Draws on original personal archive with primary sources between 1893 and 1940 Includes more than one hundred illustrations depicting local life during the tumultuous war period Engages discussions about the everyday interactions between Chinese grassroots society and international players at Manchuria、 To a lively cast of international players that shaped Manchuria during the e...(展开全部)

Draws on original personal archive with primary sources between 1893 and 1940 Includes more than one hundred illustrations depicting local life during the tumultuous war period Engages discussions about the everyday interactions between Chinese grassroots society and international players at Manchuria、 To a lively cast of international players that shaped Manchuria during the e...(展开全部)

Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional, and religious identities. The contributors examine the role of the state in a variety of environments on China's "peripheries," paying attention to shifts in law, trade, social stratification, and cultural dialogue. They find th...(展开全部)

Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional, and religious identities. The contributors examine the role of the state in a variety of environments on China's "peripheries," paying attention to shifts in law, trade, social stratification, and cultural dialogue. They find th...(展开全部)

Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including stories of eighteenth-century Detroit, nineteenth-century Seattle, and twentieth-century Los Angeles, Frontier Cities recov...(展开全部)

Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including stories of eighteenth-century Detroit, nineteenth-century Seattle, and twentieth-century Los Angeles, Frontier Cities recov...(展开全部)

查尔斯·西格尔（Charles Segal，1936-2002），美国古典学家。1961 年获哈佛大学博士学位。曾先后任教于宾夕法尼亚大学，布朗大学，普林斯顿大学，自1990 年起在哈佛大学担任希腊文和拉丁文教授。西格尔擅长古典文学，研究领域广阔，在奥维德、荷马、塞涅卡和欧里庇得斯的研究方面均有建树，尤以解读诗歌为胜，是20世纪最为高产的古典学家之一。一生发表论文无数，出版专著21 部，除本书外，代表作还包括Landscape in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1969), Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles (1981，中文版三联书店即出), Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides’ Bacchae (1982), Lucretiu...(展开全部)

查尔斯·西格尔（Charles Segal，1936-2002），美国古典学家。1961 年获哈佛大学博士学位。曾先后任教于宾夕法尼亚大学，布朗大学，普林斯顿大学，自1990 年起在哈佛大学担任希腊文和拉丁文教授。西格尔擅长古典文学，研究领域广阔，在奥维德、荷马、塞涅卡和欧里庇得斯的研究方面均有建树，尤以解读诗歌为胜，是20世纪最为高产的古典学家之一。一生发表论文无数，出版专著21 部，除本书外，代表作还包括Landscape in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1969), Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles (1981，中文版三联书店即出), Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides’ Bacchae (1982), Lucretiu...(展开全部)

The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China’s early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating in a nineteenth-century social and ecological crisis. Pushing back against ...(展开全部)

The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China’s early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating in a nineteenth-century social and ecological crisis. Pushing back against ...(展开全部)