Beyond the Book is the first ever book dedicated to the studies of rare East Asian materials collected by individuals and institutions in North America. Most of the materials discussed in this volume are in a non-book format. Beyond the Book not only reveals many interesting and forgotten stories in the two centuries of cultural exchanges between East Asia and North America, bu...(展开全部)

For a long time, silk, tea, sinocentrism, and eurocentrism made up a big patch of East Asian history. Simultaneously deviating from and complicating these tags, this edited volume reconstructs narratives from the periphery and considers marginal voices located beyond official archives as the centre of East Asian history. The lives of the Japanese Buddhist monks, Eastern Han loc...(展开全部)

贝淡宁（Daniel　A.　Bell），清华大学（北京）伦理学和政治理论教授。贝教授生于蒙特利尔，受学麦吉尔大学和牛津大学，曾在新加坡和香港的大学任教，还在普林斯顿大学和斯坦福大学从事研究工作。著有《社群主义及其批评者》（牛津大学出版社1993，生活读书新知三联书店2001），另有四本有关亚洲政治和哲学的著作均在普林斯顿大学出版社出版。

贝淡宁（Daniel　A.　Bell），清华大学（北京）伦理学和政治理论教授。贝教授生于蒙特利尔，受学麦吉尔大学和牛津大学，曾在新加坡和香港的大学任教，还在普林斯顿大学和斯坦福大学从事研究工作。著有《社群主义及其批评者》（牛津大学出版社1993，生活读书新知三联书店2001），另有四本有关亚洲政治和哲学的著作均在普林斯顿大学出版社出版。

Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America examines the idealisation of Asian America by its intellectuals, the saturation of Asian America with capitalist practices, and the challenges posed by Asian America's ideological diversity. Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture, and politics, a...(展开全部)

In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the case of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in northeast China from 1932-1945, to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality and exploitation interacted in the post-World War I period. His study of Manchukuo, which had a population of 40 million and was...(展开全部)

As multi-functional as they are artistically important, folding and standing screens assume a variety of roles unique to the cultures of East Asia. Frequently used in dwellings, temples, and tombs, East Asian screens have a rich history from ancient times up to the modern period, and yet they rarely have been examined as an art form in themselves. This volume of essays makes th...(展开全部)

Brief, carefully paced lessons on options and trading strategies using verbal definitions and many trading examples for clarification. Each lesson builds on the one preceding it and explains options in plain English, from start to finish. Step-by-step coverage of controlling risk, protecting your investments -- even advanced strategies other introductory books ignore! Authored ...(展开全部)