A Maritime History of East Asia takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the history of a region from the perspective of the interactions that occurred on and were facilitated by the sea. The book is divided into three parts that each focus on a different hundred-year period between 1250 and 1800, characterized by ‘openness’, ‘competition’ and ‘compartmentalization’ re...(展开全部)

罗兹・墨菲 是一位中国历史和地理专家，出生于费城，1950年获哈佛大学博士学位。1964年任密歇根大学教授，此前曾经在华盛顿大学任教，也曾任台湾大学和东京大学客座教授。从1954年到1956年，他是驻亚洲外交官联合会主席。1974年获密歇根大学突出贡献奖。作为亚洲研究协会前主席，墨菲曾担任《亚洲研究杂志》、《密歇根中国研究报》以及亚洲亚洲研究协会主办的《专论》等刊物的编辑。社会科学研究理事会、福特基金会、古根海姆基金会、国家慈善捐赠会和美国学会理事会都接纳他为会员。墨菲是以为多产作家，著有《上海 进入现代中国的钥匙》（1953）、《地理学入门》（1978）、《一项新的对华政策》（与他人合作，1967）、《地理学的研究范围》（1982年第三版）、《条约口岸与中国的现代化》（1970）、《中国出迎西方：条约口岸》（1975）和《毛主义幻想的衰退》（198...(展开全部)

A History of Asia is the only text to cover the area known as "monsoon Asia"--India, China, Southeast Asia, Korea, and Japan--from the earliest of times to the present. Written by leading scholar Rhoads Murphey, the book's extensive analysis integrates the complex and diverse political, social, intellectual, and economic histories of this area with an engaging and liv...(展开全部)

Svat Soucek's book offers a short and accessible introduction to the history of Inner Asia. The narrative, which begins with the arrival of Islam, charts the rise and fall of the different dynasties right up to the Russian conquest. Dynastic tables and maps augment and elucidate the text. The contemporary focus rests on the seven countries which make up the core of present-day ...(展开全部)

Svat Soucek's book offers a short and accessible introduction to the history of Inner Asia. The narrative, which begins with the arrival of Islam, charts the rise and fall of the different dynasties right up to the Russian conquest. Dynastic tables and maps augment and elucidate the text. The contemporary focus rests on the seven countries which make up the core of present-day ...(展开全部)

马克·布拉齐尔（Mark Brazil）， 苏格兰斯特灵大学博士，经验丰富的野外鸟类学家。著有《东亚鸟类野外手册》（Birds of East Asia），以及《日本观鸟指南》（ A Birdwatcher's Guide to Japan）、《日本鸟类》（The Birds of Japan）和《大天鹅》（The Whooper Swan）等。

马克·布拉齐尔（Mark Brazil）， 苏格兰斯特灵大学博士，经验丰富的野外鸟类学家。著有《东亚鸟类野外手册》（Birds of East Asia），以及《日本观鸟指南》（ A Birdwatcher's Guide to Japan）、《日本鸟类》（The Birds of Japan）和《大天鹅》（The Whooper Swan）等。

From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and monsters, of silk and spices shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away. By the twentieth century much of Asia might have come under Western rule after centuries of warfare, but its ...(展开全部)

Interactions between people and animals are attracting overdue attention in diverse fields of scholarship, yet insects still creep within the shadows of more charismatic birds, fish, and mammals. Insect Histories of East Asia centers on bugs and creepy crawlies and the taxonomies in which they were embedded in China, Japan, and Korea to present a history of human and animal coc...(展开全部)