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King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

Some periods in history are best illuminated by the stories of the people who lived through them. This is one such story ? the bizarre but true account of Peter Hui, a man involved with scandal, corruption, drugs, pirates, triads and colonial high society; who collaborated with the Japanese, spied on the Communists and fought […]
Impacts of Japanese Colonialism on State and Economic Development in Korea and Taiwan, and Its Implications for Democracy

March 22, 2015

Promoting democratization has taken the forefront of international diplomacy in ensuring world stability. Determining how best to promote democracy is challenging, and requires a keen understanding of a developing country’s history. Of particular importance is the country’s colonial legacy, and how this legacy continues after independence. This thesis examines the impact of the Japanese colonial […]
Tinderbox – The Past and Future of Pakistan

March 22, 2015

Indians and Pakistanis are the same people: Why then have their nations moved on such different trajectories since freedom in 1947? The idea of India is stronger than the Indian, and the idea of Pakistan has proved weaker than the Pakistani. Pakistan was not born across a breakfast table. It was the culmination of a […]
Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America’s Clandestine War in Laos

March 22, 2015

THE CIA IN ITS GLORY DAYS and the mad confidence that led to disaster in Vietnam are the subjects of Roger Warner’s prizewinning history, Shooting at the Moon: The CIA’s War in Laos (first published as Back Fire, Simon & Schuster, 1995). For a few years in the early 1960s the CIA seemed to be […]
The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya

March 22, 2015

This is the first general social and political history of Malaya. Focusing on the years 1945 to 1957, the last years of British rule and the achievement of independence, it embraces a wealth of social, economic and cultural, as well as political themes. It contains new research on the impact of the Second World War […]
China-Taiwan Relations in a Global Context: Taiwan’s Foreign Policy and Relations (Routledge Contemporary China Series)

March 22, 2015

This book traces the development of Taiwan’s relations with its diplomatic partners and its policy towards the political opponents of its political opponent – mainland China. Paying particular attention to the powers that could exercise great influence in the future of East Asia, China-Taiwan Relations in a Global Context examines the main diplomatic strategies of […]
The Edge of Terror: The Heroic Story of American Families Trapped in the Japanese-occupied Philippines

March 22, 2015

A gripping account of courage, death, and survival in the war-torn islands of the Philippines. As Japanese military strategists planned their secret offensive against the United States in 1941, they designed a simultaneous two-pronged attack to wipe out American military might in the Pacific. While American battleships blew up and sank in Pearl Harbor, Japanese bombers […]
The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father’s War

March 22, 2015

Louise Steinman’s American childhood in the fifties was bound by one unequivocal condition: “Never mention the war to your father.” That silence sustained itself until the fateful day Steinman opened an old ammunition box left behind after her parents’ death. In it she discovered nearly 500 letters her father had written to her mother during […]
Vocabulary of the English and Malay languages with notes Volume 1

March 22, 2015

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) […]
Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy González de Clavijo to the Court of Timour, at Samarcand, A.D. 1403-6

March 22, 2015

Translated by Clements R. Markham. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1859 edition by the Hakluyt Society, London. Sale Price:$14.71 1402195591

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