Print, poetics and politics :a Sumatran epic in the colonial Indies and new o…

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The middle east and north Africa 1975-77

DURING the past year the Middle East has maintained its position at the centre of world news. Civil war in the Lebanon has recently threatened to involve the whole Middle Eastern area in renewed large-scale conflict. The price of oil has continued to be an important factor in inflation. The oil States themselves have to some extent been experiencing the recession, with reduced demand for their …

Introduction to Indonesia

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Barbarians & Mandarins :Thirteen centuries of western travelers in China

FIRST AND FOREMOST, this is a book about people, about travelers and their motives and their adventures and about their reluc- tant hosts at journey's end. Diplomatic and political histories, filled as they are with broad sweeps and heavy laden with grand signifi- cances, often seem to lose sight of the fact that history is made by people and, when written, must be read by people, that but for …

A voyage to cochin China

JOHN WHITE'S account of his visit to Viet-Nam in 1819 and 1820 ranks as a minor treasure of early nineteenth century travel literature on South-East Asia. As White himself was at pains to point out in his 'Advertisement', this is not a book written by a professed scholar'. It is, however, less easy to accept his claim that the book is but 'the production of an unlettered seaman'. Not the least …

Asia's lands and peoples :A geography of one-third the earth and two-thirds i…

The first edition of this book appeared in 1944. The current revision includes text change on every page, rearranged chapters, many redrawn maps, and nearly a hundred new photograph.

The Malay archipelago

SINCE this work was first published, twenty-one years ago, several naturalists have visited the Archipelago; and in order to give my readers the latest results of their researches I have added footnotes whenever my facts or conclusions have been modified by later discoveries. I have also made a few verbal alterations in the text to correct any small errors or obscurities. These corrections and …

All about Shanghai and environs :A standard guide book

Shanghai, sixth city of the World! Shanghai, the Paris of the East! Shanghai, the New York of the West! Shanghai, the most cosmopolitan city in the world, the fishing village on a mudflat which almost literally overnight became a great metropolis. Inevitable meeting place of world travellers, thernrnhabitat of people of forty-eight different nationalities, of the Orient yet Occidental, the city…

Tokyo past and present

Mr. Miyao in his books painstakingly traced the actual locations of he old scenes and listen them with photographs of what they actually look like today and where they are situated.

Duka cerita Jayaprana Layonsari :transkripsi, terjemahan dan analisis pertunj…

Asm 05/07/24