Death In The Flowery Kingdom

Author : Steven M. Roth
Publisher : Blackstone Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1732874808

Get Book

Death in the Flowery Kingdom by Steven M. Roth Pdf

SHANGHAI, 1935.Someone is Murdering People in the Most Enticing and Most Dangerous City in the World.Someone in this atmospheric, richly-woven period piece, is systematically killing people in Shanghai's notorious and popular Flowery Kingdom. And it is Inspector-Detective Sun-jin's job to track down the killer and arrest him, all at great peril to himself and to the people he loves.As Sun-jin investigates the murders, and deals with his complicated personal life, he takes us through Shanghai's contrasting and conflicting worlds of East and West - down the city's dark alleys and streets, through its Triad-controlled underworld, and into the plush private clubs of its British and American expatriates. Sun-jin shows us Shanghai at its best and at its worst - its popular nightclubs, its jazz bands, its taxi dancers, and its gambling dens, all places where money and greed thrive, human life means little, and disparate international cultures, power, and politics often collide.

Author : Carl Crow
Publisher : Earnshaw Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789889963330

Get Book

Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom by Carl Crow Pdf

Originally published in 1940, this is Carl Crow’s entertaining autobiography, the story of his more than 25 years of adventures and success in Shanghai during the tumultuous early decades of the 20th century. This book is a tale of East meets West set in the wild and heady days of inter-war China. It is an account of how two cultures clashed, bickering over business deals and social norms as they tried to find a way to live with each other.

Author : M. B. H. (of Arkansas, C.S.A.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023255063

Get Book

Confederate notes for English circulation. By M. B. H., of Arkansas, C.S.A. by M. B. H. (of Arkansas, C.S.A.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B5220421

Get Book

The U.S. Democratic Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951002805615F

Get Book

The United States Democratic Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark T. Johnson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496230997

Get Book

The Middle Kingdom Under the Big Sky by Mark T. Johnson Pdf

The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky seeks to deepen understanding of the history of Chinese immigrants in Montana by recovering their stories in their own words.

Author : Helmuth Carol Engelbrecht,Frank Cleary Hanighen
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Arms transfers
ISBN : 9781610163903

Get Book

Merchants of Death by Helmuth Carol Engelbrecht,Frank Cleary Hanighen Pdf

Author : H. C. Engelbrecht,F. C. Hanighen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000258943

Get Book

Merchants of Death by H. C. Engelbrecht,F. C. Hanighen Pdf

Merchants of death was an epithet used in the USA in the 1930s to attack industries and banks that supplied and funded the First World War (then called the Great War). The term was popular in anti-war circles of both the left and the right and was used extensively regarding the Senate hearings in 1936 by the Nye Committee. Originally published in 1934, this book uses the term to expose the international arms industry at the time. It is a careful and subtle, but still passionate, attack on those who would use government to profit themselves at the expense of other people's lives and property. The book not only makes the case against the war machine; it provides a scintillating history of war profiteering, one authoritative enough for citation and academic study.

Author : William Caruthers
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781787209060

Get Book

Loafing Along Death Valley Trails by William Caruthers Pdf

In 1926, on the advice of his doctor, former newspaperman William Caruthers, whose writings appeared in most Western magazines during a career spanning more than 25 years, retired to an orange grove near Ontario, California. Once there, he would go on to spend much of his time during the next 25 years in the Death Valley region, witnessing the transition of Death Valley from a prospector’s hunting ground to a mecca for winter tourists. This book, which was first published in 1951, is William Caruthers’ personal narrative of the old days in Death Valley—”of people and places in Panamint Valley, the Amargosa Desert and the big sink at the bottom of America.” A wonderful read.

Author : James Branch Cabell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547247418

Get Book

The Cords of Vanity by James Branch Cabell Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Cords of Vanity" (A Comedy of Shirking) by James Branch Cabell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Henry Davenport Northrop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015030851201

Get Book

The Flowery Kingdom and the Land of the Mikado by Henry Davenport Northrop Pdf

Author : W.A. Payne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503281561

Get Book

Bird's-eye view of practical and popular anthropological science ... by W.A. Payne Pdf

Author : Henry Davenport Northrop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN8H8P

Get Book

The Flowery Kingdom and the Land of the Mikado, Or China, Japan and Corea, Containing Their Complete History Down to the Present Time Manners, Customs, [etc.]. by Henry Davenport Northrop Pdf

Author : Ian Ruxton (ed.)
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780359146307

Get Book

The Diaries of Sir Ernest Satow, 1921-1926 - Volume Two (1924-1926) by Ian Ruxton (ed.) Pdf

The distinguished diplomat Sir Ernest Satow's retirement began in 1906 and continued until his death in August 1929. From 1907 he settled in the small town of Ottery St. Mary in rural East Devon, England. He was very active, serving as a British delegate at the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907 and on various committees related to church, missionary and other more local affairs: he was a magistrate and chairman of the Urban District Council. He had a very wide social circle of family, friends and former colleagues, with frequent distinguished visitors. He produced two seminal books: A Guide to Diplomatic Practice (1917, now in its seventh revised edition and referred to as 'Satow') and A Diplomat in Japan (1921). The latter is highly evaluated as a rare foreigner's view of the years leading to the Meiji Restoration of 1868. This book in two volumes is the last in a series of Satow's diaries edited by Ian Ruxton. This is the first-ever publication.

Author : Elizabeth Sinn
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888139712

Get Book

Pacific Crossing by Elizabeth Sinn Pdf

During the nineteenth century tens of thousands of Chinese men and women crossed the Pacific to work, trade, and settle in California. Drawn initially by the gold rush, they took with them skills and goods and a view of the world which, though still Chinese, was transformed by their long journeys back and forth. They in turn transformed Hong Kong, their main point of embarkation, from a struggling infant colony into a prosperous international port and the cultural center of a far-ranging Chinese diaspora. Making use of extensive research in archives around the world, Pacific Crossing charts the rise of Chinese Gold Mountain firms engaged in all kinds of transpacific trade, especially the lucrative export of prepared opium and other luxury goods. Challenging the traditional view that the migration was primarily a "coolie trade," Elizabeth Sinn uncovers leadership and agency among the many Chinese who made the crossing. In presenting Hong Kong as an "in-between place" of repeated journeys and continuous movement, Sinn also offers a fresh view of the British colony and a new paradigm for migration studies.