Between 1931 and 1937, Nationalist China was caught between Japanese imperial expansion and the unpredictable intentions of the Soviet Union, facing an increasingly hostile external environment. This book reconstructs how China navigated this precarious situation through a sophisticated strategy known as 'dual-track diplomacy'.While seeking to delay a full-scale war by accommodating Japan, Chiang Kai-shek endeavoured to improve relations with the Soviet Union as a potential counter...

‘Profoundly generous and humane’ DOUGLAS STUART‘Engrossing … brilliantly imagined’ COLM TÓIBÍN‘Breathtaking … I adored it’ ELIF SHAFAK‘A must-read’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPINGMin Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of Pachinko, returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with personal dreams and familial duty.John and Helen ...

A critical engagement with and interrogation of the dominant tropes of racial violenceThis volume brings together a diverse cohort of contributors working to trace the genealogies, geographies, and the entanglements of anti-Asian violence. Representing a range of critical perspectives, these essays—a collection of works by scholars, students, and community organizers—open up lines of inquiry that unsettle the taken-for-granted framings of anti-Asian violence as sim...

Take Your Ministry Beyond Cultural Competence to Cultural FluencyIn Thriving Intercultural Ministry, specialist Pablo Kim Sun draws on years of intercultural ministry experience to guide churches and ministries beyond multicultural good intentions to genuine intercultural transformation. He offers a trauma-informed, embodied approach, addressing how cultural displacement and discrimination live in bodies and systems across generations, and how intercultura...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS), as an interventive neurosurgical procedure, has now advanced beyond the treatment of movement disorders and now covers epilepsy, pain, and psychiatric disorders, too. Additionally, a better understanding of feedback-loop systems has led to the development of closed-loop devices such as the Medtronic Percept, which can measure electrophysiologic signals. Implementing these novel technologies will no doubt lead to further advances in our ability to help patients...

The Wisdom of World Religions on Death—A Cross-Civilizational Dialogue on Life, Seeking Answers to Death and the Meaning of Human ExistenceDeath is the common destination of every human being; yet how we face death determines how we live.From ancient times to the present, humanity has continued to ask the same questions:Is death the end?Why are human beings afraid of death?How do we continue living after losi...

SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERDear Leader contains astonishing new insights about North Korea which could only be revealed by someone working high up in the regime. It is also the gripping story of how a member of the inner circle of this enigmatic country became its most courageous, outspoken critic.Jang Jin-sung held one of the most senior ranks in North Korea's propaganda machine, helping tighten the regime's grip over its people. Among his task...

Timely, urgent, and wholly authentic, Running Away gathers a chorus of migrant voices to document a desperate journey toward freedom.Vivid, honest, and boldly resilient, Ha Jin’s latest poetry collection, Running Away, adopts a chorus of narrative voices to tell stories of desperate migration. Poems appear as interviews and confessions, and as a catalogue of departures—journeys that feel “like coming back from death.” These poems survive. Often fo...

When the company where he's worked for thirty years threatens layoffs, a mid-level IT manager faces financial ruin. Tasked with selling internet services in the countryside, he confronts the harsh realities of corporate life and must choose between staying in a broken system or dismantling it.Employee No. 9, a middle-aged middle manager, is in trouble. His son is off to college, his wife has taken double shifts at a local grocery store, and now the company where he...

THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD."Jin Yong's work, in the Chinese-speaking world, has a cultural currency roughly equal to that of "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars" combined" Nick Frisch, New Yorker"Like every fairy tale you're ever loved, imbued with jokes and epic grandeur. Prepa...

Pre-order the bestselling Korean romance, now in English for the first time!Hwihyeon has one goal: move from Korea to California to focus on her studies, and let nothing get in the way.But when a housing mix-up leaves her sharing a house with Eden — kind, laid-back, and frustratingly handsome — her carefully laid plans begin to unravel. Over dinner one evening, Hwihyeon collapses. At the hospital, doctors deliver a diagnosis she never saw c...

Walking Dead meets Attack on Titan in this post-apocalyptic YA graphic novel about a world overrun by nightmarish, parasitic giants, and the extreme lengths humans must take to fight them.The world belongs to the dead now.Long ago, humanity thrived and the earth was populated by eight billion people. But then came the manticore: giants with insatiable hunger who feed by assimilating corpses into their body. These giants were once ordinary ...