Asia
mobi |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Thomas Laird

With the Convention Between Great Britain and China Respecting Tibet, Britain implied that the Manchu Empire was not a foreign state in relation to Tibet but did not say that ...
( Category: Tibetan March 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-05 | Author:Hsiao-ting Lin

* * * 6 Reconfiguring ethnic frontier territoriality The summit, rising prestige, and grand planning In the fall of 1943, when Chiang Kai-shek was invited to meet with Allied leaders ...
( Category: Cultural March 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Watts [Watts, Jonathan]

It was not far from heaven to hell in Xinjiang. At the foot of the Tian Mountains was the Turpan Depression, the lowest and hottest place in China. In classical ...
( Category: Asian March 12,2015 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-10-22 | Author:John Man [Man, John]

The Great Raid on Russia and its crucial encounter on the Kalka river had extraordinary consequences. As the Mongols rode back to rejoin Genghis on the Irtish river, they brought ...
( Category: China March 11,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:SONIA FALEIRO [FALEIRO, SONIA]

Shetty drove up to Leela’s flat in his navy blue Tata Sumo, and it said a lot that he was willing to risk being seen with her outside the dance ...
( Category: Women in History March 10,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-06-25 | Author:Osnos, Evan [Osnos, Evan]

FOURTEEN THE GERM IN THE HENHOUSE The people in sunglasses did not immediately attract attention. When the first portraits appeared on Chinese social media sites in the fall of 2011, ...
( Category: China March 10,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-03-13 | Author:Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Goldstein have rightly put it, the revolution was "not the predetermined working out of structural factors or the inevitable Big Boom emanating from the mixture of revolutionary preconditions and revolutionary ...
( Category: China March 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-12-31 | Author:Peter Hessler

“He’s not on television in their Canada, either. The only place where he is on television is China.” For the woman, like many of the Chinese that I met, this ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-04 | Author:Mike Davis

Figure 8.1 Teleconnection as Selective Interaction In these entangled modes, ENSO impulses interact on longer timescales with regional climate periodicities, which, depending on phase, can either amplify or decrease the ...
( Category: History March 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-04 | Author:James McGregor

The Little Red Book of Business Be tough. The Chinese respect it. Never “tremble and obey” if doing so will damage or destroy your business in China. If engaged in ...
( Category: Global March 5,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:William Dalrymple

The scale of William’s ambitions has echoes of the world of Conrad, with its steamships, up-country logging stations, ivory hunters, uncharted malarial forests and riverboats. Yet, driven forward with an ...
( Category: General March 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:John Keay

It is a wonder to us that any of you live six months, and that there are not more quarrellings and duellings amongst you, if half these liquors were guzzled ...
( Category: India March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Ayesha Jalal [Jalal, Ayesha]

“You Can Forget Elections” Islamic ideology and military might were the twin pillars on which General Zia-ul-Haq began building his new order.2 Senior civil bureaucrats who encountered him could see ...
( Category: Asian March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Chawadee Nualkhair [Nualkhair, Chawadee]

Guaythiew Pik Gai Sai Nampheung กว๋ ยเตี๋ยวปีกไกส่ ายนํ้าผึง้, 392/20 ถนนสุขุมวิท อยูใ่ นซอยฝั่งขวา ระหวา่ งซอย 20 และซอย 18 SHOPHOUSE, 392/20 SUKHUMVIT, SUKHUMVIT This unassuming spot plastered with pictures of the Thai ...
( Category: Thai March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-30 | Author:Benjamin Netanyahu [NETANYAHU, BENJAMIN]

When we speak of the armed struggle, whose legality is recognized by the United Nations, we are speaking of all the occupied territories of Palestine.… It is our right to ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 3,2015 )