Leftover Women

Leta Hong Fincher

• Paperback | Engels | Asian Arguments
• In the early years of the People's Republic, the Communist Party sought to transform gender relations. Yet those gains have been steadily eroded in Ch... Lees meer

China's Urban Billion

Tom Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Asian Arguments
• By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people - one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And... Lees meer

The Trouble with Taiwan

Kerry Brown, Kalley Wu Tzu Hui

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Arguments
• Taiwan is one of the great paradoxes of the international order. A place with its own flag, currency, government and military, but which most of the w... Lees meer

Thailand

Benjamin Zawacki

• Paperback | Engels | Asian Arguments
• Thailand was a key ally of the United States after WWII, serving as a bulwark against communism in Southeast Asia and as a base for US troops during t... Lees meer

China and the New Maoists

Kerry Brown, Simone Van Nieuwenhuizen

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Arguments
• Forty years after his death, Mao remains a totemic, if divisive, figure in contemporary China. Though he retains an immense symbolic importance within... Lees meer

Ghost Cities of China

Wade Shepard

• Paperback | Engels | Asian Arguments
• Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. ... Lees meer

Leftover Women

Leta Hong Fincher

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Arguments
• After the 1949 revolution in China, Chairman Mao famously proclaimed that "women hold up half the sky." In the early years of the People's Republic, t... Lees meer

Myanmar's Enemy Within

Francis Wade

• Paperback | Engels | Asian Arguments
• For decades Myanmar has been portrayed as a case of good citizen versus bad regime - men in jackboots maintaining a suffocating rule over a majority B... Lees meer

China's Urban Billion

Tom Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Arguments
• By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people - one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And... Lees meer

Leftover Women

Leta Hong Fincher

• Paperback | Engels | Asian Arguments
• A China Books Review Best China Book of 2023 Leta Hong Fincher's landmark book Leftover Women shone a light on the resurgence of gender inequality in ... Lees meer

Ghost Cities of China

Wade Shepard

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Arguments
• Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. ... Lees meer

Thailand's Hidden Workforce

Doctor Ruth Pearson, Kyoko Kusakabe

• Paperback | Engels | Asian Arguments
• Millions of Burmese women migrate into Thailand each year to form the basis of the Thai agricultural and manufacturing workforce. Un-documented and un... Lees meer

On the New Silk Road

Wade Shepard

• Paperback | Engels | Asian Arguments
• The Silk Road once served as the vital artery of the ancient world, connecting China to societies across Eurasia, while providing China with immense w... Lees meer

Ballot Box China

Kerry Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Asian Arguments
• Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 600,000 villages in China, with a... Lees meer

Who's Afraid of China?

Doctor Michael Barr

• Paperback | Engels | Asian Arguments
• If China suddenly democratised, would it cease being labelled as a threat? This provocative book argues that fears of China often say as much about th... Lees meer

North Korea

Paul French

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Arguments
• North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world's most secretive nuclear power, it still has Gulag-st... Lees meer

On the New Silk Road

Wade Shepard

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Arguments
• The Silk Road once served as the vital artery of the ancient world, connecting China to societies across Eurasia, while providing China with immense w... Lees meer

North Korea

Paul French

• Paperback | Engels | Asian Arguments
• North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world's most secretive nuclear power, it still has Gulag-st... Lees meer

Return of the Junta

Oliver Slow

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Arguments
• On the first day of February 2021, Myanmar's military grabbed power in a coup d'etat, ending a decade of reforms that were supposed to break the shack... Lees meer

Ballot Box China

Kerry Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Arguments
• Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 600,000 villages in China, with a... Lees meer

Thailand

Benjamin Zawacki

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Arguments
• Thailand was a key ally of the United States after WWII, serving as a bulwark against communism in Southeast Asia and as a base for US troops during t... Lees meer

China and the Environment

• Paperback | Engels | Asian Arguments
• Sixteen of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China. A serious water pollution incident occurs once every two-to-three days. China's breakneck... Lees meer

A Kingdom in Crisis

Andrew MacGregor Marshall

• Paperback | Engels | Asian Arguments
• 'Perhaps the best introduction yet to the roots of Thailand's present political impasse. A brilliant book.' Simon Long, The Economist Struggling to em... Lees meer

Myanmar's Enemy Within

Francis Wade

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Arguments
• For decades Myanmar has been portrayed as a case of good citizen versus bad regime - men in jackboots maintaining a suffocating rule over a majority B... Lees meer