Eredia's Description of Malaca, Meridional India, and Cathay... Translated by... JV Mills... New. The Malay Portuguese cartographer, Manuel Godinho de Eredia, has left us with one of the best accounts of the Malay Peninsula and its significance in the proto-history of Australian discovery. This book contains maps depicting Melaka...
Hua Mulan :... China's Sweetest Magnolia... by... Wang Jian... Illustrators: Xu Deyuan and Jiang Wei... In cartoon form this book presents the life of the legendary Hua Mulan who, according to the authors, is the only woman warrior in the history of China. Her feats on the battlefield have apparently been...
Princes of Jade... by... Edmund Capon and William MacQuitty... Using as his inspiration the excavation of the Man Ch'eng Tombs in 1968 the author details the lives of the princes, buried in jade casings, of the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD). Capon, an authority on early Chinese history, not only introduces...
Secrets of the Chinese Palace... by... Tian Hengyu... In cartoon form this book gives us an amusing, but also informative, insight into life as a concubine in imperial China through the ages. 199 pages... Weight 0.40 Kg. Airmail postage to Asia Pacific countries: $6, to Central Asia, Europe &...
Sino-Malay Trade and Diplomacy: From the Tenth Through the Fourteenth Century... --... Derek Heng... New. Heng's work adds to and, to some extent, challenges previous scholarship on this subject in that for the first time he highlights the importance of private enterprise, as opposed to state trade, in the period...
South to Bataan North to Mukden... by... WE Brougher... Defeat on Bataan POW in Philippines, Taiwan and Manchuria. 207 pages... Weight 0.7kg. Please note this book will be shipped from the UK. If you live outside Europe, please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery... Published by University of Georgia...
Southeast Asia-China Interactions... Reprint of articles form the Journal Of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society... Edited by... Geoff Wade... Although Southeast Asia owes much of its current culture and character to the large Chinese migrations that took place from the late 18th century onwards, this collection...
Southeast Asian personalities of Chinese Descent... 2 Volumes-... Leo Suryadinata (ed)... New. For several centuries emigrants from China have been at the centre of trade in Southeast Asia. This volume, with nearly 200 contributors, assembles together pithy biographies of hundreds of the principal personalities who have contributed to trade and...
The Day the Chinese Attacked:... Korea, 1950 The Story of the Failure of America's China Policy... --... Edwin P Hoyt... A well researched account of how the Korean war escalated from a small UN 'police action' to the first armed confrontation between China and the West... 245 pages including epilogue, notes...
The West in Asia 1850-1914... by... Michael Edwardes... The really active time for Government inspired Western imperialism in Asia was relatively short, less than a century. Before that the bucaneers and tradesmen, often unwittingly, laid the foundations for something bigger to come. World War I showed the West had...
Stories of the Chinese Overseas... - - Christine Suchen Lim... This beautiful book, bilingual in Chinese and English, is quite an achievement as it manages to evoke the histories of the Chinese who migrated to various places in the East, West and South without a single colour photograph. Instead through grainy, but...
The Pinang Peranakan Mansion:... A Museum of Straits Chinese Cultural Heritage... - - Chan Suan Choo... New. One of Penang's must see sights is the Penang Peranakan mansion, which is not only a well-preserved and restored example of the opulent houses that Penang businessmen have been building for themselves for a...
Annotated Sources of Ming History Including Southern Ming and Works on Neighbouring Lands 1368-1661 (2 Volumes)... by... Wolfgang Franke & Liew-Herres Foon Ming... New, This major work is a revised and enlarged edition of the late Wolfgang Franke's An Introduction to the Sources of Ming History (1968). Liew...
Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man by Jonathan Spence... Published by Viking Press, New York, 2007. First edition... Condition: Very Good Hardcover in Fine Dust Jacket. some spotting of the text block... Spence's research, concentrating on the writings of Zhang Dai, a diarist at the time...
Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century:... The China Factor... Edited by... Geoff Wade & Sun Laichen... New. This century is a period that's generally skipped over by historians because of the lack of documentary and inscriptional evidence. However, the academics who have contributed papers to this volume claim that this...
Splendors of Imperial China... by... Maxwell K. Hearn... Hearn, the then Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Metropolitan, selected this sample of Chinese objects d'art for the book from a major exhibition held at the museum in the early 1990s. The items on display were chosen from the personal...
A Concise History of China... by... Jian Bozan, Shao Xunzheng and Hu Hua... The book's bald title is a little misleading as is shown by the amount of space that's devoted to the three parts into which this book is divided. The Early Period takes in everything from the beginning...
Asiatic Land Battles:... Allied Victories in China and Burma... by... Trevor Nevitt Dupuy... This outline takes the reader through the closing stages of the war in China and Burma The author is a retired US army colonel who gives a US perspective on the events. Illustrated with maps and photos...
China in Peace and War... by... Madame Chiang Kai Shek... Madame Chiang Kai Shek, wife of the Nationalist Chinese leader, was, like most politicians, loved or loathed. At the time of writing this book her elegance and ability to articulate herself in English made her the darling of the English...
From Emperor to Citizen The Autobiography of Aisin... --... Gioro Pu Yi... This autobiography tells of the eventful life of China's last emperor, deposed by the new republic, re-instated as a Japanes puppet and then 'rehabilitated' in Mao's China... 496 pages including index. Weight: 0.8.kg. *On request this...
Mao:... The Unknown Story... -... Jung Chang & Jon Halliday... Biography of Mao. 814 pages Weight. 1.1 kg. Please note this book will be shipped from the UK. If you live outside Europe, please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery... Jonathan Cape, London 20005. ISBN: 9780224071260... Condition: As New. Hardback...
Over the Hump... (Ballantine's Illustrated Histoy of WWII, Campaign Book, No.23)... by... William J. Koenig... Illustrated wartime history of airlift to China. 158 pages. Weight 0.2kg... Please note this book will be shipped from the UK. If you live outside Europe, please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery...
The Enemy Within... by... R de Jaegher & I C Kuhn... Communist Conquest of China as described by a Belgian Missionary. 314 pages... Weight 0.6kg. Please note this book will be shipped from the UK. If you live outside Europe, please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery... Published by...
The Soong Dynasty... --... Sterling Seagrave... The staggering story of a Bible seller whose three daughters ruled China in the first part of the 20th century through their husbands, HH Kung, a rich businessman, Sun Yat Sen and Chiang Kai Shek... 532 pages. Weight: 0.6.kg. *On request this book...
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