Asian history

India and China dominate the Asian continent but are separated by formidable geographic barriers and language differences.

No detailed description available for "e;Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China"e;.

An insider's account of the South Vietnamese elites who strove to carry on the war against the Communists during the U.

In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H.

The work of explorers, surveyors and spies in the race to conquer Southern Asia is vividly recounted in this history of British imperial cartography.

No detailed description available for "e;Exile in Colonial Asia"e;.

THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF SYLVIA BROOKE, THE LAST WHITE RULER OF THE JUNGLE KINGDOM OF BORNEOSylvia Brooke was one of the more exotic and outrageous figures of the twentieth century.

The day when Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur met the Emperor Showa, Hirohito, was the day when the trust between MacArthur and the Emperor Showa, Hirohito, was established and the day when Japan started to recover from the disastrous situation after the Pacific War.

No detailed description available for "e;A Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea"e;.

This book is an account of Sandy Gall's last trip to Afghanistan in 1986 to report the war.

The complete operational history of an outstanding Marine fighter squadron throughout the Cold War.

An insider account an entrepreneur hired to support American peacekeeping efforts in Iraq in the wake of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.

On 2 August 1990, Saddam Hussein's armed forces invaded and occupied Kuwait.

A full account of the Luzon campaign, from the planning stages to the surrender of the Japanese general Yamashita.

No detailed description available for "e;Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan"e;.

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"e;The authors offer a very different perspective on this campaign and are very frank in their assessment of the performance of the Allies and Germans on many levels.

Tale of Two Pateros chronicles the collective endeavors and triumphs in achieving sisterhood unity of the peoples of Pateros City in Washington State and Pateros in the Philippines, sparked by the circumstantial encounter and curious exploration of a group of Filipino-American travelers motoring back from a Canada visit.

No detailed description available for "e;Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas"e;.

With this short statement, I will try and give a snapshot of my life at that time, and why I wrote this book.