Asia

From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight backOver a lifetime spent...

The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to...

POLITICIAN • PRISONER • PARENTA portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for democracyin Myanmar, is...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021 What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded...

With Jason Y. Ng, introduction by Ai WeiweiThe must read book for anyone who cares about Hong Kong and democracy. At what point do you stand up to power?When he...

The Feminist Awakening in China How the Feminist Five and the rise of China's feminist movement are challenging China's authoritarian government On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015,...

The Last Years of the LTTE De-Facto State Little is known about the Tamil liberation cause and struggle, as it has been widely dismissed by global powers of all persuasions...

A New World DisorderAs the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s...

A Political BiographyIn 2014, Joko Widodo — popularly known as Jokowi — was elected the seventh president of the Republic of Indonesia, going on to win a second five-year term...

Nationalism and the Fate of DemocracyThere are over a billion Indians alive today. But are some more Indian than others?To answer this question, one that is central to the identity...

The second psychological thriller from Trisha Sakhlecha, author of Your Truth or Mine? In politics there is always someone determined to reveal past secrets, and now a young Indian minister...

The Paradoxes of Chinese StruggleA major new contribution to the study of China's revolutions and counterrevolutions over the past century.Over recent decades China has experienced massive change and development. China...

**New York Times bestseller** A Guardian / Observer Book of the Year When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult...

Economic Possibilities from a Global PerspectiveHong Kong is a dynamic city. But the contrast between the well-off and the poor is stark. In the 1980s and 1990s, and to a...

Life as Dr Mahathir's DaughterThis is Marina Mahathir's story, from her perspective and no one else's. It is, she hopes, the answer to the question — What is it like...

How we lose it and how we fight back This urgent manifesto from a Nobel Peace Prize nominee argues that until all of us are free, none of us are....

A progressive's political journey in the heart of Southeast Asia A passionate account about the coming of age of a young Malaysian politician Malaysian Son is the story of Nik...

The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy The twenty-first century's great geopolitical contest has begun. A major trade war has broken out. American and Chinese naval vessels are having close encounters...

The Rebellion for Democracy in South KoreaThe essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellion.On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to...

The first book from a former intelligence community insiderThe mysterious, brutal, and calculating Kim Jong Un has risen to become the unchallenged dictator of a nuclear rogue state. He now...

Dispossession and Defiance in Hong KongAn award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious...

Inequality, Environmental Destruction, and Imagining Poverty in the 21st CenturyA critical reflection on the power of moviemaking to shape our collective imagination of better futuresThrough a close analysis of more...

With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time'Azadi!' — Urdu for 'freedom' — is the...

Singapore and the Invention of Modern AsiaLion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore — the world's most successful city state.In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par...

An Indonesian Experience War on Corruption: An Indonesian Experience is a courageous, informed, and sober insider's account of the challenge for democracy and the rule of law within the fourth...

A New History of Revolution and Empire WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE...

One of the most acclaimed essayists writing today on the political hysteria plaguing the West Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria ranging from imperial...

Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and the Superpower Future of Chinashatters the many myths and caricatures that shroud one of the world's most secretive political organisations and...

From the acclaimed author of Immigrant, Montana comes a one-of-a-kind novel about memory, politics, a world of lies, and the ways in which truth can be not only stranger than...

An Imprisoned Writer SpeaksIn Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in re-education camps. One of the incarcerated — whose sentence,...