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The Other Great Game

The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia

Sheila Miyoshi Jager

“A monumental achievement. Recounting the story of China’s decline in East Asia, Jager provides a definitive reference for the diplomatic machinations of the great-power conflict in the late nineteenth century. This is narrative historical writing at its best.”

— Michael Robinson, author of Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey

May 2023 Belknap Press

592 pp. $39.95 • North America only cloth 9780674983397

NEW Guru to the World The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda

Ruth Harris

★ A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year

“Vivekananda was many things to many people . . . It’s not just any biographer who can do justice to such a complex life. He’s fortunate to have found a perfect interpreter in Ruth Harris.”

— Benjamin Moser, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Sontag

Belknap Press 560 pp.

$39.95 • £34.95 cloth 9780674247475

Never Turn Back China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s

Julian Gewirtz

★ A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year

“A richly researched addition to this literature, enhanced by access to internal Chinese documents and interviews with former officials and intellectuals active at the time.”

— The Economist

“A delectable rehabilitation of a momentous decade.”

New Republic

Belknap Press 432 pp.

$32.95 • £28.95 cloth

9780674241848

The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World

Eri Hotta

★ A New Yorker Best Book of the Year

“Hotta takes on the life story of the man who made the mini-masters . . . The S uzuki story turns out to be a fascinating study in the hybrid nature of human culture, tracing a remarkable cross-century triple play— European music to Japanese discipline, ending with a putout at a first base manned by mad American parental ambition.”

New Yorker

Belknap Press 272 pp.

$29.95 • £26.95 cloth

9780674238237