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PENGUIN GLOBAL • HISTORY/PHOTOGRAPHY • NONFICTION 18 Shanghai A History in Photographs, 1842–Today Liu Heung Shing and Karen Smith Shanghai traces the story of the most modern of China’s cities, through evocative, beautiful and sometimes painful images. In 1842, the signing of the ignominious Treaty of Nanking turned a small riverside stop-off into a bustling treaty port. Over the near-170 years that followed, Shanghai was shaped and defined by outside forces, from the foreign concessions and Japanese occupiers through to the arrival of the Communists and the cult of Mao. The story told through the pages of Shanghai is both grand in scale, and domestic in tone. Photographs depict families living under the cloud of war, enjoying the fine life accorded by a booming international trade (as much in pictures of the 19th century as today), and suffering the inequalities of poverty. Time moves on and fashions change, but above all else, it is the humanity of the city of Shanghai shines through in this spectacular and sweeping history. 978-0-670-08090-8 • $50.00 • 500 pp • 10 x 13 1/2 • History/Photography • Paperback Penguin Australia • Available Now The Big Bookshelf Sunil Sethi in Conversation with 30 Famous Authors Sunil Sethi Famous writers are often reticent about how and why they write, how their ideas and themes develop or how their characters and plots emerge. They can be equally reserved about their personal histories. But in the hands of seasoned journalist and skilful interviewer Sunil Sethi, they open up in unexpected and fascinating ways. In this selection of thirty of his best interviews from Just Books, they speak freely and frankly about their craft, their life stories and the nature of their creative impulse. 978-0-14-341629-6 • $22.00 • 264 pp • 6 x 9 • Nonfiction • Flexi Paperback Penguin India • Available April 24, 2012 The Rule of Law Tom Bingham Winner of the 2011 Orwell Prize for Political Writing “The Rule of Law” is a phrase much used but little examined. The idea of the rule of law as the foundation of modern states and civilisations has recently become even more talismanic than that of democracy, but what does it actually consist of? In this brilliant short book, Britain’s former senior law lord, and one of the world’s most acute legal minds, examines what the idea actually means. He makes clear that the rule of law is not an arid legal doctrine but is the foundation of a fair and just society, is a guarantee of responsible government, is an important contribution to economic growth and offers the best means yet devised for securing peace and cooperation. 978-0-14-103453-9 • $9.99 • 224 pp • 5 x 7 3/4 • Nonfiction • Paperback Penguin UK • Available Now Jock of the Bushveld J. Percy FitzPatrick “Hunting stories, like traveller’s tales, are proverbially dangerous to reputations, however literally true they may be...” So wrote J. Percy FitzPatrick of his perennial best-seller, never out of print in the century since its first publication. Here is the story of the “Boy” who went to seek his fortune and of his bull-terrier, the plucky runt of the litter; of Marokela, the champion Zulu haulier; of Jantje, the Bushman with all his lore; and of pioneer types from previous goldrushes in California and Australia. A tribute to the life of the 1880s in the outposts of the agrarian Transvaal, this complete edition includes for the first time the author’s “Postscript” and “The Creed of Jock”. 978-0-14-318550-5 • $20.00 • 416 pp • 5 x 7 3/4 • Nonfiction • Paperback Penguin South Africa • Available April 24, 2012
The Scramble for China Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 Robert Bickers In the early 19th century, China remained almost untouched by Britain and other European powers— ferocious laws forbade all trade with the West outside one tiny area of Canton. But as new technology began to unbalance the relationship, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. Would the Chinese suffer the fate of much of the rest of the world, carved into pieces by the Europeans? Or could they adapt rapidly enough to maintain their independence? Humiliated by military disaster, racked by rebellions that cost millions of lives, and ultimately invaded during the Boxer Rebellion by thousands of foreign soldiers, it looked as though the colonial Scramble for Africa was about to be followed by the Scramble for China. This extraordinary new book tells this epic story both from the European (mainly British) point of view and the Chinese. The degradation of China in this period is crucially important to understanding China today, whose government and people are steeped in stories of this terrible time and never wish to appear weak again. The Scramble for China is both highly original and brilliantly written—it reimagines these encounters between two equally arrogant and scornful civilizations and is an epic of squalor, romance, brutality, and exoticism. 978-0713-99749-1 • $45.00 • 512 pp • 6 x 9 • History • Hardcover Penguin UK • Available Now In the Words of Nelson Mandela Postcards Jenny Crwys-Williams Packed in a beautiful silver tin, Penguin’s stylish postcard collection features quotes from one of Penguin Books South Africa’s most timeless publications. This tin contains 20 assorted postcards—to mail to friends or to keep. 978-0-14-352750-3 • $25.00 • 20 cards per tin • 4 x 6 • Nonfiction Penguin South Africa • Available April 24, 2012 The South African Story with Archbishop Desmond Tutu Roger Friedman and Benny Gool Who better to show us around South Africa than Desmond Tutu? The Nobel Laureate may be an international icon, but he is first and foremost a passionate South African. As he guides us through this astonishing country, he reflects on the history, culture and politics of South Africa, past and present, conveying a sense of pride at his people’s achievements and carrying a message of hope for the future. 978-0-14-352814-2 • $35.00 • 160 pp • 9 3/4 x 9 1/4 • Nonfiction • Hardcover Penguin South Africa • Available April 24, 2012 PENGUIN GLOBAL • HISTORY • NONFICTION 19
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