Old Asia Hand
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Old Asia Hand
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Author : Kenneth J. Hall
language : en
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
Release Date : 2016-02-10
Old Asia Hand written by Kenneth J. Hall and has been published by Partridge Publishing Singapore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-10 with Fiction categories.
The trilogy is about a young and fresh out of university engineer who lands a job in SE Asia. Totally unknown territory for him. All the mishaps and mistakes and misunderstandings. Local ladies. Other expats. Beautiful ladies and some not so nice. Generally how he muddles his way through whilst employed by the UK government and not end up in jail. Beginnings is how it all came about and is based in the UK, learning curve is based in SE Asia, and all the confusion and mishaps. In Old Asia Hand, which is when he feels he has a handle and a firm grip on life in SE Asia, and how mistaken he can be.
Asia Hand
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Author : Christopher G. Moore
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2010-07-13
Asia Hand written by Christopher G. Moore and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-13 with Fiction categories.
Shamus Award Winner: A disbarred American lawyer-turned-PI tracks down a killer: “Think Dashiell Hammett in Bangkok” (San Francisco Chronicle). It’s the Year of the Monkey in Bangkok. But expat Vincent Calvino’s Chinese New Year celebration has been interrupted. Thai cops have fished the body of a farang—foreign—cameraman from Lumpini Park Lake, and CNN is running dramatic footage of several Burmese soldiers on the Thailand border executing students. Calvino follows the trail of the dead man to a feature film crew, where he hits the wall of silence. On the other side of that wall, Calvino and Colonel Pratt discover an elite film unit of old Asia hands with connections to influential people in Southeast Asia. They are about to find themselves matched against a set of farangs conditioned for urban survival and willing to go for a knockout punch. “Highly recommended to readers of hard-boiled detective fiction, including series set in Bangkok (especially John Burdett’s Sonchai Jitplecheep novels) as well as the classic American tough-guy authors (Raymond Chandler or, more recently, Robert B. Parker).” —Booklist “When Americans discover Christopher G. Moore, they’re going to strip the bookstores bare of his work.”—T. Jefferson Parker
Old Asia Hand
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Author : Gerard Newcombe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-11
Old Asia Hand written by Gerard Newcombe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11 with Short stories, Australian categories.
"An action packed account of adventure and excitement see through a variety of short stories. Follow Charles Sinclair, adventurer and "Old Asia hand" on his journeys through Asia and the Pacific."
An Old Asia Hand
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Author : Todd Crowell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
An Old Asia Hand written by Todd Crowell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Asia categories.
Carl Crow A Tough Old China Hand
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Author : Paul French
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2006-10-01
Carl Crow A Tough Old China Hand written by Paul French and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-01 with History categories.
Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for the next quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and groundbreaking adman. He also did stints as a hostage negotiator, emergency police sergeant, gentleman farmer, go-between for the American government, and propagandist. As his career progressed, so did the fortunes of Shanghai. The city transformed itself from a dull colonial backwater when Crow arrived, to the thriving and ruthless cosmopolitan metropolis of the 1930s when Crow wrote his pioneering book – 400 Million Customers – that encouraged a flood of businesses into the China market in an intriguing foreshadowing of today's boom. Among Crow's exploits were attending the negotiations in Peking that led to the fall of the Qing Dynasty, getting a scoop on Japanese interference in China during the First World War, negotiating the release of a group of Western hostages from a mountain bandit lair, and being one of the first Westerners to journey up the Burma Road during the Second World War. He met most of the major figures of the time, including Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, the Soong sisters, and Mao's second-in-command Zhou En-lai. During the Second World War, he worked for American intelligence alongside Owen Lattimore, coordinating US policies to support China against Japan. The story of this one exceptional man gives us a rich view of Shanghai and China during those tempestuous years. This is a book for all with an interest in Shanghai and China of this period, and those with an interest in the development of journalism and business there.
Asia Hand
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Author : Christopher Moore
language : en
Publisher: Black Cat
Release Date : 2010
Asia Hand written by Christopher Moore and has been published by Black Cat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
The body an American acquaintance of Calvino's is fished out of the lake in Lumpini Park. Around his neck is a string of wooden amulets, the kind upcountry Thais wear to protect themselves from evil spirits. Only, rather than saving the man, these have killed him.
