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Showing posts with label Asian history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asian history. Show all posts
Thursday 16 November 2023

The Siege of Tsingtau: The German-Japanese War 1914 by Charles Stephenson.

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World War I in the Far East was a sideshow in the grand scheme of things, but it had long-reaching implications, setting up further conflict...
Wednesday 16 August 2023

The Peking Express by James M. Zimmerman

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In 1923, the Blue Express, a luxury train also known as the Peking Express, departed from Shanghai, chugging northward to Peking. On the nig...
Saturday 15 July 2023

Play the Red Queen - A Vietnam War Crime Thriller

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Saigon 1963 – multiple American military advisers and South Vietnamese Army officers are gunned down by the mysterious Red Queen, a deadly V...
Thursday 29 June 2023

Ghost Girl, Banana: Elaine Chiew Chats With Acclaimed Debut Novelist Wiz Wharton

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About the Book: Set between the last years of the “Chinese Windrush” in 1966 and Hong Kong’s Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inherit...
Sunday 5 September 2021

The Japanese Home Front 1937 - 1945 by Philipp Jowett & Adam Hook

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As I’ve stated many times, there’s long been a blind spot about the Asian Theater of World War II. You can stack the books written about Naz...
Saturday 5 September 2020

When the Red Gates Opened: A Memoir of China's Reawakening

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The 1980s was a period of rapid change and economic growth for China. In 1979, paramount leader Deng Xiaoping opened special economic zones ...
Thursday 6 August 2020

Japan's Asian Allies - A Look at the Collaborationist Regimes of World War II

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Compared to Nazi Germany, the Japanese Empire during World War II receives little to no coverage in Western media. Even more obscure, are ...
Sunday 5 July 2020

The Bitter Peace by Philip S. Jowett - Conflict in China 1928-1937

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Chinese history has long been ignored in the West, but a few spotlights do shine out from time to time on certain events, even if only to ...
Friday 5 June 2020

Golden Kamuy Volumes 1-5 - A Shonen Manga of Adventure and History

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Golden Kamuy by Satoru Noda is a shonen manga series that covers a wide range of genres – adventure, war, political intrigue, comedy, an...
Sunday 3 May 2020

Japan's Greatest Victory, Britain's Worst Defeat - A Memoir of the Battle of Singapore

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It’s often said “history is written by the victors,” and this only half true. While the narrative of World War II is definitely constructe...
Saturday 4 April 2020

Osprey's Japanese Armies 1868 - 1877 - The Boshin War and Satsuma Rebellion

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Osprey Publishing has become synonymous (in my mind at least) for quality research into military history of all time periods, throughout t...
Wednesday 18 March 2020

The Day The Music Died: Elaine Chiew Sits Down With Fairoz Ahmad

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Fairoz Ahmad, courtesy of Ethos Books Bio: Fairoz Ahmad is the co-founder of the award-winning social enterprise, Chapter W. For ...
Thursday 13 February 2020

Japanese Destroyer Captain - A Memoir of The Pacific War

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Japanese Destroyer Captain is the postwar memoir of Tameichi Hara, a Japanese Navy officer who earned the nickname the “Miracle Captain.”...
Monday 3 June 2019

Eminent Historian Professor Wang Gungwu converses with Elaine Chiew on his autobiography, Home Is Not Here

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Photo courtesy of NUS Press From the book jacket: Wang Gungwu is one of Asia’s most important public intellectuals. He is best-known...