The Lone Flag

Author : John Pownall Reeves
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888208322
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lone Flag written by John Pownall Reeves and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hong Kong fell to the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941 Macao was left as a tiny isolated enclave on the China Coast surrounded by Japanese-held territory. As a Portuguese colony, Macao was neutral, and John Reeves, the British Consul, could remain there and continue his work despite being surrounded in all directions by his country’s enemy. His main task was to provide relief to the 9,000 or more people who crossed the Pearl River from Hong Kong to take refuge in Macao and who had a claim for support from the British Consul. The core of this book is John Reeves’ memoir of those extraordinary years and of his tireless efforts to provide food, shelter and medical care for the refugees. He coped with these challenges as Macao’s own people faced starvation. Despite Macao’s neutrality, it was thoroughly infiltrated by Japanese agents and, marked for assassination, Reeves had to have armed guards as he went about his business. He also had to navigate the complexities of multiple intelligence agencies—British, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese Nationalist—in a place that was described as the Casablanca of the Far East.

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Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603443692
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas flags written by and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. Joe Deering
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603441484
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lovin' That Lone Star Flag written by E. Joe Deering and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texans will decorate almost anything with their state flag, and E. Joe Deering has the pictures to prove it. In Lovin’ That Lone Star Flag, photographer Deering has collected more than a hundred of his favorite images, showing state-flag-adorned pickup trucks, belt buckles, hang gliders, rooftops, and more. Starting when he was a staff photographer for the Houston Chronicle, Deering began noticing, as he toured the state on various assignments, how often he saw the image of the Texas flag painted on buildings, vehicles, barn doors, and other places. His curiosity led to an idea for a photographic essay, published by the Chronicle, and this in turn resulted in an exhibit at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station of his “flagotography.” Paired with Deering’s lively captions recording the circumstances and locations of these uniquely Texan creations as well as former Chronicle colleague Ruth Rendon’s introduction of Deering and his work, these striking photographs capture Texans’ infectious enjoyment of their state symbol on land, on water, and in the air. Lovin’ That Lone Star Flag will bring a smile to your face. It might even get you in the mood for a little Texas Two-Step. . . .

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desecration of the Flag written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rogelia Pastor-Castro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351123483
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embassies in Crisis written by Rogelia Pastor-Castro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embassies are integral to international diplomacy, their staff instrumental to inter-governmental dialogue, strategic partnerships, trading relationships and cultural exchange. But Embassies are also discreet political spaces. Notionally sovereign territory ‘immune’ from local jurisdiction, in moments of crisis Embassies have often been targets of protest and sites of confrontation. It is this aspect of Embassy experience that this collection of essays explores and Embassies in Crisis revisits flashpoints in the recent lives of Embassies overseas at times of acute political crisis. Ranging across multiple British and other embassy crises, unusually, this book offers equal insights to international historians and members of the diplomatic community.

Author : Vivian Kong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009202944
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiracial Britishness written by Vivian Kong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how British subjects of different 'races' collectively shaped what it means to be British today, focusing on 1910-45 Hong Kong.

Author : David L. Martin
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Total Pages : 16 pages
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Download or read book Origin of the Lone Star Flag written by David L. Martin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey C. Gunn
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888390511
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wartime Macau written by Geoffrey C. Gunn and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has intrigued many that, unlike Hong Kong, Macau avoided direct Japanese wartime occupation albeit being caught up in the vortex of the wider global conflict. Geoffrey Gunn and an international group of contributors come together in Wartime Macau: Under the Japanese Shadow to investigate how Macau escaped the fate of direct Japanese invasion and occupation. Exploring the broader diplomatic and strategic issues during that era, this volume reveals that the occupation of Macau was not in Japan’s best interest because the Portuguese administration in Macau posed no threat to Japan’s control over the China coast and acted as a listening post to monitor Allied activities. Drawing upon archival materials in English, Japanese, Portuguese, and other languages, the contributors explain how, under the high duress of Japanese military agencies, the Portuguese administration coped with a tripling of its population and issues such as currency, food supply, disease, and survival. This volume presents contrasting views on wartime governance and shows how the different levels of Macau society survived the war. “Wartime Macau deals with a fascinating and woefully understudied topic. The essays collected here show that there was no singular experience of World War II in Macau; how one experienced the war depended on a complex calculus of ethnicity, class, and connections. And yet, taken together, these experiences shaped the trajectory of the city’s political and social development for decades to come.” —Cathryn H. Clayton, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa “This book represents a real breakthrough. Previous English-language accounts of Macau during the World War II have focused largely on the activities of the British in this neutral ‘Casablanca’. Drawing extensively on Portuguese, Japanese, and local Macanese sources, Geoffrey Gunn and his team have assembled a far broader picture, revealing the dilemmas and choices of Portugal’s beleaguered colonial government and placing Macau in a geopolitical context that stretched from the Azores to Australia.” —Philip Snow, author of The Fall of Hong Kong

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Total Pages : 636 pages
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