The Embrace of Harlots... -... David TK Wong... New. This novel is a Southeast Asian blockbuster that takes the reader through the upheavals of a well off Hong Kong family negotiating the changes of the twentieth century. Wong, who has been described as a writer with "elegant style," is also...
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...
Asian Godfathers:... Money and Power in Hong Kong and South-East Asia... by... Joe Studwell... In 329 pages Studwell undertakes a thorough investigation of the dealings of multi millionaires, the godfathers, in the booming economies of Southeast Asia. They're usually from immigrant stock, often Chinese, with an uncanny ability to...
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...
A Daughter Remembers-... Li Lien Fung... The author was born in China when her father had already set off to the USA to seek his fortune leaving his wife and family behind. He was successful and apparently re-married leaving the family in China to fend for themselves. The author...
A Mountain of Light... by... Austin Coates... History of Hong Kong Electric Co. 209 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 Heinemann, London. 1977... Condition: As New. Hardback in...
An End to Tears... by... Russell S Clark... Liberation of Hong Kong after WW2... Weight 0.4kg. Please note this book will be shipped from the UK. If you live outside Europe, please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery... Published by Peter Huston, Sydney, Australia. 1946... Condition: Good. Hardback. Ex...
Asian Godfathers:... Money and Power in Hong Kong and South-East Asia... by... Joe Studwell... In 329 pages Studwell undertakes a thorough investigation of the dealings of multi millionaires, the godfathers, in the booming economies of Southeast Asia. They're usually from immigrant stock, often Chinese, with an uncanny ability to...
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...
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