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Betrayal in Paris: How the Treaty of Versailles Led to China's Long Revolution by FRENCH PAUL
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
At the conclusion of 'the war to end war', the victors set about redesigning the world map at the Paris Peace Conference. For China, Versailles presented an opportunity to regain territory lost to Japan. Yet, the country was to be severely disappointed. This study explores China's betrayal by the West, ...Show more
Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy For A City: Penguin Specials by Xu Xi
$12.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Specials: the Hong Kong Ser.
Xu Xi's body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalised decision to leave the city for good. She critiques a Hong Kong that has, in her eyes, lost its way. And yet, it is only out of the city's enduring presenc ...Show more
Embarrassed Colonialist by Sean Dorney
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
Forty years after independence, Papua New Guinea is the largest single recipient of aid from Australia. Yet Australians seem to be largely ambivalent about the country. Few Australians know the history of our colonial rule in PNG and our long ties to the country are quickly being forgotten. PNG expert S ...Show more
Generation HK: Seeking Identity in China's Shadow: Penguin Specials by Benjamin Bland
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Specials: the Hong Kong Ser.
Teenage activists turned politicians, multi-millionaire super tutors and artists fighting censorship - these are the stories of Generation HK. From radically different backgrounds yet with a common legacy, having grown up in post-handover Hong Kong, these young people have little attachment to the era o ...Show more
Picnics Prohibited: Diplomacy in Chaotic China during the First World War by WOOD, FRANCES
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
The ripple effects of the First World War came at an inopportune time for the infant Chinese republic. The country had joined a number of international organisations and ratified the Hague Conventions, but found its diplomatic efforts hampered by its young, inexperienced leadership, its factional region ...Show more
The Girl with the Dogs: Penguin Special by Anna Funder
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Category: Default Cat | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
To live with someone for a long time requires an element of fiction - the selective use of facts to craft an ongoing story.' Amid the debris of her friends' relationships, Tess has a marriage that's comparatively unscathed. But she's at a hinge moment, poised between her present life and the one she dec ...Show more
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