a photographer, searches with her camara for a... Read more >
Written by Rudolph Wurlitzer
Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: September 11, 1995
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-57062-117-8 (1-57062-117-9)
Wurlitzer records a personal odyssey through Southeast Asia: he and his wife Lynn Davis confront heavy Westernization, sex clubs, aging hippies and expatriates, and political dissidents in vivid contrast to the peace they seek, reeling from the death of their son. As Davis, a photographer, searches with her camara for a... Read more >
