China | Asian History Books

City at the End of Time: Poems by Leung Ping-Kwan (Echoes: Classics of Hong Kong Culture and History)

March 25, 2015

Written by Leung Ping-kwan in the 1980s and 1990s, this volume of poetry evokes the complexity of Hong Kong city life in the critical moments preceding the 1997 handover. The poet muses upon the problems of cultural identity and the passing of time, and explores the relationship between poetry and other genres and media within […]
Taiwan: Nation-state Or Province? (Westview Profiles/Nations of Contemporary Asia)

March 25, 2015

Taiwan has few resources, has three times the population density of Japan and exports an incredible 50% of its gross national product, yet despite favourable economic trends and political stability, its future is uncertain. The author explains why, and offers an analysis of Taiwan’s status in the international political community, in the light of the […]
Will Taiwan Break Away: The Rise of Taiwanese Nationalism

March 25, 2015

The March 2000 elections in Taiwan returned a pro-independence candidate. This marks a turning point in Taiwanese politics, as well as bilateral relations across the strait. The Taiwan issue is very difficult to resolve for it straddles three centuries. Separatism originated in the 19th century, intensified in the 20th century, and is likely to explode […]
Being Eurasian: Memories Across Racial Divides

March 25, 2015

This book is a description and analysis of the lives of three famous Hong Kong Eurasian memoirists, Joyce Symons, Irene Cheng and Jean Gittins, and explores their very different ways of constructing and looking at their own ethnic identity. Sale Price:$21.21 9622096719
Hong Kong

March 25, 2015

In its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of Hong Kong is the world’s most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful urban panorama of all. World-renowned travel writer Jan Morris […]
Taiwan: Studies In Chinese Local History

March 25, 2015

No description available. Sale Price:$19.95 0231033761
A Short History of Taiwan: The Case for Independence

March 25, 2015

This concise account of Taiwan’s history makes a cogent, compelling argument for the right of the Taiwanese people to declare their nation independent, if they so choose. Davison’s bold stand—unprecedented from a Western author—challenges the one China notion advanced in the Shanghai Communique of 1972 and states unequivocally that, should independence be proclaimed, it could […]
Southern District Officer Reports: Islands and Villages in Rural Hong Kong, 1910-60 (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series)

March 25, 2015

This is a collection of administrative dispatches from the 1910s through the early 1960s which illuminate not only rural life in Hong Kong but also Hong Kong government policies during the post-World War II period. The authors of the reports include such notable figures as Eric Hamilton, Walter Schofield, S. H. Peplow, Paul Tsui, Austin […]
Face Off: China, the United States, and Taiwan’s Democratization

March 25, 2015

Taiwan’s first presidential election, in 1996, sparked a Sino-U.S. military showdown that resulted in the biggest show of U.S. naval force in East Asia since the Vietnam War. This book is the first to explore the origins and triangular dynamics of that historic confrontation. Analyzing the key decisions and misperceptions that led to the Taiwan […]
It Was Like This

March 25, 2015

Book by Redwood, Mabel Winifred Sale Price:$29.99 0753198096

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