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| Title: A Danger Shared |
| Sub-title: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War |
| By (author): Bill Lascher Photographs by: Melville Jacoby Foreword by: Paul French |
| ISBN10-13: 9887963992 : 9789887963998 |
| A Danger Shared provides a searing visual history of Asia during World War II as seen by foreign correspondent Melville Jacoby. In this meticulously curated collection of never-before-seen images, readers experience glamorous Macau soirĂ©es, visit Guangxi farms, and witness wartime Chongqingâ s wreckage and resilience. Along the way, Jacoby treats Filipino fishermen and Hanoi flower-sellers with the same care as the Soong sisters, Chiang Kai-Shek, and other icons. Through scenes of everyday friendship, toil, and commerce alongside bombed classrooms, anxious refugees, and exhausted soldiers, A Danger Shared documents humanityâ s persistence at a cataclysmic historical moment. |
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Pages: 276
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| Published: Blacksmith Books - June 2024 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 45.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 44 |
| Title: 1 of: 118 |
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| Title: A Murder in Yunnan |
| Sub-title: The Unsolved Killing of a British Diplomat on China's Southwestern Frontier |
| By (author): David Leffman |
| ISBN10-13: 9887674915 : 9789887674917 |
| Who did kill British diplomat Augustus Raymond Margary on the remote China-Burma frontier in 1875? It could have been agents of the Burmese king, eager to stop the British from undermining his own countryâ s trade with China; or local Chinese, scared that Margary was spearheading a British invasion from Burma. Some suspected a plot going right back to the xenophobic Chinese governor, Cen Yuying, or perhaps Margary had simply run foul of bandits â and how was a tribute envoy of Burmese elephants involved? Against a background of colonial arrogance and cultural incomprehension, A Murder in Yunnan unpicks the complex tangle of official reports, rumour, suspicions and unreliable newspaper rants clouding the facts behind Margaryâ s killing â an event which brought Britain and China to the brink of war. |
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Pages: 248
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| Published: Blacksmith Books - January 2026 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 13.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 4 |
| Title: 2 of: 118 |
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| Title: Along the Southern Boundary |
| Sub-title: A Marine Police Officer's Frontline Account of the Vietnamese Boatpeople and their Arrival in Hong Kong |
| By (author): Les Bird |
| ISBN10-13: 9887554731 : 9789887554738 |
| We had no jurisdiction outside of Hong Kong waters. But we could see their vessels sinking in heavy seas. It was life or death, right there. We just went. Former Marine Police officer Les Bird tells of the harrowing sea journey to Hong Kong made by tens of thousands of refugees in the years that followed the end of the Vietnam War. As he patrolled the southern maritime boundary of Hong Kong, he photographed their makeshift boats and later the people-smuggling vessels coming in including the Sen On, a freighter ship that was abandoned by its crew and ran aground on Lantau Island. With this previously unpublished collection of personal photographs, Bird tells the stories of these boatpeople the young children, the father who just bought a boat to embark on a 1,000-mile journey, and the disillusioned North Vietnamese battle-hardened veterans all searching for a new life. |
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Pages: 172
Size: 216x216mm
Illustrations: 120 colour photos & 4 maps
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| Published: Blacksmith Books - January 2022 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Memoirs : Asian history : Social & cultural history : Vietnam : Hong Kong |
| List Price: 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 12 |
| Title: 3 of: 118 |
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| Title: Alphabet of Vietnam |
| By (author): Jonathan Chamberlain |
| ISBN10-13: 988190028X : 9789881900289 |
| When Joe dies, his brother Jack thinks it's an accident . . . until the parcel arrives with Joe's diaries and notebooks, and the map of the cabin high up in the Appalachians where Joe's war buddy, Wash, is hiding out with a girl he's kidnapped -- just the latest in a long line of girls. Joe has one last favour to ask of his brother. He wants Jack to rescue the girl and -- if he has to -- kill Wash too. So starts a complex and intense tale that involves a journey back to Vietnam and into the dark past: a past where Clausewitz, the philosopher of war, meets de Sade, the philosopher of man's own individual evil. But there are too the incendiary eyes of innocent judgement. And there is love -- and love is complicated. |
