An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire. By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China...

An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures. Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years,...

A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present. Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship...

This revelatory book shows how the influential and controversial Empress Dowager Cixi used art and architecture to establish her authority Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), who ruled China from 1861 until her death in 1908, is a subject of fascinati...

A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent. The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it sa...

A timely look at the impact of China's booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia. Today, Southeast Asia stands uniquely exposed to the waxing power of the new China. Three of its nations border China and five are directly impacted by its...

In this compelling and highly-readable account, Hayton shows how China's present-day geopolitical problems – the fates of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea – were born in the struggle to create a modern nation-state. He brin...

This book is a multidisciplinary study of the ecology of China's early political systems up to the fall of the first empire in 207 BCE. Brian Lander traces the formation of lowland North China's agricultural systems and the transformation of its plai...

The India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir is one of the world's incendiary conflicts. Since 1990, at least 60,000 people have been killed – insurgents, civilians, and military and police personnel. In 2019, the conflict entered a dangerous new phase. I...

Tracing the social and bureaucratic life of organic quality, this book yields new understandings of this fraught concept. Shaila Seshia Galvin examines certified organic agriculture in India's central Himalayas, revealing how organic is less a materi...