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Voices of Early Modern J...
Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life During the Age of the Shoguns
Kabuki theatre. Sushi. Sumo wrestling. Woodblock prints. The tea ceremony. So much that we think of as quintessentially Japanese emerged during the time of the Tokugawa shoguns—the two-and-a-half century period that was the foundation of modern Japan. Now, that time is brought...
(2012)
The History of Singapore
by Jean Abshire
Singapore is a dominant player in the global economy, serving both as an essential business hub for international finance and home to some of the world's most important ports. It is also one of the world's smallest and most resource-poor countries. ||This book offers an engagi...
(2011)
The History of Vietnam
Everyone knows Vietnam for its turbulent environment during the second half of the 20th century, but few know that archaeologists believe that civilization there existed as far back as the Bronze Age. Vietnam's history runs rampant with clashing dynasties, civil wars and power...
(2008)
The History of Cambodia
"This reference for students and general readers overviews the history of Cambodia, from the fall of Angkor and the French Protectorate period (1432-1863) to the present. More than half of the book is dedicated to the period from 1970 through the present, with chapters on t...
(2009)
The History of China
Second Edition
As Chinese society and culture evolves on a seemingly daily basis, due to its booming economy and expansion as a producer of consumer and industrial goods, its influence upon the world grows as well. Perhaps now more than any time in the modern era, the history of China is a t...
(2010)
The History of Thailand
by PATIT MISHRA
Thailand is a fascinating country with a very rich culture and history. Today, it is home to over 60 million people, and is a newly industrialized nation with an emerging world economy. Thailand is the world's leading exporter of rice, with roughly half of its arable land dedi...
(2033)
Business Expansion and S...
Liu Hongsheng and His Enterprises, 1920-1937
by Kai Yiu Chan
At the end of the battle, with his fellow soldiers he became a prisoner of war, but he continued somehow to maintain his diary. He spent most of the war in the Argyle Street camp and provided the most complete coverage of life there. This is one of the fullest descriptions of ...
(2010)
Beyond Brushtalk
Sino-Japanese Literary Exchange in the Interwar Period
Illustrated with a large number of photos, some remarkable survivals, this collection of autobiographical essays tells of Dr. Bard's childhood in Eastern Siberia, with a fascinating detour to Moscow and the Crimea while Russia was still in post-revolutionary turmoil. He moved ...
(2010)
Contract Law in Hong Kong
by Michael J. F... and Desmond G. G...
This study utilizes a wide range of new source materials to reconstruct the day-to-day operations of the port of Canton during the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Using a bottom-up approach, it provides a fresh look at the successes and failures of the t...
(2010)
Eastern Figures
Orient and Empire in British Writing
by Douglas Kerr
James Stewart Lockhart called it "the great difference". Returned from an inspection tour of the newly leased extension to Hong Kong territory in August 1898, Lockhart, a senior Hong Kong colonial official, had used this phrase to describe the gulf between the New Territories ...
(2010)
Hands On or Hands Off?
The Nature and Process of Economic Policy in Hong Kong
by Tony Latter
Rather than presenting another narrative of Singapore history, The Scripting of a National History: Singapore and Its Pasts studies the constructed nature of the history endorsed by the state, which blurs the distinction between what happened in the past, and how the state int...
(2010)
The Happy Valley
A History and Tour of the Hong Kong Cemetery
by Ken Nicolson
In 1899, a year after the Convention of Peking leased the New Territories to Britain, the British moved to establish control. This triggered resistance by the some of the population of the New Territories. There ensued six days of fighting with heavy Chinese casualties. This t...
(2010)
Horror to the Extreme
Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema
by Jinhee CHOI and Mitsuyo Wada...
The forts built from the early seventeenth century onwards, the ships that defended Macau’s waters, the weapons that armed the facilities and the soldiers and sailors who manned them all are carefully detailed in The Defences of Macau. These forts, cannon and small arms ...
(2009)
Studies of Chinese Lingu...
Functional Approaches
The story of two women from worlds that could not seem farther apart—imperial China and the American Midwest—who found common ground before and after one of the greatest clashes between East and West, the fifty-five-day siege of the Beijing foreign legations known as the Boxer...
(2009)
Management and Economics...
by S.W. Poon, S.L. Tang, and Francis K.W....
James Stewart Lockhart called it "the great difference". Returned from an inspection tour of the newly leased extension to Hong Kong territory in August 1898, Lockhart, a senior Hong Kong colonial official, had used this phrase to describe the gulf between the New Territories ...
(2008)
John Woo's The Killer
Relations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong on 26 January 1841. The man responsible – Britain's Plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot – was recalled by his government in disgrace and has also been vilif...
(2008)
New Television, Globalis...
by Michael Keane, Anthony Y.H...., and Albert Moran
Rather than presenting another narrative of Singapore history, The Scripting of a National History: Singapore and Its Pasts studies the constructed nature of the history endorsed by the state, which blurs the distinction between what happened in the past, and how the state int...
(2008)
Resist to the End
Hong Kong, 1941-1945
by Charles Barman and Ray Barman
In this pioneering study, Sheilah Hamilton shows that, from the earliest days of British rule, the colonial administration introduced harsh legislation to control Chinese watchmen who were employed to protect the fledgling colony's property in the absence of an effective publi...
(2008)
