The Chinese in Southeast Asia by Victor Purcell - 1965

London: Oxford University Press, 1965. Second edition. Hardcover. Newly Rebound Red Boards retaining the Red Cloth Gilt Lettering of Spine. Original, Very Good Condition. First published in 1951. New material in this edition copyright Royal Institute of International Affairs 1965.
Victor William Williams Saunders Purcell CMG (1896 - 1965) was a British colonial public servant, historian, poet, author, and Sinologist in Malaya (now Malaysia). He joined the Malayan Civil Service in 1921 and chose to specialize in Chinese affairs. After some years of language study in China, he embarked on a twenty-five year career in the Chinese secretariat of the MCS. From 1949 he lectured in Far Eastern History at Cambridge University. During this period he published a mock epic poem The Sweeniad under the pseudonym Myra Buttle (Secker & Warburg 1958), which parodied the style of T. S. Eliot and which was subject to a long, mostly favorable article by the eminent American man of letters Edmund Wilson.
623pp. No DJ, Vietnamese bookdealer stamp on feps, map and fold-out map in rear, very clean throughout.

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