Titres dans Asie

B.R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. It offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. Arundhati Roy introduces this extensively annotated edition in "The Doctor and the Saint", examining the persistence of caste in modern India and how the conflict between Ambedkar and Gandhi continues to resonate.

Pol Pot was a Cambodian political leader and revolutionary who worked as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 till 1979. He was a key member of Cambodia's communist party, the Khmer Rouge, from 1963 to 1997, and acted as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from 1963 to 1981. He was a Marxist-Leninist and a Khmer nationalist. Cambodia was changed into a one-party communist state under his management, and the Cambodian genocide happened.

This complete edition spans 2,400 years (431 BCE–1944) in 40 hours, 155 speeches, and 52 speakers, including foundational addresses by Gandhi and Mao—voices that shaped modern Asia. Begin in 431 BCE with Demosthenes, whose structural genius remains the DNA of modern expression. Traverse Athens’ zenith via Pericles’ Funeral Oration, Alexander’s volatile proclamations, and Rome’s crisis in Cicero’s showdown with Cataline—featuring Caesar’s sole surviving senate address and Mark Antony’s incendiary eulogy.

The military general who became Emperor Hirohito’s prime minister, Tojo Hideki is most often remembered as an iron-fisted leader who dragged Japan into World War II and—after spectacular losses—was eventually executed as a war criminal. Yet Tojo was far more than his ignominious end. In...

This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, "a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened - muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox."

The unsung story of heroic World War II combat nurses sent into the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa to save thousands of American soldiers and Marines The Pacific Theater was the setting for some of World War II’s bloodiest battles, and yet much of its history remains untold. As the war in...

A kaleidoscopic history of Hong Kong, revealing how the city continues to shape China, Asia, and the world to this day. In 1841, Britain claimed a sparsely populated island on China’s southern coast as its own. In Lion Rock, historian Robert Bickers narrates Hong Kong’s stunning...

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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. An army deep in enemy land. The water is gone. Soldiers are collapsing under a burning sun, and the general has not a single drop to give. Turn back, and he loses everything. Stop, and the enemy closes in. So he does something no leader is supposed to...

【精读中国历史，启迪商场智慧】 立足正史，现代阐释。溯本清源，守正创新。 比小说还精彩的正说中国历史。 从细微处沉浸式感受泱泱中华的文化底蕴！ 忠于原著，丰富史料；以史为鉴，启迪人生！...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You owe a debt you can't repay. The man you owe is more powerful than you—and he's invited you to dinner on his own ground, surrounded by his men. Everyone knows it's a trap. So what do you do? Eighteen hundred years ago, the warrior Guan Yu faced...

Аудиокнига британского историка Роджера Кроули — это яркое повествование о непримиримой борьбе за контроль над торговлей пряностями в XVI веке. Автор увлекательно рассказывает о том, как амбиции португальских и испанских мореплавателей, в частности Васко да Гамы и Магеллана, а также местных правителей, привели к масштабным столкновениям между главными морскими державами и геополитическим сдвигам. Основная идея книги заключается в том, что именно битва за пряности, казалось бы, не самый важный товар, послужила катализатором становления современной мировой экономической и политической системы.

東南アジアの地で西欧列強の波に抗い、700年にわたり独自の独立と秩序を守り抜いた王権と仏教の壮大な歴史ドラマがここにあります。朝の通勤電車の中や静かな夜の知的探求の時間に、単なる観光地という表層を越えた...

絢爛たる古代中国の繁栄と、巨大帝国を内側から蝕む権力の腐敗という歴史の壮大な対立軸を通して、四百年にわたる熱狂の人間ドラマと国家の興亡を鮮やかに描き出します。通勤中や夜の静かなリラックスタイムに耳を...

This Kind of War is a monumental study of the conflict that began in June 1950. Successive generations of U.S. military officers have considered this book an indispensable part of their education. T. R. Fehrenbach's narrative brings to life the harrowing and bloody battles that were fought up and down the Korean Peninsula.

Bushido: The Soul of Japan is a seminal study on the way of the samurai by the Japanese educator Inazo Nitobe. From 1868, the beginning of the Meiji Era, Japan rapidly transformed itself from an isolated feudal society into a modern, industrialised nation state, influenced by Western philosophical and scientific ideas. Nitobe wrote Bushido in English to explain the samurai way to a western audience; it was later translated into Japanese.

The staggering story of the most important Chinese political dissident of the Mao era, a devout Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the regime Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in 1960 and executed eight...

From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water has been so integral to China's culture, economy, and growth and development that it provides a window on the whole sweep of Chinese history. In The Water Kingdom, renowned writer Philip Ball opens that window to offer an epic and powerful new way of thinking about Chinese civilization. Water, Ball shows, is a key that unlocks much of Chinese culture.

Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China.

Here is a bold new history of economics, the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigorous social science without peer.