Nanyang, Paperback by Stewart, Ian Gordon, Like New Used, Free shipping in th...

by Ian Stewart

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Nanyang, Paperback by Stewart, Ian Gordon, ISBN 1468153013, ISBN-13 9781468153019, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Nanyang is a South-East Asian saga melding romance, adventure, drama, and history. It is an epic story spanning a period of 200 years, during which corrupt colonialists and venal indigenous leaders vied with Chinese immigrants to exploit the region's natural resources with little regard for the suffering of the rural poor. It was a time that saw the main European powers extend their rivalry from their immediate environs to India, South-East Asia and China, where there were strategic and economic prizes to be tale of love, tragedy, avarice and brutality, Nanyang – the Chinese name (Southern Ocean) for the region – begins in the mid seventeenth century, when Dutch soldiers and officials, sent by ship from Batavia to acquire laborers for the Java settlement, seize a young woman, Mei Ling, from a village in Fujian, China, along with scores of men. Seventeen-year-old Mei Ling is kidnapped at the behest of a lecherous Dutch official, who organizes a mutiny when the ship's captain places her under his follows the adventures of Mei Ling and her brother, who sets out to rescue her, and their descendants amid land and sea battles of warring nations, natural disasters and rampant disease. The protagonists are caught up in historical events (in Europe as well as South-East Asia), in which notable English, Dutch and Javanese figures play their real-life roles. The stor

• Publisher: CreateSpace
• Year: 2012
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781468153019
• Condition: Fine

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