Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that emerged in the Amur, a river region that shifted between Qing China and imperial Russia as the two empires competed for resources. Official histories depict the Amur as a distant battleground caught between rival empires. Zatsepine, by contrast, views it as a unified natural economy populated by Chinese, Russian, I...(展开全部)

Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that emerged in the Amur, a river region that shifted between Qing China and imperial Russia as the two empires competed for resources. Official histories depict the Amur as a distant battleground caught between rival empires. Zatsepine, by contrast, views it as a unified natural economy populated by Chinese, Russian, I...(展开全部)

作者簡介 杜米尼‧齊格勒（Dominic Ziegler） 《經濟學人》雜誌亞洲區編輯，亞洲事務專欄「榕樹」（Banyan）創始作者。1994至2000年擔任《經濟學人》中國特派員，2005至2009年擔任《經濟學人》東京分社主任。 譯者簡介 譚天 曾任《聯合報》編譯主任、《自由時報》副總編輯等職。現旅居加拿大專事譯作。譯有包括政治、軍事、文化、宗教、科技與商務領域等一百多本書。

Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the contact between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. The essays in the volume reveal the extent to which images, artifacts, and natural specimens were traded and copied, and how these materials inflected both cu...(展开全部)

The complex interweaving of different Western visions of China had a profound impact on artistic exchange between China and the West during the nineteenth century. Beyond Chinoiserie addresses the complexity of this exchange. While the playful Western “vision of Cathay” formed in the previous century continued to thrive, a more realistic vision of China was increasingly formed ...(展开全部)