One hundred and forty years before Russians invaded Afghanistan in 1979, causing an outcry of protest from the West. The British had marched into Kabul and put their puppet king on the throne. The years which followed saw three wars, countless skirmishes and thousands of deaths - but the Pathans, or Pushtuns, and their fellow tribesmen of the NorthWest Frontier, remained undefeated. Pushtun…
After receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, the Bengali poet-philosopher Raabindranath Tagore embarked on a series of lecture tours of Japan, China, and his native India. Tagore was convinced that a unique spirituality unified Asia and he attempted, un-successtully, to persuade Chinese and Japanese intellectuals to join India in realizing a common civilization. Although Tagore faile…
The second volume of Sarvepalli Gopal's unique work covers the first nine years of Nehru's prime ministership. Like the first volume, it is more than a biography, describing and analyzing in detail both domestic and foreign issues of the period: the struggle between India and Pakistan for Kashmir, the first elections of free India based on adult suffrage, Korea, the Suez crisis, the invasion of…
For all the world China is a great and important country. The Peking government controls the greatest population in the world and one of the largest areas of land China in this Century links the events of recent years in China with the debates of the present and the problems of the future. In the three quarters of a century since 1900 the people of China have been ruled by emperors, warlords, r…
By retracing the path, interviewing the survivors, and studying the archives, Salisbury chronicles the two-thousand-mile escape march from Chiang Kai-Shek in 1932 that marked the beginning of Chinese communism's rise to power under Mao Zedong.
This pictorial book presents a collection of photographic images showcasing the natural landscapes of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Published in Pyongyang in 1992, the volume highlights mountains, rivers, seasonal scenery, and notable natural sites throughout the country. The book aims to provide visual appreciation of Korea’s natural beauty through high-quality landscape photo…
From the first outbreak of hostilities in northern China in 1937 to the Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in 1945, this book recreates the decade of upheaval when China was caught in the grip of revolution and war and torn from its feudal past. The authors, Time-Life correspondents during the war years, report firsthand on the rise and fall of the Kuomintang nationalist government a…
This book is divided into four parts, following the course of China's social development. The first part looks back at how New China was founded, covering mainly the period from October 1949 to December 1956. The second part describes political and economic issues between January 1957 and April 1966. The third part gives an overall, systematic and accurate description of the ten-year "cultural…
This pictorial volume presents an illustrated overview of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Published by Korea Pictorial in Pyongyang, the book features photographs and narrative descriptions that highlight the country’s historical milestones, social development, and national achievements. It visually documents major events, cultural identity…
This book presents an account of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as observed by journalist Ishikawa Sho. Published in 1988 by the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Pyongyang, the work describes the social, political, and ideological landscape of North Korea, focusing particularly on the Juche ideology and its influence on the country’s development. Through the author’s persp…