Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
by Lee Kuan Yew
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Lee Kuan Yew played the pivotal role in Singapores transition from British Crown Colony to independent developing nation, and on to the economically powerful and diplomatically influential city-state it is today. Throughout this surprising and at times painful journey, he has proved a charismatic...
by Nicholas Grossman, Dominic Faulder
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
King Bhumibol Adulyadej is the world's longest-serving head of state and one of its most intriguing leaders. Born in the United States and educated in Europe, he unexpectedly became king of Thailand in 1946, acceding to the throne after the tragic death of his brother. The story of his life, reign...
Perfect Hostage
A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The “absorbing . . . charming and persuasive” story of Nobel Peace Prize–winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the world’s best-known prisoner of conscience (Publishers Weekly).
As one senior UN official put it, Burma is a country where “just to turn your head can mean imprisonment or death.”...
Lee Kuan Yew
The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Grand strategist and founder of modern Singapore offers key insights and controversial opinions on globalization, geopolitics, economic growth, and democracy.
When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and...
by S R Nathan
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Once a teenage runaway, living rough in a colonial port city, S R Nathan rose to become two-term president of prosperous, independent Singapore. In this exceptional book, he shares the story of his personal journey, set against the backdrop of modern Singapore history.He tells his own story,...
by Carmen Navarro Pedrosa
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
First released in 1969, during a time of great uncertainty for the Philippines, this unauthorized biography of one of the most intriguing women in the world was banned in her own country. For writing it, Carmen Pedrosa, with her family, was exiled to London for 20 years.Despite that, The Untold Story...
by Jessica Hagedorn
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Dramatic version of Dogeaters *New book being published by Viking/Penguin in 2003
by John Pilger
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Throughout his distinguished career as a journalist and film-maker, John Pilger has looked behind the 'official' versions of events to report the real stories of our time.
The centrepiece of this new, expanded edition of his bestselling Distant Voices is Pilger's reporting from East Timor,...
Night, Again
Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A couple's scheme to get rich by killing their father backfires, leaving them in charge of a cripple. In heaven, a baby, dead through neglect, tells his playmates: "Life down there is just one long sleep." A young soldier, saved by a stranger, can never again find her to thank her. A man...
Lucky Child
A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant...
Cambodia's Curse
The Modern History of a Troubled Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge.
A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history--the streets of Phnom Penh were paved; skyscrapers...
Mourning Headband for Hue
An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
“An intimate―and disturbing―account of war at its most brutal, told from the point of view of civilians trying to survive the maelstrom.” —Publishers Weekly
Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives...
In Pharaoh's Army
Memories of the Lost War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic.
Migrants for Export
How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Migrant workers from the Philippines are ubiquitous to global capitalism, with nearly 10 percent of the population employed in almost two hundred countries. In a visit to the United States in 2003, Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo even referred to herself as not only the head of state but...