Books published by Global Books

This study examines Britain's presence in China through the lens of one family, arguing that, as the physical embodiment of the imperial project, it provided a social and cultural mechanism for mediating Britain's imperial power, authority and presence, and forging connections and networks throughout the expanding British world.

South Korea 1957. Sukey, a promising graduate, falls in love with Kwon, who confesses that he has been a North Korean spy. It is four years since the Korean War ended in a cease-fire. Fighting is suspended. Hostility and enmity towards the North the social norm. Anti-spy campaigns, street and hotel searches, arrests of any suspect are the norm.

First study published in English. An intractable, divisive social problem with roots in pre-history, the ongoing discrimination against Dowa communities (Buraku). Identified with 'unclean' work linked to specific occupations, their resulting marginalization and isolation within society as a whole remains a veiled yet contested issue.

A mini memoir, plus thirty journal papers and scholarly essays, thematically structured under: Media, Society, Culture and Environment, Democracy, Government and Nationalism, and a selection from his portfolio of book reviews. This offers valuable access to the scholarship of Huffman that both complements and enhances existing published works.

Utilizes contemporary English-language primary material in order to illustrate how authors from both Asia and the West responded to events as they happened. This study brings together books, pamphlets and journal articles with a view to widening debate and underlining the diversity of opinion that was available to contemporary audiences in Asia and beyond.