China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties

6 best books like China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (Mark Edward Lewis): Use of Weapons, Arabian Nights and Days, Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276, The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited!, Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia

Use of Weapons

Author

Iain M. Banks

Prologue

Stars were barely visible through the tiny oval. The reader looked up from his novel, blinked. Checked his watch -- still hours to go. His wife sat slumped next to him, still asleep. Some people could sleep on planes. Some people couldn't.

"What are you reading?" asked the...

Arabian Nights and Days

Author	Naguib Mahfouz
ISBN	0385469012

I decided a month or so ago to read some books by Arab authors. I was hoping to find the longing and the loneliness, the need for love and for useful work that we all share as human beings. I hoped that I would find in Arab authors kindred souls to help me bridge the sense of separation that I felt with my Muslim...

Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276

Author	Jacques Gernet
ISBN	0804707200

This is one of my earliest and most valuable finds, an excellent resource for the study and/or reenactment of the period. The first several chapters detail city life, social classes, housing, cooking and personal grooming. The later chapters cover the broader subjects of life cycle (birth, marriage...

The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited!

Author	Clint McElroy
ISBN	1250153719

In the second Adventure Zone graphic novel (adapted from the McElroy family's wildly popular D&D podcast), we rejoin hero-adjacent sort-of-comrades-in-arms Taako, Magnus, and Merle on a wild careen through a D&D railroad murder mystery. This installment has a little of everything: a...

Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II

Author	Robert Leckie
ISBN	0140173897

Penguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries. Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion of Okinawa, the closing battle of World War II. Leckie is a skilled military historian, mixing battle...

China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia

Author

Peter C. Perdue

Additional. I knew I didn't do justice to this book. I'm on page 18 of a second read and have no notion why I didn't five-star this. Fixed.

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I'm giving this a second read.
He argues for 'human agency' in history, and feels that previous history, of the steppe and China -- specific to...