End of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World Opium and plain but poignant conversations

and plain but poignant conversations reveal the subtle textures of Lao culture

Edited by David P

Few subjects elicit greater moral outrage than human trafficking

“new city”) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht

Cultural heritage | cultural rights | minorities | Thailand | language | rights politics | right to culture

End of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World Opium and plain but poignant conversationsEdited by David P. Chandler, Robert Cribb, and Li Narangoa Aiming to balance the focus on European events in global public discussions and reminiscences of World War II, End of Empire focuses on a brief, 100 day period at the end of the war across a broad sweep of eastern Asia a time when the Indonesian and Vietnamese revolutions were born, the fragile wartime truce between Communists and Nationalists in China began to fray, and the first steps were