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  • Tan Lark Sye: Advocator And Founder Of Nanyang University

    by Chu Meng Ong, Hoon Yong Lim, Lai Yang Ng ...
    This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University.Hailing from Jimei, Fujian Province of China, Mr Tan Lark Sye (1897 - 1972) was a leading rubber industrialist in Southeast Asia. Being a social activist, he believed in the value of education. As Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in the 1950s, he fought for citizenship for the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • First They Killed My Father

    A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

    by Loung Ung ...
    “A riveting memoir. . . an important, moving work that those who have suffered cannot afford to forget and those who have been spared cannot afford to ignore.” — San Francisco ChronicleFrom a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Where China Meets India

    Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia

    by Thant Myint-U ...
    Thant Myint-U's Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world.From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of the Himalayas, by a vast and impenetrable jungle, by hostile tribes and remote inland kingdoms stretching a thousand miles from Calcutta ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Eat First, Talk Later

    by Beth Yahp ...
    A dazzling memoir from a talented Malaysian writer about family and home, and a searing portrait of the country of her birth.In this riveting memoir Beth persuades her ageing parents on a road trip around their former home, Malaysia. She intends to retrace their honeymoon of 45 years before, but their journey doesn’t quite work out as she planned. Only the family mantra, ‘Eat first, talk later’ ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The History of Bhutan

    by Karma Phuntsho ...
    In 2008, Bhutan triumphantly took the stage as the world’s youngest democracy. But despite its growing prominence—and rising scholarly interest in the country—Bhutan remains one of the least studied, and least well-known places on the planet.Karma Phuntsho’s The History of Bhutan is the first book to offer a comprehensive history of Bhutan in English. Along with a detailed social and political ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Did Singapore Have to Fall?

    Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress

    by Kevin Blackburn, Karl Hack ...
    This book provides a sophisticated summary of up-to-date knowledge on the Fall of Singapore, including the critical tensions between Churchill and local commanders. A focus on the role of Churchill, and on his understanding of the guns and Singapore's fortifications, makes the Fortress central to understanding why and how Singapore fell as it did. The book includes a range of quotations that give ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • A History of Modern Burma

    by Michael W. Charney ...
    Burma has lived under military rule for nearly half a century. The results of its 1990 elections were never recognized by the ruling junta and Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma's pro-democracy movement, was denied her victory. She has been under house-arrest ever since. Now an economic satellite and political dependent of the People's Republic of China, Burma is at a crossroads. Will it become ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Comfort Woman

    A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery under the Japanese Military

    by Maria Rosa Henson, Sheila S. Coronel ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    From Comfort Woman:“We began the day with breakfast, after which we swept and cleaned our rooms. Then we went to the bathroom downstairs to wash the only dress we had and to bathe. The bathroom did not even have a door, so the soldiers watched us. We were all naked, and they laughed at us, especially me and the other young girl who did not have any pubic hair.“At two, the soldiers came. My work ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Singapore

    Unlikely Power

    by John Curtis Perry ...
    Singapore has gained a reputation for being one of the wealthiest and best-educated countries in the world and one of the brightest success stories for a colony-turned-sovereign state, but the country's path to success was anything but assured. Its strategic location and natural resources both allowed Singapore to profit from global commerce and also made the island an attractive conquest for the ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Women of the Kakawin World

    Marriage and Sexuality in the Indic Courts of Java and Bali

    by Helen Creese ...
    In this fascinating study the lives and mores of women in one of the least understood but most densely populated areas of the world are unveiled through the eyes of generations of court poets. For more than a millennium, the poets of the Indic courts of Java and Bali composed epic kakawin poems in which they recreated the court environment where they and their royal patrons lived. Major themes in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • What's In The Name? How The Streets And Villages In Singapore Got Their Names

    by Yew Peng Ng ...
    Since 1819, more than 6,200 place (street and village) names divided into more than 3,900 name groups were known in Singapore. Based on digitised historical newspapers, dated back to 1830, municipal records and Malay dictionaries, the origins, meanings and date of naming for many place names are uncovered. As part of Singapore history, place names known since 1936 are recorded in this book ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Colonial Cambodia's 'Bad Frenchmen'

    The rise of French rule and the life of Thomas Caraman, 1840-87

    by Gregor Muller ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Colonial Cambodia's "Bad Frenchmen" provides a captivating analysis of the gradual establishment of French colonialism in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on new materials from French, Vietnamese and Cambodian archives, it reconstructs a time during which France struggled to give meaning and substance to its Protectorate over Cambodia.It traces the lives of failed colonists – most notably ... Read more

    $82.99 USD