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Tide Players by Jianying Zha
mobi |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Jianying Zha

6. After our dinner, Zhang Weiying e-mailed me a number of his articles on university reform. Unlike the author of the cool, technical, official Beida documents, Zhang in these articles ...
( Category: China April 13,2016 )
The China Challenge by Thomas J. Christensen
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Thomas J. Christensen

The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis ONLY ONE YEAR after acceding to the NPT, China would be put to the test by North Korea, its longtime ally. The 1993–1994 crisis ...
( Category: Asian April 11,2016 )
Children of the Occupation by Walter Hamilton
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Hamilton

13 Kiyotaka’s story Corporal Charles Nation, a gangly, fair-haired, 26-year-old Australian veteran of the Borneo campaign, joined BCOF in 1947 and was assigned as an orderly-room clerk. Yoshie Kawasaki, a ...
( Category: Asian American Studies April 8,2016 )
A Story of Vietnam by Lam Truong Buu
epub |eng | 2011-12-24 | Author:Lam, Truong Buu [Lam, Truong Buu]

31. First Issue of the Tap Chi Cong San. Politics were more amenable in Cochinchina where the Constitutionalists more than ever vociferously demanded basic human rights while moving closer and ...
( Category: Asian April 8,2016 )
A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
epub |eng | 2014-06-11 | Author:Saroo Brierley

8. Resuming the Search By now, I should have been used to life’s many unexpected twists and turns. But things still manage to take me completely by surprise, and though ...
( Category: Australian April 8,2016 )
Kiss of the Yogini: “Tantric Sex” in Its South Asian Contexts by David Gordon White
epub |eng | | Author:David Gordon White

( Category: Hinduism April 8,2016 )
The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ji Xianlin
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Ji Xianlin [Xianlin, Ji]

IN THE COWSHED (1) WE WERE ABOUT to be herded into the prison we had built with our own hands. As the novelist Hu Feng said, “There is life to ...
( Category: China April 7,2016 )
The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
epub |eng | | Author:Erika Lee

47. Chiyoko Toguchi and Charles Swartz wedding portrait. The lives of many Japanese war brides in the United States did not always match these positive media portrayals. Cut off from ...
( Category: Asian American Studies April 3,2016 )
Curry by Lizzie Collingham
epub |eng | | Author:Lizzie Collingham

Recipe for cold meat Cutlets from Indian Cookery ‘Local’ for Young Housekeepers Materials. One lb. of cold Beef or mutton minced fine and pounded on a board with the ‘Koitha’ ...
( Category: Asia March 14,2016 )
Chiang Kai-Shek by Emily Hahn
epub |eng | | Author:Emily Hahn

10 STILWELL VS. CHENNAULT 1941–43 Chiang now embarked on a new sort of life, heavily involved with foreigners. He held diplomatic discussions with the leaders of the United Nations, and ...
( Category: China March 14,2016 )
The Soong Sisters by Emily Hahn
epub |eng | 1940-12-31 | Author:Emily Hahn

CHAPTER XVII Eling Gets a Taste of Public Life In may 1931 the group of dissatisfied leaders in Canton interrupted the people’s convention that was being held at Nanking with ...
( Category: China March 14,2016 )
South of the Clouds by Bill Porter
epub |eng | 2015-10-25 | Author:Bill Porter

The Stone Forest of Lunan It was only 125 kilometers southeast of Kunming and was already becoming a major tourist destination. But its fame was not recent. Over 2,300 years ...
( Category: General March 14,2016 )
Behind the Red Door:Sex in China by Burger Richard
mobi |eng | | Author:Burger, Richard. [Burger, Richard.]

Homosexuality No country has as rich and unusual a history of homosexuality as China. For centuries, China was more tolerant of same-sex love than nearly any other society, rivaled perhaps ...
( Category: China March 8,2016 )
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
mobi |eng | 2009-02-23 | Author:Xinran

In a Zhengzhou street, 2006, interviewing the shoe-mender, who was at first too shy to be photographed; on the right of the photo are instructions on how to clean your ...
( Category: China March 8,2016 )
Kashmir by Arundhati Roy
epub |eng | 2013-04-17 | Author:Arundhati Roy

Habba Khatun Poems by a Queen of Kashmir Translated by Nilla Cram Crook Habba Khatun I left my home for play Nor yet again Returned, although the day Sank in ...
( Category: Asian March 8,2016 )

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