Few groups are more secretive than the Asian “godfathers,” the tiny group of obscenely wealthy businessmen who control the economic fates of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. Mysterious, shrewd, and ruthless, these tycoons represented eight of the twenty-five wealthiest people on the planet in the 1990s and they continue to command multib...(展开全部)

The economies of Hong Kong and south-east Asia are dominated by only forty or fifty families. Their interests range from banking to property, from shipping to sugar, from gambling to lumber. At their peak, eight of the world's two dozen richest families were south-east Asian, yet they are largely unknown outside the region. A complex mythology surrounds them, one which informs ...(展开全部)

资深中国事务观察家，《中国经济季刊》(China Economic Quarterly)的总编辑和《中国热》(The China Dream的台湾译名)一书的作者，在欧亚各地担任自由撰稿人及媒体主持人长达10年。1991年至2000年间常驻香港及北京。

Why are the region's richest countries such as Malaysia riddled with corruption? Why do Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines harbour unresolved violent insurgencies? How do deepening religious divisions in Indonesia and Malaysia and China's growing influence affect the region and the rest of the world? Thought-provoking and eye-opening, Blood and Silk is an accessible, persona...(展开全部)

A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book...(展开全部)

潘慧娴（Alice Poon），曾任新鸿基地产集团创办人郭得胜的私人助理达八年，其后加入嘉里建设，任策划发展经理，负责土地及物业的估价与收购，并参与规划及契约修订的工作，对香港地产业的运作极为熟悉。作者亦曾于加拿大卡加利市任职于石油土地收购代理公司，并负责宣誓专员工作，及于多伦多从事地产发展业务。近年作者经常在网上媒体发表评论文章及博客写作。作者现于加拿大居住及工作。

The main theme of this book centers on an acute concentration of economic power and wealth in the hands of a few economic powerhouses. This can be linked to Hong Kong’s land system and the lack of competition in key sectors. The author discusses how the land system, inherited from the British, has helped to create unrivalled wealth for the ruling class and how the lack of compe...(展开全部)

This gripping account interweaves Nixon and Kissinger's pursuit of the war in Southeast Asia and their diplomacy with the Soviet Union and China with on-the-ground military events and US domestic reactions to the war conducted in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Fire and Rain is a compelling, meticulous narrative of the way national security decisions formed at the highest levels o...(展开全部)

Spanning the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries and examining maritime trading relations, political interactions, overland Chinese expansion and Chinese commerce in Southeast Asia, this book will appeal to historians of China and Southeast Asia.

Money in Asia examines two chronic problems that faced early modern monetary economies in East, South, and Southeast Asia: The inability to provide sufficient amounts of small currencies to facilitate local economic transactions and to control currency depreciation. The studies in this volume analyze the social and economic consequences of small currency scarcity and devaluatio...(展开全部)