History - Asia

"Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

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...and a hard rain fell: A GI's True Story of the War in Vietnam

In 100 Missions North, Ken Bell recounts the harrowing sorties that he and his comrades flew in F-105 Thunderchiefs, the famous "Thud", in 1966-67,...

The "intimate and expansive" (Time) memoir of "one of the most important artists working in the world today" (Financial Times), telling a remarkabl...

In Ai Weiweis widely anticipated memoir, "one of the most important artists working in the world today" (Financial Times) tells a century-long epi...

Its not easy to stay alive with a $1,000 bounty on your head. In 1967, a bullet cost thirteen cents, and no one gave Uncle Sam a bigger bang for hi...

A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynas...

On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute...

Based on 15 years of in-depth research, "1421" traces the voyages of an extraordinary fleet of Chinese ships who actually charted America 70 years ...

1421: The Year China Discovered America

The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the ro...

The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the...

"When we cross the border: no ID, and it's kiss yourself good-bye if Charlie gets ahold of you." In Vietnam, the Military Assistance Command's Stud...

In rediscovering these stories about our shared history, we learn who we were, who we are, and who we can be.Adventure can be uncovered in the most...

This is a superb book, one that answers many questions about a Chinese, past and present.

Around the middle of the nineteenth century, when the East India Company had consolidated its hold over the Indian subcontinent, a Chitpavan Brahmi...