Pacific destiny: inside Asia today

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Avon Books, 1991 - Fiction - 533 pages
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Contents

Making the West Obsolete?
1
Past and Present
20
Present and Future
36
Copyright

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Pacific Destiny: Inside Asia Today
Robert S. Elegant
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Pacific Destiny: Inside Asia Today
Robert S. Elegant
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Pacific destiny: inside Asia today
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Arif Dirlik,Duke University. Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
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About the author (1991)

Robert Elegant has many years of experience as a foreign correspondent in South Asia. He was Hong Kong Bureau Chief for both the "Los Angeles Times "and "Newsweek," then worked independently. Now a writer of both nonfiction and fiction, Mr. Elegant has penned seven nonfiction books on Asia in addition to eight novels, including his best-selling series, "China and the West," He has lectured on journalism at the University of North Carolina and Boston University. He lives with his wife in Italy and has two grown children.

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TitlePacific destiny: inside Asia today
AuthorRobert S. Elegant
Editionreprint
PublisherAvon Books, 1991
ISBN0380714620, 9780380714629
Length533 pages
Subjects › 

Asia
Fiction / General
Political Science / General
Southeast Asia
  
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