Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
by Idrus F. Shahab et al.
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
MOHAMMAD Natsir (July 17, 1908-February 6, 1993) was a puritan. However, even the honest can be interesting. His life was not as colorful or dramatic as a stage play, but the example set by this person, who had a talent for combining words with deeds, was nothing less than remarkable. With Indonesia...
by Duncan Stearn
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
There are 35 stand-alone stories covering a range of historical moments from the early nineteenth century and through to the end of the twentieth century. Each is designed to give a perspective of events in Thailand at what might be termed a ‘snapshot in time’.
Did King Mongkut really offer...
Healing Cambodia One Child at a Time
The Story of Krousar Thmey, A New Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
After years of civil war, the bloody Khmer Rouge regime, and occupation by Vietnam, Cambodia finds itself decimated and divided.Benoît Duchâteau-Arminjon, a.k.a. Bénito, discovers this world when he visits a refugee camp on the countrys border with Thailand and experiences a profound emotional...
Did Singapore Have to Fall?
Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
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...
Deng Xiaoping's Long War
The Military Conflict between China and Vietnam, 1979-1991
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultural allies, but the twenty-nine-day border war imposed heavy casualties, ruined urban and agricultural infrastructure, leveled three Vietnamese cities,...
by Klaus Wenk
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Thai Literature — An Introduction is a study of the extensive and diverse writings that form an integral part of the Thai literary tradition. The book has been divided into tentative periods beginning with the discovery of an inscription on a stele, erected in 1292 by Ram Kamhaeng, and concluding...
In Defense of Dharma
Just-War Ideology in Buddhist Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
This is the first book to examine war and violence in Sri Lanka through the lens of cross-cultural studies on just-war tradition and theory. In a study that is textual, historical and anthropological, it is argued that the ongoing Sinhala-Tamil conflict is in actual practice often justified by a resort...
Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam
Food and Drink in the Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
In Vietnam during the long nineteenth century from the Tây Son rebellion to the 1920s, individuals negotiated changing interpretations of their culinary choices by their families, neighbors, and governments. What people ate reflected not just who they were, but also who they wanted to be. Appetites...
For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question
A Story from Burma's Never-Ending War
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
The human rights journalist and author of Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story shines a light on the Karen refugees fleeing Burma’s genocide.
There’s a civil war (the world’s longest running, in fact) raging between the Burmese government and ethnic rebels. But since Burma is a country nearly...
by Donna J. Amoroso, Patricio N. Abinales
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This clear and nuanced introduction explores the Philippines’ ongoing and deeply charged dilemma of state-society relations through a historical treatment of state formation and the corresponding conflicts and collaboration between government leaders and social forces. Patricio N. Abinales and Donna...
by Austin P. Torney
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
A DIA Officer makes a harrowing escape through the Cambodian jungle, after covering the retreat of his special forces unit. In another adventure, an enemy ammo depot is destroyed but his helicopter crashes, leaving him to make his way on foot.
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Prince Bira was a member of the Thai Royal family, descended from his grandfather HM Mongkut of Siam. Bira's cousin, another royal named Prince Cula, funded his racing career from the 1930s through the mid 1950s. Bira was educated at Eton and Cambridge in England. Following his eventful career...
by Stephen Dobbs
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
For most of its modern history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River, physical centre of the city and site of the greater part of the colony's entrepôt trade. The river has been transformed over the last 25 years from a polluted industrial sewer choked with traffic to a clean, placid...
Tambora
Travels to Sumbawa and the Mountain that Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
In the best tradition of Paul Theroux and J. Maarten Troost, comes Derek Pugh's torrid tale of Sumbawa, and his ascent of the iconic volcano Mt. Tambora, whose 1815 eruption did indeed change the world.
Pugh's account of the eruption and its aftermath is masterfully done - clearly the product...