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Pages: 296
Size: 130x200mm
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| Published: Blacksmith Books (HK) - June 2011 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 8.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 4 of: 118 |
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| Title: Apologies Forthcoming |
| Sub-title: Stories Not About Mao |
| By (author): Xujun Eberlein |
| ISBN10-13: 9881774284 : 9789881774286 |
| Winner of the third annual Tartt Fiction Award. It was some decade. The universities were closed. Students were at war. Poetry was banned. And the word "love", unless applied to Mao, was expressly forbidden. Artists were denounced, and many opted for suicide. This is the time -- its madness, its passion, its complexity -- that Xujun Eberlein brings vividly to life in Apologies Forthcoming, her moving collection of short stories about the millions who lived during China's Cultural Revolution. An award-winning writer who now lives in Massachusetts, Eberlein has nothing to apologise for. Her stories are electrifying. About half of the stories take place during the years of the Cultural Revolution; the other half in its aftermath. How many come from personal experience is hard to say. Eberlein, who lived through the Cultural Revolution's decade as a child and teenager, had a sister who died as a Red Guard, and that event seems fictionalised in one of the stories. Apologies Forthcoming shines a revealing light on some of the people whose lives were changed forever by the ten years that turned China upside down. Eberlein does the great service of illuminating the interior lives of a peculiar generation, many of whom are now leading China's phenomenal awakening. |
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| Men Don't Apologize; Snow Line; Pivot Point; Feathers; Watch the Thrill; Disciple of the Masses; Randomness of Love; Second Encounter. |
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Pages: 202
Size: 130x195mm
Illustrations: 5 b/w illus
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| Published: Blacksmith Books (HK) - January 2009 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : China |
| List Price: 7.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 5 of: 118 |
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| Title: Ayo Gorkhali |
| Sub-title: The True Story of the Gurkhas |
| By (author): Tim I Gurung |
| ISBN10-13: 9887963909 : 9789887963905 |
| Ayo Gorkhali! The Gurkhas are upon you! is the battle cry of one of the worlds most famous fighting forces. Yet the Gurkha story is not only about bravery in combat. It is also a story of tragedy. In WWI alone, 200,000 Gurkhas out of Nepals five million people took up arms for the British cause. A further 250,000 Gurkhas fought alongside the British in WWII. In their 200-year history, the Gurkhas have served in places such as Malaya, Singapore, Borneo, East Timor, Hong Kong, Cyprus, the Falklands, Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo. Although the British Empires reign in Asia has ended, some 3,500 Gurkhas are currently serving in the British Army in the UK. |
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“Very few Gurkhas have written and published their stories in the form of books. And less than a handful have done so in the English language. The scant stories written by retired Gurkha soldiers are generally in the Nepali language and have seldom reached a global audience. I cannot emphasize the importance of such writings enough. They help break the stereotype built by western authors who oftentimes present a skewed image of the Gurkhas by glamourizing and valourizing their bravery, martial prowess, and loyalty. Western authors seldom pick up on or highlight the harrowing experiences faced by the Gurkhas both on and off the battlefield. Ayo Gorkhali disrupts this one-sided narrative by offering a more comprehensive and multidimensional view of the recruitment, pre- and post-recruitment, and post-retirement facets of Gurkha life. The author has done extensive fieldwork within Nepal and beyond, and talked to over a hundred veteran Gurkhas in order to bring forth many of their unheard stories.” — The Record, Nepal
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"Gurung describes the Gurkhas as having historically been "simple and straightforward people", with a degree of loyalty that allowed little to no scope for their own agency. He hopes the book will help people, especially Nepalis themselves, better comprehend more than two centuries of the Gurkha experience. "The impact it had on our people, community and the country was huge, and people need to understand that," he says." — Straits Times, Singapore
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“Ayo Gorkhali takes us on a journey of the Gurkhas, starting with their induction into the British Indian Army. Impressed by their bravery in the Anglo-Nepal War, the British decided to recruit soldiers from Nepal, and the 1st Gurkha Rifles was raised in 1815. This was the beginning of a 200-year-old legacy that survives till today.
