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Rickshaw Coolie

Author : James Francis Warren
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971692667
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Rickshaw Coolie written by James Francis Warren and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1880 and 1930 colonial Singapore attracted tens of thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, brought to serve its rapidly growing economy. This book chronicles the vast movement of coolies between China and the Nanyang, and their efforts to survive in colonial Singapore. Focusing in on one particular occupation, of rickshaw coolie, this study unveils the devastating poverty of the Chinese sojourner in the colonial city, the disjunctions between colonial order and the reality of life on the streets. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including Coroner's records overlooked for many years, and making use of the technique of collective biography, this book brings to life the texture of experience, the ironies and - often - the despair of the laborers of urban Singapore. In the years since its original publication in 1986, Rickshaw Coolie has become an inspiration to those seeking to come to grips with Singapore's past.

Coolie

Author : Mulk Raj Anand
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780140186802
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Coolie written by Mulk Raj Anand and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bombay and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for survival that illuminates, with raw immediacy, the grim fate of the masses in pre-Partition India.

Darkest Truths of Black Gold

Author : Robert Smith
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9780595869251
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (692 download)

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Download or read book Darkest Truths of Black Gold written by Robert Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over forty years ago the British Government warned the Italian Government; "Don't trust the Russians." The author was there. Today, forty years later, Newsweek echoes the same warning to any country that puts its energy sources at the political whim and fancy of Mr. Putin. And what of the warnings that the United States Government was given over sixty years ago that Mao-Ze-tung was not the 'second coming of the Messiah'? The author was there. And he seethed in rage and torment as he tried to sleep on the steel deck of a United States evacuation LST while he heard the 'Messiah's guns laying siege to Beijing. But all good things come to an end, even the bad ones, and meeting the Queen of England at the Prime Minister's residence, The Temple Trees, in Ceylon and issuing an invitation to His Royal Highness to play polo more than compensated the author for his first evacuation. But the reasons for his second evacuation from Cairo and his family's evacuation from Beirut are not quite as clear as he would like. Hearing about them might give the reader some thoughts about the difficulties faced by their fellow citizens who serve them abroad.

Moving Singapore: from Rickshaws to Motorbikes

Author : Eileen Tan
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1543755178
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Moving Singapore: from Rickshaws to Motorbikes written by Eileen Tan and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a story about a tiny business, set up by an enterprising 19-year-old, that grew to become one of the largest and most well-respected companies in Singapore’s two-wheeler industry. It tracks the opportunities and challenges that Ban Hock Hin faced in Singapore and in the region over eighty years. The story focuses on how the founder’s son built up Ban Hock Hin during Singapore’s post-independence years. It recounts the times he turned each crisis that the business faced into a catalyst for its growth and, in doing so, forged the company into the industry leader it is today. In the telling of this story, we also trace the roots of his family, catch glimpses of Singapore society before and after the war, and look at the history of two-wheelers in Singapore. Part biography and part family business history, it is a tale about an ordinary Singaporean running a Singaporean business – and some of the extraordinary things he achieved while doing it.

György Ligeti

Author : Louise Duchesneau
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843835509
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book György Ligeti written by Louise Duchesneau and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The combination of new insights into Ligeti by people who knew him with new analytical approaches will make this a core publication not only for Ligeti scholars, but also for readers interested in post-war music history and in Hungarian culture. Shortlisted for the RPS Music Award 2012 for Creative Communication. György Ligeti: Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds offers a new assessment of a composer whose constant exploration of new sound worlds- based on the musics of different cultures and ages - contributed in crucial ways to making him one of the most important musical voices of the last 50 years. The book combines texts by former students, colleagues and friends, who reflect on different and so far unknown aspects of Ligeti's persona, with new musicological interpretations of his style and several of his main works. Among the contributors are some of the most eminent Ligeti scholars, including Richard Steinitz and Paul Griffiths. Louise Duchesneau, Ligeti's assistant of over 20 years, acts not only as contributor but also as co-editor of the volume. Many of the musicological chapters are based on studies of Ligeti's sketches, which are now housed by the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basle and were made available for research only recently. Two close collaborators representing disciplines which deeply interested Ligeti - Heinz-Otto Peitgen (a mathematician who introduced Ligeti to fractal geometry, which influenced many if his works since 1985) and Simha Arom (an ethnomusicologist who acquainted Ligeti with the complex rhythmic patters of the music of Sub-saharan Africa) - also reflect on the composer for the very first time in writing. The combination of new insights into Ligeti by people who knew him with new analytical approaches will make this a core publication not only for Ligeti scholars, but also for readers interested in music of the second half of the twentieth century and in Hungarian culture. WOLFGANG MARX is Lecturer in Music, University College Dublin. LOUISE DUCHESNEAU was Ligeti's assistant for 20 years Contributors: SIMHA AROM, JONATHAN W. BERNARD, CIARÁN CRILLY, LOUISE DUCHESNEAU, BENJAMIN DWYER, TIBORC FAZEKAS, PAUL GRIFFITHS, ILDIKÓ MÁNDI-FAZEKAS, WOLFGANG MARX, HEINZ-OTTO PEITGEN, FRIEDEMANN SALLIS, WOLFGANG-ANDREAS SCHULTZ, MANFRED STAHNKE, RICHARD STEINITZ

