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Viviamo in un tempo di grandi sconvolgimenti, un tempo in cui dobbiamo affrontare una pandemia, guerre, crisi energetiche. Ci sembra di non aver vissuto mai tempi così difficili e cerchiamo di immaginare il futuro cercando di non cedere alla disperazione e al pessimismo sistematico. Previsioni nefaste si affacciano sulle colonne dei giornali, che adombrano la possibilità di una guerra nucleare che renderebbe la distruzione dell'umanità una pro...

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Scandal and corruption, drugs and pirates, triads and flower boats, the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and the Communist takeover of Canton. Peter Hui--the man who once owned all the opium in Hong Kong--was there for all of it. (Asian History)

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In 1981, David Wong retired after 20 years as an administrative officer in the Hong Kong Government to chance his arm in the city's cut-throat free market, as the managing director of a large multinational trading corporation. He soon discovered more legal and ethical boobytraps in business than he had bargained for.Nonetheless, he sidestepped them and in 1982, during the Sino-British negotiations to end British rule, he quickly sensed a unwar...

What kind of people would you meet if you decided to walk across the world's most populous country? The Great Walk of China is a journey into China's heartland, away from its surging coastal cities. Through surprisingly frank conversations with the people he meets along the way, the Chinese-speaking author paints a portrait of a nation struggling to come to terms with its newfound identity and its place in the world.

Of course there is no single Asian language. But plenty of vogue words from this booming continent are entering English. Did you know there is a flower named after former North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il? The Chinese have a word shengnu, literally leftover for the new phenomenon of unmarried women over thirty. Can you tell your jeepney from your jilbab, or yakuza from the yellowshirts? These are just some of the hundreds of words that illumin...