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Geocultural Power China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century

Winter Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780226658353, ISBN: HB: 9780226658216, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 maps, 11 line drawings

Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of...

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Asia

People Next Door The Curious History of India's Relations with Pakistan

Raghavan T. C. A.

ISBN: HB: 9781787380196, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book traces the seven decades of the India-Pakistan relationship since the bloody partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Events, anecdotes and personalities drive its narrative to illustrate the cocktail of hostility, nati...

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Political Science

Costliest Pearl China's Struggle for India's Ocean

Lintner Bertil

ISBN: HB: 9781849049962, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Yet, until now, China has been absent from the region since Admiral Zheng He...

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Women Studies

Asia

Dangerous Outcast The Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Banerjee Sumanta

ISBN: PB: 9780857426154, Seagull Books, September 2019
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Dangerous Outcast" traces prostitution in Bengal from precolonial times through the arrival of the British, examining how the profession was reordered to suit British desires. Drawing on nineteenth-century popular and folk culture, Sumanta Banerjee...

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Culture Studies

Parlour and the Street Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta

Banerjee Sumanta

ISBN: PB: 9780857426178, Seagull Books, September 2019
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this book, Sumanta Banerjee analyzes the development of the folk culture of Calcutta's urban poor following the establishment of the British colonial system in Bengal. Consisting primarily of traditional artisans who migrated from neighboring vill...

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Culture Studies

Past as Present Forging Contemporary Identities Through History

Thapar Romila

ISBN: HB: 9780857426444, Seagull Books, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Nations need identities. These are created from perceptions of how societies have evolved. In this, history plays a central role. Insisting on reliable history is therefore crucial to more than just a pedagogic cause. Delicate relationships between...

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Political Science

Red Flags Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy

Magnus George

ISBN: PB: 9780300246636, Yale University Press, August 2019
248 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

<p>Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious challenges. In this critical take on China's future, economist George Magnus explores four key traps that Chin...

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Down and Out in Saigon Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City

Cherry Haydon

ISBN: PB: 9780300218251, Yale University Press, July 2019
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor of colonial French Saigon by following the lives of six individuals – a prostitute, a Chinese laborer, a rickshaw puller, an orphan, an incurable invalid, and a p...

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Asia

Contested Territory Dien Bien Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam

Lentz Christian C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300233957, Yale University Press, June 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The definitive account of one of the most important battles of the twentieth century, and the Black River borderlands' transformation into Northwest Vietnam Historians regard the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 as the conflict that toppled the French...

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Cartography

Asia

Selden Map of China A New Understanding of the Ming Dynasty

Hongping Annie

ISBN: HB: 9781851245246, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2019
96 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 40 colour illus.

Dating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popular conceptions of the time, looking not inward to the Asian landmass but outward to the sea. Discovered in the s...

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