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Singapore at Random: Facts, figure, quotes and anecdotes on Singapore

by Editions Didier Millet

Singapore at Random, an illustrated collection of Singapore trivia, contains anecdotes, statistics, quotations, diagrams, facts, recipes, advice, folklore and other unusual and often useful tidbits. Compiled...


An Unexpected Journey: Path to the Presidency

by S. R. Nathan

Here Singapore's President S.R. Nathan tells his own story, taking the reader back with him to his childhood, to modest beginnings and life as a runaway in Singapore and Malaya, and then the experience of renewed...


End of Sukarno:A Coup That Misfired: A Purge That Ran Wild

by John Huges

In the early morning of 1st October 1965, six high-ranking generals of the Indonesian Army were murdered under grisly circumstances.


Jim Thompson:The Unsolved Myst

by William Warren

Jim Thompson was already a legend for the James H.W. Thompson Silk Company that he founded, when he disappeared in the Cameron highlands in Malaysia in 1967.


Goh Keng Swee: A Portrait

by Tan Siok Sun

Dr. Goh Keng Swee?s public career spanned two eventful decades. He was a founding member of Singapore?s ruling political party, and played a significant role in creating and shaping the destiny of Singapore...


The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide

by Ayesha Jalal

Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote...


Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China

by Darryl E. Brock, Chunjuan Nancy Wei & Joseph W. Dauben

Despite the verdict of the Cultural Revolution as a disaster for China, a number of scholars have called for re-examining socialist science under Mao’s aegis. Western observers once found much to admire in...


Modern Chinese Real Estate Law: Property Development in an Evolving Legal System

by Gregory M. Stein

With massive growth taking place in the real estate industry, how can China develop a free market and private ownership of land while still officially subscribing to Communist ideology? This study uses fieldwork...


The Supreme Court and Benign Elite Democracy in Japan

by Hiroshi Itoh

Innovatively interpreting Japanese politics as a 'benign elite democracy', and based on unprecedented access to former and current justices of the Supreme Court of Japan, this book represents the first empirical...


A Short History of Cambodia: From empire to survival

by John Tully

New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a concise and readable history of Cambodia, from its rich and powerful past, through the era of French protection, the Vietnamese conflict,...


A Short History of Malaysia: Linking East and West

by Virginia Matheson Hooker

New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive history of Malaysia from ancient past to hyper-modern present day.


A Short History of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu Realm

by Robert Pringle

New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a highly accessible, beautifully illustrated short history of Bali from the Bronze Age to the 2002 bombing.


A Short History of China and Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence

by Martin Stuart-Fox

New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive short history of China's relationships with its Southeast Asian neighbours from ancient...


A Short History of Laos: The land in between

by Grant Evans

New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive history of Laos from the little-known pre-modern dynastic era to the present day.


A Short History of Japan: From samurai to Sony

by Curtis Andressen

New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a comprehensive, readable history of the land of the Rising Sun, from its ancient origins to its fascinating present.


Blood Brothers: Crime, Business and Politics in Asia

by Bertil Lintner

A truly compelling account from an authoritative writer, Blood Brothers takes the reader right inside the world's criminal fraternities and reveals how they work.


Ho Chi Minh: A Life

by William J. Duiker

The magisterial and authoritative biography of one of the towering and mysterious figures of the twentieth century.

Ho Chi Minh's epic life helped shape the twentieth century. But never before has he been the...


Christianity and Islam Under the Sultans, Volume II

by Frederick William Hasluck

Originally published in 1929, Hasluck's study examines the religious-social changes wrought by the imposition of Islam over Christianity in Asia Minor. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's...


State Violence in East Asia

by N. Ganesan & Sung Chull Kim

The world was watching when footage of the "tank man" -- the lone Chinese citizen blocking the passage of a column of tanks during the brutal 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square -- first...


Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives

by Xiaobing Li & Qiang Fang

China's rapid socioeconomic transformation of the past twenty years has led to dramatic changes in its judicial system and legal practices. As China becomes more powerful on the world stage, the global community...