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In this stirring memoir, a preeminent politician and diplomat traces the transformation of the Republic of Singapore from a poor colony into an Asian powerhouse.

「古典の女神」と名高い人気講師岡本先生が、まるで清少納言と「ガールズトーク」をしているかのように『枕草子』を超訳＆解説！千年前の宮廷生活の色や匂い、笑い声、生々しい息づかいを思う存分、味わってください！

From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott comes the compelling account of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm’s length from any organized state society.

In Swimming to Freedom, Kent Wong captures his childhood amidst revolutionary times, where boyish adventures and school days mixed with dire poverty and political persecution. Mao’s Hundred Flower Campaign had ensnared Kent’s father. A decade later, the Cultural Revolution closed schools, plunged the country into chaos, and scattered Kent and his sisters to disparate villages, where they struggled to eke out a bare existence.

The rise of China and its great power competition with the U.S. will be one of the defining issues of our generation. But to understand modern China, one has to understand the people who live there–and the way the Chinese state is trying to control them along lines of identity and free expression. In vivid, cinematic detail, Let Only Red Flowers Bloom tells the stories of nearly two dozen people who are pushing back.

When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao’s Communists won and took China’s mainland; Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan island. Since then, China and Taiwan have drifted into being separate political and cultural entities. Taiwan is now a flourishing democracy and an economic success story: just one of its companies produces over 90 per cent of the semiconductors that power the world’s economy. It is a free and vibrant society.

Robert Howard grew up in poverty in a small town in Alabama, with a strong sense of faith and determination. When he enlisted in the army at age seventeen, his Granny Callie’s words echoed in his head, and he pledged to follow them to the bitter end. In the most dire of combat experiences, Howard ran directly toward his opponents, sacrificing his body to protect others and to complete the mission above all else. Time and time again, he survived battles that should have claimed his life, suffering countless bullets, a spinal injury, and shrapnel and blast wounds.

With unparalleled access to Taiwan’s political leaders and a deep understanding of the island’s history and culture, Professor Kerry Brown provides an updated reading of Taiwan, its twenty-three million people, and how they navigate being caught in this frightening geopolitical standoff. This is the essential book delving into Taiwan’s unique story, buried beneath the headlines, told in an accessible, expert and urgent way.

日本とはこんな国だったのか日本人の行動原理はここにあったのかあなたの知っている日本の歴史がひっくり返る！

In the closing months of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Japanese, mostly civilians, died. American planes were beginning to run low on plausible targets when it was decided to use two atomic weapons in a final flourish to try to end the war. Richard Overy’s remarkable book rethinks how we should regard this last stage of the war and the role of the bombs. The popular view that bombing worked in this case has now to be set in a broader context of what was happening in Japan in the months before surrender. The easy equation ‘bombing equals surrender’ is no longer viable.

昭和天皇と側近たちとの詳細なやり取りを記録した「昭和天皇拝謁記」．貴重な史料からは，政局や社会情勢，戦争について饒舌に語る昭和天皇の等身大の姿が浮かび上がる．

民を大切な宝物として考え、その安寧を祈る「大御宝」の思想。神武天皇即位の詔に示され、歴代天皇の責務とされてきた理念が日本の歴史を支えていた！

'Chinese' or 'Any other Asian'. The boxes that people of vastly varied East and South East Asian heritage have to tick when declaring their ethnicity on many forms in the UK. For the first time, author Anna Sulan Masing addresses these issues in a comprehensive way. She explores what it means to be East and South East Asian in Britain today, and celebrates the multiple elements and varied experiences that make up ESEA identity. Powerful, moving and illuminating, this will be a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the make-up of our multicultural society.

Following the war in Ukraine, all eyes have turned to Taiwan as the next possible geopolitical tinderbox. Yet while it lies at the epicentre of China and the USA's tense relationship, its story and its people go overlooked and misunderstood. In Ghost Nation, leading journalist Chris Horton will uncover why this disputed country has become so critical to the world's future.

続々重版! 売れてます!!【頭のいい人は歴史に学ぶ！】●歴史人物２６人の「成功と失敗」の教訓【人】【モノ】【お金】【情報】【目標】【健康】

三世紀から六世紀の日本列島で造られた，おびただしい数の古墳．人びとはなぜ，憑かれたようにそれらを造ったのだろうか．考古学研究の第一人者が，中国，朝鮮半島の葬制からの影響も視野に入れつつ，古墳の宗教的，社会的役割を考察．

薄いけれども本格派。文響社が放つ、新教養シリーズ第1弾。戦国時代の花形ともいえる30人の武将に焦点をあて、１日につき１人の武将について読み進めることで、戦国時代（室町時代後期）から江戸時代初期についての理解が進む一冊です。

・曹操、劉備、諸葛亮、孫権……魅力あふれる登場人物・仙人から占い師、神医まで、異能の力を発揮する名脇役・乱世を招いた悪人や好敵手、敗れてなお歴史に名を残す群雄・主要人物の側にいた物語を彩る女性たち