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  • The Comfort Women

    by George Hicks ...
    "The most extensive record available in English of the ugly story."—Elisabeth Rubinfein, New York NewsdayOver 100,000 women across Asia were victims of enforced prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Forces during World War II. Until as recently as 1993 the Japanese government continued to deny this shameful aspect of its wartime history. George Hicks's book is the only history in English regarding ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Japan's Hidden Apartheid

    Korean Minority and the Japanese

    by George Hicks ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1997, this volume confronts the common impression of Japan as a successfully homogeneous society which conceals some profound tensions, and one such case is presented by the ethnic Korean community. Despite many shared cultural features there are marked contrasts between the Japanese and Korean value systems and interaction is embittered by Japan’s colonial record in Korea up to ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Japan's War Memories

    Amnesia or Concealment?

    by George Hicks ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1997, this volume responds to attention in recent years which has been belatedly directed towards reviving World War II issues involving Japan. This study deals first with the manner in which such issues so long fell into abeyance under Cold War conditions, while tracing the vast and varied writing on the war which meanwhile appeared within Japan. Evolving Japanese views on the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    The Sandman (Unabridged)

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    by William John Hopkins ...
    Narrated by Regina Tyson, Lee Schwing, George Hicks, Margaret Rose ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 24 min

    In the eerie hinterlands of the Australian Outback lies a town shrouded in mystery, its secrets whispered among the shadows. "The Sandman" by William John Hopkins beckons listeners into a realm where reality and nightmares intertwine, weaving a chilling tale that grips the soul from the very first word. As the enigmatic figure known only as the Sandman emerges from the desert's depths, a sinister ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Hong Kong

    by Jan Morris ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    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 offers the most insightful and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • A Military History of China

    Edited by David A. Graff, Robin Higham ...
    Gaining an understanding of China's long and sometimes bloody history can help to shed light on China's ascent to global power. Many of China's imperial dynasties were established as the result of battle, from the chariot warfare of ancient times to the battles of the Guomindang (KMT) and Communist regimes of the twentieth century. China's ability to sustain complex warfare on a very large scale ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Chinese Whispers

    Why Everything You've Heard About China is Wrong

    by Ben Chu ...
    'Chu's smart, iconoclastic portrait dismantles seven misconceptions' [NEW STATESMEN] about modern China and offers a corrective to Western assumptions.THE CHINESE ARE THE MOST HARDWORKING PEOPLE ON EARTH...so why are the younger generation derided as spoiled and lazy?CHINESE PEOPLE DON'T CARE ABOUT POLITICAL FREEDOM...so why is the country's internet exploding with anti-regime dissent?CHINA WILL ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Modern History of Hong Kong

    1841-1997

    by Dr Steve Tsang ...
    This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original 'Opium War'. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist empire, Britain first created in Hong Kong a major naval station and the principal base to ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Dr. Sun Yat-Sen : his life and achievements

    by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen ...
    One of greatest achievements book is that Dr. Sun Yat-sen was able to find a living synthesis between the ancient and the modern, between the East and the West, and combining them together to make China a modern country. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Japan's Comfort Women

    by Yuki Tanaka ...
    Japan's Comfort Women tells the harrowing story of the "comfort women" who were forced to enter prostitution to serve the Japanese Imperial army, often living in appalling conditions of sexual slavery. Using a wide range of primary sources, the author for the first time links military controlled prostitution with enforced prostitution. He uncovers new and controversial information about the role ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Shadows of the Crimson Sun

    One Man's Life in Manchuria, Taiwan, and North America

    by Julia Lin ...
    After the Russian invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchuria (Manchukuo) in 1945, fourteen-year-old Akihisa Takayama escapes with his family to their ancestral Taiwan. Here they find themselves under the brutal Chinese dictatorship of the Kuomintang. In the 1960s, now a physician calling himself Charles Yang, he escapes with his young family to the United States, from where they finally go ... Read more

    $10.31 USD

  • A Concise History of Hong Kong

    by John M. Carroll ...
    When the British occupied the tiny island of Hong Kong during the First Opium War, the Chinese empire was well into its decline, while Great Britain was already in the second decade of its legendary "Imperial Century." From this collision of empires arose a city that continues to intrigue observers. Melding Chinese and Western influences, Hong Kong has long defied easy categorization. John M. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD