Takes the reader from the earliest written accounts to the present in vivid portraits. The empress Masako is there, and presumably princess Murasaki Shikibu, whose diary is not only fascinating but about ten times shorter than ‘The Tale of Genji’.
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
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A superb account of how European imperialism in Asia was undermined by a network of ingenious radicals, who used printing presses, global travel and the colonisers' languages to spread their... read more
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The Travels
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The author has been travelling in China for 30 years. This is her first book, and it is a compelling portrait of the country's culture and its recent mutations.
The Colour of the Sky After Rain
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Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain’s Asian Empire
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