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)

"We were going back to Corfu. We were going back to the enchanted olive groves and blue sea, to the warmth and laughter of our friends, to the long, goldent, gentle days..." In this second collection of tales concerning the Durrell family on the island of Corfu, young Gerry continues to be captivated by the fascinating flora and fauna of their adopted home - much to the bemusem...(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。

The early history of the maritime trade of China had been largely studied (at the time of this 1954 study) from the Western point of view, that is, as the eastern terminal point of a trade carried and dominated by Indians, Persians and Arabs. This had also been true of the early history of Southeast Asia. Historians, both of China and of Southeast Asia, had seen the trade mainl...(展开全部)

The contributors to New World Orderings demonstrate that China’s twenty-first-century rise occurs not only through economics and state politics but equally through the mutual entanglements of overlapping social, economic, and cultural worlds in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They show how the Chinese state has sought to reconfigure the nation’s position in the world...(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)