American security and prosperity now depend on Asia. William H. Overholt offers an iconoclastic analysis of developments in each major Asian country, Asian international relations, and U.S. foreign policy. Drawing on decades of political and business experience, he argues that obsolete Cold War attitudes tie the U.S. increasingly to an otherwise isolated Japan and obscure the r...(展开全部)

Why did modern states and economies develop first in the peripheral and late-coming culture of Europe? This historical puzzle looms behind every study of industrialization and economic development. In this analytical and comparative work Eric Jones sees the economic condition forming where natural environments and political systems meet: Europe's economic rise is explained as a...(展开全部)

埃里克·琼斯，澳大利亚墨尔本大学墨尔本商学院的教授研究员、联合王国（英国）雷丁大学国际商业研究生中心的经济学教授。由于比较经济史方面的工作而被授予牛津大学高级博士学位。

Why did modern states and economies develop first in the peripheral and late-coming culture of Europe? This historical puzzle looms behind every study of industrialization and economic development. In this analytical and comparative work Eric Jones sees the economic condition forming where natural environments and political systems meet: Europe's economic rise is explained as a...(展开全部)

埃里克·琼斯，澳大利亚墨尔本大学墨尔本商学院的教授研究员、联合王国（英国）雷丁大学国际商业研究生中心的经济学教授。由于比较经济史方面的工作而被授予牛津大学高级博士学位。

As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial con...(展开全部)

Through popular movies starring Bruce Lee and songs like the disco hit "Kung Fu Fighting," martial arts have found a central place in the Western cultural imagination. But what would 'martial arts' be without the explosion of media texts and images that brought it to a wide audience in the late 1960s and early 1970s? In this examination of the media history of what we now call ...(展开全部)

作者簡介 馬世嘉（Matthew W. Mosca） 美國哈佛大學歷史與東亞語言博士，師承孔飛力（Philip A. Kuhn）、歐立德（Mark C. Elliott）與濮德培（Peter C. Perdue）。曾於美國加州大學柏克萊分校與香港大學進行博士後研究，現任西雅圖華盛頓大學歷史系助理教授。研究領域包括中國與內陸亞洲史，尤其關注大清帝國的對外關係以及清代地理與史學思想史。 譯者簡介 羅盛吉 著迷於歷史與語言，現為自由譯者。

詹姆斯·斯塔夫里迪斯，美国海军上将(已退役)，毕业于美国海军学院，在美国海军服役逾35年，曾指挥过多艘驱逐舰和一个航母战斗群。服役期的最后7年获美国海军四星上将军衔，担任北约欧洲盟军司令近4年。退役后，斯塔夫里迪斯在2013年被任命为塔夫茨大学弗莱彻法律与外交学院院长。曾在《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《大西洋月刊》发表过多篇关于全球安全问题的文章。