A Mission under Duress

Author : Suping Lu
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761851518
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book A Mission under Duress written by Suping Lu and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immediately after capturing the Chinese capital, Nanjing, on December 13, 1937, Japanese soldiers committed atrocities such as mass executions, rampant rapes, arson, and looting in and around the city. The carnage went on for weeks. On January 6, 1938, after the worst of the massacre atrocities was over, three American diplomats arrived in Nanjing. Upon their arrival, Third Secretary John Moore Allison, Vice Consul James Espy, and Code Clerk Archibald Alexander McFardyen, Jr. cabled dispatches about the atrocities and other conditions in the city to the Department of State and other U.S. diplomatic posts in China. Often, they dispatched several reports within a day. These atrocity reports, which were largely based on interviews with American missionaries and their own investigations, gave detailed descriptions of Japanese atrocities, property damage, social conditions, relief efforts, diplomatic wrestling, and many other aspects of life in the city during and after the massacre period. The value of these diplomatic dispatches and reports, which were retrieved from the national archives, rests on that they extensively document the American diplomats' role, their observations and attitude toward the situation there, their efforts to help the Chinese and protect the Americans, and their struggles with the Japanese.

The Far Eastern Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Far Eastern Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Singapore

Author : Mark Ravinder Frost
Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
ISBN 13 : 9814385166
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Singapore written by Mark Ravinder Frost and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brimming with verve and dramatic incident, Singapore: A Biography offers fresh insights into the life story of this island city-state through the personal experiences of the workers, adventurers, rulers and revolutionaries who have shaped its history over the last seven centuries. The authors, drawing on research undertaken in collaboration with the National Museum of Singapore, have woven together ancient chronicles, eyewitness accounts, oral histories and even modern radio and television broadcasts to create a vivid and compelling narrative that brings the past back to life. Grounded in scholarship yet fired by the imagination, this book reveals the Singapore story to have been as rich, diverse and multilayered as the city-state is prosperous, ordered and successful today.

The Far Eastern Review, Engineering, Finance, Commerce

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Far Eastern Review, Engineering, Finance, Commerce written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond the Neon Lights

Author : Hanchao Lu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052093167X
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Neon Lights written by Hanchao Lu and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals—revolution, war, and again revolution—that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chinese history, our understanding of the daily lives of the common people of China remains sketchy and incomplete. In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves rich documentary data with ethnographic surveys and interviews to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life in China's largest and most complex city in the first half of this century.

Cities in Motion

Author : Su Lin Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107108330
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Cities in Motion written by Su Lin Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia's ethnically diverse port cities, seen within the global context of the interwar era.

Daily Consular and Trade Reports

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1776 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Consular and Trade Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

They Were in Nanjing

Author : Suping Lu
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622096859
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book They Were in Nanjing written by Suping Lu and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nanjing Massacre, which took place after the Japanese attacked and captured Nanjing in December 1937, shocked the world with the magnitude of its atrocities. With newly uncovered eye-witness material left behind by American and British journalists, missionaries, and diplomats, They Were in Nanjing takes the readers back in time to revisit the event and live through those horror-filled days. The first-hand accounts range from English media reports, personal records, missionary and Christian organization documents, to American and British diplomatic and military documents. The research yields new discoveries and presents issues that have previously not been adequately dealt with, for instance, Japanese attacks on American citizens, and losses and damage to American and British properties as a result of Japanese atrocities. No other book on the Nanjing Massacre presents the first-hand foreign perspective so thoroughly or consistently.

Chinese Economic Bulletin

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Economic Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Munsey's Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Munsey's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Munsey's Magazine for ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Munsey's Magazine for ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ah Ku and Karayuki-san

Author : James Francis Warren
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971692674
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Ah Ku and Karayuki-san written by James Francis Warren and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the groups of workers whose labour built Singapore in the 20th century were women who travelled from China and Japan to work in Singapore as prostitutes. This study explores the trade in women and children in Asia, and looks at the daily lives of prostitutes in the colonial city.