China Hands
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Author : James R. Lilley
language : en
Publisher: Public Affairs
Release Date : 2009-03-04
China Hands written by James R. Lilley and has been published by Public Affairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-04 with History categories.
James Lilley's life and family have been entwined with China's fate since his father moved to the country to work for Standard Oil in 1916. Lilley spent much of his childhood in China and after a Yale professor took him aside and suggested a career in intelligence, it became clear that he would spend his adult life returning to China again and again. Lilley served for twenty-five years in the CIA in Laos, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Taiwan before moving to the State Department in the early 1980s to begin a distinguished career as the U.S.'s top-ranking diplomat in Taiwan, ambassador to South Korea, and finally, ambassador to China. From helping Laotian insurgent forces assist the American efforts in Vietnam to his posting in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square crackdown, he was in a remarkable number of crucial places during challenging times as he spent his life tending to America's interests in Asia. In China Hands, he includes three generations of stories from an American family in the Far East, all of them absorbing, some of them exciting, and one, the loss of Lilley's much loved and admired brother, Frank, unremittingly tragic. China Hands is a fascinating memoir of America in Asia, Asia itself, and one especially capable American's personal history.
The China Hands
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Author : Ely Jacques Kahn
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group
Release Date : 1976
The China Hands written by Ely Jacques Kahn and has been published by Penguin Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Political Science categories.
Asia In The Old And New Cold Wars
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Author : Kenneth Paul Tan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-02-06
Asia In The Old And New Cold Wars written by Kenneth Paul Tan and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-06 with Political Science categories.
This is a collection of essays marking the 30th anniversary of the historic Cold War’s formal conclusion in 1991. It enriches Cold War studies—a field dominated by Political Science, International Relations, and History—with insights from Sociology, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, and Film and Media Studies. Through critical analysis of newspaper and magazine articles, films, novels, art exhibits, museums, and other commemorative sites that engage with the themes of conflict, violence, trauma, displacement, marginalization, ecology, and identity, the book provides rich and diverse perspectives on the complex relationship between the historic Cold War and its legacies on the one hand and, on the other, their impact on Asia, its plural histories and peoples, and their shifting identities, ideological beliefs, and lived experiences. Today, we often speak of an ‘Asian century’ and witness intensifying concerns over ‘new cold wars’ or ‘Cold War 2.0’. A United States in decline and a China on the rise create conditions for a new superpower rivalry, with a trade war already being fought between the two competitors. Russia continues to flex its geopolitical muscles, launching a full-scale invasion of neighbouring Ukraine in 2022, as its strongman leadership yearns nostalgically for the good old days of the USSR. As grand narratives and strategies of the Cold War jostle to make sense of high-level geopolitical events, this book descends to the level of lived experience, zooming in on ordinary and marginalized peoples, whose lives and livelihoods have been affected over the decades by the Cold War and its legacies.
Thailand Old Hand
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Author : Peter Jaggs
language : en
Publisher: Booksmango
Release Date : 2014-08-13
Thailand Old Hand written by Peter Jaggs and has been published by Booksmango this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-13 with categories.
Peter Jaggs has the unerring ability of being able to blunder into a good story wherever he travels in Asia. Whether perusing the bars and brothels of Pattaya and Angeles City, meeting up with an archaic spirit doctor in the wilds of the Isaan countryside, losing his way in the war-time tunnels of Cu-Chi in Vietnam, becoming embroiled in a punch-up with the local tough-guy in a Philippine backstreet or encountering an ethereal ghost on a deserted, moonlit beach in Thailand, he tells the tale with his own peculiar stamp of originality, humor and accuracy. The twenty true short stories in this - the author's eighth book - are as colorful, diverse and sometimes as confusing as the continent of Asia itself. Many will make you laugh, others may make you want to cry and one or two will probably appall you. Whatever your reaction may be to some of the memories of a man who has spent almost three decades making the most of what Asia has to offer, 'Thailand Old Hand' makes for a rattling good suitcase read and is a book you will find hard to put down. *** "The author is an Old Thailand Hand; it's apparent he has been around long enough to become insightful" Bangkok Post "Jaggs has become like a master brewer, skillfully distilling a wealth of living experiences into some very funny moments" Pattaya Trader