As an officer who has worn the Gurkha badge for 40 years, I can relate to the passion and sentiment of Tim Gurung and his attempt in the book to go beyond the stories of valour and fighting skills of the Gurkhas. He has, therefore, covered a whole range of issues like Gurkha women, Gurkhas in literature, recruitment policy, etc.” — The Tribune, India
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Pages: 332
Size: 216x140mm
Illustrations: 40 b/w photos
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| Published: Blacksmith Books (HK) - May 2021 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Military history |
| List Price: 13.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 6 of: 118 |
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| Title: Backstage in Hong Kong |
| Sub-title: A life with the Philharmonic, Broadway musicals and classical superstars |
| By (author): John Duffus |
| ISBN10-13: 9887674907 : 9789887674900 |
| After 50 momentous years, little is remembered of the chaos the Hong Kong Philharmonic faced in its early days as a professional outfit. John Duffus arrived in Hong Kong in 1979 as its fifth general manager in as many years. In this entertaining memoir he highlights those problems and illustrates how, with typical Scottish grit and determination, he helped get the orchestra on the road as an international ensemble. Johnâ s subsequent concerts as a Hong Kong impresario with superstars Luciano Pavarotti, JosĂ© Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Leslie Cheung, Kiri Te Kanawa, Yo-Yo Ma and many others, including pop icons Dionne Warwick and Olivia Newton-John, make for fascinating and occasionally shocking stories, as do the almost unbelievable backstage dramas he reveals â some complete in all their back-stabbing detail â while managing Andrew Lloyd Webberâ s Asian companies and bringing CATS and Phantom of the Opera to Hong Kong. |
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Pages: 392
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| Published: Blacksmith Books - July 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Military history |
| List Price: 14.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 7 of: 118 |
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| Title: Business Republic of China |
| Sub-title: Tales from the Front Line of China's New Revolution |
| By (author): Jack Leblanc |
| ISBN10-13: 988997990X : 9789889979904 |
| Jack Leblanc arrived in China in 1989 intending to teach Physics for just two years. He was to spend the next two decades on a very different learning curve as he became involved in a series of business ventures in almost every part of the Middle Kingdom. From farmyard to factory, boardroom to banquet, Leblanc witnessed (and occasionally assisted) the transformation of China from a socialist economy into the world's greatest experiment in capitalism. Over time it dawned upon him that the key to success is to manage the differences in Chinese and Western business behaviour. To do well in China you must carefully adapt your strategies -- or face ruin faster than you can learn how to use chopsticks. |
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Pages: 248
Size: 140x215mm
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| Published: Blacksmith Books (HK) - April 2008 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Autobiography: business & industry : China |
| List Price: 9.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 8 of: 118 |
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| Title: China |
| Sub-title: Portrait of a People |
| By (author): Tom Carter |
| ISBN10-13: 9889979942 : 9789889979942 |
| The Beijing Olympics focused the world's eyes on China. But despite increased tourism and rampant foreign investment, the cultural distance between China and the West remains as vast as the oceans that separate them. The Middle Kingdom is still relatively unknown by Westerners. China is in fact made up of 33 distinct regions populated by 56 ethnic groups -- and photojournalist Tom Carter has visited them all. This little book is a visual tribute to the People's Republic of China, with an ardent emphasis on the People. |
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| Book I: North China; Book II: East China; Book III: South China; Book IV: Central China; Book V: West China.Epilogue by Mian Mian. |
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Pages: 638
Size: 155x155mm
Illustrations: 880 colour photos & 33 maps
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| Published: Blacksmith Books (HK) - January 2008 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Cultural studies : China |
| List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Title: 9 of: 118 |
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| Title: Chinese Ghosts Revisited |
| Sub-title: A Study of Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences |
| By (author): Charles Emmons |
| ISBN10-13: 9881376440 : 9789881376442 |
| Do the Hong Kong Chinese experience ghosts, hauntings, spirit mediumship, ESP and other paranormal phenomena just like British and Americans? Or is their culture so different that the ghost accounts in this book will seem bizarre to anyone else? This classic presentation of cases is based on 3,600 interviews, questionnaires and observations in Hong Kong in 1980/81, updated by recent materials over 30 years later. Interestingly, in spite of clear influences from ancestor worship and Confucian/Taoist/Buddhist culture, parapsychological theories of apparitions from the West also apply to the Chinese cases. For this 2017 edition, Charles Emmons has revisited his earlier conclusions and added new material that has come to light in the intervening years. This book remains the only major cross-cultural study comparing Chinese with Western ghost experiences. |
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Pages: 320
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| Published: Blacksmith Books (HK) - October 2017 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Religious groups: social & cultural aspects : Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal |
| List Price: 13.59 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 10 of: 118 |
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