2015 | Asian History Books

A Civilized Woman: M. L. Boonlua Debhayasuwan and the Thai Twentieth Century

March 22, 2015

Boonlua Debhayasuwan was born into a noble Siamese family in 1911 and not only witnessed but participated in the great events of her century. Boonlua became one of the first Thai women to earn a university degree. As an official in the Ministry of Education, she worked to improve and represent Thailand at education conferences. […]
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam

March 22, 2015

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam. Tapping newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations, Fredrik Logevall […]
Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

March 22, 2015

Written with the same brilliance and boldness that made Buddhism Without Beliefs a classic in its field, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist is Stephen Batchelor’s account of his journey through Buddhism, which culminates in a groundbreaking new portrait of the historical Buddha. Stephen Batchelor grew up outside London and came of age in the 1960s. […]
Borrowed Place, Borrowed Time: Hong Kong and Its Many Faces

March 22, 2015

No description available. Sale Price:$39.99 0233966986
Contract Law in Hong Kong : Introductory Guide: An Introductory Guide

March 22, 2015

This book presents an introduction to contract principles. Contracts affect everyone, from simple daily activities as buying groceries to more complicated and formal agreements such as renovation. Sale Price:$17.16 9888028588
The Quest of Noel Croucher: Hong Kong’s Quiet Philanthropist

March 22, 2015

Noel Croucher was a legend in his own time – a raconteur, yet a recluse, conventional yet eccentric, extremely rich yet mean to himself. Sale Price:$4,896.01 9622094732
Imelda, Steel Butterfly of the Philippines

March 22, 2015

A major biography by a Pulitzer Price-winning writer of one of the most complex and fascinating women of our time.Book description:”Katherine Ellison has a reporter’s zeal for finding the story within the story. Her book is full of surprises.” David Haward Bain, author of Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines.”The research here is superb, […]
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

March 22, 2015

In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia’s medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds–remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic, they were long assumed […]
Queer Bangkok: 21st Century Markets, Media, and Rights (Queer Asia)

March 22, 2015

This book analyses the roles of the market and media — especially cinema and the Internet — in these transformations, and considers the ambiguous consequences that the growing commodification and mediatisation of queer lives have had for LGBT rights in Thailand. A key finding is that in the early 21st Century processes of global queering […]
Shrapnel in the Heart: Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

March 22, 2015

For the first time, one book gives voice to the haunting, painful, tender, and healing tales of those who lost so much in America’s least popular war. Sale Price:$3.00 0394759885

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