With this volume, Roderich Ptak tries to build bridges between China's South and the overseas world, between the real and the imagined, and philological and other dimensions. The book comprises six studies (based on different lectures ) which deal with animals in traditional Chinese texts from pre-Han times to the Qing period. The animals mentioned can be related to trade, dail...(展开全部)

尹琏，特许测量师，香港观鸟会荣誉记录主任，曾任世界自然（香港）基金会的托管人、《生命之延》总编辑。 费嘉伦，专业野生生物美术家，著有《中国鸟类野外手册》等多本野生动物类图书。 林超英，气象专家，香港观鸟会名誉主席，曾任香港天文台台长。

尹琏，特许测量师，香港观鸟会荣誉记录主任，曾任世界自然（香港）基金会的托管人、《生命之延》总编辑。 费嘉伦，专业野生生物美术家，著有《中国鸟类野外手册》等多本野生动物类图书。 林超英，气象专家，香港观鸟会名誉主席，曾任香港天文台台长。

Approaching its demise, the Ming imperial administration enlisted members of the Cheng family as mercenaries to help in the defense of the coastal waters of Fukien. Under the leadership of Cheng Chih-lung, also known as Nicolas Iquan, and with the help of the local gentry, these mercenaries became the backbone of the empire’s maritime defense and the protectors of Chinese comme...(展开全部)

This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China t...(展开全部)

This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China t...(展开全部)

欧爱玲（Ellen Oxfeld），美国哈佛大学博士，美国佛蒙特州明德大学社会人类学系教授，嘉应学院客家研究院特约客座教授。

Although they are "pariah capitalists" who face political insecurity in India, the Hakka Chinese have since their migration during the First World War come to control the city of Calcutta's tanning industry. Drawing on extensive fieldwork among the Calcutta Hakka as well as members of their community who have migrated to Toronto, Ellen Oxfeld sheds new light on the complex inte...(展开全部)

欧爱玲（Ellen Oxfeld），美国哈佛大学博士，美国佛蒙特州明德大学社会人类学系教授，嘉应学院客家研究院特约客座教授。

Although they are "pariah capitalists" who face political insecurity in India, the Hakka Chinese have since their migration during the First World War come to control the city of Calcutta's tanning industry. Drawing on extensive fieldwork among the Calcutta Hakka as well as members of their community who have migrated to Toronto, Ellen Oxfeld sheds new light on the complex inte...(展开全部)