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)

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)

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)

Journey into the world of book collecting with the Goldstones-rediscover the joy of reading, laugh, and fall in love with books all over again. The idea that books had stories associated with them that had nothing to do with the stories inside them was new to us. We had always valued the history, the world of ideas contained between the covers of a book or, as in the case of Th...(展开全部)

劳伦斯•戈德斯通（Lawrence Goldstone）和南希•戈德斯通（Nancy Goldstone）皆是成功的小说家。戈德斯通夫妇现居美国康涅狄格州的韦斯特波特。

After years of competitive extravagance at birthday time, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone decided to limit themselves to $20 each, which is how they came to be in possession of a $10 definitive translation of War and Peace, complete with maps of the major battles and fold-out color illustrations. It is also how they eventually came to be the owners of a $650 edition of Dickens's M...(展开全部)

彼得•J•卡赞斯坦（Peter J. Katzenstein），美国著名政治学家，国际关系理论建构主义流派主要代表人物之一，美国人文与科学院院士。曾任美国政治学会主席，现任美国康奈尔大学教授。 白石隆（Takashi Shiraishi），日本政策研究大学院大学校长、教授，日本紫绶带奖章获得者，著名国际政治问题专家。历任美国康奈尔大学历史系亚洲研究学科教授、日本京都大学东南亚研究中心教授、日本贸易振兴机构亚洲经济研究所所长。

彼得•J•卡赞斯坦（Peter J. Katzenstein），美国著名政治学家，国际关系理论建构主义流派主要代表人物之一，美国人文与科学院院士。曾任美国政治学会主席，现任美国康奈尔大学教授。 白石隆（Takashi Shiraishi），日本政策研究大学院大学校长、教授，日本紫绶带奖章获得者，著名国际政治问题专家。历任美国康奈尔大学历史系亚洲研究学科教授、日本京都大学东南亚研究中心教授、日本贸易振兴机构亚洲经济研究所所长。