Malayan Emergency, The: Essays on a Small, Distant War Timor-Leste At long last the prose

At long last the prose fiction of this eminent twentieth-century Indonesian poet has been compiled and curated for an English-speaking audience

remains an essential characterizing event of Tibet’s modern history

The Lotus Paintings: A Geometry of Buddhist Knowledge

multifaceted volume that is of great benefit to students and specialists in unraveling the complexities of national and transnational dynamics in the region

Hans Penth (1937–2009) was a philologist-historian who specialised in northern Thai history

Malayan Emergency, The: Essays on a Small, Distant War Timor-Leste At long last the proseBy Souchou Yao One of the first conflicts of the Cold War, the Malayan Emergency was a guerrilla war fought between Commonwealth armed forces and communist insurgents in Malaya from 1948 to 1960. Souchou Yao tells its story in a series of penetrating and illuminating essays that range across a vast canvasfrom the protection of rubber and tin for a bankrupt post war Britain, to the British military violence as a heritage of the Victorian Imperial