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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai (Weatherhead Books on Asia)

March 22, 2015

Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai’s working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant, and this fleeting moment of […]
Lyndon Johnson’s War: America’s Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968 (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)

March 22, 2015

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.Using newly available documents from both American and Vietnamese archives, Hunt reinterprets the values, choices, misconceptions, and miscalculations that shaped the long process of American intervention in Southeast Asia, and renders more comprehensible–if no less troubling–the tangled […]
The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619: Power, Trade and Diplomacy

March 22, 2015

Following the fall of the Melaka Sultanate to the Portuguese in 1511, the sultanates of Johor and Aceh emerged as major trading centres alongside Portuguese Melaka. Each power represented wider global interests. Aceh had links with Gujerat, the Ottoman Empire and the Levant. Johor was a centre for Javanese merchants and others involved with the […]
P.O.W. in the Pacific: Memoirs of an American Doctor in World War II (Urban Life and Urban Landscape)

March 22, 2015

This is the story of William N. Donovan, a U.S. Army medical officer in the Philippines who, as a prisoner of war, faced unspeakable conditions and abuse in Japanese camps during World War II. Through his own words we learn of the brutality, starvation, and disease that he and other men endured at the hands […]
The Tea Horse Road: China’s Ancient Trade Road to Tibet

March 22, 2015

This is the first comprehensive visual documentation of the Tea Horse Road that takes the audience on a journey from the birthplace of the tea plant along the oldest trade route of tea in the world. It is also one of the oldest and highest trade routes. Accompanying Michael Freeman’s spectacular photographers is text drawing […]
Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World (Asian Arguments)

March 22, 2015

The mineral-rich mountains of Tibet are landscapes of solitude, where the greatest yogis withdrew from society to deeply realise the nature of the human mind. Those sacred landscapes and pilgrimage routes are now officially designated as mineral extraction enclaves. Tibet until now has not linked meaningfully to the Chinese economy, and mining on a significant […]
The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature (Cambridge Library Collection – Zoology) (Volume 1)

March 22, 2015

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was a British naturalist best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural selection. His extensive fieldwork and advocacy of the theory of evolution led to him being considered one of the nineteenth century’s foremost biologists. These volumes, first published in 1869, contain Wallace’s acclaimed and highly influential account of extensive […]
Land and Loyalty: Security and the Development of Property Rights in Thailand (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

March 22, 2015

Domestic and international development strategies often focus on private ownership as a crucial anchor for long-term investment; the security of property rights provides a foundation for capitalist expansion. In recent years, Thailand’s policies have been hailed as a prime example of how granting formal land rights to poor farmers in low-income countries can result in […]
Opium in Thailand

March 22, 2015

If there is one ‘drug’ which encapsulates the ‘East’ for many Westerners it is opium. Mention the word opium and many people begin to conjure an almost romantic world of smoky dives, in which glassy-eyed, somnolent men are wrapped around an elegant pipe. The truth, of course, is somewhat different and the opium trade in […]
Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba (Columbia/Hurst)

March 22, 2015

On November 21, 2008, ten men boarded a boat in Karachi and hijacked an Indian fishing trawler, killing four of the vessel’s crewmen and forcing its captain to sail toward India. Four miles off the coast of Mumbai, these men abandoned the trawler for inflatable speedboats, and within hours they began hitting multiple targets in […]

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