Bowles, Chester

Ambassador's Report

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 415, index; illustrated with black and white photographs and maps; blue cloth lettered in gilt, map endpapers in a pictorial dust jacket. The account of Ambassador Bowles in India and Southeast Asia. Very good/closed tear in jacket rear panel else a very good.

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Book number: 18639

Catalogue: Asia

Hall, H. Fielding

A People at School

London, Macmillan & Co, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; viii, 286, (ii), ads; decorated blue cloth lettered in gilt. A Study of Burma and the Burmese. Very good .

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Book number: 17504

Catalogue: Asia

Keywords: Burma; Myanmar;

Xinran

China Witness, Voices from a Silent Generation

New York, Pantheon, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (xii), 435, index; map and illustrations; blue cloth and cream paper covered boards lettered in silver in a dust jacket. Xinran, acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, traveled across China seeking out the nation's grandparents and great-grandparents, the men and women who experienced firsthand the tremendous changes of the modern era. Although many of them feared repercussions, they spoke with stunning candor about their hopes, fears, and struggles, and about what they witnessed: from the Long March to land reform, from Mao to marriage, from revolution to Westernization. In the same way that Studs Terkel's Working and Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation gave us the essence of very particular times, China Witness gives us the essence of modern China—a portrait more intimate, nuanced, and revelatory than any we have had before. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 19107

Catalogue: Asia