M A Aldrich: 2 books
The Search for a Vanishing Beijing
A Guide to China's Capital Through the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
The Search for a Vanishing Beijing weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive narrative about the cultural mosaic of the capital of China. The author leads the reader through palaces, temples, back streets and markets while bringing back to living memory forgotten or...
Exile in Colonial Asia
Kings, Convicts, Commemoration
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial...