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“daryl yeap”

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  • The King's Chinese

    From Barber to Banker, the story of Yeap Chor Ee and the Straits Chinese

    by Daryl Yeap ...
    An informative and well-researched book, The King's Chinese provides a superb account of the Straits British Chinese, a distinct migrant society from various districts of South China in the late 19th Century. Daryl Yeap gives us a fascinating story of this hybrid community, taking us on tour through one man's journey, beginning with how he left a war-ravaged China to Penang, where he started life ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • As Equals

    The Oei Women of Java

    by Daryl Yeap ...
    In this wonderfully detailed narrative, Daryl Yeap brings us the fascinating story of Hui-lan, Ida and Lucy, daughters and wife of Asia's richest man at the turn of the 20th century — Oei Tiong-ham. Flying planes, managing Asia's richest estate and charming the West with their sense of style and sophistication — at a time when bound feet, matchmaking and subservience were in vogue — the three ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Goh Keng Swee

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    by Tan Siok Sun ...
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  • Rebel Island

    the incredible history of Taiwan

    by Jonathan Clements ...
    The gripping story of Taiwan, from the flood myths of ancient legend to its ‘Asian Tiger’ economic miracle — and the looming threat of invasion by China.Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a ‘ball of mud’, Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smaller than Indiana. It is the last surviving enclave of the Republic of China, a lost colony of Japan, and ... Read more

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  • One Fine Day

    Britain's Empire on the Brink

    by Matthew Parker ...
    This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach—and the moment it began to topple.September 29, 1923. Once the Palestine Mandate officially takes effect, the British Empire—now covering a quarter of the world’s land and boasting a population of 460 million—is the largest the world has ever seen. But it is also an empire in rapid ... Read more

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  • The Interpreter's Daughter

    A Family Memoir

    by Teresa Lim ...
    A beautiful, sweeping, multigenerational narrative that spans from nineteenth century south China to modern day Singapore.I would learn that when families tell stories, what they leave out re-defines what they keep in. With my family, these were not secrets intentionally withheld. Just truths too painful to confront.In the last years of her life, Teresa Lim's mother, Violet Chang, had copies of a ... Read more

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  • A Tiger Remembers

    The Way We Were in Singapore

    by Ann Wee ...
    Born in the Year of the Fire Tiger, Ann Wee moved to Singapore in 1950 to marry into a Singaporean Chinese family, entering into a new world of cultural expectations and domestic rituals. She went on to become a pioneer in Singapore’s fledging social welfare department and is often described as the founding mother of social work in Singapore. In A Tiger Remembers, she draws on her decades of ... Read more

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  • Tan Kah-kee: The Making Of An Overseas Chinese Legend (Revised Edition)

    by Ching-fatt Yong ...
    For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee's case is his enormous contribution to employment and economic development in Singapore and Malaya. He was the only Chinese in history to have single-handedly founded a private university in Amoy and financially maintained it for sixteen years. He was the only Hua-ch'iao of his generation to ... Read more

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  • Fortune's Bazaar

    The Making of Hong Kong

    by Vaudine England ...
    A timely, well-researched, and “illuminating” (The New York Times Book Review) new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have made it a multicultural world metropolis—and whose freedoms are endangered today.Hong Kong has always been many cities to many people: a seaport, a gateway to an em... ... Read more

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    In Search of Ivy

    by Alison Choy Flannigan, Malcolm Oakes ...
    In Search of Ivy uncovers the fascinating story of the Lai family’s immigration from China to Australia and their interaction with Aboriginals and Europeansmaking up the local Australian community.Part historical recreation, part detective fact-gathering, the book pieces together the pastin a series of vignettes linking Canton (now Guangzhou) and Hong Kong with Cooktown and Thursday Island in Far ... Read more

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  • Hong Kong

    A Cultural History

    by Michael Ingham ...
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    Hong Kong has always been something of an anomaly, and an outpost of empire, whether British or Chinese. Once described as a barren island, the former fishing community has been transformed by its own economic miracle into one of Asia's World Cities, taking in its stride the territory's 1997 return to Chinese sovereignty. Beneath the surface of Hong Kong's clichéd self-image as Pearl of the Orient ... Read more

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