Author: Christopher G. Moore
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802196861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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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
Author: James R. Lilley
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 0786738480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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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.
Author: Richard McGregor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399562699
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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A Financial Times Best Book of 2017 “A shrewd and knowing book.” —Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal “A compelling and impressive read.” —The Economist “Skillfully crafted and well-argued.” —Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Financial Times “An excellent modern history. . . . provides the context needed to make sense of the region’s present and future.” —Joyce Lau, South China Morning Post A history of the combative military, diplomatic, and economic relations among China, Japan, and the United States since the 1970s—and the potential crisis that awaits them Richard McGregor’s Asia’s Reckoning is a compelling account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region that has flourished under an American security umbrella for more than half a century. The toxic rivalry between China and Japan, two Asian giants consumed with endless history wars and ruled by entrenched political dynasties, is threatening to upend the peace underwritten by Pax Americana since World War II. Combined with Donald Trump’s disdain for America’s old alliances and China's own regional ambitions, east Asia is entering a new era of instability and conflict. If the United States laid the postwar foundations for modern Asia, now the anchor of the global economy, Asia’s Reckoning reveals how that structure is falling apart. With unrivaled access to archives in the United States and Asia, as well as to many of the major players in all three countries, Richard McGregor has written a tale that blends the tectonic shifts in diplomacy with bitter domestic politics and the personalities driving them. It is a story not only of an overstretched America, but also of the rise and fall and rise of the great powers of Asia. The about-turn of Japan—from a colossus seemingly poised for world domination to a nation in inexorable decline in the space of two decades—has few parallels in modern history, as does the rapid rise of China—a country whose military is now larger than those of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and southeast Asia's combined. The confrontational course on which China and Japan are set is no simple spat between neighbors: the United States would be involved on the side of Japan in any military conflict between the two countries. The fallout would be an economic tsunami, affecting manufacturing centers, trade routes, and political capitals on every continent. Richard McGregor’s book takes us behind the headlines of his years reporting as the Financial Times’s Beijing and Washington bureau chief to show how American power will stand or fall on its ability to hold its ground in Asia.
Author: Kevin Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783822816196
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Author: Sheridan Prasso
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 9781586482145
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Uses interviews, media, reportage, and secondary sources to explore the historical and pop cultural roots of Western images of Asian women.
Author: Ordóñez de Pablos, Patricia
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1668458500
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and knowledge management can create innovative digital solutions and business opportunities in Asia from circular and green economies to technological disruption, innovation, and smart cities. It is essential to understand the impact and importance of AI and knowledge management within the digital economy for future development and for fostering the best practices within 21st century businesses. The Handbook of Research on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Management in Asia’s Digital Economy offers conceptual frameworks, empirical studies, and case studies that help to understand the latest developments in artificial intelligence and knowledge management, as well as its potential for digital transformation and business opportunities in Asia. Covering topics such as augmented reality. Convolutional neural networks, and digital transformation, this major reference work generates enriching debate on the challenges and opportunities for economic growth and inclusion in the region among business executives and leaders, IT managers, policymakers, government officials, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Author: Kuan-Hsing Chen
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822391694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold war. At the same time, the work of deimperialization became impossible to imagine in imperial centers such as Japan and the United States. Chen contends that it is now necessary to resume those tasks, and that decolonization, deimperialization, and an intellectual undoing of the cold war must proceed simultaneously. Combining postcolonial studies, globalization studies, and the emerging field of “Asian studies in Asia,” he insists that those on both sides of the imperial divide must assess the conduct, motives, and consequences of imperial histories. Chen is one of the most important intellectuals working in East Asia today; his writing has been influential in Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and mainland China for the past fifteen years. As a founding member of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society and its journal, he has helped to initiate change in the dynamics and intellectual orientation of the region, building a network that has facilitated inter-Asian connections. Asia as Method encapsulates Chen’s vision and activities within the increasingly “inter-referencing” East Asian intellectual community and charts necessary new directions for cultural studies.
Author: George C. Lesley
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1839757124
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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ASIA Something has found them... They are three different people, from very different walks of life, but they all share a special secret... They have all met with Asia, a strange creature who has dangerous gifts to give... Her life has been a long and tragic story... Their lives will never be the same again... Deborah , who runs her life as ruthlessly as she runs her business, will find herself loved for the first time and feel compelled to return it... Nathan will find peace amongst his dangerous world of criminals... And Simon will get a glimpse of a miracle in amongst his evolution studies...
Author: Rashan Nikki Rashan
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595374395
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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You've met her before. Confused. Scared. Indecisive and unsure. Walk with Kyla as she attempts to bandage aching wounds still bruised from a love once lost. Can she move forward in a relationship when fantasies and invitations from the past lure her back to a time and place she's spent three years hiding from, yet can't let go? "You Make Me Wanna.," the conclusion to its cliffhanger prequel, "Double Pleasure Double Pain," answers the question you've been hungry for: what happened to Kyla? Nikki Rashan has done it once again with her sophomore novel "You Make Me Wanna."! This masterfully written sequel to "Double Pleasure Double Pain" gives you another voyeuristic, yet intimate look into Kyla's journey to self-discovery. Its colorful language, vivid imagery, and Rashan's uniquely smart but fast paced story telling is soon to turn "You Make Me Wanna." into a classic.-Vertna Bradley, author of "Encounters" and owner of PATAVision Productions.
