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  • Growing Up In British Malaya And Singapore: A Time Of Fireflies And Wild Guavas

    by Maurice Baker ...
    Growing Up in British Malaya and Singapore: A Time of Fireflies and Wild Guavas is an autobiography of Maurice Baker's life in Malaya and Singapore from the 1920s to the 1940s. His memoir extends from the earliest of childhood memories with his family and friends up to the defeat of the British during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore.Baker's recounts are often humorous and detailed with the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Accidental Diplomat, The: The Autobiography Of Maurice Baker

    by Maurice Baker, Edmund Baker ...
    “For the life of a diplomat is often a variation of routine boredom and exhilarating crises.”Maurice Baker is an academic and one of Singapore's pioneer diplomats. Growing up in colonial-governed Malaya and Singapore, his profound love for great literature works inspired him to obtain an honors in English from King's college, London in 1948 despite the cruelties faced during and after the Second ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    The Classic Book of Zen Koans

    by Koun Yamada ...
    In The Gateless Gate, one of modern Zen Buddhism's uniquely influential masters offers classic commentaries on the Mumonkan, one of Zen's greatest collections of teaching stories. This translation was compiled with the Western reader in mind, and includes Koan Yamada's clear and penetrating comments on each case. Yamada played a seminal role in bringing Zen Buddhism to the West from Japan, going ... Read more

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  • Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times

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    by Matsuo Basho ...
    Translated by David Young ...
    Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master.Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; "Piles of quilts/ snow on distant mountains/ I watch both," he writes. His work captures both the profound ... Read more

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  • The white shadow

    Portrait of the artist as a young rascal

    by Saneh Sangsuk ...
    The scandalous 1994 Thai novel hailed as a world-class masterpiece ... Read more

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  • KOREAN FOLK TALES - 53 stories from the Korean Penninsula

    by Anon E. Mouse, Compiled by Im Bang, Translated and Retold by J S Gale ...
    In this volume of Korean Folk Tales, you will find 53 stories from the ancient Korean kingdoms of Silla and Balhae. Herein you will find stories like Charan, The Story Of Chang To-Ryong, A Story Of The Fox, Cheung Puk-Chang, The Seer, Yun Se-Pyong, The Wizard, The Wild-Cat Woman and many, many more.These stories have their roots in the equally ancient eastern religions of Taoism, Buddhism and ... Read more

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  • A baker's dozen

    13 Thai short stories

    by Chart Korbjitti ...
    Series series ThaiFiction
    Thirteen short stories spanning a quarter centuryby the most incisive Thai satirist of the times ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Behind the picture

    A Thai novel

    by Seeboorapha ...
    Series series THAI MODERN CLASSICS
    A 1930s Thai romance with a Japanese settingand a political messageby one of the best stylists of Siam ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • From Thailand With Love

    by Mobi D'Ark ...
    "From Thailand with love" is a collection of six novelettes based in Thailand, ranging in length from 5,000 to 25,000 words and are set mainly in the mid to late 20th century, although the final tale commences in the 1930's and finishes in the early 21st century.The stories encompass some wide ranging subject matter, including: government corruption; the Thai drinking culture; senseless Thai on ... Read more

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  • The Great Civilized Conversation

    Education for a World Community

    by Wm. Theodore De Bary ...
    Having spent decades teaching and researching the humanities, Wm. Theodore de Bary is well positioned to speak on its merits and reform. Believing a classical liberal education is more necessary than ever, he outlines in these essays a plan to update existing core curricula by incorporating classics from both Eastern and Western traditions, thereby bringing the philosophy and moral values of Asian ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Asian & Pacific Short Stories

    by Cultural and Social Centre ...
    Readers of Asian & Pacific Short Stories will have the exciting experience of encountering for the first time the recent work of some of Asia's most talented writers. Collected in this anthology are short stories by authors in nine Asian and Pacific countries: Australia, the Republic of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand, and the Republic of ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet

    Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English

    by Dechun Li, Gerald Roche ...
    Series Book 8 - World Oral Literature Series
    Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in western China. These songs represent the apogee of Mongghul oral literature, and ... Read more

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