British Military Administration... in... The Far East 1943-1946... by... F S V Donnison... Official War History 483 pages... Weight 1.kg. Please note this book will be shipped from the UK. If you live outside Europe, please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery... Published by HMSO, London, 1956... Condition...
East and West... by... Chris Patten... Chris Patten gave up British party politics, where he had been chairman of the Conservative Party, to immerse himself in Asian politics as he oversaw the handing back of Hong Kong to China. This is his story of what happened, what he felt he...
Hong Kong Report for the Year 1963... by... The Hong Kong Government... This book contains a wealth of information for the historian of the period, i.e. a review of each Government department's activities for the year. There are the obligatory pages of statistics and colour photographs of smiling government...
Search for Nirvana... -... Robin Maugham... Somerset Maugham's nephew, Robin, a successful travel writer, describes in this book his search for, as he says in his Preface, "a place of contentment in which one intends to live until one dies." The book, written when Maugham was 60 ends up as...
Southeast Asia :... Past and Present... - -... D.R. SarDesai... This, by now, standard work on the history of the region was one of the first to be written from more of an Asio-centric, rather than Western,point of view. In fact the author, an established professor at the University of...
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 Evergreen Tea House... -... David TK Wong... A novel set in the events from the end of World War II up to the handing back of Hong Kong to China in 1997. The author, a Hong Kong civil servant, gives us a fictionalised account of the diplomatic intrigue, greed and...
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...
Cathetical Scenes:... Grace and Holy Baptism... by... Rev M Coerezza... This is a Catholic instructional book for school children describing Baptism and its place in Roman Catholic theology. There are 20 short sections on various aspects of the sacrament followed by a few pages of test questions at the end...
ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE INDIAN DIASPORA... Edited by... Brij V. Lal (ed)... New. This book is inspired by the work of the South East Asia Studies Programme of the University of Singapore describes every aspect of Indian life as exported by labourers, traders, political deporteees and others over the centuries. Despite...
The Great Indian Family:... New Roles - Old Responsibilities... by... Gitanjali Prasad... New. In many industrialised countries of the Northern hemisphere it's argued that the traditional family has broken down. In this book Prasad looks at what's happening in India's middle class 'families as the country gathers up speed to be...
Envy of the Gods:... Alexander the Great's Ill-Fated Journey Across Asia... - - -... John Prevas... The well known writer, explorer and classicist retraces the short but eventful career of one of the world's most glamourous and ruthless generals. Idolised in the West and loathed in the East, Alexander and his armies...
A Tapestry of Tamil Poetry :... Woven in English Thread... by... S.M Ponniah... This book is a wideranging anthology of Tamil poetry which have been translated into English to gain a wider audience. The poetry is divided into different periods of time from the Sangam classics through to the 20th...
Babyji... by... Abha Dawesar... This book, set in Delhi of the 1980s, is a coming of age tale, where the main protagonist, a teenager studying quantum physics, discovers her own sexuality. The book one the the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the 2006 Stonewall Book Award for...
Death's Head March... &... Other Stories... --... Geoffrey & Hugh Cave... A collection of four short stories of the pulp fiction genre by the brothers, Geoffrey and Hugh Cave. The stories includeFour Doomed Men (Delhi - four men saw the ruby and all died but one);The Death's Head March (Khyber Pass...
East of the Sun... -... Julia Gregson... This novel, shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2009, has 1920s India as its setting.Three British women head off for India as part of what was disparagingly termed "The Fishing Fleet" i.e. women from the UK setting out...
Prizewinning Asian Fiction... --... Leon Comber (ed)... New. This collection of more than 25 short stories represent the winners' contributions to Asiaweek magazine's annual English short story competition which ran between 1981 and 1988. It was according to John le Carre, "the most coveted prize in the region" at the time...
The Visiting Moon... by... Susan Visvanathan... New. The author, a Professor of Sociology, proves in her first novel that she has a talent for prose that not only can grip the reader, but disturb as well. The main character of the novel, Rashmi, is a woman who is out to...
Train to Pakistan... by... Kushwant Singh... New. This is one of the classic novels written about the partition of India at the time of Indian and Pakistani independence. The author, a Punjabi whose family were uprooted at the time, takes us through cataclysmic upheavals where indiviudals and families lived out...
Asia in Those Days:... A Glimpse into the Past;... The Social Life of Europeans in Asia... from the 16th through the 19th Centuries... by... Thomas Brandt... New. The book had a limited print run and stock will soon run out. The book will not be reprinted. In this book, by...
ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE INDIAN DIASPORA... Edited by... Brij V. Lal (ed)... New. This book is inspired by the work of the South East Asia Studies Programme of the University of Singapore describes every aspect of Indian life as exported by labourers, traders, political deporteees and others over the centuries. Despite...
Envy of the Gods:... Alexander the Great's Ill-Fated Journey Across Asia... - - -... John Prevas... The well known writer, explorer and classicist retraces the short but eventful career of one of the world's most glamourous and ruthless generals. Idolised in the West and loathed in the East, Alexander and his armies...
Mutiny in Singapore:... War, Anti-War and the War for India's Independence... by... Sho Kuwajima... 15 February 1915 marks a flash point in Singapore history - Indian officers and men of the Fifth Light Infantry rose in revolt against the British. This incident forced the British to reconsider their strategy in...
Rajiv Gandhi and Rama's Kingdom -... Ved Mehta... Although Ved Mehta's been based in the United States writing for the New Yorker for some years, he's managed to effectively chronicle the political and social developments of his home country with sufficient depth and understanding to maintain a respect for his work...
The British in Asia... - -... Guy Wint... After the end of World War II it was become obvious to most observers that nationalist movements, particularly in Asia, were going to want to wrest back control of their countries from various colonial powers.This book, written on the verge of Indian independence...
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